I haven't been watching this season, but doesn't the confluence of the weird traveling carnival and hiring Robert Knepper pretty much indicate that Tim Kring recently watched the Carnivàle DVDs and went wild over them?

I can only hope this means a paying job for Michael J. Anderson somewhere down the line.

I still enjoy the carnies and I'm glad the main dude is trying to bring back the real Sylar. I'm so over Sylathan. I hated Boyfriend!Sylar the last time they tried him with Elle, and I hate him now. I like my Sylar evil and tangled up in a so wrong it's right relationship with Mo. If I can't have that, I don't want any Sylar at all.

I'm still liking Peter's new girlfriend. Cool power and she brings the promise of a shirtless Peter in the near future. We were close this week, but HRG refused to rip Peter's shirt off so that the healing kid could lay hands on him as he obviously should have done. Tsk, tsk, HRG. You never pass up a chance to get Peter half nekkid.

Claire's magic blood just made me mad all over again. The more they try to explain it, the stupider it gets. Why can't Claire just go away? I am not looking forward to more college hijinks next week. Also not looking forward to the return of Matt.

And I never thought I'd say it, but I miss Mohinder. Where is he? Don't those carnies need a strong man?

I like this boyfriend Sylar. And I hated their version of evil Sylar because they maxxed him out (no killing kids, irrational killing of everyone else) and had him going in circles. With Elle he was half and half and that was annoying.

I miss Mohinder too, but I know he'll annoy me once he gets back. As long as he's still pretty, it's a start.

I'm interested in knowing if Sylar still haunts Matt (or if it was all in his head), but I haven't liked anything they've done with Matt yet this season.

I can only hope this means a paying job for Michael J. Anderson somewhere down the line.

Seconded!

I love that guy and he would be a perfect Hero.

I thought Edgar was against killing? He was all dragging his feet when told to kill Danko, a bad mean man, and here he slices up a family man cop with gusto.

I know, right? Character consistency has never been a strongpoint of this show.

I have a wehry bad feeling about Matt drinking Sylar away. I'm thinking Sylar's faking and waiting for Matt to inebriate himself and then completely take over driving.

Juliebird FTW!

Damn, I even got the driving metaphor.

The murder of the healer was so over-the-top and... where did the rage come from to make such a murder possible? So, while they failed to credibly set up the motivation for that, they definitely had me rooting for Samuel's vengeance.

Well, they did say they had had a lot of run ins with the kid, bad seed, and all that.

So, two Sylars no Nathan? I want some Nathan!