reading that wiki has me thinking. it's possible Sylar opened up that cockroach in his cell and "saw how it worked". so can Sylar now live without a head now that he's seen how it works? *shudder*

I think that Nathan flew as far as he could tossed Peter and got away and that Peter is also good.

I need my Petrelli's.

I'm very curious about the guy who could tell that Molly was looking at him.

Also - this from the Yahoo recap made me smile:

You saved the cheerleader so we could save the world," flying congressman Nathan Petrelli told his blazing brother before sacrificing himself to hoist Peter up, up and away to safely explode somewhere among the stars.

Since that's not a brain-generated alteration of biology, chemistry, or whatever, I'm doubtful. It's roaches' bodies that can go on living.

Sylar's good enough with telekinesis I can see him keeping his own heart pumping and holding the blood in after the initial gush from Hiro withdrawing his katana. But he'd have to get patched up pronto, no way could he stay concious until natural healing got him out of the woods.

(Although, if he can heal from exploding in atmo you'd think a bullet wound wouldn't be too troublesome, so... I don't know.)

I don't know if I'm just blanking on something, but does the nuclear explosion have to destroy the vessel? Maybe it was just energy that could be dissipated.

That's the big question. We know Ted wasn't normally harmed by his own power, and he was theoretically unburned after torching the Bennett house. But what we've seen of Peter blowing up on the ground involved a nuclear-level explosion, and we have no idea if Ted himself could have survived that big an overload. Also, the energy from that explosion had to be coming from somewhere, and I'm assuming it's conversion of some of Peter's body mass into energy—which might be lethal if it's randomly diffused rather than just burning excess fat or somesuch. Do any science-y types know how much mass is used up by, say, a 1 megaton explosion?

edited to add: Ah, about 46 grams, which could either be irrelevant if taken from specific unused portions of the body, or could have serious fuck-you-up consequences if removed evenly from all the body's cells.

What surprised me when Claire was going to shoot Peter was that she was going to shoot him while he faced her. I thought that she would shoot him in that spot at the back of the head that caused her to die.

But then, maybe she "kills" Peter - he regenerates and is no longer explosive.

substitute actor was revealed to not actually be Wayne Brady

Wayne Brady? I missed those episodes of Days. (The guy who wanted to come back as Roman Brady was named Wayne something, right?)

Is Roman Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?

Wayne Brady? I missed those episodes of Days. (The guy who wanted to come back as Roman Brady was named Wayne something, right?)

Har. Wayne Northrup. I mixed up the two. I meant Roman.

When I saw Peter explode way up in the atmosphere, I thought "Oh Great, now everyone's going to die slowly of cancer."

When I saw Peter explode way up in the atmosphere, I thought "Oh Great, now everyone's going to die slowly of cancer."

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Very few gamma-rays make it through the atmosphere. The atmosphere is as thick to gamma-rays as a twelve-foot thick plate of aluminum.

And on further reflection, I think even though they wouldn't do it, and even though it would be a hit to the minority and gender ratios, I'd be OK if this was the last we saw of the Sanders/Hawkins clan.

Noooo! Okay, I'm still a little bored with Niki/Jessica, but I *love* D.L. and Micah and would hate to see them go.

The "shot in the head" solution seemed iffy to me even back when Peter first gave Claire the gun. Not a guarentee in stopping the bomb. I think Nathan was saving his daughter from having to do something horrible.

I like this idea -- and it works nicely with Claire's earlier plea to Nathan and Mama Petrelli to stop Peter from becoming a mass-murderer for his own sake.

I also have a theory that Peter needed to vent all that power. That if he got shot, he'd have to stay dead, that they couldn't (shouldn't) risk removing the bullet that would allow him to heal, because then the overload would start all over again.

This was my take on it as well.

Something I saw mentioned in LJ-land -- Sylar seemed to appear out of thin air, essentially, at Kirby Plaza, and there was that unexplained fresh blood smear on the floor of Isaac's studio when Sylar was last seen there. Is it possible that he killed Claude off-screen and can now turn invisible?