It was like they'd skimmed something in research, and completely mistook it, but I couldn't decide what they'd skimmed.

It was VERY much like that. Like they'd read something and gotten some sort of GIST, but not actually understood the PRINCIPLE. I mean, I guess they were referring to the fact that a hypothesis, like you said, must be testable, which means it can either pass or fail. But that's the point. The point is not that you assume it's going to fail and GAH.

I mean, yes, if you get the answer you're looking for, do you say, "Hurrah!"? Yes, you do. And then you test it again. You're "skeptical" in the sense that you verify your results (you always have three of everything), but the way Mohinder was...GAH.

I mean, at least Eden was a voice of reason. GOD, MOHINDER. Like you said, Cindy: he's Nathan's frelling BROTHER. And you believe these powers are GENETIC.

That's the thing. Peter is Nathan's brother. If any other random dude showed up at the apartment looking for Chandra Suresh, book in hand, I could understand Mohinder's skepticism. But he'd just been chasing down Nathan, and Nathan did visibly react to him. So his skepticism was just DUMB.

Does anyone else wonder if Peter is of the same kind as Sylar?

I keep expecting Mohinder's friend to turn out to be scamming him, and working for the other side, somehow, whatever the other side is

Yup. When she left to let them talk I totally thought "And now I shall report this to my evil masters! Mwah-hah-ha!"

Okay, maybe without the laughter.

Does anyone else wonder if Peter is of the same kind as Sylar?

Yup. Only he kills them and eats their brains (or whatever) to take the powers permanently.

because, what, Hiro can't just "stop time" LOCALLY.

Why not? On Charmed (okay, admittedly not the best example, but bear with me), Piper could only stop time within the room she was in, the rest of the world went on spinning.

Wonder what Claire is running from. Sylar?

My money’s on Daddy.

Does anyone else wonder if Peter is of the same kind as Sylar?

oooh! I envision a scene like that one in Smallville with the two guys that could manipulate people by touching them (like, say, a handshake), gripping hands and trying to be stronger than the other.

Piper could only stop time within the room she was in, the rest of the world went on spinning.

Wouldn't that throw things out of order? I guess since they only ever stop time for a few seconds or so, it wouldn't affect a lot, but...still.

You young folks and your insistence on causality in your science-fiction.

Wouldn't that throw things out of order? I guess since they only ever stop time for a few seconds or so, it wouldn't affect a lot, but...still.

I don't know, but that's the way it worked. I remember in one case, they were in the kitchen of the restaurant, and they peeked out of the door and life was going on, and they had to hurry up because someone was coming.

(I have an original superhero character whose power is to slow time only in relation to himself -- from all other viewpoints he speeds up like the Flash, but from his perspective he is moving completely normally, with a normal amount of strength. But it only lasts for as long as he can concentrate hard enough to keep the power going, and the field isn't big enough to take more than one person with or a small amount of local surroundings, which means he can't, for example, drive a car. He gets around Manhattan on a skateboard....)

In today's miscellaneous science news, Radar Helps Locate Meteorite in Kansas. They make no mention of it glowing green. Lana's parents do still appear to be dead.

There's actually a really interesting book by Nicholson Baker called The Fermata, about a guy who can stop time. The power turns on and off for him until he learns how to do it. For example, for a while, he has to click his ballpoint pen to start and stop time, but that stops working, so he has to write a quadratic equation for a while.