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Now don't get mad at me or anthing like that, but I think that NBC hyped up the "Save the Cheerleader, Save the world" way too much. don't get me wrong, it was still a good episode, but not what i thought it would be. it just left me hanging with little questions answered and more questions unanswered. Does anybody else feel me on that?

Erden · Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:31 pm Post subject:

I think they are going to be answered...but now we know that the cheerleader is saved.

EDGE · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:01 am Post subject:

yeah that's good. i'm sort of torn between two views.

Gothenem · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:06 am Post subject:

OK, it WAS a good episode, but it wasn't the climactic OMG episode that were were led to believe it would be.

Ahhh well. C'est la vie.

AnGeL_OF_DeAtH · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:30 pm Post subject:

I agree it wasnt that good of an episode, except for the end when Hiro came back, peter healed and they got Sylar

jpoole314

Protagonist · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:16 am Post subject:

I actually wasn't disappointed with the "Save the cheerleader, save the world." because that was the marketing department at least to some extent. I was disappointed that Claire didn't admit that she was the said cheerleader to Peter and that Sylar was a super disappointment.

Let me expand:

Claire saw Peter heal and in her mind this was another person like her. Maybe even someone related to her. Also, Peter had just saved her life with great risk to his own. She also ultimately left Peter hanging (but that was her father). The tradeoff for that would have been admitting to him that he had succeeded, but she didn't.

On the point about Sylar, he was caught by two minor characters (Eden and Haitian) and was tripped up by his own incompetence as well as his target running away. His solution to taking on Peter was to push him. Not to use his powers... to push him. And to fall with him, and survive only because Peter broke his fall.

But I don't mind the episode because it is one episode before the next one and I expect a lot from the next one.

oxigen · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject:

There's something strange with the homecoming, not the episode, but the ceremony: wasn't it a school ceremony? Where were everyone???? When Sylar arrived, all the cheerleaders disappeared, there were no students, no teachers, no family... I haven't seen a school as empty as this was.

And: i hated when Peter and Sylar simply fell off the ledge...

Gothenem · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject:

They were all at the game, which had started back up. The cheerleaders were in the locker room to freshen up after the half-time show.

Vixen

If you watch the clock as Peter and Sylar are falling the time goes back then forward. I take this to mean Hiro has arrived.

From Isaca's paintings we know Hiro does make it, but there is blood and maybe the "homecoming" banner is falling or torn in the painting.

Hiro tells Peter on the train that he almost doesn't regconize him without the scar, and Peter does have a long scar on his face after the fall with Sylar that disappears when Clara comes to check on him.

Peter now using Clara's abilities makes the scar go away.

So what happens in Hiro's version?

PlutoniumBoss · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:19 am Post subject:

The_Blob · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:33 am Post subject:

A note on Sylar,

Like in Red Dragon...

"No, Dr. Lector, I'm not smarter than you, but you ARE at a disadvantage...You're insane."

I also think that Sylar being exposed to whatever secrets HRG's organization is privvy to makes him MORE dangerous than ever.

Gothenem · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:15 am Post subject:

No, Peter lost control after he touched Peter, not after Peter flew. Perhaps he CAN drain powers on contact ala Rogue...

hardlyaaron · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject:

No because the day that he drew the future he never touched Isaac. In fact they never came that close.

Also, if Episode 9 was this good, which it was a very entertaining episode, imagine how awesome the Finale for this season will be. God I want to fastforward a few months so I can see it.

Brakiri · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject:

I think it was a great episode. It was totally clear, that Sylar will go for the wrong cheerleader, and that Peter will survive, but it came as a suprise that Eden was to take out Sylar, and not Peter.

All in all it was a little stuffed for just 42 min, I guess they had to re-cut the ep once they knew, that the network ordered a full season of the show (I think I remember heaving read somewhere, that the original order was only 8 or 9 eps).

BTW From what we know by now, Hiro didn't return, and Charlie is still dead. It's a great move to let him travel back in time 6 months, so that we also can see, what was with all the others at that time. I smell some interesting revelations in the next ep. Is it *Tuesday* yet?