This is one weird episode!

Matt's dad - is he ever messing the Heroes up!

Everyone is morphing around and flashbacking...I might have to watch this one twice in order to 'get it' all. Once on TV, once online...

Oh cripes - the virus mutated, too - to a strain immune to Mohinder's antibodies..... WTF??? Niki's gonna die now?

And Hiro just managed to time-trip himself home - to find out from Ando that his father was murdered.....whoa - a LOT happening...

Good luck figuring this one out, people...

I'll be back in a couple of hours

Don't forget to tune in to NBC TVs fourth episode of the second tonight!

I'm curious as to what Sylar's going to be up to tonight. Is he just gonna start stalking Heroes and killing everyone he thinks has extraordinary abilities - like he did in Season One?

I'm not sure what to think of Maya yet, but maybe after tonight's episode I'll know better.

Here's a link for viewing the Heroes episode, "Four Months Later"

Four Months Later (Heroes at Ouou site)
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Is Niki a great model for those suffering with D.I.D.? Dissociative Identity Disorder? Formerly known as M.P.D./Multiple Personality Disorder?

Here is a myLot disscution where D.I.D. is explained briefly, also in relation to Heroes character, Niki:

Niki - Special Powers or Dissociative Disorder?

I believe that Heroes creators are on to something BIG here! Is there a chance that, by having all the great Heroes charactors mirror Mental Illness symptoms, they could help dispell social constructions and stigma about Mental Illness?

Social Construction (copied from Wikipedia)

"A social construction or social construct is any institutionalized entity or artifact in a social system "invented" or "constructed" by participants in a particular culture or society that exists because people agree to behave as if it exists or follow certain conventional rules. One example of a social construct is social status."

The NEGATIVE beliefs about Mental Illness exist because SOCIETY ALLOWS the Negative beliefs to exist. Society agrees to behave as if Mental Illness is unnatural, weird, awful, dangerous, sometimes frightening, and not acceptable.

The Truth:

Mental illness is a regular, existing condition in society. It is widespread and 'COMMON' - very, VERY COMMON!

People who suffer from Mental Illness are often treated as if they are unnatural, weird, awful, dangers, frightening, and not acceptable.

The Truth:

People who suffer from Mental Illness are NORMAL PEOPLE who have an extraordinary health condition which requires attention and management.

If we keep treating people with Mental Illnesses as awful, unnatural, dangerous, frightening and not acceptable, we are actually treating REAL PEOPLE badly! If we keep treating real people who have Mental Illnesses badly, how will we ever function better?

Maybe Niki is the answer, in part, to showing society that a 'Disordered Personality' has a great, great many uses and abilities.

Niki has E X T R A O R D I N A R Y A B I L I T I E S !!

Does she not?

Doesn't everyone?

What is YOUR extraordinary ability?

Better yet - do you suffer from Mental Illness? What's your extraordinary health condition?

Would you be a candidate for the NBC TV show, HEROES? Would your Mental Illness transform into an awesome SUPERPOWER?

GO NIKI!

Do you think the creators of Heroes on NBC will try to make Niki 'integrate' Jessica into herself?

Do you think that Niki will further 'fragment' and become more personalities?

Okay, I am about 're-run-ned' out now. I watched a re-run of the Heroes Re-Run!

I can't believe that I wasn't more confused the FIRST TIME I watched that, 'cos BOY, does that episode ever back-track, flashback and jump around.

I found myself still hoping that Hiro would keep time-jumping around to save Charlie. I felt very frustrated for Hiro when he ended up back in Japan in the middle of the field where people were exercising. Poor Hiro - totally stuck, eh? Just seconds after Charlie told him about her limited time left to live.

If Hiro hadn't have gotten stuck, I know he would have kept time-travelling until he found a way to save Charlie, perhaps go back far enough to find out what caused her health problem or something.

Anyway - I think that I HEROED myself out a little bit. That was just a really freaky episode, don't you think? It's the episode, also, where the viewers find out a LOT about Sylar - that dirty, deranged RAT!

Whoops, maybe I'm not HERO-ed out yet. Maybe I will go watch the episode where the Hatian renders Sylar unconscious! That might make me feel better about Sylar, anyway.

That might hold me over until next week's Re-Run.

There should only be a couple more re-run episodes to watch until the next season of Heroes on NBC-TV starts!

I wonder if Claire will have to go to school in season two. I'm not sure how she can go to her old school when people are searching for her, but since the show is about the U.S.A., using American locations, won't the writers have to put Claire in school? I know that America really pushes for teens to finish their high school classes, so I hope that Heroes episodes will continue to promote this American ideal.

Maybe nobody else has worried about this. I have wondered about it, because there are so many American viewers of the Heroes television show that some of the characters are probably role models for teens, right? It wouldn't be a very good idea to have Claire not in school now, would it? Not when the first show of the season is only a week or two after real-time school in the USA starts, right?

I wonder if the writers of Heroes will overlook this completely or not. I guess I will have to wait and see.

Hey, I'm sittin' back tonight, watching a RE-RUN of HEROES!
(HOMECOMING EPISODE #9)

Wow, it's sure nice to see the episode on a real TELEVISION set. I don't even mind the commercial breaks. They give me time to jump up and refresh my drink.

What do you drink while you're watching re-run episodes of Heroes from NBC TV?

I'm kicked back, relaxing, having an iced tea.

Believe it or not, I watched every single one of the episodes so far on the Internet. At mostly the same sites I provided links for on the blog. I had to wait for 'buffering' time for each episode and really 'plan' to watch, because online viewing isn't nearly as smooth as watching TV.

Anyhow - I'm actually on a commercial break and the show just came back on, so I'm gonna jett for a bit, and watch the show.

Are you guilty of watching re-runs of Heroes, too?