Editor’s note: This is to correct an earlier version since Season 3, Volume 4 of Heroes–which will run 12 more episodes, is scheduled to air on February 2 to April 20). Thanks to our readers for pointing this out. We apologize for the confusion.

By Marjorie Gorospe
INQUIRER.net

IF you have extraordinary powers, would you rather become a hero or a villain?

Throughout the third season of Heroes, that dilemma has been the recurring theme. Heroes turned villains. Villains turned heroes. As some heroes desired for more power, some went astray. It was now a question of, “Are you one of us, or one of them.”

As the saying goes, power corrupts. Now, having extraordinary powers, one can be eventually lured to the dark side. In the past seasons, Peter Petrelli has been undoing things his brother Nathan Petrelli had done. But in doing so, he has been changing the future (not once, but many times). Despite his purest intentions, Peter has continued to play god in first half of the Season 3, traveling through time and deleting events that he hope would change the future. But as his mother Angela Petrelli would keep reminding him, there are consequences.

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Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net

I seem have a natural attraction for Woody Allen movies. Maybe because they reaffirm my faith in the one ingredient I deem important in a movie: the story.

“Vicky Cristina Barcelona” is a typical Woody Allen film, meaning there’s always a cast of characters and it ultimately explores human relationships.

This time it’s a love triangle–Barcelona is a metaphor, of course. Meaning there should be sex involved and that Scarlett Johannson is somehow part of it.

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Agence France-Presse

SAN FRANCISCO–Ashes of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry and his actress wife will blast toward the far reaches of the cosmos in keeping with the show’s famed opening line “Space, the final frontier.”

Majel Roddenberry died in December, two months before her 77th birthday, and will posthumously fulfill a “dream of journeying through space with her husband,” according to Celestis Inc, the US company behind the memorial flight.

Celestis sent some of Gene Roddenberry’s ashes into orbit around the earth in a premier Founders Flight rocket launch in 1997.

Gene Roddenberry died six years earlier with a wish to explore space in keeping with characters in his adventure television show that first aired in the late 1960s and still has a strong cult following.

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Let’s admit it. Kara Dioguardi is hot. But we digress.

Her addition to the new season of American Idol has indeed spiced up the panel of judges, composed of Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul. Now you have two women that can balance out opinions of men.

It is now clear that Kara and Simon will be in loggerheads. Both have strong personalities. Also, both have an interesting bio, which explains the differences in opinion. As one aspiring AI pointed out during the auditions in San Francisco, the smug Cowell has provided this reality show its brutal honesty. (Sometimes, some people really need to be told that they don’t have a tinge of singing talent, heh).  But with Dioguardi around, perhaps we can expect more fireworks from the panel of judges. Weeee.

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Agence France-Presse

NEW DELHI–”Slumdog Millionaire,” the runaway hit film that has charmed audiences around the world, seems to have hit a sour note with one Indian activist a day before its release in India.

Tapeshwar Vishwakarma, representing a slum-dwellers’ welfare group, is suing the film’s music composer A.R. Rahman and one of its stars, actor Anil Kapoor, for depicting slum-dwellers in a bad light and violating their human rights.

Vishwakarma objected to the use of words such as “slumdogs” to describe the millions of inhabitants of India’s cramped shantytowns, and filed a defamation case against the duo in the east Indian city of Patna, according to media reports Thursday.

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