From EW:

Fuller told EW.com that he's open to a comeback. "I am exclusive to Daisies through the delivery of the 13th episode of our 13-episode order, which will be mid-January," says Fuller. "If Daisies isn't picked up by then, I will definitely be going back to play with my friends at Heroes."

Woah, Blue Fire Guy and Claire's bio-mom are siblings?!

I have to say, I'm enjoying how they're taking all these black characters and painting them in shades of grey, if not white (and Papa Bennet was fuck all black back when). I like it, because it makes them people, with choices. And reasons. And because Sylar totally needed reconciliation between his "it's a hunger!" and "kill kill kill with no remorse!".

I don't know if all the new character spins fit, but definitely food for thought.

The character I had the biggest issue with in the flashback was Elle. She was actually a caring, functional human-being, which is drastically at odds with the Elle we were introduced to in Season 2 and I'm not sure how exactly she gets from Flashback!Elle to Season 2 Elle.

So sad that the African seer is dead. Also not thrilled that Hiro is looking to lose his powers too (No way they're going to kill him.) At the rate of theft, I'm wondering if there's going to be some handwavium thing that gets everyone's powers back out of Mr. Petrelli and back into the original characters.

At the rate of theft, I'm wondering if there's going to be some handwavium thing that gets everyone's powers back out of Mr. Petrelli and back into the original characters.

Of course there is. It was obvious there was going to be from the moment he took Peter's.

I don't know if all the new character spins fit, but definitely food for thought.

I think they work pretty well, although I agree there's obviously more to Elle's story. The Sylar bridge makes a bit of sense (and I like the bridge to the heretofore kinda unexplained "I'm sorry" written ad infinitum in blood all over Sylar's walls in the first season, when really, we never saw a trace of that remorse again.

And I have to say the Linderman revision worked well, too. There were some cracks in the original story: Linderman wanted to kill Nathan! No ... wait ... Linderman wants him to be president! Finding out that there was another angle smooths things over a bit.

Nice to see Eric Robets again (and sort-of hear about Claude being nearby, invisible.) His releasing Merideth is a bit at odds with his being down on HRG for covering up Claire's powers, but eh. I can live with it. People are often harder on others for flaws they see in themselves.

On the whole, much, much improved. Hope the staff shakeups get things moving again, and don't just end up derailing them, because I'm seeing hope again for this show.

It was obvious there was going to be from the moment he took Peter's.

I had brief hopes that he just absorbed all of Peter's mimicked powers and set his inventory back to 0, but no way in hell does Hiro lose his powers permanently.

On the whole, much, much improved.

I agree.

Hope the staff shakeups get things moving again, and don't just end up derailing them, because I'm seeing hope again for this show.

Thing is, according to EW, Loeb and Alexander's reign extends all the way to episode 17 of this season. So maybe they were just really bad at starting the season, and they hit their groove after a few episodes.

IMO, I think they should take Hiro's powers. It isn't like he uses them a whole lot anyway.

Of course Hiro gets his powers back -- we saw in the future that he kills Ando, right?

The more interesting question is how African Seer Guy (who never had a name that I can remember) got jumped by Mr. Petrelli, who made it to Africa in record time, considering it was JUST as Hiro learned enough to need to tell somebody....

ZOMG THE STUPID IT BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNS.

Did any of the writers think to rewatch S1 before they wrote this? Or at least skim the TWOP recaps, maybe?

All in all, that was a pretty long walk to get to "Hiro realizes Papa Petrelli's alive just in time to get brainsucked."