I was originally going to put these in with the 'News' thread, but it felt a little wrong since some things are such major spoilers, so I made a thread just for that. These are Season 3 Spoilers about what will be happening in season 3, characters and the like. DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW.
Personally, I'm a news fanatic, so I often get spoiled, despite not truly liking it, but.. I can't help it.
Melinda in Cleveland: OMG, is it true that in the future Sylar has a son named Noah?!
Yes, it’s true. In the future, Sylar has a four-year-old named Noah (which has to be in memory or honor of our Noah Bennet, aka H.R.G.), and according to Zachary Quinto, Sylar’s baby mama is “silver-tongued and alive. I don’t know what else to say. I can’t give that away—it’s too good.” I’m voting for Kristen Bell’s Elle, who could certainly be characterized as silver-tongued, although perhaps I’m just thinking of Veronica Mars. Any other theories?
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As I said in the other post I made about this, I think it's probably Claire, not Elle.
What Hayden says about her character (Claire the Healing Cheerleader) in season 3.
“She’s very different… It’s a very different world [in the future], and it’s kind of, as you can imagine, a world gone a little bit awry, and she’s a very different person than she was.
“One of the cool things I think about this season is I get to play kind of two different characters for a second, because we pop back and forth a little bit from the present to the future.
“There are some things that I think are going on with her character and things that are going to happen, things that are a really big part of the story, but things that I’m not sure yet… They won’t tell me quite yet how it’s going to manifest and how it’s going to play out. But I think Claire plays a very important role in what happens, and in that way she can be worse than all of them.”
HUGE SEASON 3 EPISODE 1 SPOILERS! Basically what happens in the first 15 minutes of the first episode.
Four Years in the Future: Future Claire and Future Peter
- We open four years in the future, with the oft-talked about scene where Future Claire aims a gun at Future Peter, tells him she’s “always loved him”, pulls the trigger. Well of course you can’t kill a guy who can stop time. Future Peter freezes time, takes the gun from Claire, and disappears, leaving Claire frozen in time. It appears Future Peter has returned to the past …
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Future Peter Shot Nathan in the Past
- Future Peter shoots Nathan at the press conference, as seen at the end of “Powerless” in Season 2. His reasons: to stop Nathan from revealing the existence of super-powered people. After shooting Nathan, Future Peter is chased by Present Peter and Matt Parkman. We don’t see what happens, but Future Peter quickly assumes the identity of Present Peter. [We later find out where Present Peter has been keeping himself throughout all this.] Future Peter’s ploy doesn’t fool Matt Parkman, who can read his mind. Unfortunately for Matt, Future Peter teleports him to the desert seen in the promos. As it turns out, it’s more a question of when then where Matt has been teleported. [It is hinted at, I believe, that Matt has been transported back in time. Way, way back in time.] Mama Petrelli later shows up at the hospital where Nathan is being kept, and presumably through the use of her powers, knows that Peter is not Peter, and tells Future Peter to leave, because he’s messing up the timeline again.
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HRG and Level 5
- Where is HRG? In a Company prison cell. Also, that fat guy who claims to be Peter Petrelli that we’ve previously talked about, in the cell next to HRG’s? I think he might just be Peter after all. After all, where has Present Peter been kept while Future Peter is out there assuming his identity? My guess is that when the Level 5 cons escape, it’ll also be how Present Peter and HRG escapes.
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Maya and Mohinder
- Maya goes to Mohinder for help to rid herself of her “curse” aka her poers. He takes a sample of her blood and seems to discover that powers are not genetic, and that the building blocks that creates these powers can in fact be transferred from person to person, basically power on demand, in a syringe. At the end of the premiere, Mohinder injects himself with the power, and becomes super strong. He uses his new powers on a couple of thugs trying to steal his watch when he wakes up after having injected himself with the syringe and bee knocked unconscious. [The Comic Con episode ends here, with a "To be Continued..."] [Newsarama clears this part up a bit: Mohinder discovers that the powers come from the adrenal glands, and are activated by bursts of adrenaline.]
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Nathan Petrelli
- So what’s up with Nathan? Well, he was shot, then he survived. How? It isn’t made clear. He just wakes up in the hospital, alive and well, but seemingly “out of it”. He quickly heads to a church, where he claims to have been given a sign from God. It appears Nathan now believes he is an angel, sent to do good things. Is this why Future Peter shot him? How was Nathan revived? Later, Linderman, alive and well, shows up at the hospital and tells Nathan that he is destined for great things. [Popcritic clears up that Linderman only shows up to Nathan, and not both brothers.]
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Claire and Sylar
- As for Claire and Sylar, it’s “When a Stranger Calls” remake, apparently, as Sylar goes to Claire’s house for her powers. They fight. She gives it to him pretty good, and even manages to stab him in the chest with a big ol kitchen knife. He of course doesn’t die. Eventually, Sylar captures her, and slices her head open as she lays twitching on a table. LITERALLY. He then steals her powers by studying her brain. LITERALLY AGAIN! After taking her invulnerability power, he tells her that she can’t die, and indeed, when he replaces the top of her skull (Holy crap!), she heals. (Sylar tells Claire, “You can never die, Claire, and now neither can I.”)
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Ando and Hiro
- So what’s Ando and Hiro been up to? Apparently becoming boss of his father’s empire has made Hiro’s life very dull. He longs to be a hero again. He’s in luck. A lawyer arrives with a DVD from his deceased father telling him that he must safeguard a piece of paper containing a formula to saving the world, and that if the paper should fall into the wrong hands, a lot of people will die. The paper is inside a safe, where Hiro, unable to stop himself, takes a peek. Oops! Daphne, the speedster, shows up and steals the paper! [Apparently when Hiro freezes time, Daphne can still move in regular speed, their powers effectively canceling each other's out; of course, against Present Hiro, yes, but what about badass, Samurai sword carrying Future Hiro?] Instead of using his time powers to go back in time to stop her [he is afraid of altering the timeline once again], he decides to go into the future to see the damage losing the paper has caused. Here, Hiro witnesses an argument between Future Ando and Future Hiro (again in badass Samurai garb) apparently over a paper containing the missing formula. And get this — Ando apparently uses a superpower (described as “red bolts”!) to blast Hiro! It is also here that Hiro glimpses another incoming disaster that destroys the city, ala New York City in Season 1’s pilot, thus setting him on yet another quest to stop it. [Did Ando get these powers the same way Mohinder got his? In future, anything's possible.]
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Nikki, New Orleans, etc
- Nikki (now going by Tracy Strauss, perhaps?) is alive and well, and is mistress to the New York Governor. Is this Bruce Boxleitner’s character? Possibly. [Newsrama confirms that the Governor is indeed Bruce Boxleitner, but it's not made clear if Nikki/Tracy is married to him, or his mistress.]
- There are no appearances by the New Orleans brood.
Brea Grant talks Daphne. (New Heroes Character - Very major role.)
In case you haven’t noticed yet, NBC and Tim Kring have invested quite a bit of their Season 3 time on a new character named Daphne Millbrook, to be played by Brea Grant. The character will have superspeed, and the first time we see her, she’ll have stolen something very valuable from Hiro. The Brea Grant publicity tour continues, this time with an interview with Comic Book Resources, where Grant reveals (perhaps unintentionally) a couple of SPOILERS from the upcoming season. As always, turn away now, and do not read on unless you want to know…
The whole interview can be found at CBR. Below are the highlights.
She reveals about her powers compared to Hiro’s:
“He can stop time but because I’m so fast I can move within his time-stopped world,” Grant explained. “We sort of cancel each other’s powers out. I can run around in his stopped world but I can’t run at super-speeds. He can’t do anything about it, so it’s a good dynamic between the two of us. He’s constantly the good guy, where as I’m more of the bad guy.”
Okay, that’s not really true. They don’t actually “cancel” each other’s powers out. Remember, Hiro can time travel, too, not just stop time. It wouldn’t matter how fast she can run if he just, say, go back 20 seconds into the past to do something over, or 20 seconds into the future to intercept something she’s about to do. The notion that their powers cancel each other out is ridiculous.
And this part basically confirms my belief that they’re setting Daphne up as an anti-hero with a redemption arc coming later in the season:
“I wouldn’t say that deep down she’s a terrible person or anything,” said Grant. “She’s no Sylar but she’s a thief. I think in the end she’s sort of an innocent. She’s been a thief for a long time, she’s been on her own and had to take care of herself. Now all of the sudden she is faced with these people who have these much bigger issues at stake and that’s going to change the way she reacts to things. But my character has many turns throughout the season. There is much to look forward to.”
Plus, if you’ve seen her scenes in the trailers, she’s way too peppy and “silver tongued” to be a true villain like, say, Sylar. He just slices your head open. She’s liable to back-talk you to death.
Now here’s the SPOILER part: Grant reveals that she’s already worked with Linderman, and that their scenes take place in the present, and are not flashbacks.
While discussing her experience working with a particular actor on the show, Grant revealed some interesting information about the upcoming season. “I got to work with Malcolm McDowell and it was amazing,” she said. “He’s so cool and has about a million stories. He’s also the ultimate bad guy. He’s so evil that it’s cool.”
But isn’t Linderman dead? Nope, as we’ve already learned from these mega spoilers, he’s very much alive, and still have plans for the Petrelli boys.
