Heroes.

Heroes!!!

Oh, Peter, why you put shirt on? WHY?!

The amnesia is actually a really good call on the writer's parts, because while Peter still possesses this repetoire of powers, he doesn't know it, which makes the almost ineffectual. He's back to reflexivity (it's a word!) with his powers, and not such a super badass. Good way to reset him so he doesn't wipe out the new Big Bad by ep three. He'll have to relearn how to summon, control and finetune his powers.

I wonder, if the (sick) Haitian wiped Peter's memory, why? Momma Petrelli's orders? If not the Haitian, then... being blowed up? Is he Jason Bourne/Wolverine with amnesia being a way of protecting himself from something psychologically traumatic and thereby allowing his body/mind to heal?

I think West did see Claire cut her toe off. I think the window he was looking through was right in front of her, or near enough to get a frontal view of her piggies.

also, did anyone else notice the new titlecard? It's not (just) the planet rotating and being eclipsed/turning into an eclipse anymore. It then morphs into what looks like perhaps the beginnings of a supernova or some other catastrophic cosmic event.

It also looks a helluva lot like an eye.

I see the moon and the moon sees me... Season 2 BOOGEYMAN!

then she was able to basically close her mind off to Matt so that he couldn't read her at all

I wonder if she's a projective telepath, rather than receptive like Matt? It could be why it sounded almost like she was shouting at him. Also, a way to block someone else from peeking into her brain.

I wonder if a regular person could do that, just knowing.

I'm fairly confident that if I knew someone was reading my mind, I could make myself think of things sufficiently unpleasant or shocking to remove their desire to do so. A lifetime of watching horror movies could come in handy. Along with certain experiences at Disneyworld.

Finally, a use for goatse.

I'm fairly confident that if I knew someone was reading my mind, I could make myself think of things sufficiently unpleasant or shocking to remove their desire to do so

That would work if they're only picking up surface thoughts, like Matt seems to do. I don't know how the mind works, but I would imagine that with skill, Matt could push past the active thoughts and actually read information in the long-term memory, etc. Unless his power is really just hearing active, here-and-now thoughts, and not any sort of stored memory, short or long term.

As a follow-up to Matt and aurelia's (commed) posts, I offer this.

(edited to correct link)

That would work if they're only picking up surface thoughts, like Matt seems to do. I don't know how the mind works, but I would imagine that with skill, Matt could push past the active thoughts and actually read information in the long-term memory, etc. Unless his power is really just hearing active, here-and-now thoughts, and not any sort of stored memory, short or long term.

This is what I was thinking. I'm sure that a normal person could just start thinking about nonsense or Carrot Top or whatever that would not be the most pleasant thing to pick up, but that's not actually stopping someone from being able to do it. I mean, when we saw Matt with the Haitian, he couldn't read him at all ... no nonsense, no nothing. And I kinda felt like they were hinting that was what Ma Petrelli did, too. You know, after she screamed at him with her giant, evil brain. It looked like Matt was trying to concentrate and pick up more thoughts but he couldn't.

Of course, I'm basing this all off of watching two seconds of a scene, so it's most likely total bs (at least as far as Ma Petrelli is concerned). Still I wonder if an average, non-powered person, once made aware that a mind reader was snooping around in their head could just deny access? And this is the longest I've ever thought about something related to Matt Parkman on this show. The schmoopiness of 3M is throwing me all out of whack.

George Takei gets an asteroid named after him.

3M = Molly and her two Daddies?