Big bad?

Ricardo Montalban.

Victor for the win.

Victor for the win.

Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the veal.

Maybe the black tears thing is the black oil from X-Files? makes about as much sense ....

Seriously, she's got the Evil Eye, I tell you! That's why the nice seer lady said she was cursed.

That's funny! My wife and I have been joking about Mulder & Scully taking down the Wonder Twins since last week.

I suspect that Kensei's powers might make him immune to infectious diseases of any sort. And Claire's as well.

This is interesting, Matt, because I've wondered if Claire's power, and I guess Kensei's now, means that they can never get sick. I mean, can they not even catch a cold? Never get cancer, say? Or is it just that they're kinda . . . unbreakable?

Now I'm having weird images of a wrinkly, 99 year old, death proof Claire just snipping off her fingers and watching them grow back all young and wrinkle free. Eeewww.

Claire has mentioned never getting sick in passing (sort of, "well, you know, if I ever had a cold") -- it's not as dramatic as growing new appendages, but being illness-proof is definitely in the mix. Of course, we don't know if the anti-powers virus works by the same rules as our normal mundane viri.

ETA: Also, ewww. Also also, I'll see your 99-year-old Claire and raise you (Who S3 spoils) Canary Claire à la Doctor-in-a-Birdcage.

Things that annoyed me about this episode:

1. Okay, the supertwins are boring. It's just the same freaking story with them each week. La, la, oops, she killed someone, he un-killed them. Wonder what they'll do next week? 2. D.L. is really dead? Aw, man. Thumbs down. 3. Wow, Candace, way to be massively stupid. You know, also, I liked the mention last season that she's really overweight, but to finally see her real body only when she's lying facedown, sprawled and bloody on the floor, just did not work for me. It bothered me that we couldn't see her face, and it bothered me that seeing her overweight body felt like it was supposed to be a final indignity. Bleh. 4. Okay, the swordsman's daughter (name?) isn't *actually* going to fall for Whitey McKensei over Hiro, is she? Although I agree it seems way too short, in Hiro's timeline, for him to have gotten over Charlie so thoroughly already.

Things that rocked about this episode:

1. Ooh, SHOWDOWN between Claire and Mr. Bennet! I can't wait to see how all that falls out between them. They're probably my favorite thing about the show right now. 2. Molly and her two daddies still make me happy, but I can't help wishing the show, for all it strives for diversity in the cast and characters, would just go ahead and actually make one of the characters gay. Is that really so much to ask? 3. Was that a glimpse of Dark!Peter we just saw? I'd be down with that. I liked the shot of his new tattoo becoming the Godsend symbol, and then fading.

Wild speculation:

Niki said to Micah that he could see D.L. anytime he wanted, even though he's dead. Maybe D.L. can inhabit Niki's body too, just as Jessica did/does?? Although I guess that doesn't square with Niki going to see the Company to be cured.

Which is why I say they find some dude who looks like Bennet, put the glasses on him, and then shoot him in the face. Done!

Ha!

I'm wanting more Niki, Micah, Mama Petrelli, and Hiro...and the Hatian. But less Claire's annoying stalker, and the Boring Twins. And shirtless Peter is pretty for a sec, but the storyline is just painful.

I mean, can they not even catch a cold? Never get cancer, say? Or is it just that they're kinda . . . unbreakable?

Heh. I wrote a fic once about Buffy's superquick healing powers meaning she got cancer at a young age, once...:) All that cell replication, bound to go bad somewhere.

Claire got really sick as a baby (this is from Season 1), but then after that period of being really sick, she emerged with powers.

So I'm wondering if she was exposed to the virus and now she's fine and won't get the virus.