I can't recall how many games you roll, but you're going to average a 174. That's your punishment for your lack of focus.

damn they need to get playing permission to Bowie's song pronto!

And I had Claire's mom on the somebody gonna die list.

The comments about the island I think is more of a nod to Marvel Comics and Stan Lee. Nathan may be referring to Genosha, and he may become like Senator Kelly (mutant registration?).

Finally, the focus was all over the place tonight, but I did notice they were trying several times to keep people in two different distances in focus. Look at the scene with Clair and HRG in the hospital.

Excelsior!

I do think we're heading for a Sylar vs. Peter showdown in the May season finale, although I highly doubt either of them will actually wipe out New York. I'm guessing Sylar makes a tasty brain snack out of Radioactive Man and eventually goes boom, but Peter absorbs and contains the explosion. It would, however, be interesting if Peter ends up becoming the new Sylar for Season 2...

BadMrWonka: Heh. :)

While I'm sure there's going to be a Peter versus Sylar fight, I do have to say I don't think the show can kill off Sylar. Let's face it: who else is going to be a bad guy? There's the League of Neutral/Pulp Faction, but they can't be a prime antagonist for a long arc; ditto Linchpin, unless we're about to learn he has advanced super powers as well; and of course I'm sure we'll have the anti-Heroes storyline, but again, I think they need to keep Sylar around.

All: Peter didn't have an Isaac-esque vision. There were multiple elements that indicated it was not literal: Claire in her Cheerleader's Outfit, Parkman in his Police Uniform. I actually don't expect Hiro/Ando or Nikki/DL/Micah to be in New York City during the season finale. But we'll see.

Maybe he found the Fork of Truth?

Although I still think he had found the Fork of Truth (come on, someone on this site has to get that reference)

When's she gonna start flipping a double-sided coin?

OBTW, happy new year, everybody!

Again, IF you believe the rumors...

It'd just be nice to have a little throwaway here and there; like the fireman barbecue, P. Diddy Pryde pileup, or attack of the Mazinger clones (note, all of which happened earlier on in the series).

The reason they killed her was because they honestly didn't know what to do with her character.

So to you Niki/Jessica haters, where exactly does your problem lie? My hunch isn't that it is the Jessica personality that's turning you off. Not when she is dominant, that is. I'm suspecting that if you dislike what Ali Larter is bringing to the show, it is because you either dislike the incessant whining of the Niki personality or you dislike the dead-end family dynamic with Micah and DL. Let's admit, when Jessica is in charge, shit happens.

And yeah, I think a Joker in his thirties, lean, with an angular face and crazed eyes would certainly be preferable to a Joker that's in his forties, with a BOOMING VOICE, big mug-handle ears, and no upper lip when he grins. But I guess that's just me.

So since I know "jack-shit" about the Surfer and comics, please enlighten me as to what I'm missing. And please keep using words of one or two syllables so that my feeble mind may grasp them.

And since you were obviously working at Marvel in '60s, please tell us who wrote ALL those issues that had Stan's name on them? Roy Thomas? Sure, Stan's artists helped out with plotting & character creation and certainly deserve their fair share of credit, but there's no way they wrote every bit of dialogue for Stan to rubber-stamp his name on.

There is the chance that the show has employed use of the voice simply for affect. However, if it is indeed an actual ability, then in order for both Peter and Sylar to each display use of the voice ability, Sylar must have attained it prior to gunning for Claire in TX. Else, how could Peter have picked it up unless from yet another character with the same ability besides Eden? Apart from Peter and Sylar, the show has been consistent in keeping powers exclusive.

My hunch is it's just something used for affect.

You keep telling me to do "research," even though all the incidents you mention are fairly widely known. The thing is, not many people really care all that much if Stan doesn't reference Jack Kirby in every single interview for the FF movie, or doesn't mention Steve Ditko when talking about Doctor Octopus's creation on the SPIDER-MAN 2 DVD. Should he? Probably, but Stan knows there's no real way he can rewrite history and make himself the sole creator of all those characters because too much has been documented over the years, many times by Stan himself in articles or interviews.

If anything, you should directing your ire at Marvel for not including the words "Created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby" or "Created by Stan Lee & Steve Ditko" in most of their comics and films. DC's just as guilty, though, which is why they didn't include "Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster" in Superman comics and films until a lawsuit forced them to do so.

The injections are solely for a radioactive trace for the League of Neutral/Pulp Faction to keep tabs on the injectees. It does not give anyone powers.

Chandra Sureesh was able to track "Heroes" down because they had donated blood to the Human Genome Project and he was using that database to search for ... whatever it is he found that indicates the presence of an anomaly. This is an interesting development because 1) we're not limited to 36 heroes, and 2) I was wondering how he was finding these people in the first place. For awhile there I was thinking he was via pennies.

Wasn't Sylar's original power some kind of clockwork ability to understand things? And the absorbing of people's power derives from that?

Good call Dreadpirate on the dream power. I had assumed Peter got that from Isaac. It never quite made sense to me.

I'm not sure how they can keep Peter in the show for long with those abilities. I can see them killing him off in the finale to establish the premise of "Heroes."

This show has definitely learned some lessons from Lost. The pacing is great and it seems they're conscious about making the same mistakes. Hopefully Lost can take a lesson from Heroes next season.

I too am curious if Mama Petrelli has a power.