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You know, for all the talk about how Mr. Linderman’s plan to drop the bomb (so to speak) and destroy New York smacks of Ozymandius’s endgame in “Watchmen,” I dare say this week’s episode will have people saying, “Is it just me, or is this a whole lot like like a cross between the ‘Days of Future Past’ saga in ‘The Uncanny X-Men’ and the plot of ‘X-Men 3‘?” And they’ll be right. I mean, seriously, you go check out those Wikipedia entries, then come back here and tell me that I’m wrong…

Also, am I the only one who, at approximately 43 minutes into the show, uttered an obscenity under their breath? Holy mother of God, was that some shit or WHAT? But we’ll get to that…

So it’s five years in the future. What’s everybody’s story?

* Peter’s a major-league badass. Nice to finally see that scar Future Hiro spoke of so many episodes ago.
* Nikica’s a stripper AND Peter’s boyfriend. (Moral: being a badass has its benefits.) Oh, yeah, and she’s also not Nikica anymore. She’s just plain Nikki. Her husband’s gone, her son’s gone, Jessica’s gone…and we don’t really know for sure what happened to any of them, except that Micah’s demise is directly related to the explosion in New York.
* Mohinder is the advisor to the President of the United States on all things Hero-related, but despite everything that’s gone on during the last five years, it’s nice to see that he’s still naively hopeful about the chances for the future…to the point that he’s willing to commit murder to achieve it.
* Matt Parkman’s working for Homeland Security (along with Brother Voodoo), and he’s become a complete and total dick.
* HRG’s rustling cattle in Texas…okay, well, not really. But that’s the phrase Nikica used, and it made me laugh. It appears that he’s actually part of an underground movement to keep Heroes safe from the government by providing them with false identities. He’s also given up his trademark glasses! What the hell…?!?
* Claire’s a waitress who’s changed her name and her hair color and is on the verge of getting married.
* Hiro’s a fucking terrorist.
* And Ando…well, let’s not discuss Ando’s future fate. It makes me sad.
* Nathan is the President of the United States…though, of course, we knew that was coming…but did we really imagine that he’d become pro-genocide, especially given that he’s a Hero himself? Why would he do that?

Oh, wait, I know why he’d do it: because he’s SYLAR! HOLY CRAP!

There were a lot of great moments in this episode, but a very small one particularly stood out for me: how sad was that pitifully honest thought of Hiro’s that Matt caught? “I just want to be a hero.”

I also loved this exchange:

Parkman: So he’s a time traveler…?
Mohinder: Is that any different than being able to read minds?
Parkman: Uh, yeah. Yeah, it is.

Other nice moments: a newscaster’s reference to “the Linderman Act,” the way Parkman yelled “WHAT?” after Peter busted in, stopped time, and swiped Future Hiro and Ando from underneath his and his people’s noses, and the sheer depth of Parkman’s assholosity, when he thanks HRG for saving his child, then proceeds to threaten his life and go after his adopted daughter. Hey, if you’re gonna become an asshole, don’t do it in half measures, right? Which is why he goes on to kill Future Hiro before the episode’s over.

Okay, so the battle between Sylar and Peter had way too much of a Darth Vader vs. Obi-Wan Kenobi overtone to it, with the red and the blue lights. I still found myself thinking, “This is AWESOME!”

“Now, the hard part,” indeed. These three last episodes are going to be something else. I say again: there’s no other show on TV that’s as must-see as “Heroes.”

Source: Will Harris

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Singer-songwriter Boy George has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping an escort and chaining him to a wall. According to a male escort Auden Carlsen, the former Culture Club front man and another man imprisoned him up when he went to the singer’s flat in Shoreditch, East London as a hired photographic model.

The man told police that he escaped and ran from the singer’s flat wearing only underwear.

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Sugababes songstress Amelle Berrabah has been arrested after allegedly assaulting an 18-year-old woman on Saturday night.
A 23-year-old female was arrested following an “incident in a bar”, police confirmed.
Amelle spent the night in a police cell, according to reports, before being bailed to join the other two Sugababes on a flight to the US.

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We all saw it coming from a mile away, but that didn’t stop the writers of “Entourage” from attempting to make Johnny Drama’s little run-in with UFC champ Chuck Liddell a pure coincidence. Upon hearing that Pauly Shore has personally requested Turtle’s assistance in punking Drama on his new reality series, “Gothca!” (think Ashton Kutcher’s “Punk’d” with even less talent behind it), Drama tells Turtle to sign him up with the hope that it will raise his profile.

Of course, when Drama mistakes a parking incident with Liddell as part of the show, he earns a new enemy in the “WWE wannabe” and comes home to discover a threatening message from Liddell on his answering machine. That was enough to sell me on the concept that maybe this was a coincidental occurrence, but as soon as Turtle suggested they go to Liddell’s charity event to apologize, I knew what was coming. Liddell makes Drama get on his knees and beg for mercy in front of hundreds of people, and Pauly Shore rushes out to tell Drama that he’s just got got. What the hell does that even mean?

Meanwhile, Ari’s old frat brother, Scott Siegel (Artie Lang), comes to town to visit, and while the guy’s apparently always been a bit of a fuck-up, it looks like he’s finally pulled it together. He’s a multi-millionaire (thanks to a website he founded called stamps.com) and he’s got a hot new fiancée (Leslie Bibb) that makes Ari furious. You see, he’s always been the alpha male of the two, so in order to regain a little control of their friendship, he decides to start hitting on Scott’s soon-to-be-wife, because, well, that’s what Scott used to do to Mrs. Ari. It was classic Ari at his best, but none of it was necessary.

In fact, most of tonight’s episode was more filler than usual, except for the aftermath of the Vince one-day pass of unlimited sexual pleasure. It had to happen (how else is Ari going to get reinstated as Vince’s agent?), but now the reunion is imminent. After the scheduled lunch where Vince was supposed to apologize to Amanda for his behavior the night before, it was obvious to Eric what had already happened, and he’s not at all happy about it. Not only does he think it’s unprofessional, but he knows how Vince is when he gets serious with a girl he really likes (ahem, Mandy Moore). And by the looks of next week’s episode, Amanda may be using that weakness to her advantage.

Unfortunately, it’s the audience that’s being taken advantage of the most. Did we really need such a no-frills episode? Sure, I love watching Drama get humiliated more than the next guy, but can we just finally see him in action on the set of his new show? I’m really curious to see if it bombs or not, and whether Drama temporarily becomes the more famous Chase brother. Plus, let’s get this “Medellin” subplot wrapped up before the end of the season. We know Vince is going to do it (he has to, he hasn’t worked in like a year), and I think it would be great if the film earns him a serious nomination. Not some crappy People’s Choice Award, but an Oscar, or at least a Golden Globe fer christsakes!

Source: Jason Zingale

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I’ve got to start this week by giving props to BF, the reader who pointed out last week that I failed to mention Tony’s gambling. Clearly it’s become a serious problem, as BF predicted, to the point that Tony considered clipped Hesh rather than having to pay him the $200k he owed him. But then Hesh’s girl Renata died and Tony, ever the caring friend, showed up to offer Hesh his condolences and a paper sack filled with cash. Of course, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who thought Tony had Renata killed up until he showed up to pay Hesh his money.

This is the first episode of the new pseudo-season that fell a little flat for me. Obviously, Tony’s gambling has suddenly become a big storyline, and you’ve got to wonder just how big of a role it plays in these final five episodes. Tony was out of control this week, losing $20,000 on a horse named Meadow Gold and then, after caving in and deciding to give widow Spatafore the $100k she asked for to give her and, more importantly, her deranged son (more on that later) a fresh start, he took that money and bet it (and lost it) on the Eagles because the Dolphins had to rely on a rookie kicker. The interesting note about all of this was the reaction Chris had when Tony decided to throw that money at the Eagles; if anybody knows dangerous addictive behavior, it’s Chris. Is he going to try to help Tony? Will that drive a wedge even further between the two?

Of course, the central problem was the fight between Tony and Carm after Carm refused to roll her earnings from the spec house into a bet on the Jets over the Chargers. Tony had inside info on the game and wanted to turn her windfall into a million-dollar payday but she refused, saying it’s her money and that she’s determined to not end up like Ginny Sack once Tony’s gone. Well, the Jets roll 42-10 and Tony’s pissed because he “only” put $10,000 on the game. “When I’m gone, you can live in a fucking dumpster for all I care,” Tony says after Carm chucked a vase at him. Yikes. He smoothed things over later, at least temporarily, but as well as things seemed to have been going between Tony and Carm so far, you knew something was bound to happen. I just figured it would be the Adriana questions, though I’m sure those will crop up again soon enough.

As for little Vito Spatafore…dude, that kid’s screwed up. Going hardcore Goth is bad enough, but taking a dump in the school shower? And then stepping in it?! Ewwww! As is often the case with this show, I’m not entirely sure where this storyline is going to go or what its purpose will be, but it may be as simple as the added tension it’s added to Tony’s relationship with Phil. If somebody should be stepping up to set the kid straight, it probably should be Phil since he’s Vito’s uncle or cousin (or whatever), and since he’s the one who offed papa Vito last season. But since Tony’s the one cleaning up the mess, you can bet he wasn’t lying when he told his guys he wouldn’t forget that Phil refused to step up.

Then there’s AJ, who finally looked to be getting his life in order. He’s got a woman he loves, a decent job (pizza shop manager, baby!) and, finally, some motivation. He asks Blanca to marry him and when she hesitates, he tells her that he’s going to keep moving up the ladder at work and in a couple of years, he’ll own his own restaurant. You had to feel sorry for the guy when she turned around and dumped him a couple days later, but I think another reader made a great observation a couple of weeks ago: Blanca’s pregnant. This one is obviously a guess but she’s been acting strange all season and, when Meadow mentioned that someone was expecting a baby, she looked very uncomfortable. Hmm….

Finally, two small notes. First, it looks like the two Arabs from the Bada Bing are going to finally come back into play. I’ve been waiting for this for a while. And Tony had a nice little callback to last season when he was talking to Vito, saying, “You go about in pity for yourself.” If you remember, that was a saying someone pinned to the bulletin board in Tony’s hospital room after Junior shot him, and he said the same thing to Artie a few episodes later. With the gambling issues and the general problems he’s been having recently, it seems Tony’s the one indulging in a bit of self-pity.

Source: Jamey Codding

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Walker: Texas Ranger: The Complete Second Season – Honestly, we really shouldn’t even cover this release, given how poorly the poor bastard did in our Badass Bracket. I mean, honestly, it was shameful…almost as shameful as the fact that there ain’t a single special feature on this seven-disc set. Then again, if you’re enough of a fan of the adventures of Chuck Norris’s Texas-based Martial Arts master, you probably won’t care, anyway.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season 2, Volume 2 – So tired…so very, very tired…of this show coming out on DVD. If they cared enough to release the first two seasons on DVD, why in God’s sake did they feel obliged to stretch it into four separate sets? I mean, good lord, they’re releasing “Land of the Giants” (another Irwin Allen series) in a Complete Series set. They couldn’t at least put each season of “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” in its own box? Oh, well, the DVD producers at least deserve some credit for stretching out the special features as well, so that each set gets some; this time, you get still galleries as well as interviews with David Hedison (Captain Crane).

Moonlighting: Season Five – It’s nice of Lions Gate to finish up the release of “Moonlighting” by getting the show’s final season into stores, and it’s even nicer that we continue to get special features – audio commentaries (one with producers Glenn Gordon Caron and Jay Daniel on the season premiere, another with director Dennis Dugan on the series finale) as well as the original screen test of Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd as an on-screen couple – but we could’ve done with a little more details as to where to find them. The accompanying booklet provides in-depth episode synopses and a reference to the existence of the special features, but no clarification as to what features are on what disc. If you’ve forgotten how the show ended, David Addison returned to the offices of Blue Moon Investigations after Bert and Agnes’s wedding, only to find an ABC executive packing things up. “I don’t know how to tell you this, but you’re cancelled.” After tearful goodbyes are said, we get a closing title card which reveals that the agency ceased operations on May 14, 1989, and the Anselmo case was never solved. Damn!

JAG: The Third Season – It still mystifies me how this tremendously melodramatic show spun off the consistently enjoyable “NCIS.” Clearly, “JAG” has its fans – it did, after all, last for ten seasons – but, personally, I’ve always been underwhelmed by it…and the fact that this 3rd season set is devoid of special features (compared to the 3rd season of “NCIS,” which is full of them) leaves me wondering if the series’ producers have grown indifferent to it over the years as well.

The Wild Wild West: The Second Season – Wow, what happened between the releases of Seasons 1 and 2 of “The Wild Wild West” on DVD? That first season contained brand-new audio introductions for each episode by Robert Conrad, as well as a few other special features here and there. This time around, we don’t get a single feature at all. Surely the difference in the show’s quality didn’t drop off that much when it went from black and white to color. Well, maybe a bit. Things definitely got weirder, anyway, as is evident from the season premiere, “The Night of the Eccentrics.” (Look for a very young Richard Pryor playing…a ventriloquist?!?) There’s an episode where Dr. Loveless wants to shrink the world, another that involves zombies being made into duplicates of Jim West and Artemis Gordon, and, in “The Night of the Lord of Limbo,” we get an adventures that literally crosses time and space. Shame about the special features, but it’s still a show worth revisiting.

7th Heaven – The Fourth Season – I think this is where I’m supposed to say that, with “7th Heaven” finally coming to a conclusion this year (for real, this time), there’s no better time to revisit the earlier adventures of the Camden family. But I’m not really a fan of the show, so let’s just pretend I said it, okay?

The Jeffersons: The Complete Sixth Season – I’m not exactly sure when you’d say the quality of “The Jeffersons” dropped off, but it definitely wasn’t in the sixth season. Things started on a good note, with Mike Evans returning to the role of Lionel (he’d left the show for a few years) just in time to announce that George and Louise…and Tom and Helen Willis, too, for that matter…are going to be grandparents. The impending birth takes up the plot for several episodes, including concerns about the baby’s color, the purchasing of new furniture, and, of course, the inevitable arrival of the child, but that’s certainly not all. This year brought us “The First Store,” which flashes back to George opening his first dry-cleaning location in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, as well as the 2-part classic where Louise looks through Mr. Bentley’s telescope and sees a man in a rabbit costume murder someone. No special features, though.

Source: Will Harris

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Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire tells a funny story on himself where he once went to a party full of the Hollywood crowd, ripped off his clothes, went skinny-dipping in the ocean, and promptly threw up in front of his idol Liv Tyler.

“I was about 18 and I went to do this movie in North Carolina. All the people had been there for a while, (acting) peers of mine, and I was feeling a little uneasy, a little nauseous. And this group of kids were all hanging out and went skinny-dipping in the ocean,” Contactmusic quoted Maguire, as saying.

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Richard Gere says he isn’t bothered that a warrant’s out for his arrest in India for planting an “obscene kiss” on the cheek of an Indian actress in public. Yesterday, an Indian judge issued a warrant for Gere’s arrest in Jaipur, saying that the actor had “transgressed all limits of vulgarity” when he hugged and kissed Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS benefit.

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In a bizarre story that can only belong in the Lindsay Lohan files, Hohan’s hired wheelman caused an accident when he plowed into the car belonging to singer Tony Bennett‘s daughter Antonia Wednesday, then he jumps out of the car and – wait for it – he screams: “Don’t you know who I am? I represent Lindsay Lohan!”

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A woman who the authorities say is an obsessed fan of Sandra Bullock tried to run over the actress’ husband in an attack, police said Thursday. Jesse James was unpleasantly surprised Sunday morning when, upon leaving the couple’s home in Seal Beach, California, he discovered Marcia Valentine lying in waiting in their driveway.

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