I may have emitted a wee "woohoo" at that moment.

Well, that bit where the fire burns his shirt off was excellent.

This is when I knew that Elle was my homegirl.

I hope they do go back to the DL/Nikki storyline. I would like to know how/if Linderman brought them together. It might also shed some light on whether two powered people always have powered kids, which is something I was musing about earlier in the season.

Well, that bit where the fire burns his shirt off was excellent.

I thought of Galaxy Quest

I didn't realize until a recent fanvid how much Captain Kirk took his shirt off.

Micah's "Like the Fantastic Four, minus one" seems so especially poingnant given that it's now minuse another one.

You know, I have a thought on 3M. We have commented at various times that Mohinder is not the brightest bulb; "box of hair" and so on. And Matt did not seem all that bright either.

But Matt's backstory is that he blamed himself for Bob's leaving. And Matt has only recently come to realize that his father was the screwup rather than himself. (And he seems to have approaching that knowledge ever since he learned the nightmare man who had Molly trapped was his father.) Is it possible that Matt is actually a reasonably bright person, not a genius but by no means stupid? Maybe his problem has not been stupidity but self-sabotage based on self-image. If so might he start being the grounded, reasonably intelligent adult of Molly's two daddies? I would really like it if this program goes there - if only to undermine the stereotype that blue collar=stupid you so often see on the tube.

Is it possible that Matt is actually a reasonably bright person, not a genius but by no means stupid? Maybe his problem has not been stupidity but self-sabotage based on self-image.

I might be remembering this wrong but doesn't Matt have some form of dyslexia? That could certainly contribute to his belief that he's not smart and lead to the self-sabatoge. Especially if it was previously undiagnosed, which it may or may not have been but I can't remember the details.

I don't know that I want him to get all clever and capable, though. I like it that the mentalist is sort of a bumbling dimwit for a change. And since he's now the lovable moral center of the show, I worry what the evil=smarter equation would mean for his characterization.

Yes, Matt has dyslexia. It contributed to him not making detective in L.A., because he always had problems with the exam.

I do think Matt is a reasonably bright person, but I agree that I don't want him to suddenly be a genius. I like that he's just a guy, and sometimes he makes stupid decisions.

And next to Mohinder, he often looks like a freakin' savant.

I do think that Molly is the smartest, but I just love Matt & Mohinder anyway.