Heroes: Landslide

I thought it was good overall. I was annoyed by one part. Hiro's dad training him. One day (maybe a night) and Hiro is now ready to kill Sylar. I thought it was really corny. Everything else played out really well.

I thought they moved through that pretty fast, but there is nothing to say that Hiro didn't have some training in the is aspect already. Also, since we have no idea what his father's power is, its not inconceivable that they somehow both moved through time or that Mr. Nakamura didn't somehow transfer his knowledge over to his son. This might still be explained.

Or it could be the same as in Empire Strikes Back where Luke seems to learn all he needs to know about being a Jedi in a matter of weeks.

Another Awesome Episode! I think we all just have suspend our disbelief a little more with the whole training experience. I think of it as Neo and Morpheus in the training program in the Matrix. And speaking of the Matrix, does anyone else think that Sylar reminds them a little of Mr.Smith, especially towards the end wearing all black. He was very bad ass super-villian looking.
We all know Bennett won`t kill that girl but he has done some bad stuff to save his family, so I don`t know. I do hope Mohinder doesn`t end up shooting him. I like Bennett as a character.
We also got a little clue into why Candice is helping Linderman. I bet that is not the way she really looks. I bet its an illusion that she always has for everyone. I guarantee she is like orca fat. People used to make fun of her and then she got her power, so now she`s getting back at them.
And I don`t want to say I was right, but I was right about Micah and rigging the election. It just made more sense.
I also wonder if Linderman is truly dead. We know that he can heal things. He healed Nathan`s wife. Maybe he can regenerate himself like Claire.
I can`t wait until next week. I want to see Peter and Sylar go at it.
I wasn`t sure about George Takei as Hiro`s father but he is great. I hope he makes regular appearances during the course of the series.

I thought Ando mentioned in an earlier episode that Hiro had studied Bushido. So he might have already had many of the skills he needs. Dad just gave him some refinement and an understanding of what he must do.

I had assumed that they would show that Hiro froze time and unfroze his father. That way the two of them could have been training for years. But then they came out and Ando had purchased a sword and left, meaning he was obviously unfrozen. Of course, the time freeze still could have occurred. Maybe Ando bought the sword and left right away, while Hiro and his father were just talking. Then Hiro froze time and trained.

Candice pretty much admitted twice that she doesn't really look like Missy Peregrym, once when she was snacking and then when she took Micah voting.

Is Ando Hiro's "own heart"?

Yeah Jetpack, you`re right, but I think he was talking to Hiro about future Hiro. I could be wrong.

Well, I don`t know if he has to necessarily sacrifice Ando, but he has to be willing to sacrifice certain things when it comes down to it.

Wow, Larkcall, that would really put a fantastic twist on Hiro's character. What if by some means Sylar tricks Hiro into killing Ando. It's just the kind of twist we should expect from this show.

I agree that Hiro's training seemed rather fast, but we must consider Hiro's own powers to suspend time, and that his father has an as yet unknown ability--they may very well have been training for weeks or months.

As far as Hiro "cutting out his heart", I believe that this means that in order to muster the strength of will to kill Sylar, he must allow fate to sacrifice his best friend, Ando.

There are so many things to talk about on this series, but first Hiro's training. It seemed to me the time that went by in the real world was perhaps an hour or so, but it just made sense that Hiro stopped time during part of this or slowed it or even went back after his training was done. It was certainly not the first time that they've been lazy about showing every detail of how Hiro did something, so I don't seriously worry about this. I just say hmmm and chalk it up to making the episode flow better for our better enjoyment. I'm sorry if this seeming inconsistency pulls others out of the story. Second, I think Lindeman has got to be dead since his brain was removed. It must be blatantly obvious by now that the powers are controlled by the brain, so unless Lindeman can reconstitute himself around his brain I can't see him surviving that. I don't see his power working like Claire's anyway. I think he could have healed DL though. Speaking of DL he should be able to let the bullet pass out of him, but that won't stop the bleeding or any internal damage done. And now what exactly is Nikki's power anyway. I think it's clear what Jessica's power is, but perhaps as DL dies she can take in his essence and then switch to his personality along with his powers as she seemingly did with Jessica when she died. We didn't see DL or Lindeman in the future so one would think they don't make it through all of this anyway. We also didn't see Molly, so will Bennett kill her as he stops at nothing to protect Claire. That would certainly would divide his alliance with Matt or does he take Molly and use her for his own underground or something else. Now what is going to happen with Candace, Micah and Nathan. It seems that one way or another Sylar will come after or encounter each of them. Also I think it's pretty obvious that Ando is Hiro's heart. It was wonderful seeing George Takei doing this in his roll. This elevates him close to the level of Sean Connery or Harrison Ford. I fully expect to see him next playing the emperor of Japan and Sylar has become the Sephiroth/Dr Doom/Joker of this show. Can you really kill him off permanently, but how else do you stop someone like this short of killing him? Is there a way to take away his powers? Hmmm, maybe, but it involves the Haitian taking away his memories. It seems to me Sylar's powers are dependent on his memory of what all these individual's brains looked like and then adapting his brain to match.