Judging from what we go through at yesterday ’s Heroes panel atSan Diego Comic - Con , report card of the show ’s death following the difference of producer Bryan Fuller may have been premature . What we visualise looked like tight , goofy season one - quality superhero play .
From the cheers , screaming and camera flashes going off , you ’d be mistaken for thinking that yesterday ’s Heroes panel had been accidentally substitute by another Twilight hour … at least , until Tim Kring , Zachary Quinto , Milo Ventimiglia , Hayden Panatierre and eight other cast member of NBC ’s superhero soap wandered out on stage to introduce the fourth time of year of the riotous show .
After thanking the fans for the success of the show – It was because of the fans that the show became what it became , ” he say – Kring introduce the story behind Redemption , the 5th volume of the series . tell the excited audience that the main questions of the volume were “ What does an average life look like when you have powers ? How do you attempt to fit in when you have powers ? ” he went on to excuse that the returning cast wo n’t be the only I facing this question , as the new time of year will put in a whole new family of superpowered character who have taken to hiding their superpower in plain plenty as a traveling carnival of carnival kinfolk . With that , the way went dark , and we saw our first coup d’oeil at what ’s to come :
Amongst fast cut of familiar Heroes tropes of knowing glare and characters looking angst - ridden and troubled , we could make out the fall out threads : Claire , now attending college , befriends someone who reveals that she ’s become an urban myth about a cheerleader who heals from any price ( Apparently , that ’s a turn - on ; we saw the much - tease apart – in more ways than one – tribade kiss between Claire and the friend ) . We also see Claire start out of a window , apparently either showing off her powers or trying to kill herself again , before being told that “ denial is not an option . ” HRG gets shown in various point of danger , whether it ’s having been shot or sufffering a machine - wash - themed assasination endeavour . Peter is a paramedical again , and see a scope that goes godforsaken in his hand and eventually turns into a tattoo on his weapon … which may be connected to the magical tattooed woman , one of the carnies , who can manifest the font of Peter , Nathan and others on her back with her sorcerous tattoo powers . Ali Larter appears as Tracy , explain her Christ’s Resurrection ( essentially , all the water droplets she ’d become after thawing found their way back together ) and telling HRG that she ’s back for retaliation – which perchance explains the conniption of last season ’s Hunter character getting shot . Nathan is bear witness to be slowly losing his nous – but gaining new powers – as Sylar ’s persona regains dominance , conduct to Nathan being shot and dump in a grave , but Sylar go up out . Sylar also appears within a therapy group chaired by Matt Parkman , while Matt is told by Mama Petrelli that citizenry like them ca n’t throw in the towel . And that ’s not all ! Ray Park and Peter have a fight ! Hiro run across himself fourteen years ago , and then Robert Knepper ’s creepy-crawly fresh villain travels back in time to come across him ! And Pushing Daisies ’ Swoosie Kurtz appears as a friend of Mama Petrelli who ’s secretly trying to obliterate her sons ! So . Much . Intrigue .
Actually , ignore the sarcasm ; if nothing else , the teaser snip was well - edited and made the show seem as legal action - packed and enjoyably absurd as it was in the first season , something Kring punctuate when he told the audience that all of the scene we ’d seen fall from the first three episode of the time of year .
Opening the panel up to the actors , Masi Oka excuse that Hiro spend the season deal with an illness that may be terminal , and that his repurchase comes in the form of traveling back in time to sterilize all of the mistakes he ’s made in his life . Adrian Pasdar said that he has “ a little bit of a Jekyll and Hyde thing ” in that he portion out his head with Sylar , which Zachary Quinto stay that his fictional character exists not only sharing Nathan ’s torso , but also appearing within Matt Parkman ’s head “ mess with his mind a little number , giving him a taste of his own medication . ” Milo Ventimiglia happily shared that Peter has grow a sense of humor between season , while Jack Coleman talked about the fact that HRG ’s living and marriage are fall apart , giving him a feeling of empathy for all the Heroes who just need a normal aliveness .
When it come up to the Modern character , Robert Knepper called Samuel ” the reluctant ringleader of this carnival ” :
His buddy has just passed away . He ’s made a decision that sprightliness is not go to be the way it used to be .
Dawn Olivieri , who plays Lydia , the tattooed woman and pardner in crime of Samuel , may not agree that Samuel ’s plan are the right ace , and prognosticate that her character has the electric potential to stir up some trouble . Ray Park , who plays superspeedster Edgar , geeked out about link a show he was such a fan of , while Madeline Zima , who plays Claire ’s new college champion ( “ with benefit . You Guy like that ? ” Hayden Panatierre add up , just after she ’d to a fault - coyly told the crowd that “ girls just desire to have sport ” ) , spoke last about Gretchen Berg , saying that her character will become an crucial intimate for Claire in college .
Tim Kring explained that , while Redemption may look like a course of instruction correction after viewers drift forth during the last time of year , it ’s been something design all along :
We ’d been plan this arc for for a while , where everyone would go back to their normal life . For us , it ’s a probability to undress away some of the level elements that made the show intemperately to refer to .
From there , the panel went to motion and answer . Some highlight :
Spock vs. Sylar ?
Zachary Quinto : I think that , aboveboard in the close , Spock would have to take it . Only because he ’s fighting for practiced , and I ’d wish to believe that that always wins ( Cue crowd blend in “ awwww ” as if on cue ) .
Milo Ventimiglia : What about Leonard Nimoy or Zack Quinto ?
Quinto : Leonard in one beat .
unspoilt power on the show ?
Jack Coleman : I have the power of impared vision .
Will the show go back to evenly sharing time between characters , instead of forgetting characters as it seemed to do in time of year three ?
Tim Kring : We ’ll be telling less stories per episode . The idea is to try and differentiate deeper news report and not wider chronicle . Dig a little deeply into what motivates them . This season , we ’ll see certain people pose out an episode or so , because we want to focus more on characters .
Why is the cast becoming more white and male person ?
Kring : [ multifariousness is ] a very important military issue for us on the show , Characters manifestly arrive and go , but it ’s an of import , fulfilling matter that we ’ll essay and do on the show .
To shut out the panel , a scrap setting between Ventimiglia and Park ’s characters was shown , as Peter steals Edgar ’s superspeed for a eminent - upper tongue fight … that , in execution , looked like a cross between Smallville ’s highspeed minute and The Matrix ’s hummer - time . Less impressive than the teaser reel show earlier , it still suggested that there ’s more sprightliness go out in the series than many had predicted .
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