I see Peter's super power is still stupidity.

I find the season's premise so far more intriguing than the past two or three chapters, but it still doesn't explain Nathan's motivation. Like, at all.

The whole glow thing of Peter's is new.

Remind me never to get on a plane with Greg Grunberg. And seeing as how Peter can fly, I'm not overly worried about him.

Peter's power seems to be weak right now. He only has the power of the last person he touches. I don't think He thinks he can fly right now.

does that matter though?

he didn't know he could ice over shit, and bam. he did it.

he didn't know he could ice over shit, and bam. he did it.

It might be more a fear-reaction thing. He's suddenly being bested, hits the wall, inadvertently touches it, adrenaline rushing: ice forms.

It still seems like Peter's power has morphed into "absorb one power at a time"*, and every time he absorbs a new power, he loses the old. Once he touched Nicky, um, Tracy? he lost his super-strength mojo and started getting whooped. Then he touched the hull, which iced over.

*Which I think could be quite fun as well as different. Although I have to say I had thought that Peter had lost even his empathic ability along with everything else.

Apparently he's getting them back, slowly.

So maybe others, like Hiro, are also getting them back slowly? Maybe that's how some survive the crash?

Speaking of, that really was a tremendously awesome end to the ep. I've been meaning to track down a copy of Jeff Bridges "Fearless" to see if that still stands up as the most awesomely brutal plane crash fictionalized. The parents dying in "Drive" is fairly close to that in my memory, but I also remember the music in Fearless being hauntingly beautiful, taking a frantic handful of moments and stretching them out in the most peaceful, inevitable way.

awesomely brutal plane crash

What about the crash in the beginning of Pitch Black?

It still seems like Peter's power has morphed into "absorb one power at a time"*, and every time he absorbs a new power, he loses the old. Once he touched Nicky, um, Tracy? he lost his super-strength mojo and started getting whooped. Then he touched the hull, which iced over.

Yes. I think Peter's new power involves him absorbing the power of the last person he touched (no evidence of whether or not the person touched retains their power as of yet). Which, I actually like.

The problem with Peter (and Hiro, as much as I love him) has always been he's ridiculously over-powered compared to the rest of the characters. (Sylar, too, but he gets a pass because he's a villain. And he at least has the limitation of having to kill to take their power [I don't see him empathizing with anyone ala Elle anytime soon] whereas Peter just had to have people look at him funny and he gained a new power.]

By taking away Hiro's powers and making Peter literally touchy-feely the writers have managed to eliminate that problem (and hopefully it means Peter can shed having "Epic Stupidity" as his balancing weakness.)

This also means that if for some reason the writers decide that one dose of the formula didn't get destroyed and Hiro takes it, he's probably not going to be the Master of Time and Space anymore. He'll probably have a power related to his old powers (much like Peter's forumula-granted touchy-feely power is related to his old empathy power) but not the game-breaking ability to stop time whenever he wants.

What about the crash in the beginning of Pitch Black?

ooh, don't tempt me! Loved that scene (and every inch of that movie), but Fearless is still IT for me. Rose Perez rocking, awesome freaking soundtrack... it was the mood. Pitch Black's had casualties and was very internal (as in inside the ship), but Fearless took it to another level. Some sequences found withing the archives of Lost might have something similar, but not surpassing.