Isaac was oddly specific. And quite prolific.

Seth Green and Breckyn Meyer as the comic store clerks was one of the funniest cameo bits I've seen in a while. I hope that wasn't last of them. If so, what a waste, but points for the casting all the same.

Plus, I've been waiting for someone to beat the crap out of Sylar for a while.

That was very satisfying, I must say. I'm a bit ashamed to admit how equally satisfying Noah whacking the shit out of Elle was satisfying as well.

Anyone want to take bets that everybody's powers come back once the eclipse is completely over, since it seemed to be the longest eclipse in recorded history? I'm guessing right around the time Noah finally gets around to firing a shot, Sylar will be invulnerable again.

Isaac was oddly specific. And quite prolific.

And apparently the anti-John Cassady/Karl Moline in terms of meeting his schedules. He was YEARS ahead of schedule, it looks like.

I think it's going to be like that Jenny McCarthy show where test audiences liked George Hamilton so much as her deceased dad that they kept finding new tapes of him each episode so he could continue to be part of the series.

Poor Daphne!!! Now you see why she was so desperate to keep her powers. It seemed a little weird that she was so crazy, but seeing her on the crutches made you understand. It was a nice reveal.

I agree, Vortex. It made all those ominous threats make a lot more sense. And also, that's season one shit right there! Making the power correspond to the person in some way.

Sounds suspiciously like a Smallville meteor rocks thing, just not as Monkey's Paw about it.

Sounds suspiciously like a Smallville meteor rocks thing, just not as Monkey's Paw about it.

It's not a particularly new idea, though, the correspondence between powers and personality. Peter David probably explored it best on his original run on the comic book "X-Factor," when he had the team members sit down with super-shrink Leonard Sampson. The part with the perpetually testy Quicksilver was the best: "For me, the entire world is filled with people who can't work ATM machines." Still one of my favorite single issues.

One imagines, in some way, there's a level where the power manifests in a way that responds to immediate need. But, as much as they dress it up in pseudo science (and poorly, at that) it seems impossible to escape the idea that it's not purely science at work, that there's some bigger, mystical or seemingly-mystical hand at play.

And that is a view that's been espoused on the show, but always by minor characters such as The Haitian, who aren't framed for us to be taken as seriously as, say, Mohinder. (As if we're supposed ot take Mohinder seriously. Please.)

But still, there are places where the science just doesn't exist: The eclipse, the oddly-specific comic books. The show likes to hide behind its comic book science, but the then again, the show itself tends to reveal how inadequate that really is to what's happening, when sometimes it seems almost impossible that there's not some guiding hand behind it all.

I thought this episode was more entertaining than most this season. It didn't make any more sense, but it was fun.

The powerless heroes were a hoot. I loved everyone making their signature poses with no special effects. "Why are you tilting your head like that?"