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.

I sort of loved that. I was so happy when the password was "Ando". I found myself rooting for Sylar when he fought off the Nathan Ninjas. I was very moved by all the Heroes trussed up like terrorists. They toyed with my emotions nicely.

I've finally you tubed it: [link]

the fearless crash is the first four minutes of this clip. It's near the end of the film if you don't want to be spoiled, but man, it's still really powerful to me. And what makes it so is facing all the people who could/will die: here are their faces, here's a smidgen of their story (stranger, lover, father, son, sister, friend...) and now here's the horror, told in the most beautiful way. Heroes hit that for me tonight, even if they did decide to show the one definite casualty with his face disguised.

I also love how at the beginning Mohinder is all "lock me up and throw away my civil rights, it's the right thing to do" and then "holy shit these people are trying to lock me up and hinder (ha!) my civil rights/kidnap me!"

Peter still has stiff competition in the Stupid contest with Mohinder.

So, does nobody know that Nathan has a power? Did HRG agree to work with Nathan to protect Claire?

And I wonder if HRG had flight redirecting plans given that Claire wound up on the plane after all.

And I wonder if HRG had flight redirecting plans given that Claire wound up on the plane after all.

Did he know she did?

You're right - he didn't know she was there.

BTW, nice little Terminator moment with Mohinder. . . even if HGR was faking it.