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Not sure if this one has been posted yet. Peeped around and didn't see it.
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Heroes Exec on Claries Dad, The Big Death and Milo's Bangs
Ausiello Report
by Michael Ausiello

As promised, here's my Q&A with Heroes series creator Tim Kring. But before we get to that, I have to tell you what I did last night: I watched the next original episode of Heroes! You know, the one not slated for public consumption until Jan. 22? Don't hate me. Instead, look at all these pretty spoilers I brought back!

* A female character is written off (possibly forever).
* Hiro has a run-in with a T-Rex.
* A major scene from the pilot gets reenacted.
* Christopher Eccleston makes his debut.
* An estranged couple patches things up.
* A hero's powers begin to diminish.
* There's an unexpected (and pretty frakkin' hilarious) reunion between two heroes.

And if you think all that sounds insane, wait until you hear what the show has in store for February sweeps and beyond. On second thought, no need to wait — read on!

Ausiello: We already know that Jessalyn Gilsig is playing Claire's birth mother. When will we find out about her father?
Tim Kring: We'll reveal that in February sweeps.

Ausiello: Is it fair to say that that'll be a big shocker?
Kring: Yeah. A really big shocker.

Ausiello: Is it true that Episode 17 will flash back 15 years to show how Claire came into H.R.G.'s care?
Kring: Yeah. You'll see the inciting incident that allowed him to gain possession of her.

Ausiello: Will the entire episode be set in that time period?
Kring: No. It's framed in a very tense, present-day story where the family is forced to deal with the past.

Ausiello: Masi Oka dropped some hints last week about a new love interest for Hiro. Care to confirm?
Kring: Oh. Um....

Ausiello: Not to put you on the spot or anything.
Kring: It's not for a long time. He has a Season 2 love interest that we're already talking about.

Ausiello: Can you confirm that there will be another death this season?
Kring: Yeah, I can confirm that.

Ausiello: A major character?
Kring: It'll be someone who was in the opening minutes of the pilot.

Ausiello: A burning question from the fall finale: Was that really Peter in the flash-forward, or was it Sylar in disguise?
Kring: Well, it was just a dream. And the dream obviously had all kinds of strange, surreal dream imagery in it.

Ausiello: Really? I just assumed he was seeing the future.
Kring: I never intended for that to be a flash-forward. It's a dream. He falls to the ground and you zoom in on his face, and the next time you see him he's in a coma in the hospital. It has all the vocabulary of a dream. Greg Grunberg is in his police uniform, Claire is in her cheerleader uniform.... They're all in sort of primary colors. But he's had dreams before, and they've had premonition qualities to them.

Ausiello: OK, another burning Q: How was Sylar able to break through the glass to kill Eden? And why didn't he do it earlier?
Kring: Well, there may be a reason he wants to stay in custody.

Ausiello: Interesting.... I'm also getting a lot of questions about the statement you released last month about Zach's botched coming out. Lots of folks, me included, don't understand why, if Thomas Dekker's management balked at the gay twist, you didn't just recast him with another, willing actor?
Kring: It all boiled to a head very quickly, so there wasn't a lot of chance to recast. This wasn't something that came up months ago; it came up very recently. There wasn't a lot of time to do that. (FYI: Thomas Dekker's manager declined to comment.)

Ausiello: Any lessons you took away from that experience?
Kring: It was not a very big issue internally in the building here. I made a couple of phone calls. It was [one of many] brush fires that I try to put out every day. Just another thing that I had to deal with. It was an unfortunate miscommunication. One of the problems with a show like this is that not everything is planned out months in advance. You take things very organically. You can't always plan which direction the characters are going to go in. [Ideas] present themselves and you say, "Let's go in this direction!" And by that time, the character is already on screen and cast and playing his part. If they were all planned out in advance, you could anticipate these things.

Ausiello: Do you have any plans to introduce a gay character?
Kring: It's something we've always talked about. If this is truly a show about... if we're positing the idea that this is happening all over the world and to all kinds of people, then... I'm very interested in Latino characters, Asian characters... I want it to be as diverse as it can possibly be. I certainly fold a gay character into that idea.

Ausiello: One personal favor I have: Can you please cut Milo's bangs?
Kring: [Laughs] He would like that, too.

Ausiello: Do you like them?
Kring: They work for a lot of us. It has a kind of comic-book quality, when he's looking through his hair like that. It's certainly a signature [characteristic] that people are talking about, and I don't know whether that's such a bad thing. But we do have some plans for changing the way he looks in the near future.

Ausiello: Like the next episode, perhaps?
Kring: No, not the next episode. We're sort of locked into a chronology here for a while. As soon as we're able to jump off of that, he'll have a change of look. It's going to be the end of the season.

Hallelujah!
 
Interesting read...thanks for posting that. :up:
 
Opening minutes of the pilot. Who'll die? Looks like one of them will be axed:

Simone?
Peter?
Mohinder?
Niki?
Micah?
 
I'm interested to see what the scene from the pilot to be reenacted will be.
 
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Ausiello: A burning question from the fall finale: Was that really Peter in the flash-forward, or was it Sylar in disguise?
Kring: Well, it was just a dream. And the dream obviously had all kinds of strange, surreal dream imagery in it.

Ausiello: Really? I just assumed he was seeing the future.
Kring: I never intended for that to be a flash-forward. It's a dream. He falls to the ground and you zoom in on his face, and the next time you see him he's in a coma in the hospital. It has all the vocabulary of a dream. Greg Grunberg is in his police uniform, Claire is in her cheerleader uniform.... They're all in sort of primary colors. But he's had dreams before, and they've had premonition qualities to them.


Just a dream huh.....
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Ausiello: OK, another burning Q: How was Sylar able to break through the glass to kill Eden? And why didn't he do it earlier?
Kring: Well, there may be a reason he wants to stay in custody.

I knew it. Could it be that The Haitians absence had nothing to do with Sylar breaking out? Sylar could be after HRG's list.
 
I knew it. Could it be that The Haitians absence had nothing to do with Sylar breaking out? Sylar could be after HRG's list.
I think people have overestimated the Haitian. He's obviously powerful, but if Nathan could escape from his clutches, surely Sylar, who is much more powerful, could too.
 
Could it be the scene with Nathan and Peter flying? Or the burning train scene with Claire? Interesting.
That was my first thought actually. We haven't had Peter copy Nathan's power in a while. As brothers, the empathy and therefore the connection between them should be greater than for anyone else.
 
wouldn't the major scene be the cloud of smoke, dust, and debris from the explosion?
 
the scene that will probably be reenacted most likely is Claire jumping off where ever she jumped from to try to get Zach to remember since we did see a brief scene with Zach holding a video camera in one of the previews....
 
the scene that will probably be reenacted most likely is Claire jumping off where ever she jumped from to try to get Zach to remember since we did see a brief scene with Zach holding a video camera in one of the previews....
That's a good call actually. :up:
 
my guesses:
* A female character is written off (possibly forever).
I'm not sure....I want to say Nikki, but that's purely personal preference.

* A major scene from the pilot gets reenacted.
Hmm...perhaps a flying Petrelli scene? or maybe a Hiro teleport...

* An estranged couple patches things up.
this one SEEMS easy enough...Matt and his wife (*NOTE* I said SEEMS)

* A hero's powers begin to diminish.
my gut says Hiro :-)csad:) or Isaac

* There's an unexpected (and pretty frakkin' hilarious) reunion between two heroes.
this is probably referring to Hiro and Nathan meeting up (as seen in the Tonight Show clip)

those are just my 2 cents...some of them are what I want to see, others are just gut instincts
 
Eddie, I agree with you on the idea that Hiro might be the one whose powers diminish. I think this is a safe guess assuming some of the recent interviews that stated that Hiro's confidence is down because his inability to save Charlie.
 
Eddie, I agree with you on the idea that Hiro might be the one whose powers diminish. I think this is a safe guess assuming some of the recent interviews that stated that Hiro's confidence is down because his inability to save Charlie.
and we saw him struggling to teleport after jumping to Japan in Six Months Ago...
 
I doubt Nikki or Claire will be getting written off since those are the only two major leading ladies of this show. Maybe the painters girlfriend. Or a new female charecter that we get introduced to. Or Claires mom(she is kind of wacko)
 
and we saw him struggling to teleport after jumping to Japan in Six Months Ago...

More weight... that is what first tipped me to it. I really like Hiro's struggle, and the writers just keeping on making him even deeper.
 
I doubt Nikki or Claire will be getting written off since those are the only two major leading ladies of this show. Maybe the painters girlfriend. Or a new female charecter that we get introduced to. Or Claires mom(she is kind of wacko)

My guess would be Simone too, only because she is another female lead in the series, and they probably wouldn't introduce someone new just to kill them off five minutes later.
 
I'm starting to think that I agree with whoever said that Hiro's powers will diminish, but I don't think he'll lose them forever. He's a/the fan favorite, there's no way they're taking away the power for good.
 
No, his powers diminishing just represents his lack of confidence and him being unsure about his life and the direction it is headed. Once he finds his way, and I think it will have something to do with finding the samurai sword in the museum, he will find strength again.
 
my guesses:

I'm not sure....I want to say Nikki, but that's purely personal preference.


Hmm...perhaps a flying Petrelli scene? or maybe a Hiro teleport...


this one SEEMS easy enough...Matt and his wife (*NOTE* I said SEEMS)


my gut says Hiro :-)csad:) or Isaac


this is probably referring to Hiro and Nathan meeting up (as seen in the Tonight Show clip)

those are just my 2 cents...some of them are what I want to see, others are just gut instincts

I dont see how they can kill off Niki - they may have put to much screen time on that character and unique story. Or it may of been a way to advance Micah and DL and she is expendable - I dont know. I am thinking Matt's partner gets the kick.

I dont see Nathan doing a flying scene again (I think he would rather have Peter fall by this point). Hiro transport is not a big scene anymore.

I think Niki and DL have a better chance at getting together than Matt and his wife.

I hope its not Hiro because then it will be very predictable. Hiro's power is fading, fading, can't use it, can't use it, MAJOR SHIFT DINOSAUR! Season 2 Kill DINOSAUR! Return. It can't be that simple.
 
The spoilers mention Hiro losing control over his power, so I can only presume it is him whose powers diminish.
 

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