Here's an idea. Take the least interesting, least likeable characters on the show and build a whole episode around them.

Bleagh. That episode was painful. And didn't Hiro learn the lesson about not being able to change the past when he was wandering around feudal Japan for elevnty million years back in season 2? Why do we need to see this again? Gah. I frikkin hate Hiro.

Sylar did gank the psychometry from someone

Mama P fed him a girl who had that power when she was keeping him on Level 5 and making him think that he was her son. Back when they used to let her do interesting things. Good times.

The Nathan-centric parts of this episode were the least bad (though still far from good). Mama P obviously knew about Sylar having the psyhometric power, so I'm wondering what she's playing at. Was she trying to get Nathan killed? She had to know that old girl (Swoosie Kurtz!! More Swoosie Kurtz!!) was a couple bricks short of a full load and capable of putting a bullet in Nathan's ass. Although, knowing that Nathan was really Sylathan and that Sylar can't die did take a lot of the HSQ out of him dragging himself up from the grave, no? I think I may have yawned, which is not exactly what I imagine the producers were hoping for.

Other thing I liked this episode: Petrelli-cest. The brief Nathan/Peter hug and the mili-second of Peter/Claire was just not enough. Need more Petrelli-cest.

Other things I hated: Pretty much everything else. I don't care to see HRG in saggy jeans and a black t-shirt going through a mid-life crisis. And Claire as life coach? The girl who jumped out of her dorm window in full view of Gracie Sheffield and anyone else who might've happened to be passing by? Yeah, no. I'll pass. I don't care at all about Tracy or anything she does. She's even worse than Nikki and I did not even believe that was possible. And where is Micah? You want to help someone, Sweetie? Try finding your orphan nephew who was last seen on the run from Company assasins. You could start there, you know? Maybe he knows where Molly is, since her two daddies have clearly abandoned her.

They need to bring back the Carnies with a quickness. At least they don't bore me to tears.

And didn't Hiro learn the lesson about not being able to change the past when he was wandering around feudal Japan for elevnty million years back in season 2? Why do we need to see this again? Gah. I frikkin hate Hiro.

Ah, but the blush of getting Ando and Kimiko together will win out over that. He has the attention span of a mayfly.

I used to like him so much. I want to like him again.

I like everything HRG does.

I roll my eyes at this turn which seems to be the releasing of pure as the driven snow Sylar. They've drunk from that well before, and it didn't turn out too interestingly. If they jam Nathan back into him and freak out Swoosie I will be amused--but mostly I want Adrian Pasdar around. Quinto can stay in Parkman's head.

It's too bad that they saved the cheerleader and saved the world - thus preventing the evolution of Grim, sword-bearing Hiro.

I liked the Petrelli storyline and I wonder if we've seen the last of Adrian Pasdar Sylar or whether Sylar is going to be switching back and forth between his own and Nathan's faces.

It's too bad that they saved the cheerleader and saved the world - thus preventing the evolution of Grim, sword-bearing Hiro.

This. Or at least some other way to get Hiro into grim, sword-bearing mode. I thought they were going that way when he consigned memfault to that rather apalling fate, but he's regressed. A lot.

Oh, I soooo miss badass!future!Hiro.

I like everything HRG does.

ita is wise.

I thought they were going that way when he consigned memfault to that rather apalling fate, but he's regressed. A lot.

This. So much. I just can't reconcile the happy-go-lucky, perpetual joke Hiro of today with the guy who sealed Takezo Kensei in his father's burial tomb and then straight up walked away and left the dude there knowing that he was condemning him to an eternity of suffering and madness. "I will put your ass in a tomb" guy and "Save you from copying your butt" guy are not the same guy. At all. And I like grim, relentless guy a whole heck of a lot better. Maybe dealing with his death sentence (Yeah, right. When's the last time a major character has died and stayed dead on this show?) will put him back on the path to grim, kick ass, Future Hiro.

I like everything HRG does.

I love HRG, but not even he can make me enjoy sitting around eating Froot Loops while Claire plays Dr. Phil. I'm glad to see that he's back on the Carnie case. Now if they'll just bring the Hatian around more often, all will be right with the HRG world.

Hmmm, technically the REAL!Nathan Petrelli is dead dead dead. Well, so far.

I'm sure Hiro (or Peter using his powers) can just go back and bring a still living one forward if need be. If Peter can permanently move his Unlucky Charms girlfriend into a divergent future, I don't see why the same couldn't be done for Nathan.

They can just have Claire's super magic blood heal him on up right quick. They still haven't put any limits on that as far as I remember, just dropped the whole thing like a hot potato as with so many other story threads. Or as Matt points out, just go somewhere and pluck AlterNathan from some other timeline and bring him here. I'll believe Nathan's well and truly dead and not just mostly dead when I get the scene of him and D.L. hanging out in heaven, sipping on a cold one and looking down at all the foolishness going on in the Heroes-verse saying, "Can you believe this?"

I find this whole Nathan confessing/trying to do to right thing baffling. It is not in Nathan's nature, and it is not in Sylar's nature, so I don't get where these impulses are coming from.

I did love Swoozie Kurtz having Nathan killed with the passion of a thousand white hot suns.