Is it just me, or do the writers have absolutely no clue WTF they're doing with Sylar?

It's certainly not just you. I'm glad they've at last come to the conclusion that Sylar is more fun when he's evil and killing people.

And what's up with HRG not putting a clip into Sylar's brain just to be sure after cutting his throat? He knows better than that.

Well, it was the eclipse. He didn't really consider that Sylar might get his powers back or that he could get them back after he actually died, which makes no sense, but I guess death works differently in Heroes-land.

Eclipses work differently in Heroes land. Me and a friend do a Heroes podcast after we watch each episode, and talked about a lot of the above. I don't even understand what the point of having the eclipse was, really.

Sylar is the new season 4 Spike.

Sylar was only mostly dead.

Sylar is the new season 4 Spike.

So does that make Elle Buffy or Harmony?

Sylar was only mostly dead.

He was pining for the fjords.

Bah - did not like everyone's powers coming back after the eclipse. C'mon, show - TWO MAJOR CHARACTERS DEAD! Two major white characters, no less! For a split second there before the sun came out, I was totally hooked again. Oh well.

Eclipses work differently in Heroes land.

Just because they last a week and are global? Picky picky picky.

Jessica,

not for a moment did I even consider that Sylar and Claire were dead dead.

It did not even cross my mind.

Bryan Fuller closer to being back on Heroes.

I also assumed that powers would be coming back when the longest Eclipse in the history of eclipses was over. (Which is why HRG should have beheaded Sylar.)

Come on, y'all, there is obviously a Hero we haven't met yet whose power is to freeze the relative positions of the sun, moon, and earth with no ill effects but who mostly cannot use said power because s/he hangs out with another Unknown Hero whose power is to cancel out Unknown Hero #1's power. Except during eclipses, of course.