Panel….or pep rally? Thousands of Heroes fans packed Comic-Con’s largest venue to get the first look at season three before it returns to NBC — after a nine-month-hiatus — on Sept. 22. And when we say first look, we mean a complete 44-minute look: Executive Producer Tim Kring told the 6,000-plus crowd that he not only wants them to be among the first to see the start of Volume III (titled "The Second Coming"), but that he’d also like them to spread the word once they leave San Diego. "Go back and talk about it and say it’s better than ever," Kring said. Spoilers begin after the jump:
• The action begins with a "future" Peter (Milo Ventimiglia, pictured) comingback to modern day in an effort to shoot Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) beforehe exposes their secret powers to the world.
• Matt (Greg Grunberg) discovers future-Peter’s real identity — butis banished into the middle of nowhere before he can do anything aboutit.
• Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy) finally isolates Maya’s (DaniaRamirez) powers in chemical form, and uses a syringe to inject himselfwith the magic elixir rather than give the girl what she wants —freedom from the hell of her super-human affliction.
• Sylar (Zachary Quinto) traps Claire (Hayden Panettiere) in herhouse and literally rips open her head to steal her thoughts andability to defy death, while…
• Hiro (Masi Oki) disobeys his dead father’s command and opens upthe office safe that holds part of a formula that, if completed, coulddestroy the world. Of course, it’s confiscated within seconds by amysterious, time-traveling blonde.
• There are also brief appearances by Niki (Ali Larter) — nowlooking professional and dating (or married to?) an older man — as wellas Noah (Jack Coleman), who’s locked up in an inescapable prison cell.Oh, and keep an eye out for a new animated image (painting?) that looklikes the Earth is cracking in half.
• And did we say a newly powered-up Mohinder gets to finally kick some ass?
The screening left little time for and a Q&A session, but thatdidn’t stop the entire cast from coming on stage to wave and blowkisses to the fans (one young woman even got a hug from Ventimiglia).The crowd roared, especially since most had been waiting hours for thepanel. One even waved a sign that said "Milo we camped out 4 U allnight."
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The mysterious time traveling blonde isn’t a time traveler, she just is able to run really fast.
And you didn’t mention the return of LINDERMAN!
I wish I could have been there, I soooo want to be the one hugged by Milo Ventimiglia!!!!
“One young woman even got a hug from Ventimiglia”
Christ Milo, you’re already robbing the cradle. What, you gotta move up to the whole nursery now?
watever blogger that said the walk of nathan’s killer seemed identical to the jess’s old walk from gilmore girls was totally right. nice going…keen eye, you have!
Or mention we know Angela Petrelli’s power – kinda a big secret. lol.
Looking forward to S3. Hopefully they iron out the bugs from S2 and return it form. I thought Chapter 3 was called “Villians”?
That sounds godawful.
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I was a HUGE fan of the first season, I only kind of liked the second season and the third season sounds like it’s going to hell… what was the point of having the whole first season be about saving claire and what the would do, if you only kill her off in the third season? i have to admit, i love the actors and i think they all have been fabulous, their great at what they do… i’m upset with the writers… what are they thinking?!
they dont kill Claire off, if you visit wizarduniverse.com, they state that she lives thru it.
Can someone please get rid of Sylar? I’m sick to death of him. Season 2 was awful, it doesn’t sound like Season 3 will be any better.
So what, are they ALL villains now? Sounds like everyone got a little too bad ass. Noone is going to save the world like that.
I’m so glad all of you are so quick to judge without even seeing the episode. Let’s watch it and find out what is happening with our own eyes.
So Peter is the one that shoots Nathan. I have to say, I didn’t see that one coming. I’m not sure how I feel about Mohinder having powers. Sure, I find his character incredibly boring and his actions often idiotic, but I thought having a non-superpowered central character (besides HRG) was essential. I would’ve rather seen him use that serum on Mr. Muggles.
Season 2 was tres lame, but I’m back in. It’s not the most unusual thing in the world (in fact it’s fairly common) for a show to have a sophomore slump after a great first year. Hopefully, like “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives” before it, “Heroes” can break out of that.
Sylar needs to go I thougth he was dead after Season Two like seriously if he kills Claire I will totally stop watching or paying attetion to it. Peter shooting Nathan. Never saw that coming. And why would Hiro care about I virus that could destroy the world? leaving it alone would be the smart thing to do Duh! Season 3 sounds exciting and I’m hoping it’s the end of Sylar he is getting way annoying.
Hey Samisam — don’t worry. Skylar doesn’t kill Claire — in fact, he tells her she can’t be killed — and now that he has her power as well, he can’t be killed either!
Hey Samisam — don’t worry. Skylar doesn’t kill Claire — in fact, he tells her she can’t be killed — and now that he has her power as well, he can’t be killed either!
dude this season is going 2 b totally wack but if they kill off claire im going 2 stop watching she’s like my favorite character. i cant wait til sept. 22 for it 2 start showing again! i want sylar 2 DIE! GRR!
I’m tired of Sylar. I think the show is limiting itself keeping him around. He is very one-dimensional and overpowered. The time traveling is also played out and usually handled pretty sloppily. And is the world going to come to an end every season? The show needs new writers and also needs to tone down some of the more overly powerful characters (Hiro’s time-jumping can stop anytime now…). This show needs new direction or a restart.
WAT! sylar gets claires power? NO WAY! THAT IS SO TOTALLY MESSED UP!!! its cool that Mohinder finally gets 2 kick some butt instead of all that other stuff he does.
where u hear bout that?
if you go to the nbc homepage for heroes, you can watch a minute preview where you see claire with a gun ready to shot a future peter for a brief second.
I was there!
that cool, I just wanted to let people know claire doesnt die but i wonder if future peter does
Jason – No, future Peter is sent back to the future
that cool, I didnt know I have only seen a couple of new things about season 3 lately
Season 2 was lame because Brian Fuller left. The rest of the writers decided to rehash season 1 stuff like bring back sylar etc. instead of expanding and taking the show in new directions. Whether they are capable of this or not is up for debate, but unlikely considering how enormously bad season 2 was barring a couple of episodes.
Yawn. Boring. Nothing exciting. Normal comic book stuff without the innovation or postmodern flair to make the old interesting (or even worth revisiting) again.
Sounds great. Do we see Sylar taking her powers? Too cool. But I have to say, Mohinder’s an ass to do that. WTF? Also, where’s Monica and little Micah?
Also, future Peter seemed too obvious. Darns.
Travelling through time…Again? The entire world is on the brink…Again? Sylar is the big villain…Again? They really haven’t enticed me into watching.