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?

Is it possible that he killed Claude off-screen and can now turn invisible?

I refuse to believe that because I want Claude back on my tv!

I deny that theory, because CLAUDE must be alive. Sylar's always had the ability to sort of pop up or escape. Back when Matt and Audrey were chasing him, for example.

I kind of want to watch the whole season over again.

Sylar's powers were pretty off in the season finale. That's what kind of made it so-so for me.

First, I do believe it should have been 2 hours. Second, are you telling me that someone as skilled as he has been - couldn't have been able to keep his eye on Hiro AND Ando at the same time? That was really weak writing.

I have to agree with comments I've read elsewhere: the fight at the Plaza really needed to have a lot more intensity. I think this ep was suffering from the BSG disease whereby they spent all their $$ on "Five Years Later" and did what they could to wrap up the season.

Perhaps somewhere offscreen, Sylar killed somebody with superspeed?

there was that unexplained fresh blood smear on the floor of Isaac's studio

Isaac had only been killed a day or two ago, though. How fast would it take a large puddle of blood to dry?

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.

YAY!

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.

Hopefully it was just a big lunch, and it used up the contents of his stomach. With that equation, a little over a pound (1.01) would yield a 10 megaton explosion.

Whee.

Gamma radiation is cosmic rays. Atomic bombs release neutron radiation.

However, the Heroes world is clearly one step to the left of Spiderman 2, in which you can save New York from an atomic bomb by dropping the bomb in the East River, so presumably Heroes-world me isn't dying of radiation sickness even as this-world me types.

Heroes science is not our science. That is why a geneticist does not recognize the building blocks of DNA but makes a perfectly good EMT.