Well waddaya know, the Heroes review is up finally. Why did Prison Break review go up before this is beyond me though. Anyway, first thing's first, the new guy you are referring to is KNOX. That dude is probably gonna end up being Micah's uncle or Monica's man back in New Orleans. Don't agree with the C score since I thought this was probably the best episode this season so far, but the season has been weak so I'd give it a B. The future scenes are played out, they've done it every season so far if I'm not mistaken. Don't understand what's the point of showing them if they never come to be at the end. They just wasting our time. Heroes should let one of those futures come to be and then pick up the series from there. Instead of just averting the future come the season finale. That would help revitalize the series, gives the writers a chance to get rid and add new heroes. I wrote this in some other threads but I'll bring it here where it belongs. Someone explain to me how Peter Petrilli's power work. Everyone seems to have different theories on his powers. This leads to something I had mentioned before also, if people have different theories how Peter's power work, a character we have seen since the beginning, then the writers are doing a good job. If someone knows how it works let me know please. I think he simply needs to walk past someone with powers and he'll get their power. I ask cause I don't understand why he would need Sylar to give him his ability instead of just absorbing it by standing next to him. Another thing, how does the healing ability work? Future Peter is killed cause the Haitian is there, but then Present Peter knocks the Haitian out. Shouldn't the minute he's knocked out, Future Peter's ability would kick in and save him. Sort of like when Claire was impaled by the stick, once removed she was alive again or when Daphne got superspeed back cause Ando knocked the Haitian out? If being around the Haitian means you can die then why do the writers say Claire, Adam and Sylar can't die. They had mentioned decapitation could kill an immortal but wouldn't exploding in a nuclear fashion decapitate you? Peter survived this. Why doesn't Peter stop time when he's at Sylar's house being attacked? Seems to me a guy from the future who has been using his powers forever should know what power he has and what to use in certain situations. Is Future Peter retarded? Does he not gain any wisdom over the years? WTF!!!? I'm gonna have to bring the Prison Break approach where I just watch no questions asked about all the crazy shit that is going on.

I think Peter has to see a power being used before he can absorb it, but I was wondering the same thing this week when he had Sylar show him how to use his power. I'm pretty sure Pete's already seen it, but since Sylar's power is more than just throwing lightning or whatever Peter may need a little more info. I don't think Peter "survived" the blast at Sylar's house. I think he jumped back to his time just before the explosion, off-camera. I too was wondering why Future Peter died from the gunshots. I mean none of them hit him in the back of the head. I forgot about the Haitian being there, but even so, what his the limitation on his power distance-wise? As soon as he left the building FP should have just woken up. Hanso, I'm a little confused by your last question though. It wasn't Future Peter who was at Sylar's house during the attack, it was our stupid present day Pete. That said he probably could have stopped time, but I don't think it would have done any good. He probably didn't stop time b/c he knew that the only way to stop that from happening is in the past in his own time. Though, that does give present day Peter a little too much credit. As we all know, he never uses reason and logical thought in life threatening situations.

You're right redhairs, I got my Peters mixed up. I was talking about Present Peter not using his time stop ability at Sylar's house. He's had it since Season 1 but apparently doesn't always remember he has it.<BR itxtvisited="1" /><BR itxtvisited="1" />The nuclear blast I was referring to was the one back at the end of season 1. Peter did blow up in the sky didn't he?<BR itxtvisited="1" /><BR itxtvisited="1" />I was a bit confused during this ep cause I didn't know what was actually Peter's storyline and what was what Parkman was seeing on his future vision. I figure everything was Parkman's vision but now that Peter is back in the present he can change all that Parkman saw. By the way, what music do you have to listen to see the future? Is it a combination of drugs and music? I want to know what that African dude is listening to. I think it might be some Paris Hilton music that's driving him insane and he rather think about the future that to stay in the present hearing that shit.<BR itxtvisited="1" /><BR itxtvisited="1" />What I found interesting this episode was that Angela tells Hiro to unearth Adam even though when she has a future vision of a bunch of characters looking evil, Adam is in it.<BR itxtvisited="1" /><BR itxtvisited="1" />Also, I have a problem with this "hunger" the Sylar ability now appears to have. I don't remember it being brought up in prior seasons. I'm gonna have to rewatch season 1 to see, cause my memory is failing me. It feels like something they added this season to make Sylar more likeable and gave him a purpose to his madness. "He's not really bad, his ability makes him that way. Like him please, he's our antihero". I liked it better when he was just apeshit and was killing to become more powerful.

What the heck is with all the heroes hating this season? I think it's been pretty solid so far. This season there's no thread that's really annoying (as opposed to the Wonder Twins of last season and any thread involving Nikki). Hanso, with regards to Peter not stopping time at Sylar's house I've asked that same question many times in many different scenes. So far, the time powers are the only power I have to apply prison break "ask no questions" logic to. Yes, Peter should have stopped time in that fight. Future Peter should have also stopped himself from causing the butterfly effect. In Hiro's first scene this season, he's sitting at his father's desk practicing jumping around in the same half hour on a clock. Wouldn't duplicate copies of himself be in the same place? Thankfully, they gave Hiro motivation to not always be messing with the past to solve problems, but Present Peter never gained that motivation (and Future Peter was given a flimsy reason at best. The Immortal power is getting close to the first rule of prison break, but it's not quite there yet. Either Future Peter got hit in the heart and ceased living while the Haitian was present (in which case his powers would be unable to reactivate him) or the bullet is in him somewhere blocking his powers from healing him to the point of reawakening (similar to how Claire had the shard in her head that one time) and he's still technically alive. The big problem I now recall is a future episode from the first season in which Future Sylar had replaced Future Nathan as president and he killed Claire to take her powers. Why didn't future Sylar make the realization that she was unkillable then? Shouldn't that have caused a turning point in him?

I think that episode was basically a dream episode. I don't think any of that happened yet. I'm pretty sure it was all Parkman's vision, all of it. And my view on why Peter doesn't always use the power that he could have used when something goes wrong is this: Think about it like a football game; a quarterback can throw the ball forty yards or so and probably have made something happen but there's alot of pressure and maybe he doesn't think of doing that at the time. He just stumbles, freezes up. That's just the basics of why I can see him flubbing up on something like that. And maybe the reason Peter can die in the future isn't given to us yet. Because I figure they must have a way if they continue trying to kill him instead of just trying to capture him; they know he can't die especially Claire. Or maybe if his ant-dying power is cancelled out by the Haitian and he's killed it doesn't come back because, well, he's killed while it was gone. So, dead is dead. That's my opinion basically. I could get all technical about how I really feel but I don't feel like it. That's the gist.

If all of last episode was a dream episode then it means Present Peter doesn't have the "hunger". Amish - I see what you are saying with Hiro's power. Also, why doesn't he just go back in time and tell his past self not to open the safe? Or tell his past self that once openened a chic with superspeed is gonna take it so set a trap somewhere, etc.? In season 1 Future Hiro is going back in time to drop hints and help, "save the cheerleader save the world". Season 3 Hiro can't do that? I realize in Season 2 he learned what messing with time could do but damn, the brother won't even help himself out? I hope at some point during the season they address what happened when Future Peter died. As of right now, I think like you guys. Due to the Haitian's presence, Future Peter did't have his healing ability so he died. But if that's the case then they gotta stop with all the Claire can't die bullshit, cause she can if the Haitian is there when they are gonna kill her.

Eh, the episode was ok. I'd give it a B-. Future Peter dying was confusing. I remember hearing Claire saying something about the "back of the brain" spot which is still fatal during the episode; but yeah, he wasn't hit there, was he?? Maybe he was, and we just missed it? But yeah, Tracy is a lot more tolerable then Nikki, thankfully. Anyway, back to Peter. His powers have always confused me as well, and I also posted my thoughts about this on past threads. But with this episode, it looked pretty accurate to what Redhairs is saying; that sometimes he has to focus and concentrate to achieve the powers, rather then just be near them. That's not really consistent considering that he's able to walk through wall's despite the fact that the only time he was near Nikki's Husband/Micah's father, he was shot and dying. But ah well; Peter to me is still one big inconsistent mess. I still don't think this episode or the season has been that bad though.

Oh yeah, and I'm sure there will now be the theory that Sylar's son Noah, is Noah Bennett. And eventually Peter, or Hiro, etc. Will take him to the past, where he'll grow up and become the present day HRG. Technically that would make him Claire's Cousin while being her adoptive Father at the same time :-D. Pretty outlandish, and silly; but I can see some people thinking that to really be the case.

Thankfully everyone here sees these episodes the way I saw them: The writers of this show just can't keep up with their own ideas. We, the viewers, consider their top hero Peter "Stupid", "dumb", "moron" etc., yet there is nothing in the story suggesting he has a low I.Q. or bad education. We think he's stupid because never seems to choose the correct power. And now the stupidity may be rubbing off on Sylar. Why wasn't the Fear guy telegrabbed like he was in the bank? It was just last week! You put Peter and Sylar in the same room working together...and THEY get beat up and become victims? This is the kind of amateur writing that makes a producer issue public apologies. Your audience is out-thinking you, and boo'ing in the process.

It seems that the Haitian's power should be at the top of either Sylar or Peter's "acquire" list. That way no other Hero would be an effective deterrent when confronting either guy at close range. It would be interesting, though, if in gaining the Haitian's ability, its addition to their arsenal operates internally for them as it does outwardly when the Haitian is in the vicinity of other Heroes and subdues everything else they can do.