I'm such a sap, but the Sylar/Elle storyline makes me happy. Go team fucked up psycho! You can find happiness together!

Yeah, I was kinda dreading that, but KB and ZQ sold it.

The where-do-powers-come-from dance is getting tiresome. It's the eclipse. No, it's genetics. No, it's hormones. No, it's adrenaline. No, it's genetics and adrenaline. No, it's adrenaline and an eclipse. Yawn.

Rule No. 1 of comic-book science: Don't over-explain. Over-explaining will be the death of you. However, I do think they've earned the bit about Claire being the key to the formula, what with the extra effort they've seemingly put into watching her since Kaito first handed her over to Noah. I mean, seriously. It's evident they had no shortage of superpowered folks on hand, so an extra reason for the effort makes sense.

I was thinking the same thing! Like, doesn't Nathan have a job?

To be fair, many, many U.S. Senators forget to show up. Not as many as Congressmen, though. They're flakes.

Nathan has sooper flying speed! He can dash back to DC for a vote without anyone even knowing he was gone.

I wonder if Adam Munroe was the catalyst for the previous generation of super-powered folk, since his abilities so closely mirrored Claire's. And he is the earliest chronological appearance of such powers so far as we know.

I thought they only needed the catalyst for the artificially induced powers (Nathan and Tracy and so forth). I don't get how the eclipse fits in, though.

Well, and did they PUT the catalyst in Claire? Is she really Nathan and firechick's daughter, then? Is her power really her own? I'm confused on the timeline...if they needed a catalyst, that has to be in a human host, who was it in before, when they were putting powers in Nathan and Nikki/Jessica/etc?

I'm kind of enjoying, still, but if i try to think about it at all, it makes my brain hurt.

So, when they cut to the Seer's head, I REALLY thought that his eyes were going to open.

Me three!

I was kind of "meh" on the episode.

"Whoops, Sylar's been killing people all this time because he didn't know any better! Pay no attention to the fact that Peter could already get people's powers without killing them and he still got the ridiculous "hunger" from Sylar."

Okay, so why exactly (and how) did PP regress Hiro to 10 year's old mentally instead of just stealing his powers and/or killing him? (Aside from the fact that killing Hiro would infuriate half the audience)

So after spending maybe 8 hours with Parkman, during which he babbled constantly in a stalkery fashion about them being destined for each other, Daphne decides she's in love with him? That was ridiculously abrupt and unearned, IMO.

While I think KB and ZQ played the scene really well, I'm not completely sold on the idea. Still, I guess we have a pretty good idea of where little future!Noah came from.

Okay, so why exactly (and how) did PP regress Hiro to 10 year's old mentally instead of just stealing his powers and/or killing him? (Aside from the fact that killing Hiro would infuriate half the audience)

My thinking about that scene was that PP wasn't physically in Africa (since he hasn't stolen Hiro's powers, he can't teleport), and thus couldn't do anything but mess with his mind.

I'm assuming PP needs Hiro sidelined rather than out completely -- could be some strategy involving the catalyst thing, especially since Hiro's father hid the catalyst somewhere so it's possible that Hiro could have a link of some kind to it.

My thinking about that scene was that PP wasn't physically in Africa

Then how did he behead wossname? Ubuntu?

Okay, so why exactly (and how) did PP regress Hiro to 10 year's old mentally instead of just stealing his powers and/or killing him? (Aside from the fact that killing Hiro would infuriate half the audience)

My assumption was that Ando's interruption of the process had some weird effects.