COWBOY PETE’S TV ROUND-UP: HEROES

A serialized drama that’s a genuine quadruple threat: Great writing, great acting, great directing, and it’s not on Fox.

If any of you ever wondered what one of the X-Men films would have been like if they’d adapted “Days of Future Past,” last night’s episode answers that. Spoilers below…

As has often been the case ever since the show’s “title character,” Hiro, was introduced, Hiro serves as the moral center for the series. But in this outing, the world has gone dark, bleak and immoral, and whether Hiro’s transformation is a reflection of that or, in some small way, the cause, is open to debate. For all the chilling moments that we witness in this episode set five years hence, the one that got me most was this: Confronted with armed opposition and a means of simply walking past them via freezing time, Hiro and Peter instead choose to take them on directly, slicing and dicing their way through the hopelessly overmatched guards because they “haven’t had a good fight in a while.”

Frankly, I’d been a little dubious about taking a future digression at such a late date in the story arc, but I needn’t have worried. Essential information was passed along, and the Christmas Carol-ish second chance presented Ando and Hiro (“I will save you, New York!”) was especially uplifting given the overall grimness of the preceding hour. Plus I was, frankly, torqued with myself that I didn’t see the reveal with Nathan coming. It’s the best kind of blindsiding: The reveal that on the one hand was shocking, but on the other was natural and made perfect sense given the set up. That throwdown between Peter and his “brother” toward the end looked so kickin’ that I’m almost sorry that future will (hopefully) never happen, ’cause I’d love to see how it would have played out.

At the end we’re asked who will stop Sylar. Personally, I’m betting Ando. I mean, yeah, there’s the illustration that shows Hiro doing it, but Sylar absorbed Isaac’s abilities; for all we know, Sylar himself did the drawing as a means of luring in Hiro with a false prophecy. Having the non-powered sidekick take down the main villain…I kind of like that notion.

My one concern is the announcement of the introduction of a new character: Molly, with a formidable power all her own. If she plays heavily into the resolution, I won’t be thrilled by that. Introducing some young girl into an alternate-world storyline as a deus ex machina…that trick never works.

PAD

106 comments on “COWBOY PETE’S TV ROUND-UP: HEROES

  1. Loved the ep!

    For the record, though, Molly has already been introduced. She was the little girl that Parkman found hidden from Sylar way back in the second episode (and that Sylar was trying to get to again the first time we saw him).

  2. It’s possible I’m overthinking it, but after last night’s episode I’m convinced that this future WILL come to pass.

    Firstly, Future Hiro’s entire plan hinged on “saving the cheeleader, saving the world,” on the assumption that saving Claire from Sylar would prevent Sylar from getting her power, and allow Hiro to kill him before he detonated.

    Unfortunately, even in this future timeline, Sylar did NOT kill Claire or take her power…she was alive and well, hidden away in Texas (well, until the end of the episode). Not only that, but all the evidence we as viewers have indicates that it’s Peter, not Sylar, who destroys New York.

    Add to that the fact that Future Mohinder remembers Future Hiro’s visit to Peter on that subway, and I can only conclude that in this future timeline Hiro’s plan failed miserably, and is destined to do so again.

  3. It was a great episode, but I wasn’t quite certain as to what future it was. It seemed to be the “current” future that has also had the impact of saving the cheerleader, but not yet “saving the world”. I had thought that it might have been one where Sylar had been the exploding man, but it wasn’t. All the different possible timelines can make your mind spin. What changes did Hiro’s jumping in time produce? Was it a battle between Peter and Sylar that had Peter explode, but Nathan was able to make it seem that Sylar exploded? It appears that Hiro definitely has the story wrong, but we just won’t know until later. Last episode, Isaac implied that he put how to defeat Sylar in his comic or his sketch book.

    Neil

  4. One thing neither Hiro knows is that Peter, not Sylar, blows up New York.

  5. YAATAAAA!

    Love the show! Loved the episode!

    I will say that while Future Hiro’s timeline changed from Sylar being the one to blow up NY to Peter being the one to blow up NY, something else has now changed — our Hiro and Ando have seen the future (though hopefully it won’t be) while Furture Hiro hadn’t.

    I too was wondering if Molly knew stuff…

  6. “For the record, though, Molly has already been introduced. She was the little girl that Parkman found hidden from Sylar way back in the second episode (and that Sylar was trying to get to again the first time we saw him).”

    I don’t remember what I had for breakfast yesterday. Between a plot detail from last year when I was still trying to get all the characters down, and the announcer saying a “new hero” was being introduced, I just figured she was debuting next week.

    PAD

  7. When the flashback episode aired, I thought it would be a letdown. Flashbacks usually just fill in details. It’s nice to see how things got to where they are, but they don’t advance the plot. That one advanced the plot in addition to doing stuff like showing us Nikki’s dad, and it was great.

    This was the same way. Usually when a sci-fi show accidentally jumps into a horrible future, they try to fix the future before going back home. Even though they’re going to try and prevent that future from ever happening, they still want to help out, just in case.

    Instead, this episode showed as that as bad as we think the future is going to be if our heroes fail, it will actually be worse. It also raised Sylar’s threat level. He’s extremely menacing, but once we started getting into New York blowing up and the shadowy organisations, he stopped seeming like the big threat. Now it’s pretty clear that Sylar is as bad as anything out there, and stopping him is just as important as stopping the explosion.

    Very good episode.

  8. Isn’t Molly the name of the incredibly strong little girl from BKV’s (and now Joss Whedon’s) “Runaways”?

    Last night’s “Heroes” was an absolute nerd-gasm. Maybe the best episode of the season so far. I cannot wait for the remaining three episodes.

  9. Isaac drew the panel of Hiro killing Sylar. The scene is depicted in an issue of the comicbook 9th Wonders, and last week Isaac gave the courier the pages for what he says is the last issue. Second, Isaac told Sylar he’d “showed them how to kill you.” (or words to that effect). We can therefore conclude that the key panel comes from that self-same issue. Third, when Sylar painted the future with his new found abilities last week, his style was different than Isaac’s.

    So, unless we believe that A) Sylar somehow absorbed Isaac’s memories, along with his powers (and we’ve seen no indication he can do this), and knew about the comic; B), retrieved the specific page depicting his death; C) re-drew it in Isaac’s style; and D) replaced it without anyone being aware of the substitution, it’s doubtful the depiction of Hiro killing Sylar is misdirection. At least not misdirection on Sylar’s part. It’s possible, I suppose, that Hiro running him through with his sword is just the beginning of the battle, and that Ando will deliver the killing blow.

    Or perhaps Ando will do what Brenda Wyatt did in Highlander. Whack Sylar over the head when he has the upper hand, distracting him long enough for Hiro to regain the advantage.

    Time will tell.

    Good episode, though. But Claire made one critical error. If she wanted a foolproof disguise, she should have worn glasses.

    Rick

  10. Well, Hiro thinks that he needs to kill Sylar, but Sylar didn’t blow up in New York, Peter did. I’m wondering if either Hiro will have to kill Peter, which would be very difficult, or if he will have to decide whether or not to kill Peter or Sylar at a key moment. I’m just hoping that Sylar doesn’t kill Hiro at the end, because Sylar + Hiro’s powers would be nuts. It wouldn’t surprise me too much if Hiro had to sacrifice himself to keep this from happening, just like Eden did.

    I think Molly will be a way of bringing Parkman into the heroic finale.

  11. I twigged the big reveal from last week’s episode preview when they showed Nathan crowing about being “the most special person in the world”. Nathan advising Mohinder that he knew “how things work” was another subtle hint. I really appreciate that the creators are playing fair with the audience.

    Big question is when did the switch happen. Pre- or post-bomb?

  12. I too loved last night’s episode. However, rather than thinking of “Day’s of Future Past”, the thought that kept running through my mind was Star Trek’s mirror universe. While I’m hoping that that future does not happen, I do hope that Hiro goes back a few more times and we get to see it again, a la Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and their frequent jaunts into the mirror universe.

  13. I have to agree with Mr. David. I, too, will be disappointed if this Molly girl comes in as a deus ex machina. If she is the little girl that Parkman found back in Episode 2(!) that hasn’t been seen or heard of since, she might as well be brand new.

    The actor that plays Nathan did a wonderful job of keeping me in the dark about where Sylar really was. When he was revealed, I was sitting there thinking “Oh, of course! I’m an idiot for not seeing that!” The perfect revelation that you didn’t see coming but makes perfect sense once it’s revealed. I had a brief moment wondering why Parkman didn’t spot him from his thoughts years ago, but…It’s Sylar. He could have stolen some weird power along the way that would stop that. To be perfectly honest, I thought that all the present-time characters had been wrong and that Sylar really had been the Bomb until Peter admitted his guilt.

    I also liked the subtle way that all the characters seemed so much more at ease and practiced in their abilities, especially Peter. When he recues Hiro, he is so entirely economicaly and matter-of-fact about the process.

    As to how the the Dark Future played out to get them there: I’m guessing the Peter used Candice’s power to impersonate Sylar so that the Heroes would kill him and keep him from blowing. Hiro stabbed him, but Peter regenerated copying Sylar’s stolen Cheerverine powers. He goes Boom and the survivors blame Sylar. At some point Sylar eats Candice and Nathan and away we go…

  14. Sylar seems to have gotten his durability from eating a cockroach…eating Claire is just icing.

    And I think Molly’s a trap, not a foe. That eating her brain will prove fatal for some reason, or at least mess Sylar up in some significant way (i.e. her power is like the damping aspect of the Haitian’s, and would make Sylar damp himself long enough to be killed).

  15. I enjoyed the episode, but I was a little bothered by Claire’s survival and Peter’s scar. If Peter had met and saved her, he’d have her powers and probably wouldn’t scar up from whatever injury he received. If he didn’t meet/save her, then she’d be dead (and Sylar would already have her powers) and Peter wouldn’t have had the ability which allowed him to survive Hiro’s attack.

  16. Peter’s scar is a physical manifestation of his guilt. He won’t let it go away.

  17. If he didn’t meet/save her, then she’d be dead (and Sylar would already have her powers) and Peter wouldn’t have had the ability which allowed him to survive Hiro’s attack.

    But he could have picked it up from Sylar.

  18. I must be the only one who though that the picture could have been interpreted as Hiro offing Peter? All us stubbly white guys look alike in comic books, right?

  19. Molly is the little girl from the beginning of the season that Sylar was after. He killed her parents with his freeze power and telekinesis and stole whatever powers they had.

    She is just now being introduced because her powers are just now surfacing…

    I find it interesting, I don’t think she will be the cause of the finale, but I do believe she will be a factor.

    Besides, how can Sylar die, he was signed for season 2, unless its all flashbacks…

  20. Awesome episode!

    This is indeed a mirror universe, because in it both Peter and Hiro somehow are manly. 😀

    I almost want it to happen, just because of that.

    The Sylar reveal got me by surprise too.

    And there were lots of theories about how Niki would be married to Nathan in the future, and the First Lady, but she is Peter’s girlfriend instead. Caught me by surprise too.

    Bennet is a good guy and Parkman is a bad guy, but Mohinder is still as indecisive as ever, until the last moment.

    Another great thing. Hiro and Ando’s relationship has always been light-hearted and comedic, but now it turned poignant.

  21. I’m pretty sure that the pic is of Hiro killing Sylar. Future Hiro’s plan to change his past hinges on two key events: Preventing Sylar from gaining Claire’s power and then Hiro killing him. Since Present Hiro hasn’t yet done phase two of the plan, the dark future was still in play. Now, Present Hiro is sure what he has to do, the only questions are will it actually prevent the destruction of NYC and how?

    The obvious scnenario is the Sylar attempts to take Ted’s power and this leads to Peter encounting one or both of them and absorbing the power himself, losing control, and blowing up. Perhaps Peter tries to stop Sylar from eating Ted’s brain, but arrives too late and absorbs the power from Sylar. If that’s the case, then the key point is to kill Sylar before he takes Ted’s power.

    The other important thing is, to prevent Peter from ever encountering Ted. Better yet, just staying the hëll away from Manhattan on that day. I’m guessing that Peter will have to sacrifice himself somehow. The recurring theme in Peter’s story has been his desire to make a real difference, to do something of great importance. Sacrificing his life to save the world would be ultimate expression of that. Plus, it would prevent him from becoming the deus ex machina for next season.

  22. I didn’t think the timeline issue was that confusing. The failure to kill Sylar created the future we witnessed last night. The Hiro of the future realized this, but had no way to act on it until he encountered his past self. He gave the information to his past self and prompted him to return to our present, when that information could actually be of use. It’s a “predestination paradox.”

    As far as Sylar’s role in the destruction of New York, for all we know Sylar might’ve been the one who triggered Peter’s blow-up in the alternate timeline. Or maybe he’d already acquired the shapeshifting power and impersonated Peter while doing the deed.

    I was kind a pìššëd that they turned Nathan into such a complete dìçk, and was relieved when it turned out to be Sylar. And as PAD already said, it was the best kind of twist — one that was surprising yet completely consistent with all that’s been established. I’m also glad that Mohinder redeemed himself in the end, as I like him. I wonder about Parkman, though. Was Sylar controlling him? I missed a few of the early eps, so I guess I can’t say with certainty if this is out-of-character for him, but it sure seems that way to me.

  23. I don’t think we know whether it’s Peter or Sylar…or maybe even Nuke…that ends up being the bomb. Sure, Peter’s dream/vision indicates that it’s him. Then again, was that a manifestation of Issac’s power, or just Peter’s guilt/fear playing out? After all, Peter isn’t the only power sponge, albeit the only one able to leave his donors lives intact.

    But as of episode 17…where we’re currently at…Sylar is starting to show some signs that all those powers aren’t fitting so nicely. He’s just absorbed superhearing Dale, and maybe he’s just adjusting to his new power. Then again, maybe he’s reaching his breaking point.

    Something mentioned in that episode by Claude is that maybe Peter is the genetic top of the hero chain. In which case, maybe Sylar is his opposite?

  24. I wonder about Parkman, though. Was Sylar controlling him? I missed a few of the early eps, so I guess I can’t say with certainty if this is out-of-character for him, but it sure seems that way to me.

    If Sylar was threatening Parkman’s family in any way, it’d be well within character.

  25. What, no mention of the WATCHMENesque plot as revealed in the previous episode? (Linderman and Ozymandias are quite comparable too!) I just found it interesting given that Tim Kring has said in the past that he wasn’t a comic book reader. I suppose it proves the theory of ideaspace, heh.

  26. I wonder about Parkman, though. Was Sylar controlling him? I missed a few of the early eps, so I guess I can’t say with certainty if this is out-of-character for him, but it sure seems that way to me.

    I don’t think there was any sort of mind control involved.

    The impression I got was that being forcibly separated from his family and unable to ever meet his son and wife again was what made Parkman bitter and dark, and fueled his anger of the rebellious superhumans that caused people to be afraid of them all, and making it so that his wife and child had to go into deep hiding, because his young son is a superhuman.

  27. Another great episode!

    Do we know how Peter got that scar? It doesn’t look like Sylar’s doing so much as something left by a sword blade. Hmmm…

  28. Last night was the greatest Heroes so far. But there is one easy way to kill Sylar, they could just have the guy who cancels powers by him, and Hiro could slice and dice with his sword. For this not to be the solution, they would need to say why he wouldn’t effect Sylar. But, at last, a future episode, that carries forward the present day storyline…classic storytelling. It really had the feel of a motion picture.

  29. I almost fell asleep during the first episode of this series. Not surprised to hear that it’s as boring as it was 8 months ago.

  30. > Hiro thinks that he needs to kill Sylar, but Sylar didn’t blow up in New York, Peter did.

    And they may have misinterpreted the bit about saving the world as meaning they have to stop New York from going ka-boom. A lunatic such as Sylar winding up in the oval office can do a lot more damage than just one city getting blown up. So the prophecy might refer to stopping Sylar’s ascension to power.

    >Preventing Sylar from gaining Claire’s power and then Hiro killing him.

    The phrase is, I believe, “Save the cheerleader, save the world.” Not “Save the cheearleader and you save the world.” One is not necessarily dependent on the other. Even if Sylar gets Cheerverine’s healing ability, it won’t save him from getting his head chopped off. Something Hiro (trained in a form of kendo) could well do with one chop of that formidable blade. Let’s see Sylar heal THAT!

    >Or maybe he’d already acquired the shapeshifting power?

    Let’s hope not as it would mean the [drool] Mystique clone would be gone either way.

  31. Such a great episode! This is definitly one that I’m going to have to watch again and again. From beginning to end, it was all really shocking. The characters had changed so much and it so cool seeing more of future Hiro and seeing future Milo and future “Nathan” for the first time. Also liked seeing future Claire and future HRG man.

    I was extremly suprised by the Slyar/Nathan revealation, but it completly made sense. No wonder he was so evil and so intent on killing the other Heroes. WHEW.

    The end was really exciting too. I liked what we saw of the Peter/Sylar showdown and Mohander redeeming himself was cool too.

    Oh and the previews for upcoming episodes looked awesome. As great an episode as this was, I doubt we’ve seen the very best of Heroes yet! CAN’T WAIT!!!

    DF2506

  32. If Sylar was threatening Parkman’s family in any way, it’d be well within character.

    Bennet did pass information on to Parkman about his family and told him that he “did right by them”. I think it was implied that his family went into hiding, but maybe Parkman felt that as long as he cooperated with the government, they’d leave them alone.

    What, no mention of the WATCHMENesque plot as revealed in the previous episode? (Linderman and Ozymandias are quite comparable too!) I just found it interesting given that Tim Kring has said in the past that he wasn’t a comic book reader. I suppose it proves the theory of ideaspace, heh.

    Well, Jeph Loeb is one of the producers of the show and I doubt anyone would believe him if he said he’d never read the Watchmen. It looks like, though, that Linderman’s plan to unite the world in tragedy is destined to fail, since from the glimpse we got, people are more divided than ever.

  33. Well, Jeph Loeb is one of the producers of the show and I doubt anyone would believe him if he said he’d never read the Watchmen. It looks like, though, that Linderman’s plan to unite the world in tragedy is destined to fail, since from the glimpse we got, people are more divided than ever.

    Yes. Tim Kring is not a comic book fan, but several of the staff writers are. The Watchmen influences were admited in the weekly interview for Comic Book Resources.

  34. “Yes. Tim Kring is not a comic book fan, but several of the staff writers are. The Watchmen influences were admited in the weekly interview for Comic Book Resources.”

    Meanwhile Watchmen admitted to its own debt to the Outer Limits episode, “The Architects of Fear.” A plot summary, courtesy of Wikipedia:

    “Although no specific era is indicated within the story, the plot revolves around a Cold War setting in which a nuclear holocaust appears to be imminent. In an attempt to stave off a confrontation between military superpowers through uniting the world against a common enemy, a group of scientists decide to physically transform one of their own members into an alien being and stage a fake invasion of Earth.”

    Ain’t nothing new under the sun (including that sentence.)

    PAD

  35. In Peter’s vision, weren’t both Isaac and Simone there in New York just as he starts to go nuclear? If that’s not accurate, how do we know the part about Peter blowing up is?

    And about Sylar’s potential healing ability (i.e. Claire’s power), didn’t Parkman (or someone) shoot him several times in an early episode just to have him stand back up and get away?

  36. William – I don’t remember seeing any blood. They may have shot AT him and missed. Shot him, but non-fatally. Shot AT him but his telekinetic force field stopped the rounds from reaching him.

    And that’s just off the top of my head while reading your comment. So he need not have Cheerverine’s healing power to have pulled it off.

    Or, oh-oh … just occured to me. Maybe Peter was ‘dead’ just long enough after falling in Dallas (or wherever the stadium was) for Sylar to grab the healing ability through him? 😉

  37. In Peter’s vision, weren’t both Isaac and Simone there in New York just as he starts to go nuclear?

    Parkman was also shown in uniform, even though he’s now under suspension. I’m not sure how much of that vision was colored by Peter’s view of the world at that time.

    On the other hand, maybe Peter or Hiro goes back in time and saves Simone and Isaac.

  38. It looked to me as if Isaac produced two different versions of the same page, and the second page was what Hiro gave ando when he died

  39. Well, word on the street (and wikipedia) is that Simone was super-powered and her power may enable her to return (it is comfirmed she’ll be filmed again, but that could be a flashback) A rumor further off suggests we might see her father again.

    The creators have suggested that their is a strong family connection among the heroes, that they marry each other and have lil hero babies. (Which raises interesting possibilities for Matt and Nathan’s wives.) In fact, that Sylar only took Molly’s dad’s brain might have been his mistake, as we was only going off a list. Everyone else who’s shacked up with a Hero was one themselves. (Any bets on Sylar’s mother?)

    The familial factor sounds like it will play a large part of next season, subtitled “Generations”

    As for the ealier question of “Pre- or post-bomb?” for Sylar’s replacement: It was definately post-bomb: “You’re brother had betrayed his kind long before I ever took his place.” I mean the ‘normal’ timeline is only like a week before the election and the bomb’s the very next day.

  40. I wonder if that taking of brains is really necessary (in which case my comment about Sylar and Peter at the stadium would be moot) or whether it’s something he does just because he’s a sadistic so-and-such?

  41. This was the first episode of “Heroes” I caught and I thank PAD for getting me interested in it.

    Firstly, Future Hiro’s entire plan hinged on “saving the cheeleader, saving the world,” on the assumption that saving Claire from Sylar would prevent Sylar from getting her power, and allow Hiro to kill him before he detonated.

    Unfortunately, even in this future timeline, Sylar did NOT kill Claire or take her power…she was alive and well, hidden away in Texas (well, until the end of the episode). Not only that, but all the evidence we as viewers have indicates that it’s Peter, not Sylar, who destroys New York.

    Add to that the fact that Future Mohinder remembers Future Hiro’s visit to Peter on that subway, and I can only conclude that in this future timeline Hiro’s plan failed miserably, and is destined to do so again.

    I was thinking the same things. I didn’t read to the bottom of the thread because I was too eager to add this comment, so I don’t know if somebody else has said what I’m about to say, but here it is regardless:

    Even if they don’t prevent the disaster caused by Peter, if they can get Sylar out of the picture then the future will be changed. Sylar being dead means he doesn’t get to replace Nathan, he doesn’t get to become President. Part of what makes this future so bad is how the government has turned out, so if Sylar is kept out of the Oval Office then things are bound to turn out better, if not perfectly.

  42. It was definately post-bomb: “You’re brother had betrayed his kind long before I ever took his place.”

    Peter didn’t believe him, though. I know I’m unfamiliar with the characters, but could Sylar be lying about that?

  43. The creators have suggested that their is a strong family connection among the heroes, that they marry each other and have lil hero babies.

    I think that’s been clear from day one. You have the Petrelli clan: Nathan, Peter, Claire, and Claire’s biological mother. And then we have D. L., Niki/Jessica, and Micah. It’s been implied that Matthew’s unborn son is also a hero, so that also raises possibilities for Nathan’s two sons as well as Hiro’s father and sister and Mother Petrelli.

    Time will tell, I guess.

  44. I wonder about Papa Petrelli too, Ever since those webcomics (with his connections to Linderman) I’m less inclined to believe in either the heart attack OR suicide explanation of his death. If he’s even dead at all…

  45. The creators have suggested that their is a strong family connection among the heroes, that they marry each other and have lil hero babies. . . . Everyone else who’s shacked up with a Hero was one themselves. (Any bets on Sylar’s mother?)

    I was wondering that myself. My two predictions for next week are that Sylar’s mom is a Hero herself and that she is the one who inculcated into Sylar the idea that he’s “special”.

    Which leads to the obvious question: What will Sylar do if his mom has a power?

  46. Or, oh-oh … just occured to me. Maybe Peter was ‘dead’ just long enough after falling in Dallas (or wherever the stadium was) for Sylar to grab the healing ability through him? 😉

    The series has been (thankfully) vague about the actual mechanics of how Sylar steals powers from other heroes, but it’s strongly implied that he needs to remove their brains to take them. How he uses those brains to graft their powers onto his DNA…I don’t want to think about. Since Peter still has his brain (or as much a one as he ever had), I think we can assume that Sylar didn’t get anything from him. Of course, if he had taken Peter’s brain, he wouldn’t have needed to continue being a seriel killer to expand his abilities. He could just take on any power from meeting someone…not that I think that he’d stop the killing if he had Peter’s power. I think that Sylar is a classic seriel killer and that the pleasure he gets from repeating his power/brain-taking ritual is too great for him to give up. He might rationalize it by saying that there being someone with the same powers made him less “special,” or might not even bother but I find it hard to believe that he’d stop. I’m actually surprised that he wanted to exterminate the remaining Specials. There his chosen victim-type. He’d never get his kicks from de-braining a normal person.

  47. I meant to write “THEY’RE his chose victim-type.

    I hate it when I make that stupid typo. IT’S/its just way TOO/to/two annoying.

  48. I was watching this with friends and commented how it would be a cool twist if Sylar had gained shape-changing abilities and was pretending to be… I was so close here… Peter! He had been scarred at some point and his abilities can’t repair that, thus the scar on Mr. Indestructible. I had this all laid out and five minutes later we all screamed in laughter at the same time with the Nathan/Sylar reveal! It was so perfectly hilarious!

    And things seem to be running exactly as the future shows they do. People think Claire is dead, and Hiro had to go back to stop it, but that’s exactly what happened, and Claire has been alive in this continuity as well!

    So far, the only, ONLY thing Hiro has managed to change about the past at all (that I can remember, admittedly, so feel free to dispute this) is the photo of the waitress on her Birthday. That’s it.

    Fantastic show, amazing cast, excellant writers.

    Denis.

  49. One more thing about Molly. She was mentioned in this episode. Future Hiro asks “people he brought to him… DL, Candice, Molly Walker.” So, in the future Molly was quite powerful and we might see next episode just what her power is.

    Neil

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