Heroes Season 1(#20)---4/30/07-'(Five Years Gone)String Theory'

[Truth Seeker]

(Five Years Gone)String Theory​

Star: Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet), Jack Coleman (Mr. Bennet / HRG), Leonard Roberts (D.L. Hawkins), Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura), Milo Ventimiglia (Peter Petrelli), Noah Gray-Cabey (Micah Sanders), Santiago Cabrera (Isaac Mendez), Sendhil Ramamurthy (Mohinder Suresh), Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Petrelli), Ali Larter (Niki Sanders), Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman)

Recurring Role: James Kyson Lee (Ando Masahashi), Zachary Quinto (Sylar)

Guest Star: Stana Katic (Hana Gitelman), Jimmy Jean-Louis (The Hatian), Kellan Lutz (Andy)

Hiro and Ando find themselves five years after the destruction of New York City. People with extraordinary abilities are labeled as terrorists and are being registered, hunted, and killed. Hiro and Ando meet up with darker versions of the other heroes in preparation for a showdown with the President. This includes a darker side of Matt, a Jessica/Niki with a clear winner in their battle, a brown-haired Claire, and a man named Andy, who's a big hearted Texan. It also features an event at an upscale gentleman's club.​

It is a Dark time tonight!!

 

[tecnowraith]

The title of episode is "Five Years Gone". Just FYI.

 

[Fast Learner]

If you saw Friday's Larry King Live with the cast, you saw most of the opening this week, it seems. Very exciting!

 

[Steel_Wind]

I guess I'm 1.5/2 on wild theories.

 

[Crothian]

ugh, didn't like that twist

 

[wingsandsword]

So far it looks like Heroes is doing its version of the "Days of Future Past" storyline.

Parkman is a villain, Bennett is running an underground railroad, Hiro is considered a Most Wanted terrorist, and President Petrelli has authorized an outright genocide of all superpowered humans.

I'm wondering how hard will it be to ever see Nathan or Matt as anything but villains after this though.

 

[Pseudonym]

That was amazing.

 

[DonTadow]

wow just wow, Sylar wasn't painting crazy pics, he was painting himself as president. And that fight in the hall at the end. I was screaming for the camera man to let us see that fight. That fight alone would take out half a city.

This episode answeres a few questions from the beginning of the series, such as some more defined rules for time traveling and why there is a future hero. Sylalr seemed to pull off a convincing president, which surprised me.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

It was interesting we never was what became of Linderman in this future, and the only mention of him was in the "Linderman Act" mentioned by a reporter.

Edit: Or for that matter, Mother Patrelli.

Peter was finally combing his hair, and all he had to do was destroy New York. Matt becomes more forceful, but possibly more dumb as well.

You can't fight the future... Sylar will win for a long time, he will kill Claire and Nathan, New York will be destroyed and things will spiral downwards.

 

[Vocenoctum]

ugh, didn't like that twist

I didn't like the twist, either. Since Hiro doesn't seem to know anything more, it's also possible, maybe even likely, that history keeps going the way it already did. It's neat to wonder whether Save The Cheerleader really did alter reality or whether it was always like that though.