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mrs officer from teth on Vimeo.
i had the urge to post some lil' wayne, seeing as i havent pretty much all year. his latest single from the devastatingly good "tha carter 3", just ignore kidd kidd's verse which is awful (not in the vid). this is currently on radio 1s b list, pretty good, uk tour please! randomly comfortable starts 1 minute from the end in the video :s
Lil'Wayne-Mrs. Officer feat. Bobby Valentino
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from the 15th to the 23rd of november i saw death cab 3 times! nottingham, sheffield and paris. lucky me!! all 3 were awesome gigs, paris was especially great!
Nottingham 15/11 Rock City
Setlist
The Employment Pages
Your Heart is an Empty Room
The New Year
Why You'd Want to Live Here
Crooked Teeth
No Sunlight
Grapevine Fires
Summer Skin
Soul Meets Body
I Will Follow You into the Dark
I Will Possess Your Heart
Cath...
We Looked Like Giants
Company Calls
Long Division
The Sound of Settling
Encore:
Technicolor Girls(!! apparently first ever play in the UK)
Title and Registration
Expo '86
Transatlanticism
Best songs: The Employment Pages, Why Youd Want to Live Here, Title and Reg, Trans, Empty Room

Sheffield 17/11 Academy
Setlist
The Employment Pages
Your Heart Is An Empty Room
The New Year
Why You'd Want to Live Here
Crooked Teeth
No Sunlight
Grapevine Fires
Summer Skin
Soul Meets Body
I Will Follow You Into the Dark
I Will Possess Your Heart
Cath...
A Movie Script Ending
Long Division
The Sound of Settling
Bixby Canyon Bridge
Encore:
Title and Registration
Company Calls
Transatlanticism

best songs: A Movie Script Ending, Bixby canyon Bridge, Employment Pages, Trans, Iwill possess

Paris 23/11 Bataclan
setlist
Employment pages
Your heart is an empty room
The new Year
We laugh indoors
photobooth
A movie script ending
No sunlight
Grapevine Fires
Soul meets body
I will follow you into the dark
I will possess your heart
Cath
Company calls
Long Division
Crooked teeth
Sound of settling
encore:
Brothers on a hotel bed
Title and registration
Transatlanticism


best songs: brothers, we laugh indoors, photobooth, possess...

the setlists could have been alot better. i hope next tiem they come to the uk (probs not for 2 years :( ) they will play a more varied setlist, and drop plans/trans singles rather than photo/facts ones. and play at least 1 song from airplanes, they did just rerelease it! anyways, i shouldnt complain, 3 brilliant evenings :D

Death Cab For Cutie-Technicolor Girls
Death Cab For Cutie-The Employment Pages

video uploads take far too long :(
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so its that time of year, the time whene every single music blog posts their top albums/singles/people.

• i am going to be doing a month by month album roundup..starting with january, which should be up soon.

• also, my personal top 20 songs and 10 albums of the year. oh and top 5 gigs.
  
• there will be a number of polls going up soon, with a shortlist by me, and the winner chosen by you. categories are: best band, best solo artist, best uk artist, best international artist, best us hiphop, best uk hiphop, best live act, best festival, best dance act, best newcomer,
  
• tv awards: best UK, best US, best actor
• and then what im excited about for 2009.

its gonna be fun :D, old skool monday will return tomorrow, with some more classic hiphop
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on BET 106, both kanye and young jeezy absolutely merk this, on amazing and put on...
amazing is such a brilliant song. musically and lyrically this album is just so special. more thoughts/links to come friday probs
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this is gonna be too good! loads of locke scenes in there. wish i didnt have to listen to the fray everytime i want to watch this...

thought on 808's (amazing), day and age, prospekts march and more soooon
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JANUARY THE 6TH! scrubs season 8 will begin....with 2 episodes...
brand new trailer

cant wait for this, synopsis for first 2 eps are widely available, rumours are that matthew perry will be back sometime this season as well!
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this is kindof weird, coz i just watched the next episode, but i wrote it so ill post it :D

This was written on the train...
just watched ep9 "its coming" for the 2nd time on my ipod. Very mixed feelings about this episode, about 2/3 of it was great, action packed Heroes that has been great in the majority of episodes this season. The other 3rd was rubbish, awfully written, no character development, no action, almost disrespectful to the actors! Anyway...

..this episode was well split between the main characters (except HRG), so ill start with Hiro/Ando. After the "cliffhanger" from ep8, it looked like Arthur was taking Hiro's power away! Trns out he just erased his memories, for now at least. Not much of a surprise TBH, as a team with powerless Hiro, and powerless Peter would be pretty useless agaisnt Arthur and poss Sylar (still unsure where his allegiance lies). Hiro managed to transport himself and Ando to a bowling alley in Japan. 10 year old Hiro was great. It doesnt really add to the seasons story, but still really funny, Masi Oka was perfect for this sort of acting! The tricks he played were great, and the numerous "i did it" (Yata!) were a welcome return. Also, the 9th wonder comics are great, i wonder how far ahead of his death Isaac wrote? Seth green plays a comic store worker next week!

We alos saw Sylar developing and discovering his powers. How frustrating that his power is essentially Peter's! the whole "you need to feel empathy" thing doesnt quite add up, seeing as in ep8 we saw a normal(ish) Gabriel, who surely would have felt empathy at some point! He should already have had Elle's power ffs! Anyways, Zach Quinto and Kristen Bell play 2 of my favourite Heroes characters and they have fantastic onscreen chemistry. Their "reunion" was done well for the 1st 25 minutes, with a bitter Elle basically torturing herself and the monster she helped create. She basically went crazy and electrocuted the hell out of him! When Sylar did his trademark finger flick I was really worried that he might actually kill her! After he absorbed her power presumably calming it of sorts, this sotry went dead. The next scenes saw Elle showing Sylar electric tricks! From despising to having a friendly chat/flirt is far too unrealistic! It was ridiculously oversentimental and stupidly cheesy. I thought this was an insult to the actors! If (when) Sylar and Elle get together, they should do so via some kind of fight (a la A-L and Sawyer in Lost!). It just annoyed me! These scenes have such potential, the writers need to not throw it away!

Peter and Claire teamed up in this episode. The writers seem to build up this epic relationship between them, but I can only remember a few times (obv "save the chherleader") that theyve even been in the same scene! I do quite like them as a team though. It does seeam sometimes that Haydyn Panieterre lets her real life relationship with Milo come across tooooo much, the way she delivered the line "My Hero" was a little too much for her uncle. Loved her jumping through the window, was pretty awesome. I like the story Claire now has this season, with the whole catalyst thing. Shes standardly not gonna hide away!

The 3rd Petrelli brother, and (surprisingly, as he did try to kill him last ep) Arthurs favourite went with Tracy to Pinehearst to gage his "rebirth" for himself. The most exciting bit of this was Tracy going back into the building, and her subsequent convo with Arthur. Tracy basically agreed to persuade Nathan to join Arthur, not an easy task tbh, considering his mum and favourite bro are so anti-him. What is in it for her? hope well find out soon...

Mohinder still hasnt been killed off! And made another stupid speech at the start, about this eclipse that is coming soon (next ep to be precise). If they try and explain the significance of the eclipse scientifically i'm gonna bepissed off. Heroes needs to accept its a scifi show, and people arent gonna genetically mutate to have superpowers, or gain them through teir adrenaline (?) and the eclipse wont make your adrenal glands change! His lines at the end were ridiculous, describing the eclipse. "It starts light and ends light, and its dark in between". ffs

matt has been drastically underused this season, but hes still one of my faves, as is Daphne. they arrive in primatech, which is completely deserted bar a still comatosed Angela. Mat uses his power to enter the dream shes being held in. This started awesomely, Parkman finding only locked doors until 1 is open and Arthur ( check the shadow!) appears as Daphne..and stabs Matt in the back (almost eminiscent of the JD fantasy of Townsey in Scrubs). Daphne ten gets "brought in" and gives a bullshit speech claiming she "loves him". It did the trick, Matt is whipped, but back in real life when she claims to have told the truth...she is clearly lying. They have known each other 10 minutes. The writers seem to be selective as to when Matt can use his powers! Surely, if some girl you dont really know comes along and backstabs you then tells you she loves you, your gonna be suspicious enough to have a little mind read? Arthur let Angela go, potentially v.sigificant. Daphne said she "cant go back to the way I was" pretty sure ep10 will reveal ehat that was.

The episode was so mixed...sometimes amazing, sometimes a joke. Heroes has a history of handling relationships awfully. Claire/west, Maya/Mohinder were done rubbishly. Hopefully Sylar/Elle and Matt/Daphne will be given alot better scripts!

no sneak peeks/promos as the next epi is already out....
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oh dear im listening to tha carter 3 for the first time. and its an awesome album. i really dont want to like it, coz he used to really piss me offfff. i used to hate lollipop, i now love it grrr. kanye has a lot to do to beat this to rap album of the year...
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here is a great interview with bill lawrence regarding season 8
here is a not very spoilerish look at the first 2 episodes of the new season
this has got me well excited, especially for ep2.
scrubs is gonna be on wednesday nights, the same as lost on ABC. probs wont be shown til aprilish in the UK
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Heroes suffered a bit of a dip this week, in the excitement stakes. The program seems to have problems with making "flashback" episodes (the s2 one was pretty rubbish), but the flashforward type ones are always great. weird. It wasn't a bad episode at all, I just think more stories could have been explored (im sure we were promised a Parkman story?).

Anywho, the episode had three main focuses; the Petrelli's, Meredith/Flint and Sylar/Elle/HRG. As usual in this program, the Petrelli's provided the focus, and it was good to see the dynamic between Arthur/Angela/Linderman. The flashback kicked off with an anniversary party for the couple (and a welcome return for Peters curtains reminding us of when he wasnt an annoying character). Linderman and Arthur appear very close and plan to kill Nathan to prevent him uncovering his secrets. I don't understand why Arthur didn't just force Nathan to not investigate Linderman (by forcing thoughts into his head). seems a bit unnecessary to try and kill him when he could have just told him not to bother. Was nice to revisit the car crash, but unfortunately no new scenes there. The control we then see Arthur having over Angela is disturbing, after she overhears him and Linderman and runs for a knife. Arthur uses his powers so menacingly, even Maury Parkman seems moderate when compared to Mr P. I liked Linderman "healing" Angela's memory scars, thought that was a nice scene, and maybe explains why they were working together so closely in season 1 to blow up NY. The Haitian also seems to be loyal to Angela (as well as HRG). he has only been used intermittently this season, but his ability to stop peoples powers could prove vital for the "heroes" in the fight against Arthur, especially now he has Hiro's power! (aparently Peter/Nathan go in search of him soon).

Another focus was the creation of Sylar. Gabriel is introduced to the episode attempting to kill himself,and Elle coming to his rescue. I still hav eno idea why Kristen Bell is only a guest star, she is amazing. Zachary Quinto is also a brilliant actor and played the geeky, unaware, infatuated Gabriel fantastically. The chemistry between the two (seen before in the s2 finale) is brilliant and think we'll be seeing more of that soon. I was kindof egging Sylar on to kill that Trevor guy, he was pretty annoying. I guess this episode showed that Sylar can seriously control his hunger, and only when provoked does he use it for evil (ie by Elle/HRG). Nice little comment by HRG "I'm sure we'll be trakcing mr Gray down soon"...maybe not...

Meredith also had a large focus this episode along with her brother (and now villain) Flint. Flint came across really well, just easily manipulated, rather than a proper villian. there was a nice reference to Claude in this episode as well, aparently capturing Flint. Meredith made a pretty awesome agent for the company, but her loyalty ton her brother proved her downfall. I wonder how Flint got put in level 5? He does seem kindof harmless...The fight on the train was pretty nice, and a nice link to season 1 and claire as well...

it was a good episode, I guess its just frustrating that the story want furthered that much. Arthur is most defiately a "villain" i think. Angela has done some bad shit for sure, but Arthur is surely the true "baddy".
episode 9 promos/sneak peeks
promo #1

promo #2

sneak peek #1

peter surely told nathan not to hug him....
sneak peek #2-5

why cant Arthur just kill Mohinder ffs
a few tidbits:

• the "catlayst" required has a link to one Heroes' power
• Matt helps Angela come out of her coma
• Sylar and Elle are reunited...
• seth green will guest in ep 10!
• the title is its coming...referring to the eclipse i think.
  

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thanks to someone from the KanyeLive forum^^^^

after queuing from 3pm, and getting three people from the barrier, it was 50000% worth it. the show kicked off with a GOOD music showcase type thing; kid cudi (awesome), consequence (joined by tony williams), some random girl and then mr hudson (played full 30 minutes). mr hudson was brilliant, held the crowd so well, even though the band were only taking up bout a 1/3 of the stage! the steel drummer/backing singer/missy elliott lookalike was amazing. Kanye is producing their new album, including the new single "There will be tears", which is a beautiful blend of Hudsons wrting/vocal talents with Kanyes production epicness.
Kanye came on bout 9ish, and was fucking amazing. The whole show/spaceship story was great! The massive screen at the back was ridiculous, as were the drummers/backing singers at the front with protective masks on! The setlist was awesome, put on was surprisingly one of the highlights, as was i wonder. and hey mama. and every other song. Kanye also did 2 megalong freestyles, one before Hey Mama (about being depressed about losing his mum/gf) and the other near the end about the press. the first one was so emotional, kanye is so fucked up/vulnerable. Think the 2nd one might be the live track on the end of 808's but not sure. the night was rounded off by estelle(!) on amaerican boy, which got the bestest crowd reacton. i love estelle haha. one of the best shows ive ever been to. 808's is leaking very fast, but im gonna wait til it comes out/a proper leak comes out. i heard the jeezy collabaration and its awesome, as is the mastered robocop. cant wait for the 24th and for kanye to return to the UK.

listen to Hudson's new song
check out Kid Cudi
look at some videos from the date
watch kanye's freestyle

i so badly wish id gone to the afterparty.
De-La Soul\Nas/Mos Def/Kanye/Will.I.Am/GOOD music family/damon albarn!!!!
check ot some vids here. mos def playing definition!!! and ms fat booty!! loving the shout out to hudson!
watch on semtex tv
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"E4 has announced the new characters that will be introduced in the upcoming third season of its popular teen drama Skins, says Last Broadcast.

Tony Stonem's younger sister Effy (Kaya Scodelario) and her best friend Pandora (Lisa Backwell) will be the only existing cast members to appear in the third series next year.

The new additions to the girls' lineup are Katie and Emily, twins with contrasting personalities, and the idealistic Naomi.

The boys are comprised of the charismatic Cook (Jack O'Connell), skateboarding stoner Freddie, magician J.J., and Thomas, who struggles to settle in the UK after arriving from Congo.

Harry Enfield, Morwenna Banks and Geoffrey Hughes will return for guest appearances, along with new guest stars Scott Mills, Mackenzie Crook, Sally Phillips and James Fleet.

Skins returns to E4 for a ten-episode run in January."
from digitalspy

im not sure how much attention ill pay to this series. its kindof weird, as im not at school anymore, and was the same age as the originals as they grew up. i will defo watch it though. glad harry enfield is still on board! hope some of the old cast members will make appearances (sketch/tony seem most likely).
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because my original post was removed, have a listen/dload to history here, from the producer (kanye) on his blog! link
btw glow in the dark is the best thing ever...more soon...
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"Around the World" is a song by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk. It appeared on the duo's debut album, Homework and was released as a single the same year. It subsequently became a major club hit throughout the world and arrived at #1 in dance charts. The song is particularly known for the repeated phrasing of its title. It is also known for its music video, which was directed by Michel Gondry and choreographed by Blanca Li. The song has also been used in promotional videos for the video game Rayman Raving Rabbids 2.

More here
Best video ever?
Daft Punk-Around the World
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the best dance song of the year, remixed by my favorite dnb producer!! finally got the mp3 :D:D:D
Eric Prydz-Pjanoo (High Contrast Remix)
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Promos

sneak peek #s 1-4

sneak peek #5


really looking forward to this episode, not sure if itll be all flashback or hiro will go back in time? well soon see
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1. kanye has remastered love lockdown again! this is after it has been released, this version will surely be on the album? who knows really, i guess it shows how ready he is to improve his work. i can only really notice the difference towards the end of the song...he has upped the mp3 on zshare, with the link available on his blog here
2. kanye has also remastered the next single off 808s and heartbreaks, heartless. it didnt need it tbh, its such a great tune, but have a listen/download (on Kanyes blog again) from here
3. the video of heartless has leaked. awesome
   

Heartless from kwest on Vimeo.

4. kanye performed at the EMAs this week, love lockdown and then american boy with estelle. pretty dam good, estelle is a brilliant singer live, her album is quality as well!!

EMA from First and last name on Vimeo.

4 days!!!

edit: first date was last night in Belfast, and he played the "US setlist" (with a few tweaks) which is...

1. "Good Morning"
2. "I Wonder"
3. "Heard 'Em Say"
4. "Through the Wire"
5. "Champion"
6. "Get 'Em High"
7. "Diamonds from Sierra Leone"
8. "Can't Tell Me Nothing"
9. "Flashing Lights"
10. "Spaceship"
11. "All Falls Down"
12. "Gold Digger"
13. "Good Life"
14. "Jesus Walks"
15. "Hey Mama"
16. "Don't Stop Believing" (Journey Cover)

[Encore]

1. "Stronger"
2. "Homecoming"
3. "Touch the Sky"
4. "Love Lockdown"

i can live with no slow jamz....just...
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Lost season5 will begin with a "3hour premiere event", a catch up episode, then 501 and 502
Sky will most likely show the episodes the following sunday. I have worked out i'll probably be able to see 7/8 episodes before I go away for 2 months!! and miss the rest of the season! Something to look forward to when I get back I guess, if anyone tells me what happened im going to be so upset/angry!! Im gonna stop reading the spoilers for s5 now coz some pretty big ones are coming out now, espesh about eps 6-8, so I am gonna resist. Ms. Hawking, Abbadon, Widmore, Walt, Richard Alpert will all be in season5 for definate.
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Well Done to the USA!!!

i think this blog is getting watched or summat by the DMCA, coz my "election themed songs" post just got removed, and 2/3 of those songs are 4 years old, and the other is surely a bootleg/meant to be passed around!?
I feel like I havent been posting enough, so tonight/tomorrow im gonna do a BIG catch up of loadsa recent stuff I am liking, and also post some heroes sneak peek for next week!
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"Us" is the second single from Regina Spektor's UK compilation album Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories, although it was originally released on her 2004 album Soviet Kitsch. The song is notable for its use of a string quartet in addition to Spektor's usual piano and vocals. The song was also used in a UEFA Champions League Final montage, by ITV.
This is the first Regina Spektor song to have an accompanying music video. It is noticeable for its use of stop motion animation. It shows Spektor climbing into a dark green room and unpacking an assortment of objects from a trunk, including a piano, rug, a globe, and some seeds, which she places on the rug and grows with water. The video contains some bizarre scenes, such as toy soldiers coming out of Spektor's mouth, and ends with her placing everything (including herself) back into the trunk, which vanishes. The music video is a parody of Georges Méliès's silent film, Le Locataire Diabolique][1] (1909), in which a man rents an apartment and furnishes it by unpacking objects from his trunk in the same fashion Spektor does in Us. The video was directed by Adria Petty.

Regina Spektor is a ridiculously good songwriter and piano player. The piano in this song is simple but brilliant, and the lyrics are equally great. Check out the possible interpretations on songmeanings
I think this song is (as one of the posters on that site says) about being so in love with someone that "its contagious" and your love is immortalized in a statue (the "den of thieves" could be people trying to split them up?). but some of the people are reading much more into it saying its a comment on communism or immigration. Whatever she intended, its an amazing song.

Regina Spektor-Us

for a while its gonna be mediafire links, until hotlinkfiles sorts itself out!
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I'm narcissitic, I'm pessimistic, I'm obsessive, I'm insecure, and I am so afraid of intimacy that every one of my relationships is a journey of self sabatoge that inevitably end in a black vacuum of shattered expectations and despair.

this quote from season 4 episode 8, my last chance (i.e. one of the best ever episodes of scrubs) has been very telling throughout the whole of scrubs. i think alot of season 8 will address whether JD can overcome these issues...
first new promo for season 8

episode titles

8.01 - My NAH NAH NAH

8.02 - MY ABC’s

8.03 - MY JERKS

8.04- MY LAST WORDS

8.05 - MY SAVING GRACE

8.06 - MY HAPPY PLACE

8.07- MY COOKIE PANTS

8.08 - MY NEW ROLE

8.09- MY COMEDY SHOW
8.10 - THEIR STORY 2

8.11- MY SOUL ON FIRE (1 of 2)

8.12 - MY SOUL ON FIRE (2 of 2)

8.13 - MY LAWYERS IN LOVE

8.14 - MY ABSENCE

8.15 - MY FULL MOON

8.16 - MY CUZ

8.17 - MY CHIEF CONCERN

8.18 - MY FINALE

still no start date for season 8, probably january time

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This was not one of the stronger episodes of the series but had a couple of excellent storylines. The main focus was the Petrelli brothers, predominantly Sylar and Peter. Sylar was brilliant in this episode, as he has been all season. His scenes started with Angela (in a coma) somehow managing to get into his dream. So her power is dreaming the future, and also general dream manipulation then? In a similar way that Parkmans is mind-reading but also general mind manipulation. I was confused about the next bit, Sylar is then told to use his power to get out of Level 5 by Angela. How is this possible? Surely level 5 must have some high security stuff that stops villains using their powers, otherwise it would be piss easy to get out. Sylar's arrival at Pinehearst, just as Mohinder is about to inject Peter with an altered formula, with a "Hello Mohinder" was reminiscent of season 1! After Arthur told him of his mothers supposed hatred for him, Sylar appears to switch sides. However, he is right when he says Angela is the only one who has accepted him for who he is. Sylar is not going to betray her, he blatantly slowed down Peter when he pushed him off!! Quite liked Peter this episode actually, he is better without powers!

Peter is rescued by Claire, who also had a pretty good storyline this episode. The return of Elle was brilliant (why is she only a guest star!!?), and they made a very good, very hot team. Lyle is so funny, he is such a random minor character, he is basically an extra! Is Lyle adopted? I cant remember. Was pretty cool when he poured the water on Elle "Lyle style" lmao. Elle is so desperate to get rid/control her power she still went into Pinehearst despite the quite drastic warning of Peter getting thrown out of a window.

Mohinder was reaaaaaly annoying again in this episode, and his power is very confusing. He pretty much flew out of that wondow with Maya, how? I'm sure he can climb walls, make webs etc but Spiderman cant fly. It pisses me off how Mohinder still tries to be the moral centre of the world, like when he attacked Sylar and criticised Arthur for faking his death. He didnt seem to remember he had just tied 5/6 people up in webs to experiment with them hmmm...I dont understand why Arthur needs Mohinder, surely the perfected version of the formula is the one he already has? nathan/tracy seem fine and they have been injected with it, why does It need altering? And surely of all the scientists in the world, Mohinder cant be the best? I actually thought Maya would die, but she has been written out of the program and i doubt she will appear again.

This episode witnessed the death of Maury Parkman, it was a bit stupid of him to stand up to Arthur, although it was a pretty heroic death trying to save his son. Knox appeared to be Arthur's right hand man, charged with going after Daphne and making sure she killed Matt. I really thought they were both dead when Know punched him, and was so relieved when it just turned out tobe mind tricks!! Daphne is double crossing Matt though, and when they invetably go to Primatech, she will be reporting back to Arthur. How did Matt not realise this, considering he can read minds? Is she really double crosiing Arthur as well? Was it planned all along to keep Matt alive?

Usustu is starting to annoy me now. His speeches are getting a bit too prophetic, annoying and reminiscent of some of Legolas' in LOTR! The cliffhanger at the end was a bit shit as well, as if Hiro is going to be dead, especially not at the hands of Usutu.

episode 8 will be on in 2 weeks, because of the election. it is called "Villians"
promo #1

promo #2


sneak peek #1


This episode will be set in the past.
a few minor spoilers:

• Nathans car crash will be revisited
• Hiro goes back in time
• Elle and Sylar have a romantic past
• More about Sylars abilities will be revealed
• Parkman was friends with a villain

Pinehearst: Arthur, Mohinder, Elle, Knox, Flint, Sylar (undercover?)
Primatech: Angela, Peter, Nathan, Matt, Noah, Claire, Meredith, Tracy(?), Hiro, Ando, Daphne (undercover?)
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do it.
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