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No. No, no, no, no, no... just no.

I loved Charlie. I loved Hiro loving Charlie. I loved all of that. The tragic ending to their relationship was needed for the character of Hiro to grow. If she happens to live after we were told there was no way of bringing her back, then they better just get rid of time travel from Heroes altogether.

She shouldn't come back at all, unless he's only visiting her, which I highly doubt.

I dunno. Since it says for only one episode, I think he is just going to visit her - sort of like an "I'm sorry I disappeared" and "I just wanted to see you again."

I just hope they don't screw it up.

I think this will be great because Hiro can give her some closure and that's all it is because it's only one episode. He'll go and say some stuff and then come back and begin thinking of a relationship with Claire

I'm not sure about this... While I know of several Charlie fans that would be thrilled to see her make an appearance, this also has the potential of cheapening the whole Hiro-Charlie story line if it's not done right. I guess I'll take a wait and see attitude.

Well, as a huge Hiro/Charlie fan, I honestly don't know what to think. I'm excited and worried at the same time... the fact that it's only for one episode makes me think it will just be sad, or at best bittersweet. Like he saves her, but doesn't stick around to even talk to her, or something like that. Oh please Heroes writers, please don't screw this up...

And of course I really don't want Hiro to die, either. This season might be really sad for me.

He can't save Charle unless he brings Claire's blood along, because she was dying from that tumor anyway. If he does save her, he should die from his own tumor or whatever it is to maintain the thematic balance.

I don't think the writers will make an error on this, but I do think it will be both sad and bittersweet because like I said, he's probably just going to go and make amends and it will be beautiful.

I don't think his goal is to officially save her because his father told him in S.2 that they can't change the fait of people. If they are to pass away, they must and no one can stop that from happening. Also, I don't think Hiro is going to die. Either a cure will be found for his illness before the season ends or it turns out that the diagnosis on his illness was an error and its not fatal. Hiro is a major fan favourite and I don't think they'll get rid of him because of it. He's my favourite anyways.

I'm guessing it will be more of a closure kind of thing for just popping out of her life leaving her wondering wtf just happened as opposed to saving her.

That's what I was thinking(and hoping).

some more info from kristen at e!

I'm disinclined to believe that one. It just doesn't seem ring true.

Same here! The episode is only one, which means that they just have closure and Hiro returns to the present. Kaito told Hiro in S.2 that they can't change the fait of what's to come for people, so he can't save hear. Once he returns to the present, he'll start working on his relationship with Claire

Hiro can't save her from the blood clot in her brain, i'm thinking he intends to save her from Sylar, something he failed to do the first time around, her condition is something that can't be fixed with time travel, all Hiro can do is prevent her from being a victim of Sylar's...FATALITY! (****, more whipping is needed!).

Kaito didn't want to change his future as he knew that it may result in unforseen consequences, last time someone did that (Peter's attempted time assassination of Nathan), in the end, it resulted in same effect different cause, but stopped before it went too far, if it was impossible to change the fate of others, then how do we explain an airborne nuclear explosion instead of on the ground, ashes instead of 90% of the population being wiped out...among other things.

Lordi has a song that will apply to Hiro's situation, in the future, he's clearly "Missing Miss Charlene"

I sure hope they scrap the idea of Hiro killing Sylar. I for one would love to see Sylar dead (not because I dislike the character, but just because he's going in circles character-development wise), but not by Hiro's hand and not in the past. That would mess up the timeline and we all know that Heroes is not very good at handling time travel.

It doesn't really make any sense for Hiro to kill Sylar. I don't believe that for a second.

If Sylar died in that diner, pretty much everything that's happened up to this point would be nullified. No Peter meeting Claire, no Kirby Plaza, possibly no explosion at all. Nathan, Isaac, and Elle would be alive...

I don't believe it either.

And I have to agree with Req wholeheartedly.

I'll be skipping the episode where she reappears.

Or maybe I'll just skip the season. *Jumps off a bridge.*

I think this is going to be one of those times when I have to ignore Kristen's "scoop" and wait to see what really happens. Killing Sylar? Way back in Season 1? That would completely erase pretty much everything that has happened in the show since then... and while some people would probably be happy to see the show starting over again from that point, I really can't see the writers doing that.

She does say this was "the original plan" so that covers her butt if something completely different happens, so who knows. As others have pointed out, Hiro can't save Charlie from the blood clot in her brain (unless he finds someone with healing powers or "magic blood," always a possibility on this show) but I think he could save her from being killed by Sylar. The only reason he didn't save her before was because his powers failed him, and he couldn't get back. Hiro CAN change events in the past - he CAN change someone's fate - but just because he can, doesn't mean that he should. And even saving someone's life might cause something worse to happen instead.

If Sylar doesn't kill Charlie, then he doesn't get her memory power - but we only saw him use that once in the GN, I think, so it doesn't seem like that would alter the storyline too much. Otherwise, she's just a waitress at a diner in the middle of nowhere who happens to be dying... would saving her from being murdered have that much of an effect on the timeline? It could be interesting.

I think that Hiro saving Charlie could potentially change a lot of things. The reason Hiro met Charlie in the first place is because they were traveling to New York, then they stayed there because they were waiting for Peter so they could help save Claire. Now if Charlie never died then Hiro then he wouldn't have gone back in time to try to save her. Thus Hiro and Ando would've gone with Peter to the school. That would change how that fight went the changes could be vastly significant or minuscule to the story. Here is a scenario that I can see it really shaking up the story.

1. Jackie doesn't die.
2. Peter doesn't get arrested. Either because they make a quick get away or there is no death to begin with.

Now these may not sound like a big deal. But consider this if there is no crime then Peter isn't going to be arrested. If Peter doesn't get arrested Matt doesn't ever interrogate and read Peter's mind. If Matt doesn't do that then Claire wouldn't have been brought in to be questioned. From there two things go way off. Claire might not end up learning Peter's last name(that would be bad), and Matt doesn't meet Noah. Thus Matt never persuades Aubry to get the FBI search Primatech. Which means he wouldn't have gotten suspended at least not for that. Without those events who knows how things would unfold.

LOLWUT? Hiro can't kill Sylar. Just... no. It would be like a cosmic Reset button for the entire Heroes timeline from "7 Minutes to Midnight" onward. Either Kristin is doing a poor job of trying to dupe us omgsomean!Heroes fans, or these sources are nonexistant/wishful thinkers. Unless this is planned for the finale? If that's the case, then perhaps the Heroes staff is betting on cancellation after this season.

Don't ever think this ever. The show is going to get 7 to 8 seasons. The writers are not going to retcon everything and the only thing going on is simple closure that's it. Everyone is on the same page now with this issue, so ignore this Kristen article. If there were more plans, then Mays character would be in more episodes and not only one.

^Agreed. It was more of an "If this is true, then..." comment than anything else. I, personally, believe this "Hiro kills Sylar, lives happily ever after with Charlie" idea is just another example of why I've been trying to be spoiler-lite lately.

I do hope that we will be able to see those "the aliens invade in Season 10!" comments from various staff members come to fruition. XD

If they screw this up I might just kill someone.

It makes sense for him to go back to then to get closure over the whoe thing, but they should leave things like that alone sometimes as it can totally kill a previous episode's emotional impact *coughDoctorWhoseries4cough*.

Although Hiro is still "Missing Miss Charlene" as Lordi would put it, he knows better than to make sunch a radical alteration to the timeline, for a start, he didn't do to Ando (for seeing him fry him in the future) what Peter the time assassin did to Nathan, He almost messed up in Japan's past, his visit there has made him less willing to travel back through time (but that doesn't stop him from visiting the future).

If Sylar didn't kill her, the brain clot would've, time travel can't change that.

I think this is all for closure on Hiro's part. I'm not Sylar's biggest fan and while going back and killing would avert certain deaths there is too much that would be changed by his death. Still I would like to see that timeline where Hiro killed him and how things turned out. Would Peter have ever met Claire? Would Eden still have died by other means? Would it save Nathan? Would Adam be a good guy instead of a bad guy? And what about Elle?

It will be nice for the insight, even if it does only last one episode.

If Charlie doesn't get killed, then October 2006 Hiro never goes back to save her, but there's still the fact that original timeline October 2006 Hiro was already in April 2006 and then jumped forward to October. So you have two Hiros come October. Then you get a third Hiro when he "returns" from 1671 (which Sylar sent him to.)

I'm glad they're finally taking this route. Obviously, Hiro killing Sylar screws up the entire timeline, and we'll probably get an episode of "what if Sylar died at the diner" where things are different (for better or worse). Then at the end of the episode Hiro changes things back. I can't wait to see what they do this season, and with this episode in particular.

Now I'm obviously a big fan of the show but I have a totally different opinion than most of you. I'm pretty sure everyone on here can agree that season 1 was far and away better than 2 and 3. I think they screwed up bad with S1 finale and since then it's been kind of a mess in many ways and every now and then we get some flashes of that S1 greatness.

The biggest problem for Heroes though isn't bad writing, its the way the show is viewed by people in general and right now Heroes is a joke to most people that aren't fans. The ratings have gotten worse and worse over time and if something major doesn't happen the show probably won't be back after this season.

So I happen to have re-watched seasons 2 and 3 over the summer and I think there are just so many problems that the only way to really fix this show would be to go back to Kirby plaza where it all went downhill and change something major. (I'd rather not see Sylar die but I would understand considering the storyline problems he brings and the whole star trek thing.

I understand a lot of you hate the idea of a "reboot" that basically makes the past 2 seasons pointless, but if they could do it correctly (meaning get Fuller to handle it) I think it could do wonders for the shows future.

I would prefer a new timeline (starting at Kirby plaza) over having another season like the past 2, and if there's a chance it could get MILLIONS of viewers back that loved season 1 and keep the show going for many years, I think they gotta try it or something similar.

Still don't want a reboot? 2 words, Mohinder Suresh.

That would be pretty interesting to see for one episode. It would be like one of those corny dream sequence episodes(or in the case of Dallas, an entire season!) where the person wakes up at the end and the whole time it was a dream, haha.

No, I actually don't. In all honesty, the stories that season 2 and 3 told were, at the core, very good stories and pretty awesome. They were pretty badly handled though. Not entirely horrible dialogue (at least imo) yet still bad; bad character development; confusing plot devices (season 2, I'm looking at you with the jump four months after everything interesting!); while not so much the fault of the show, the Writer's Strike did indeed have its own negative impact. There were plenty of plans for season 2 that had to be completely scrapped because of the strike. The shortened season didn't help much.

Then, with season 3, things didn't really change. They didn't go downhill, nor did they go up the hill. They just sort of stayed put. In all honesty, I think the biggest problem with the show is clinging onto older characters, not letting them go anywhere since they have little story left to reveal, or killing them off when not needed. Despite what an actor or company wants, you need to do what's best for the show. If it means writing a character off instead of killing them, then fine. If it means actually killing a character off, then do it! (Sylar should have been gone awhile back and, despite my liking of them, the Petrellis need to go somewhere too. Killing off Nathan would have been a perfect way to set up some character development for Peter...)

But I digress. Let's focus on the topic and the fact that Hiro is visiting Charlie for some reason (hopefully other than trying to kill Sylar).

Maybe he just wants to sleep with her. Hey, he shouldn't have to die a virgin!!

Who says he's a virgin? It's not like he was a complete loser! He was able to score Charlie!

LOL... well, technically, he and Charlie did "hook up" at the end of Saving Charlie, but I don't really know if that book counts as canon since it doesn't really fit with what we saw on the show. Then there was that crappy love triangle with Yaeko in the past, but I'm pretty sure all he got from her was a kiss. So yeah, maybe Hiro has decided that since he's dying, he wants to go back and find Charlie to get some, uh, "closure." Works for me! Except for the part with Hiro dying - that sucks.

He isn't going to die. By the end of the season, they'll find a cure or his illness turns out to be non-fatal and will go away soon. Hiro is going to get closure and then return to the present to begin a new relationship with Claire

I sure hope not. Claire is still technically underage (have to check that, but still) and Hiro is well over 18. Not only that, but Claire and Hiro haven't been in many scenes together. Not enough of a relationship for that.

And as much as I don't want Hiro to do (really I don't), if he goes, I won't make much of a fuss. Someone needs to go eventually, whether it be Nylar (they both should be dead imo) or Hiro or someone in between, we need some fresh faces to last for another four seasons.

I believe also that someone has to go and it's going to be Mohinder. He really doesn't have a plotline anymore and I also think that Ando might be going as well because they never really developed his plot. I've seen how Claire re-acted to Hiro in both "Our Father" and "A Clear and Present Danger" and those re-actions tell me that there is something there between them and they should both see what it is and go from there. These feelings are my guess as to why Hiro is going to get closure with Charlie, to see if he and Claire have some kind of great chemistry, which I'm sure they do

I agree with everything you said except for the Claire and Hiro stuff. I don't see them as love interests, ever. lol

No offense,bwm27, but I've never felt that there had been anything between them. That pairing would never even have occured to me.

But then, maybe I'm biased. I'm no fan of Claire(she's just kind of there, tolerated,but that's basically it.Pretty neutral about her) and I'm fond of Hiro(especially when he's written right.)

But I like your optimism.

I like the idea of a what if episode, it could show a entire new storyline, and then at the end well see if it stays or not.

and is it possible that Hiro doesnt actually visit her, but travels back and randomly meet her, or that he doesnt mean to go to her at all?

I can definitely see that happening. One of those famous Heroes twists.

Hiro goes back in time to stop some sort of disaster, but runs into Charlie somehow. Then he must decide: save Charlie, or stop [generic disaster]?

That be cool i used to love the seasons of dallas like that. They were awesome.

I wouldn't mind seeing a "what if" episode. All the paths untaken. And it would be a great chance to get former co-stars back on, like Malcolm McDowel, George Takei and Kristin Bell.

Well, we know that Hiro is supposed to have a terminal illness. My guess is that he goes back to see Charlie to understand how to live with a terminal illness. How did she handle the news...etc.

Well at least for that...as for WHEN he visits her, it'll probably be at somepoint in between the time he made a jump back to Japan in the present and the time before Hiro and Sylar were in the same room (without either realising it).

I could also see him having little to no control over his power to start with, just like the beginning of season 1. I can see him trying to time travel and the thought of Charlie slipping in his mind and him accidentally going to her.

That or he deliberately pays her a visit to tie up some loose ends (He disappeared without any warning or any form of explaination to her, it was an accident, but he disappeared or to be more precise, sent himself back home in his time).

This is true... but we know when Sylar kills her. She might have lived a couple more years after that. And if Hiro is bleeding when he uses his power, he might be dying as well.

Also, as far as Hiro is concerned, Sylar is dead. Time travel can't change that, lol, so why not make it happen earlier?

Hiro's visit is most likely to give her a more memorable sendoff than disappearing without warning