My Top 10 Season Finale Moments! Part 1

I told you guys I would get into season finales eventually! So here they are, the twists, turns and joys of this TV season's finales, my favorite moments from them.

10. Brothers And Sisters: Mexico

One of the first season finales of the year, and also one of the best. The Walker clan (and Rebecca) trekked down to Mexico to find Tommy. Really this only gets a spot because of the very ending, Tommy standing by a fountain while James Taylor's "Mexico" played in the background. I love that song, so there you go.

9. Heroes: An Invisible Thread

The Heroes finale, was a bit clunky, but definitely worth getting through the heft. If only for again, that final moment, when Sylar/Nathan notices that the clock in his office was running slow and fixed it. It gave me chills. My only worry is that with his reacent box office explosion Zachary Quinto will realize that he's so much better than this show and jump ship, since they don't really need him anymore, what with the birth of Sylar/Nathan and all.

8. The Office: Company Picnic

Pam is pregnant! I know! Really there's nothing else to say. I was so excited I could have peed myself.

7. One Tree Hill: Remember me as a time of day

The epitome of all OTH moments came in this episode, when Nathan came home and told Haley that he was now in the NBA. It was so beautiful and touching and happy, in an episode full of beautiful, touching, happy moments. Of course something is going to go horribly wrong in the fall, but we can hope for the best.

6. My Boys: Spring Training

It just aired two nights ago, but this episode was full of great moments, but I have to say that my favorite came when Brendan gave PJ a long a meaningful look when she told him he needed to start finding non crazy girls to date. Maybe I'm reaching, I don't know.

Numbers 5 to 1 coming later in the day!

Well, well, well..

So I'm so so sorry that I'm so behind! I was crazy behind on what I needed to watch and I spend most of last weekend in Church. (Welcome to my life!) Anyway, here we are, with all kinds of news.

OK, first of all, Terminator has been canceled! Which makes me sad, for Summer, luckily there's Dollhouse, I think Joss would put her there immediately. Or maybe he wouldn't who knows.

But see the good news about this is that it frees Brian Austin Greene up to come on home to Beverly Hills!!!! With Silver's bipolar, I think David should come home, don't you?

Also in 90210 this Liam kid who's hooking up with Naomi is like Jess Mariano the second coming. He even has his time slot.

Also in New Moon news, they've announced an Aro...and its not Atonio. SIGH, my dream will not be, so it looks (For newer readers I was really hoping the Volturi would be played by Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas and Brad Pitt, and Jane by Kirsten Dunst...just get a little Interview action in there. Kirsten was the real stretch since she said she doesn't want to go near another franchise with a ten foot pole. After Spiderman 3 can anyone really blame her?)

Heroes is back full strength and I'm grateful for it. Like really grateful. I still have to watch this weeks epsiode, but the past 3 have been very very good.

I'm addicted to The Number 1 Ladies' Detective agency and its on my summer reading list, which is as always hugely fluid although right now it looks like this:

1. On The Road - Jack Kerouac (I try to read at least one of those books that everyone should read every summer)
2. The Host - Stephanie Meyer
3. Watchmen - Alan Moore
4. The Sookie Stackhouse Novels - Charlaine Harris
5. Pretty in Plaid - Jen Lancaster
6. The End of The Jews - Adam Mansbach
7. Angry Black White Boy - Adam Mansbach (He came to speak at my school, he's brilliant!)
8. Queen of Babble Gets Hitched - Meg Cabot
9. Being Nikki - Meg Cabot
10. Size 12 is Not Fat - Meg Cabot (I love Meg!)

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them! Thanks a bunch!

Mini-Heroes

It was all about the kiddies...but not Claire this week on Heroes.

First: Adventures in Babysitting starring Ando and Hiro. They were watching Matt Parkman Jr who has one of the coolest powers ever. He's an activator. He brings things to life. It's really cool. Matt's bitchy wife was back too, and then Daphne died, so we'll see how that goes. Matt's bitchy wife is better than Nathan's bitchy wife after all.

And Rebel's identity was revealed and it's Micah! OF COURSE ITS MICAH! I'm so excited that he's back because Micah was my favorite character in season one, had the best storyline in season 2 and all but disappeared in the first half of season 3. So I love that he's back in the game.

Look at the little dude! He's the man. And he controls machines with his mind, and not like he thinks about them, but he talks to them, as if they were people. It's AWESOME.

Must See Mondays

I'm just going to dive right into last night...there's really no need for set up

GG: Nellie Yuki's Cat eye glasses. Honestly? Nellie gets more and more fabulous with each appearance she also gets easier and easier to hate, and ratting on Blair in this episode was the final straw. But the cat eye glasses were too too cute. Especially in an episode where the leads were in their uniforms too much to do much fashion wise. Not that we don't love Blair in her uniform. Because well, don't we just love Blair all the time? Dan and Serena are over! FINALLY! I'm sorry, I'm all for happily ever after, I am, but I can't stand Dan. He's everything that annoyed me about my guy friends in high school, without all the stuff I loved about them. Also, Dan and Serena being broken up means that Serena can get together with Nate! HAHA! You thought I forgot, I did not. Until the show is over and beyond I will be rooting for Nerena. And speaking of Nate...Nate and Vanessa being so cute you want to puke. Seriously, there is NO PLOT with those two, its just them being pretty and witty, Nate doesn't even get to brood? What's the point of having those beautiful blue eyes if he's not going to brood? Chuck was suddenly thrown into the plot of a Dan Brown novel? He wakes up in the morning with a strange tribal symbol he doesn't remember on his wrist. Where are we? Smallville Season 4? Then he becomes obsessed with some woman he made out with who it turns out is a nanny from Connecticut, who the secret society that Bart was a member of then kidnaps? What the HELL IS GOING ON? Also, this very stupid plot line further facilitated that Nate and Vanessa boring grossness. Convenient set up for everyone to go to fictional Columbia or NYU equivalents next season...or at least Blair and Dan. By hooking up with his teacher, or well Serena and Blair's teacher, Dan destroyed his Yale chances, and Blair's father told her, "I don't care where you go to college!" Well, I have of a feeling, as the formula goes that at least one person isn't going to go to college, and for a while it looked like Chuck but now I'm thinking its Dan. It's all about the cheekbones: BH 90210, Dylan skipped out, then on DC it was Pacey, I think its going to be Dan. Look:See what I mean? Moving on:

Heroes: Claire Bennett = Badass Mofo. Honestly? Standing up again Mama Petrelli and Nathan to save everyone else. No wonder she's the chosen one! Or is Peter the chosen one? Or is it Hiro? I don't know, they change that weekly. I think the whole "Chosen One" thing is not important to this story arc, though so we have time to go back and figure it out. Mohinder's accent changed again. OK, I get it Sendhil Rammamurthy is from Texas, he's not good at accents, whatever, pick one! Sometimes Mohinder is a high class British educated Indian guy, other times he sounds like the guy from The Simpsons. Its frustrating. Milo's growing his hair out, thank god! I'm not normally a fan of long greasy hair, but on Milo, mm, its just different. Nathan's the bad guy again. All is as it should be. Sylar's alive and out there...dun dun dunnnn...Oh right, and Hiro still doesn't have his powers back. Whatever. If this arc doesn't KICK ASS, I'm done. Heroes has become too time consuming and its not goood enough to be worth the effort anymore. Its very very boring. Milo, you never should have left Gilmore.

OTH: Lucas=The New Dawson. He's all about feelings and hugs with the "Unkindness" movie. Adam=everything we all wanted to say to Dawson while he was making movies. And its really really funny. On a slightly less happy note, Hayley may be losing her job...and Dan might start dating Jamie's teacher? What? I'm confused.

Trust Me: Never fallen into the TNT shows before, but Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanaugh? Will and Ed? Wait? What's that sound? Oh my God! Middle School Reenie? Are you crying? And are those tears of joy?! Of course they are! No, Middle School Reenie, I'm sorry, Vanessa Lengies from American Dreams isn't on the show...but its only been two episodes! Why don't you go listen to some SClub7 and wait around for her. No really? I'm enjoying this show. And mostly for McCormack and Cavanaugh, they're both actors with really interesting conflicting energies that make the show an interesting watch. Although I'm having trouble accepting Eric McCormack as a straight guy with a wife and kids...even though that's who he is in real life. CSD (Character Separation Difficulty) rears its ugly head again...this is the same reason why somewhere back in the recesses of my mind while I'm watching Fringe tonight I'll wonder why Peter doesn't have a hockey jersey on...

Anyway, that being said, Monday night TV is getting to be my favorite, I don't know what I'm going to do when DWTS gets back...I'll work it out.

My Top 10 TV Moments of the Year: 2008

OK, so tis the season for Top 10 lists, and now I'm doing my first one ever. These are not necessarily the best, just my favorites, so here we go:

10. Perfection, always - Dancing With The Stars: Kristi Yamagucci's Win

Yes, I'm starting my list with my top guilty pleasure, that I don't really feel that guilty about. DWTS has had some kick ass champions in the past. Drew Lachey, Emmit Smith, Apollo Anton Ohno, but no one ever dominated like Kristi and Mark did. They got a 28 on the first week out, achieved a 30 earlier than anyone in the competition ever (For an amazing jive that would have and did made the Hough siblings jealous.) Of course they didn't have the stiffest competition. Jason Taylor was closest, and he couldn't touch them. Christian De La Fuente was good and loveable but again, Kristi and Mark just dominated. They had a perfect 30, 30, 30 and the fans behind them. It was nice to see a woman win for once...of course it repeated with Brooke Burke, and I keep meaning to check out the new cast, or see if its posted, but I seriously doubt anyone will ever beat Kristi's pure domination, it just won't happen.

9. "I can see Russia from my house" - Saturday Night Live: The Vice Presidential Debate.

I would be the world's worst TV writer if I overlooked the best political impression SNL's had since Will Ferrell's W. And no, I'm not talking about Tina Fey's Sarah Palin (Although it is amazing) I mean Jason Sedakis's Joe Biden. He even got the crazy eyes. And his declaration about the great city of Scranton, that "No one but me has ever come out of that hell hole!" had me laughing harder than I've ever laughed. And it would be just plain pop culture ignorant to overlook the fantastic impression of Governor Palin that Ms. Fey did. I'm still quoting it, "I'm going to ignore that question and talk about Israel...I'm not saying this to pander to Florida voters, since I was a little girl my two biggest loves were Israel and Cuban food!" It might have been the funniest speech ever done on SNL. I'm grateful for SNL's resurgence and Tina Fey's acceptance by the mainstream, it's been about seven years since I decided I wanted to be her. As my friend Katie put it, "It's a little strange. Everything that Tina Fey has accomplished, the first female head writer of SNL, the Mean Girls screenplay, all those Emmys for 30 Rock, what she gets mainstream recognition for is looking like some other lady."

8. "I want to call my mom!" - Entourage: Tree Trippers

This might be my new favorite episode of Entourage, replacing "One Day in The Valley," or "The Sundance Kids," which were always battling for first in the past. Anytime you take the boys out of LA or their natural habitat is always interesting. This episode, where they decide to take shrooms to make Vince's next career decision is a tour de force of their bonding pattern. Ari runs off on his own and spends the episode on the phone with Lloyd, trying to find his way back to the boys. Arnold, the boys lovable pitbull runs away from the group and the other four search after him. E loses the ability to speak, and Turtle realizes his own uselessness, and begins to beg for his mother. My favorite element of this whole season was the switch of focus from Drama to Turtle. I've always found Turtle endearing and wonderfully sweet and I was happy to see more of his stories told. And happy to see him made romantically fulfilled with Jamie Lynn Sigler.

7. "Same Sideburns, Same Commitment Issues." - 90210: The Bubble

I don't think anyone who's read this blog since September can possibly argue how excited I was when we found out the Dylan was the father of Kelly's son on 90210. Granted I was hoping for Brandon, but it really was an exciting little bit of taste of future plot lines. First of all, I'm still praying for Terminator's cancellation, so that we can get some David in, but honestly, the door is open for Dylan now, come on in Luke. We know you want to. Granted, it was after this that we got that positively classic 90210 moment, Brenda deletes Dylan from her cell phone, to save her friendship with Kelly...*sob* Dylan McKay, Brenda Walsh, soul mates no longer. OK, maybe they were never soul mates, I guess it was established in that episode where Dylan saw his past life and he and Kelly were married in the wild west and Brandon was like the sheriff or something that he and Kelly were soul mates. Whatever, those episodes right before Dylan left were pretty god awful. Let's hope when they bring him back stronger than they did when he came back for the last season of the original, personally I'm thinking Dylan and Brandon smackdown. Then Steve can say something obnoxious. It'll be great.

6. "I have stretch marks, I have a butt, that's who I am!" - America's Next Top Model: Cycle 10 Finale

God Bless Tyra Banks and all she's doing for women in America...that was sarcasm. But for real, Whitney, the first ever plus size model to with ANTM was a cool choice. Granted, Paulina Poriscova clearly hated her, and maybe she was a little more pageant queen than model (My sister would kill me if I didn't disclaim that), but seeing a girl with actual curves, who's an admitted size 14 win this competition which is normally dominated by stick figures and anorexic ghetto girls was really cool.

5. "Her parents have a pool." How I Met Your Mother - Sandcastles in the Sand

This episode is one of the best examples of what makes How I Met Your Mother great. Combining the oddball out there humor, and real friendship heart. Sandcastles in The Sand brings back Robin Scherbotsky's early nineties teenage alter-ego "Robin Sparkles" the Canadian pop sensation who created the hit "Let's go to the mall." "Sandcastles in The Sand" is Robin's other single, which never made the charts. It did however introduce her to Simon, a loser who she dated for the 2 1/2 weeks of Canadian summer. These things aren't what made the episode great, it was three things, 1. Simon was played by James Vanderbeek, who on his return to Robin's life had a receeding hairline and a beer gut. I always appreciate the Creek kids trying to get back in the game. 2. I forget what it was that got Barney upset, but in the end Robin ended up comforting him, which established my new favorite hopeless couple to root for, Barney and Robin. and 3. The actual "Sandcastles in The Sand" video and song which were both as awful as you would think they would be.

4. "I would eat Tangerine Chicken but I don't have Tangerine Chicken" - The Big Bang Theory: The Tangerine Factor

Just like Sandcastles is the best of How I Met Your Mother, the season finale of Big Bang was the perfect storm of this hilarious one note joke show. Adorably awkward Leonard finally made his move on sweet and sexy Penny. In the second season we learned that this didn't work. But it was nice anyway. The B plot line was Sheldon trying to get to the bottom of a mystery, was the chicken at their favorite chinese place tangerine chicken or orange chicken. Oh right and Wollowitz was being pervy looking for Penny's ex boyfriend's blog which detailed their sex life. Largely, brilliant.

3. "It's Not What I'd Have Done." - Heroes: Dual (Much thanks to my brother for helping me pick!)

Peter Petrelli has his powers back. Thank God for it! I'm not among the people who think that this season of Heroes has been horrible so far. I think it's a hell of a lot better than last season. But the pivotal, "We're Baaack," moment for me came when Peter injected himself with the newly perfected formula and got his powers back and flew himself and his brother Nathan out of a burning building. Nathan's response was that it wasn't what he would have done, and at last the Nathan/Peter dynamic was restored to what it always should have been. Nathan is a dick and Peter saves him anyway. Oh right, and we saw how Peter got his scar. Which is kick ass. Between that, Claire forgiving her dad and walking away from the "Petrelli lifestyle" and "killing" Sylar, she's well on her way to fulfilling her destiny, you know becoming a brunette. I can't wait to see what happens next which is part of the redemption. Heroes is on it's way back to what we loved, I promise it is. Oh right, and Milo with the scar...totes hotter than Milo without the scar. Meow!

2. Meeting Half Way - Weight Loss: The Office

The moment Office fans all waited for. Jim proposing to Pam in the most Jim and Pam way possible. They met at a gas station half way between Scranton and New York (For your information, no such place exists.) and he got on one knee in the rain. It was the squeal heard round the world. Jim and Pam's relationship is so wonderful, and sweet and pure, it's nice to see it come to this step. We'll see what happens after the holidays, but I think things will keep being good, don't you?

1. "This is me! And I love you!" - Gossip Girl: Oh Brother, where Bart Thou

Nothing, and I mean nothing captivated me this year like the Gossip Girl fall finale. Chuck's breakdown, the revelation of Lilly and Rufus's baby...and most importantly, as usual, my favorite part of anything Gossip Girl, Blair showing her humanity. Her sobbing begging confession of her feelings to Chuck and his subsequent rejection and then acceptance and then his running away...it's like everything amazing about the Blair and Chuck romance all wrapped up into one angsty perfect hour. I can barely contain my excitement for the coming return...it's only two weeks away, thank God!

So there you have it. Yes 2008 was hard. The economy collapsed, my presidential candidate lost, but there were good things too. Like Turtle finally got a girlfriend, The Heroes began to fulfill their destiny, a fat girl finally won ANTM, Barney and Robin hooked up and Blair and Chuck confessed their love. Perhaps that makes up for it. Maybe.

Bling Bling Bling

So I've been watching my Office DVDs while I've been studying for my finals, and I don't know why but I was thinking about something my mom and I discussed a while ago, and that's how NBC successful shows have a certain something to them.

NBC's biggest successes come in a certain package, ensemble casts of mostly unknowns with a few familiar faces.

St. Elsewhere's made most of its cast stars, sure people knew William Daniels (But that was about it.)

Cosby, they knew Cosby. But Lisa Bonet, Phylcia Ryshaad, Malcom Jamall Warner, all unknowns, made into stars.

Cheers. All unknowns. Entirely.

Seinfeld. No one knew those guys, Jerry Seinfeld was a mildly successful comedian, Jason Alexander was a failing character actor. Now look at them.

Friends. Courtney Cox was in a Bruce Springsteen video and David Schwimmer had done some theater. I mean just look at that cast now, especially Jennifer Aniston who's biggest credit was Leprechaun.

The West Wing. Martin Sheen was a big movie star, and John Spencer was somewhat known. But the entire staff was really only known for playing small roles in movies.

Scrubs. Um, wait isn't that the black kid from Clueless? Granted NBC then destroyed the show by moving it to a different time slot every year, but still.

The Office. The Office is like the best show on television right now (Besides GG) and it was all these people you'd never heard of, unless you watched The Daily Show, then you knew Steve Carrell. Now they're all doing things, they're recognizable

Heroes. The Heroes cast were all "Oh That Guy!" type actors. Except Milo...*sigh*...OK, I'm back, but think about it. Ali Larter, "Isn't that the girl who wore the whipped cream bikini in Varsity Blues?" Or "Hey, that's the little girl from Remember The Titans?" or "Wasn't he in Top Gun?" Now, they're, well, not so much famous, as "Oh that's Matt Parkman!"

So there you have it. That's why shows like, mm, My Own Worst Enemy don't work for them...you watch NBC to see the future, not to be sad because all Christian Slater can get work doing is some pathetic Fight Club rip off show.

And of course there are exceptions...like 30 Rock. Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski and Alec Baldwin are hardly unknowns. They're actually pretty famous and have been for a while. There are always exceptions.

How the Idiot Box Blew My Mind Tonight

OK, between Gossip Girl and Heroes, I'm going to go CRAZY!!! Seriously, my television needs to chill out.

Let's start with Gossip Girl:

1. Lilly and Rufus have a baby! A BABY! Which means that Dan and Serena share a sibling which only furthers my cause...NERENA!!!! Seriously, it's not going to last with Aaron, and Nate and Vanessa can try their best, but it's Nate and Serena they will be together. Even if I'm the last person one earth to believe it.
2. Chuck loves Blair, Blair loves Chuck, but Chuck RAN AWAY and asked her NOT to follow him. Except we know she will, because they LOVE each other and they told each other.
3. Jenny's back, but you know, good Jenny, who we love, Jenny who just wants her brother to be happy and stuff. Bitchy Jenny gone, thank God! She was awful.
4. Blair wore the most spectacular blue velvet headband. I wants it.
5. If the television academy was less snobby and paid attention to The CW, then Ed Westwick would sooo deserve an Emmy for tonight's episode. He was so good it was unreal. Yes, he did his whole "I'm Chuck Bass, and I'm going to whisper, and purse my lips and wear ridiculous suits" thing, but the scenes where he flipped on Dan and kicked him out of the funeral and then when he told Erik he wasn't his brother (poor Erik, really, although he got back together with his boyfriend, which was sweet.) were so good I wanted to orgasm all over the place. Also I've decided that I'm going to marry him...Ed Westwick. So yeah, that'll be good.

And then Heroes...WHOA!

1. Sylar not a Petrelli. THANK GOD! But he also killed Elle, which makes me sad. I loved Elle, and I was really digging the Sylar/Elle love story. But I guess Kristen Bell had to focus on being Gossip Girl at the moment. Those voice overs must be killer.
2. Masi Oka should also win an Emmy. Hiro rocks. Hiro's scene with his mother was so awesome.
3. Claire warning Baby Claire about what boys are trouble. HILARIOUS.
4. Super Strong Marine and Nathan being a bad guy...SCARY.

I basically was shouting "OH MY GOD!" And "WHAT THE FUCK!" for two hours. Seriously, I feel SUPER bad for my room mates.

Another Side

It's rare that I can make an obvious connection between Heroes and Gossip Girl, but this week I did.

Both shows announced in these episodes one of their major intentions, to explore the humanity of those who we thought had little to none left, and to see a different side to those that we thought were good.

Both episodes gave us huge leaps into the humanity of the "evil" characters, whether it's socially evil (Chuck) or actually evil (Sylar) Dan wanted to get outside his comfort level and decided how better to do this than hang with Chuck and it turns out that Chuck's real mom died in childbirth, and that's why Bart resents him and why Chuck hates himself so much. Oh how easily this is explained. What's left of Sylar's humanity is exploited by Angela Petrelli, his birth mom? I'm still confused on that, but I have a feeling that she's telling the truth, and the company made her give him up because his natural power is latent. Anyway, he and Bennett are partners now, and Bennett's none to happy about it...you know given Claire's recent trauma and all. But Angela insists, and he understands as the episode goes on that having a sociopathic multi powered partner is totally beneficial. Anyway, in the "Next Week on Heroes" thing, we saw Peter in the future going to see Sylar who was baking and playing with Mr. Muggles wearing those glasses he wore before he went all evil, saying, "If I knew you were coming, bro, I'd have made more." That's going to be fun.

Also we saw completely different sides to characters we thought we knew well. We're finally seeing as Chuck calls it "The Real Serena." This is the Serena that Cecily Von Zeislinger created, she social climbs without trying or thinking and leaves everyone in her dust without a moment of scheming completely unaware that her actions are hurting others (Others read: Blair) It should be fun to see what Schwartz and Co do with that. As far as Heroes is concerned we totally got a new view of Claire. Yes, Claire often does her own thing, and defies the borders given her, but she takes things to a new level here, stealing her father's company paper work and going after the level 5 escapees on her own, much to the chagrin of her moms.

Oh right and did anyone else know that the Style Network has a ripoff of The Soup with Topanga in the hosting spot? It's called "The Dish." I will watch and report.

The Second Coming: Heroes

I have just begun to process the Heroes two part season premiere. First of all, we get to see Future Peter again...and ahh, Milo + Scar. MMM.

Part I:

So, Claire's super evil in the future, that's kind of awesome. She's pointing a gun at Future Peter's face. They're both wearing leather and we get a ton of that awesome Claire and Peter creepy sexual tension that I totally missed last season. It's awesome. Claire tells Peter she's sorry, and she's always loved him, he stops time before the bullet hits, stares at her all creepy and takes her gun. Then he teleports. Future Claire looks around baffled. Can we start out with the WTF factor? I mean, we all know that that creepy Peter/Claire vibe is because of the creepiness of Milo and Hayden, alright? But seriously, she's his niece! And sixteen! It's gross! That being said, Hayden looks damn sexy in leather. Why is it that in post apocalyptic futures people are always wearing leather? Moving on.

Cut to the present day. We see Peter, Parkman and Nathan...giving Nathan's big reveal of the powers. We see future Peter pull on a coat and baseball cap and...WAIT! Future Peter is the shooter?? OMG! He runs away from Present Peter and Parkman. Claire watches from home, and immediately calls Peter, saying that she should be there, she can help! Peter instructs her to stay put and he'll call her as soon as they know something. Claire's kinda flipped out, goes up to her bedroom and who's waiting for her, Sylar!! AHHH! Scary. Sylar is all creepy and cryptic and they have a really killer fight. Good for Claire, holding her own against him.

Next we see Hiro, who's chillin, messing around with time (forward a half hour, back a half hour) in a big fancy office. Ando comes in and they banter. Oh how I missed Hiro and Ando bantering! Hiro admits that he's bored and wants to be on a quest again. Ando's like, dude you're rich deal! Then a guy shows up with a DVD, a message that Hiro's father left him before he died. Sulu warns Hiro not to open his safe, his destiny is to be a sentinel! Hiro's like, screw that, and opens the safe while Ando goes, "No, stop!" in the safe is another DVD and an envelope. "I told you not to open the safe!" says Sulu, "But since you did don't let anyone get this formula (?) because in the wrong hands it could be devastating." As this happens, it gets swiped from Hiro's hand by a red and white blur. He freezes time and goes after the blur. It's a pretty blonde girl who's confused by him. They banter a bit, she punches him in the face and takes off. Hiro has his quest!

Maya is chilling in Mohinder's dingy Brooklyn apartment, scared of her own shadow. Mohinder comes in and says he put Molly on a plane. A plane to where? What's going on? Where'd they send Molly? Anyway, we see Mohinder and Maya have some sexual tension (I called it! I SOOO called it!) Maya begs Mohinder to take her power away, and he's like, I can't do that. She gets upset, starts to release her evil blackness or whatever the hell her power is, then calms down and Mohinder's all "How'd you do that?" and she's all, "I just did," shrug. Mohinder realizes that the powers are in the adrenal gland and that by using a powered person's adrenal fluid you can get powers too! I am impressed by the sciencey words, but nervous about the implications of this, also I don't like Mohinder being power hungry. I like meek little bookish Mohinder who needs Nikki or Sylar to do his dirty work.

Parkman finds Peter in a closet holding a gun. He suspects Peter may know something about the shooting. Parkman tries to read Peter's mind, Peter does that cool weird Static thing, remember that from season 1, morphs his face, he's got a scar! It's FUTURE PETER? But where's present Peter? CONFUSION! Peter makes Parkman disappear. Nathan gets up and walks out of the hospital and goes to a church and says that he now knows he has to do God's bidding. It's all kind of eerie and awesome. He collapses and Peter catches him, and carries him, we assume back to the hospital.

Sylar succeeds in his attack on Claire. He splits her skull as always, and is inspecting her brain, Claire's awake for this, and it's a completely frightening scene. Although I did enjoy the dialog, especially:

Claire: Are you going to eat it?
Sylar: Eat your brain? Claire, that's disgusting!

Hahahaha! Remember when we all thought Sylar ate brains, how silly we were! Sylar figures out how the healing works, and heals from where Claire stabbed him. Yeah. She stabbed him. I think we're going to get lots of "Claire's really bad ass" moments this season. He gives her back her scalp and it heals up. Claire's mom comes and Claire tells her what happened. Wait, Claire can't feel pain anymore, am I still human?

And speaking of Nikki...She's up to her old tricks...or so we think. Ali Larter in a corset talking to a governor about Nathan. They say that "he's their guy." Yeah, we all know about you and Nathan, Nikki, thanks!

Hiro goes into the future to see what happens if he doesn't get the formula back. Ando with powers kills him! AHH! Ando asks what he saw, he says never mind...We know how Ando gets his powers now, which is exciting.

Nathan returns to his room and Peter and Mrs. Petrelli visit him. After they walk outside and Mama Petrelli asks "Who are you and what have you done with Peter?" Future Peter is startled that she knows him. She laughs and reminds him that he inherited his first power, his prophetic dreams, from her. YAY! We know what Mama Petrelli's power is. Peter assures her that present Peter is someplace safe. Cut to level 5, where some ugly bald guy is banging on glass shouting, "HEY! I'm Peter Petrelli! Let me out!" Back in Nathan's room, he has a visitor. LINDERMAN??? But didn't he die?

Part one ends with Parkman walking around the desert, Mohinder injecting himself on some pier staring at the same picture while the Mohinder voice over read "The Second Coming" by Yeats...which is freaky, since we just did that poem in Modern Brit lit. Anyway, after injecting himself, Mohinder passes out. Uh oh!

Part Two:

Mohinder is woken up by three guys trying to mug him. One holding a gun to his head. He snaps up and bends the gun barrel. Mohinder has super strength. COOLSIES! He runs off into the night.

Parkman wakes up hearing a voice telling him that the plants store water. He looks up and sees a turtle. We assume this means that Parkman can now commune with Animals. We assume wrong. When he thanks the turtle a weird African dude asks "Why are you talking to a turtle?" They converse and he reveals that he can paint the future and that Parkman is supposed to be on a spirit walk.

Nathan and Linderman strategize. And then Nikki comes in and offers him a senate seat. And he's all, "Nikki, remember when we did it?" and she's all, "My name is Tracy!" After she leaves Linderman assures her that she's not Nikki, but he should consider this whole senator thing. Peter comes at some point and tells Nathan everything and asks for his forgiveness. Nathan gives it.

Peter goes to see Claire, who was standing in front of Train, trying to feel human again. They chat, and she begs him to teach her how to defend herself. He says no, he can't and disappears. Claire gets broody.

Maya comes to check on Mohinder and finds him on the ceiling meditating. He explains to her that his senses are heightened, that he's never felt like this before. Then he climbs up the wall. Apparently Mohinder turned himself in Spiderman, which is cool I guess. Then he and Maya do it. Oh right, and he was shirtless this whole time. Mmm, Mohinder's got abs dude!

We get confirmation that Tracy lady is not Nikki, because we find out she has Ice Powers.

Elle and Bob are back, they have a fight about Elle letting Sylar get away and about provoking Claire. Bob yells at Elle about her Daddy issues and she runs away angry. Then when she comes back Bob's dead! AH! She runs to level five and sees he's there. They fight and as he's about to take her out, when she has a huge electro burst and knocks him out. All the level 5 dudes escape, including guy who Peter's trapped as.

Later, Mrs. Petrelli tells Elle she's fired. I'm thinking this is a bad idea, but what do I know. Then she talks to Sylar, and tells him she's his mother! He says, this isn't possible, she says but it is! AHH!

Claire is thrilled when her father comes home and he says that he's going after the level 5 guys. Claire says she wants to go with him. He says she can't. She gets broody again, then they give away the big ending...CLAIRE'S REAL MOM IS BACK! YAYS!

Oh right, and Nathan's playing chess with Linderman, and his nurse comes in, and it turns out, oop, Nathan's crazy, Linderman's not really there. That's going to be SUPER FUN!

Yeah, and Hiro and Ando have an adventure in France going after super speed lady. It was kind of boring.

Mohinder waked up all snuggly with Maya and goes into the bathroom. He washes his face and notices his skin is peeling off. EW.

SO there you have it. I tried to capture the awesomeness, I couldn't. It was unbelievably good. Like beyond words good. It should be an amazing season. Plus, uh TWO PETERS!!! YAY!