…this was a great post. I’m hoping that they are just doing all of this incredibly similar stuff as an easy way to remind us of things from the past since it’s been so long and that maybe it will get better in the next couple of episodes. Maybe.

The fact the Niki is not extra crispy is driving me absolutely insane though, and yeah. Suck.

Yes. I mean, come on. The brought back Malcolm McDowell to play Libby the angel/devil on Nathan’s shoulder? What next, the revelation that Vader Linderman is his biological father? Abrams and co. are throwing more twists at us than M. Night Shyamalan, and I’m not sure they know where all of them are going yet.

What I’m looking forward to is the flashback scene with a young Mama Petrelli lying exhausted in a cheap motel bed, with a line of men (look, there’s a police officer! and a Japanese businessman! and some Haitian dude!) wrapping around the block and leading right to the foot of her bed.

Was anyone else bothered by Heroes’ use of the “in-head Six” device?

My sister and I have a theory that each of Niki’s personalities have individual powers cause they are different people in the same brain.

I want to know what anybodies thoughts on Momma Petrelli’s reveal to Sylar at the end. As much as I enjoyed it, my friend seemed to hate it which is leaving me feeling very mixed about the whole thing.

That whole sequence pissed me off. First, Claire changes her clothes for no discernible reason (except to don a white sweater, the uniform of the slasher movie victim). Then she runs around her house with a butcher knife rather than, say, opening a door and walking out or jumping out a window. (Come on, Claire, you’ll heal right up.) And then locks herself in a closet with flimsy doors that wouldn’t stop anyone with a little momentum and/or one of the other knives still sitting in the block on the counter. Maybe I’ve been spoiled by too many vampire slayers, kickass cyborgs, and alien-fighting soldiers, but that kind of behavior just makes me so angry at the characters who hide when they’re perfectly capable of defending themselves. At least Little Miss Indestructible was mad at herself for being such a wuss, too.

@TrinityVixen: My expression is succinct, but my fury is boundless. I chose to focus on one point of rage this time.

I couldn’t even do both hours last night. I was train-wreck gawking.

It’s interesting to see our “heroes” and “villains” switching sides, though. Sylar isn’t eating brains, just looking at them; the people dying from it is just an unfortunate side-effect. Mrs. Patrelli is trying to save the future from her sons’ meddling. Elle is hoping for the same thing, while trying to impress her dad. Future!Claire is trying to kill Uncle Peter. Future!Peter is trying to kill Nathan. Mohinder’s getting all power-hungry and ditching people who count on him. Future!Ando is going all Palpatine on Hiro and we don’t really know why, but it has something to do with chemistry and a really fast girl.

Good and evil are functions of circumstance, intention, and perspective.

(Also, as a fun meta-reunion, Francis Coppola and Kristin Bell are back together again. Yay, Veronica and Weevil!)