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This season, ABC moved Ugly Betty from Thursday, one of the best time slots available, to Friday. The move effectively put the show on its deathbed, and it has continued to fade into obscurity since the move to Fridays.
Now, ABC is reportedly trying some CPR. Ugly Betty is said to be moving from Friday to Wednesday as of January. Wednesday is sure better than Friday, but two schedule changes in one season typically does not bode well.
Source: Variety
Claire and Gretchen reunited at Thanksgiving dinner, where Claire promptly stole the compass from her father in Heroes Season 4 Episode 11. Sylar, meanwhile, took over Nathan’s body, but not completely.
Lydia tells Samuel that she knows the truth, but she plans to keep the secret safe since she’s got a daughter to look after.
When he realizes the compass is missing, HRG immediately suspects Claire and calls to leave a voicemail warning her to stop whatever it is she’s planning. Lauren offers her CIA assistance to help track Claire down.
Peter plans to fight Sylar by taking his powers from him. He’s going to get Nathan, and if there is no Nathan, he’ll just have to settle for revenge.
Claire and Gretchen arrive to meet Lydia. She’s something like a crystal ball. Claire’s question is whether she’s supposed to be there. In response, she gets a tattoo of herself as an indestructable cheerleader.
Peter’s greeted by a seemingly nice lady on the elevator. She attacks him and throws him out. Yeah, that would be Sylar’s shapeshifting. As Sylar gets more aggressive, he finds out he’s powerless. Peter got some new abilities from the Haitian: mind erasing and power blocking. Perhaps if he tortures him some, they can make a deal. He’ll let up in exchange for Nathan’s return. Sounds like a pretty one sided deal because it is. Sylar tells him to just keep going. Following this session, Sylar shifts back into Nathan.
Gretchen doesn’t care for their little carnival trip, but Claire’s enjoying herself and thinking she may well be able to fit in there.
Emmett, Samuel’s new right hand man (or men as it may be) pays HRG a visit. He’s looking for something, and nobody will get hurt if he gets what he came for. That is before all the shooting starts. The prime one is the only one that can be shot, so the plan is to shoot them all and hope for the best. While HRG and Lauren are arriving at that plan, Emmett disappears, along with the files about the bad guys.
Samuel’s telling the kids stories, and when he’s done with his story, he drags Claire over to tell one of her own. While she’s doing that, Gretchen confronts him. What do these people want from her? He says they have a lot of love, whatever that means.
One of the carnival games is rigged. A guy who played minor league ball for three years was forced to miss the ball tosses. Afterward, he wants to see the man in charge to discuss the stolen money. Samuel lets the guy just keep punching him until Claire breaks it up. You can’t beat self healing girl in a fight, dude. Once he realizes that, it’s time to run the other way.
Nathan’s grown tired of fighting, but his brother tells him he can keep going. After a discussion about how Sylar’s killing him, Nathan jumps off the building. Peter grabs hold, but Nathan will not struggle to help him out. His parting thoughts before letting go are that Peter can do anything. Following a thud, Sylar walks away.
Following her visit, Claire has decided to stay for a couple more days rather than leaving with Gretchen. Samuel’s not after her, though.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 13, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.
Before touching Parkman’s hand and no doubt ending up with unintended consequences in Heroes Season 4 Episode 10, Nathan decided that he doesn’t exist any more because he’s becoming Sylar. Meanwhile, Suresh had his own trouble. He wasn’t killed, but he was locked up in the nuthouse.
Samuel’s got his hands on the film that he wanted now. He’s watching the part where he’s being born, a disaster waiting to happen.
Hiro wants to know where and when Charlie is. Samuel is not ready to play just yet, and Hiro can’t make him since it’s not like he can just kill the only person who knows where to find Charlie. But smile, it’s Thanksgiving.
HRG runs into Lauren at the supermarket, where he checks out some yams before inviting her for dinner.
Peter goes to visit his mom, who says that Nathan’s dead body was a shapeshifter, and Parkman is unbalanced and can’t be trusted. Not buying this story, the question is simple. Is Nathan really dead? Yeah, Nathan would like to know the answer to that, too.
Claire’s surprised to find that her dad brought a date. No, not a date. Just an old friend. Mom will understand.
Hiro is not quite ready to enjoy Thanksgiving. First of all, they don’t celebrate that in Japan. Second, Samuel is a liar liar pants on fire. If he did fix the past, though, that would lead some to believe that Joseph should still be around. They fail to realize that Samuel’s goals were more selfish than that. That said, Lydia wants to go back to eight weeks ago so she can see what happened to Joseph.
Angela tells the boys that they really did see Nathan’s body, although his mind still lives on in his current body.
As if Thanksgiving dinner isn’t awkward enough, Sandra’s boyfriend Doug suggests going around the table and saying what they’re thankful for. This can only end badly. When they get to Claire, she’s just not feeling it. She’s thinking about dropping out of school.
Back to the night Joseph died. He warns his brother that he has the power to kill millions. Because of that, he has to be controlled. It’s then that Samuel learns that Suresh was instructed to burn the film. Furthermore, a man from the government is coming to take Samuel in. Well, that’s about all that needs to be said before Joseph gets killed by his brother, which Lydia and Hiro witness.
Doug tells Claire this will all blow over. Stuff like this happens to everyone. Really? So she grabs a knife and slits her arm. Perhaps a visit from Gretchen will cheer her up.
Nathan informs his family that Sylar’s in there with him. Then a freaky light show happens. No need to get an exorcist, though. Sylar’s back. What’s for dinner?
Samuel just learned that the person who killed his brother is there sitting at the table. Edgar speaks up… Samuel is the one who murdered Joseph. The time traveler saw it. Hiro denies seeing anything. Perhaps, then, Edgar killed Joseph. Before Samuel can make Edgar suffer the same fate as his brother, Hiro freezes time, telling Edgar he has to run away to live to fight another day.
Sylar finds out that Nathan’s not so dead after all. He can control Sylar, just like Sylar controlled Parkman all that time.
After her visit with Gretchen, Claire tells her dad she’s going back to school. What she’s really doing is taking the compass she stole from him and seeing where it leads.
Peter promises his mom that he’ll find a way to get his brother alive again.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 12 The Fifth Stage, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.
Lost season 6 will be moving to Tuesdays at 9/8c when it returns on February 2. As if Tuesday weren’t an excessively busy night to begin with. Assuming V sticks around on Tuesday nights, this would allow ABC to have itself a sci fi block. It could always dump Flash Forward in there as well to make a whole sci fi night, but that seems an unlikely scenario given the success that show has seen thus far on Thursday nights.
The move to Tuesday puts Lost up against some tough competition. Obviously, there’s American Idol, television’s #1 show. Over on NBC, there’s the Winter Olympics, and then NBC’s only real non-sports success story, The Biggest Loser. Over on CBS is freshman drama NCIS: Los Angeles, basking in the success of its lead-in being the top rated show for the fall season.
Aunt Jenna started dating Alaric in The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 9. She also got a visit from Logan, the dead guy.
Logan says he was out of town. As far as Jenna knows, she was dumped, via e-mail. He claims he didn’t send any e-mail, but what he does need is an invite inside. Not happening. So instead he goes outside and eats a jogger.
Jeremy’s got his sketch pad out. Nobody’s saying anything, for fear of scaring him away from it.
Stefan and Damon both plan to leave town. Stefan mostly just wants to go wherever his brother is not. Damon wants to follow him, though. They’re a team. They could travel the world together. They could try out for The Amazing Race.
Damon gets a visit from the sheriff. There’s been another attack.
Bonnie’s not dead, and she’s also not undead. Back to her normal life as a witch.
Now that there’s another vampire in town, Stefan doesn’t want to leave any more. So that means he doesn’t have to say goodbye to Elena. Not yet.
When Damon arrives to figure out who was responsible for the attack, he’s shot at. Now he’s finding out Logan’s been turned. That’s news to him. If he didn’t turn him, who did? He won’t be finding that out just yet. It turns out he’s been doing a lot of killing. He’s been hiding the bodies, well, except for that one the cops found.
Jeremy goes to career day, where he’s surprised to find out that Ty is also an artist. As for Stefan, he’s not there to look for a job, but he has dabbled in a bunch of things. Problem is he could only stay a few years at each place before leaving, so that nobody could notice he wasn’t getting any older.
Then he sees Logan. Yeah, he thought he was dead, too. Logan doesn’t want to answer any questions about who turned him, but he does want to know how he could turn into a daywalker. Blackmail’s not going to work any more than shooting did.
Jeremy would like to have a pleasant conversation with Ty, seeing as how they both like to draw and did the same chick. After Ty insults Vicki, this goes south quickly, and they’re busted for fighting.
When he leaves the school, Logan sees Caroline. He used to babysit for her, and she’s looking for a ride home. No problem. Get in, and watch your head when it bashes into a window.
Ty’s dad has a solution when he drags Jeremy and Ty outside: fight in the parking lot. Alaric doesn’t like what he sees, and he breaks it up.
Logan calls up the sheriff to say he’s got her daughter and wants to make her a vampire. Not if the brothers get their way. Damon’s going to try again: who turned him? Rather than be tortured, Logan has an offer to help him get inside the tomb beneath the old church.
Not to be stopped by the brawl they almost got into, Jeremy would still like to be Ty’s buddy. Yeah, still not happening.
Elena thought she wanted to be a writer, until her mom died. She tries to convince Stefan that she already had bad stuff in her life. He says he’s doing this for her and walks away. It won’t be that easy. She loves him, and he if wants to leave, he’s going to have to do it for himself. If that day comes, it will not be today because they’re going back to his place.
Logan meets Alaric and believes he’s got the upperhand, but that lasts about two seconds before he’s staked.
After the deed is done and Stefan leaves the room to go get something to drink, Elena spots a picture of Katherine. Looks familiar.
The sheriff calls Damon to thank him for disposing of Logan’s body. Again, news to him.
Running away from what she’s just seen, Elena hits something standing in the middle of the road and flips her car. Whatever she hit, it gets right up.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Vampire Diaries Episode 11, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.
After getting his body taken over by Sylar, Parkman got the cops to shoot him in Heroes Season 4 Episode 9.
Samuel wants Hiro to go back in time and save a film.
Tracy’s wondering what life would be like living in a carnival.
Nathan thought he had a handle on things, but the last few weeks, he doesn’t know who he is any more.
Not too many weeks back, Tracy told HRG she didn’t want anything to do with him ever again. So of course this week she’s back to pay him a visit and look for help, inadvertently shattering his doorknob upon arrival.
The Haitian has been sent by Angela to wipe out Nathan’s and Peter’s memories, but he doesn’t want to. Instead, he hands Peter a card and tells him it is up to him to fix things, but that he should go alone.
Nine weeks ago in India, Suresh is going through a box when he finds a film made by his father, in which he says that people with abilities gathering together exponentially increases the force generated by each of them. Then there’s a baby being born.
Tracy’s next victim as she continues to freeze things without meaning to do so: Claire.
Peter doesn’t go alone. He drags Nathan with him. This lets Nathan be the one to make the discovery of his own body inside a coffin.
Maybe it’s a shapeshifter. Perhaps if Nathan touches the body. Doing so gives him bits and pieces of the story. They’re off to find Parkman to get some answers.
Tracy wants to drag the now frozen Claire into the tub. She breaks off her foot in the process. It’s a good thing she heals.
Parkman’s been located. He’s in a hospital in Texas, after having tried to commit suicide by cop. If they can get in, Peter thinks he can save him since he heals people now.
Using his father’s formulas, Suresh has created a compass. His concern is if the child on that film is still alive and surrounds himself with a large enough number of specials.
Peter and Nathan go to visit Parkman, and Peter heals him. When he wakes up, he tells them to run. Then he tells them the crazy story about how Sylar’s inside his head and Nathan’s dead. Sylar takes control and asks for one simple thing: Nathan to take his hand. It all adds up to Nathan. The new powers are Sylar’s. He doesn’t exist. There’s a touch and a flash. Where is Sylar? Whatever the answer, Nathan flies away with Peter over his shoulder.
Suresh arrives at the carnival, compass in hand, looking for Samuel, who may or may not even exist. He believes that Samuel can multiply his powers simply by being near others.
Parkman’s wheeled away and then proceeds to use mind control on the guard to convince him he’s dead.
Samuel’s brother Joseph has made it his life’s work to keep him in the dark about the true nature of his power. He probably didn’t count on Samuel overhearing this conversation. Suresh believes this was all a mistake and that he should have left that film in the trash. That said, he wants to burn it. Cue Hiro. He grabs the film and replaces it with another one.
Tracy met this man named Samuel. Yeah, Claire met him, too. Tracy’s considering joining him. Claire’s advice is maybe she should.
Evil butterfly man shows up and attacks Suresh. Bulletproof vest. Unlike the future Hiro comes from, Suresh is now no longer dead. Hiro wants him to just go away for eight weeks until Charlie is released. Nonetheless, Mohinder wants to keep fighting. Since he refuses to disappear, Hiro will have to make him disappear by locking him up in a psych ward in a padded room, where he just gets jabbed with needles at the first sign of revealing his real identity.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 11 Thanksgiving, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.
Stefan’s oldest friend visited him in The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 8… so Damon killed her. Meanwhile, Bonnie had a dream that “it’s coming.”
Dozing off in class, Bonnie has another dream. She receives a request for help from Emily, the ancestor to whom the amulet belonged.
They get a new history teacher, Alaric Saltzman, seeing as the old one was eaten.
Damon feels that getting the town off their backs was worth the sacrifice. So what happens next time he needs a bite and the secret society of vampire haters starts asking questions again?
It turns out the old teacher had a jackass file, with documents of troublemakers in it. Well, mostly, one troublemaker: Jeremy. Since he’s trying to turn himself around, Jeremy agrees to do an extra credit report.
Caroline wants there to be something there with Matt. He did, after all, cuddle with her when she was a drunk mess.
Stefan comes to school to tell Elena that he didn’t kill his brother, and that he will be backing off from school. School or her?
Damon’s also hanging out at school to talk to the little witch. No matter how much she may deny it, she doesn’t want the necklace, nor its consequences of having Emily on her back.
On the ride home from school, Bonnie abruptly pulls over and throws the necklace on the side of the road. Problem solved, right?
Elena decides to ask Stefan for help. He knows the necklace well. It belonged to Katherine.
After Bonnie gets done telling Caroline what happened to the necklace, she finds out that it’s not true. Sure doesn’t seem true anyway. The necklace is in her bag. She blames Emily, the ghost. As if that’s a believable explanation. Then Bonnie tells her that she’s a witch. Nope, not buying that either.
Aunt Jenna and Alaric conveniently end up bumping into each other. He’s got a sad story, too. His wife died, so he decided to move for a change of scenery.
After some consideration, Caroline decides to humor the whole witch/ghost thing. She suggests having a seance. This plan works, but Bonnie can’t handle it. She tosses the necklace to the ground, and when the lights come back on, it’s gone.
So what does Damon want with Katherine’s crystal? He’s gonna bring her back. Yeah, she’s not really dead. Just stuck inside a tomb for the last century and a half, protected from being burned alive. In order for the crystal to work, a celestial event must happen. There’s a long time in between comets, though.
When Bonnie spots the crystal in the bathroom, she ends up trapped inside. Much screaming ensues. The door opens. She’s fine. The reflection in the mirror: Emily’s. As she runs out of the house, she says she won’t let him have it. It must be destroyed.
Jenna brings Alaric home. He’s going to need an invite to be able to enter, but she declines. Jeremy’s there.
What part of the story did Damon leave out? To save her, she had to save them. Everybody in the church has been trapped inside a mystical holding cell for 150 years. Refusing to free the 27 trapped vampires, Emily destroys the crystal. Then Damon attacks her/Bonnie, but Stefan heals her. As long as she doesn’t die with his blood in her system, she won’t become a vampire.
Matt doesn’t like Caroline and never has, but the cuddling felt nice.
Now that he’s saved Bonnie’s life, Elena has decided that she can be with Stefan now. Obviously, he can’t. He has to leave.
Logan comes to pay Jenna a visit. Not so dead after all.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Vampire Diaries Episode 10 The Turning Point, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.
When Dollhouse premiered in the Friday night death slot, everybody knew it was only a matter of time before it ended up getting cancelled. Joss Whedon fans argued that Fox never gave it a chance, and there is some validity to that argument, in spite of the second season renewal following the low ratings.
The show will return in December to finish out its season two order before the plug is pulled for good.