Watching Heroes

BuddyTV posted part 1 of their 2 part interview with Jack Coleman today.  Jack was asked whether we will get to see more of the backstory surrounding his involvement with the villains of Level 5.  He said we would see a little and he revealed that episode 8 will be a sort of prequel to the pilot.  “It sort of dovetails into the pilot, and you see how, for instance, HRG and Elle are complicit in sort of the creation of Sylar.  It’s a really good origins episode of how Sylar got to be the way he is, and the relationship between HRG and Elle.  It was hinted at last year when Suresh says to me, "You know her?" and it’s like, "Oh yeah."  It’s never really explained in what form, how it is that I knew her, so you really see more of that.  In that episode you will also see Knox and see where he came from, so you do see the villains there.  But there’s not a tremendous amount of HRG and the villains back story.”

Also today, Kristin Dos Santos at E! Online gave us a little preview of what’s happening with Hiro and Ando in tonight’s episode and beyond:

• The Haitian will take away all of Hiro’s memories beyond the age of 10, leaving Ando to be a sort of babysitter.   “I try to get him to remember how he used to use his powers, so there’s a little bit of ‘Yoda trying to get Luke get his memory back.’, " says James Kyson Lee.
• We learn this season that there are both environmental and physical elements for people to obtain abilities.  The eclipse figures in, as does the Formula.
• James says of the future in which we saw him zapping his buddy, Hiro, with red lighting: "If I zapped him, it’s probably for a good reason. But we don’t know if he’s turned bad, or if I’ve turned bad, or if he’s betrayed me."  Could Hiro be the one who has turned into a villain?

Kristin also said today that the rumor is that not everyone will make it to the finale.  Some character(s) will die this season, though just who may not have been decided yet. You can weigh in on who you’d like to see go at E! Online.