Heroes Season 4 - Part 1

Since we haven't talked about Heroes all year I figured I'd bring it up. My order of Monday shows this fall was, sadly, How I Met Your Mother, Monday Night Football, Dancing with the Stars, video games, risk on my computer, staring at a wall, Heroes. However, I was curious, so since Leigh was sick this last Thanksgiving weekend and we couldn't really do anything outside the house, we watched the entire season online. I must say, this season definitely blows away the last 2 and has actually pulled me in again. I will recap each main character and what is going on, for those who haven't seen it yet. There may be some spoilers so if you are planning on watching it on DVD or something then you may want to skip this part.

SYLAR
By far the most interesting and likable character of the entire series, Sylar definitely does not disappoint this season. In the Season 3 finale Nathan was killed, so in order to preserve his life, Angela Petrelli had his memories planted into Sylar's shape shifted body by Parkman. Therefore, Sylar's mind was erased (or so we thought) and was now stuck as Nathan. However, after some time, Parkman begins to have continually more intense visions of Sylar in his head. Sylar actually gains enough control to start controlling Parkman's body (and bangs his wife, which led to a funny exchange). So, Parkman tells his wife and child to leave and not tell him where they are going so Sylar doesn't know. After they go, Parkman has a beer and Sylar appears to be hurt by it. So Parkman gets the idea to start chugging liquor and eventually Sylar disappears. Unfortunately for him, Sylar was faking and when Parkman was awakened by his wife and a police officer, he was now completely overtaken by Sylar. After some hilarity, Sylar learns what happened after threatening to kill a waitress. He and Parkman are about to go find Nathan and switch back, but Parkman tricks him and ends up getting shot up by the cops, which appears to kill him but we all know he's not dead...they wouldn't kill off Sylar that easily.

PETER
Peter lost his power to hold onto everyone's abilities, and instead can only hold one at a time. At the beginning of the season, he has super speed, so he uses it to save people as a paramedic. A deaf lady named Deanna, who works at the hospital and is actually sort of hot in a weird way, has an ability to see sound as colors. So far nothing has really come of it other than a pseudo love story with Peter when he can see the colors with her and they play an annoying song on the piano. She was depressed and dropped out of med school, but Peter and Hiro convinced her to go back. That's about it with her. Peter is busy saving lives when Hiro appears. I'll get into why in a minute. Hiro is sick so Peter needs to cure him, so Bennet tells him about a boy who can heal. They go to find him but turns out he can also kill, and he touched his parents during an argument and killed them both. Peter and Noah convince the boy to remember how to heal after Peter gets shot up by police, so after Peter is saved he takes the power back to the hospital to save Hiro. When he gets back, Hiro is gone. Nathan then shows up looking all messed up and tells Peter they need to go to a storage container to see something.

NATHAN
As my second favorite character probably, I was glad to see he was back for Season 4. However, how long could they keep it up being that he is dead and is only memories in Sylar's body? He begins to see his memories as out of body things and not reality, then he realizes he has telekinesis so he is really confused. He wants to verify his memories so he goes back to see the mother of an ex-gf who ran away while they were dating. He sees visions and realizes she actually died while they were drunk in the pool, and tells the mother, who is friends with Angela. She pretends to not believe him, but when Nathan confronts Angela she confesses and he is pissed. The mother puts a hit out on him, because apparently that is easy to do, but he lives because he has Sylar's healing power. He crawls out of the ground in his grave, and we see he has turned back into Sylar, with amnesia. He is led to "the carnival" home of Samuel and his collection of heroes. I'll get to that later.

HIRO
Hiro is dying from a brain tumor and wants to right all his wrongs before he bites the bullet. He goes back in time to make his sister and Ando fall in love, so they do and that's done with. After some shenanigans and trying to save people and learning about the butterfly effect, he loses control of his powers and goes back in time to Peter's hospital. He collapses and is put in bed. He also saw Samuel at some point who taught him stuff. He talks to the deaf woman while Peter is gone and realizes he should go back and save Charlie from Sylar. He toys with past-Sylar for a while and eventually saves her. Then she starts to die from her tumor and Hiro convinces Sylar to remove it from her brain. Then Hiro finds out she didn't want to be saved if it was really her time to go, but then she forgives him, whatever. Samuel goes back in time because he has his own teleporter, who is old and dying, and kidnaps her and convinces Hiro to work for him.

I'll get to Bennet, Claire (blah), Tracy (blahx2), Samuel, Mohinder, and the current status later.