Does Claire and Noah's relationship seem off for the time period to anyone else?

you mean the fact that she's having the same conversation with him about his life and career as she's been having with him in the present? That the spray tan is still there?

But yeah, I can't recall, but I think she was really involved with herself and her new powers and feelings of freakishness, and possibly mad at her dad at that point. Or maybe it was just really wanting to share her secret with him and being strained around him.

So THAT'S where Mo's been all these weeks. Let's hoping he comes back a roarin' and ends up in the Mylar (really - it was TOO easy) end of things.

Oh, and Elizabeth Rohm really impressed me tonight, which means she really, REALLY must have hated her L&O gig, because while she was OK in my book on Angel (sometimes better; sometimes worse), the few times I saw her on L&O made me think that Bailey Chase had done a brain switch with her.

I just read an interview where she all but likened her time on L&O to playing a zombie. Or maybe a character in Equilibrium.

I liked the character OK, but I really hated Rohm's hair.

It was interesting seeing HRG back in the midst of the season 1 stuff and being normal, and not super-dramatic "is he evil?".

I'm more or less satisfied with how the Charlie thing played out. There was much potential for badness, and they mostly avoided it. I liked her taking Hiro to task for being selfish. And also that she forgave him/understood it.

Though again, I have to wonder WTF Hiro is thinking. Exactly what part of "Happily Ever After" involves his terminal brain tumor. Great, he saved Charlie, but he could keel over himself at any minute. Which is the sort of thing you might want to mention to the woman that's willing to uproot her life and go to Otsu with you. And was he planning on just potentially (should the tumor let him) living through the last 3 years over again?

Still not digging the carnival storyline. I guess I just don't grasp what Samuel's goal is. You want to bring all these people with powers together so badly you're willing to order the deaths of a bunch of people. But why?

And going back an episode or two, what was the point of bringing the cop to the carnival to kill him? I sort of understand the trying to push Sylar back into being Sylar, but killing normal people was never really his thing. And you had the man show up with his family. Isn't that going to cause some issues when their husband/father just disappears while they're all at the carnival together?

Kalshane, ITA wrt to Hiro and his brain tumor. I don't know why he didn't make Sylar fix him too.

Did they never tell Hiro how they were going to heal him? What does he think he's skipping out on? He could have, theoretically, brought Charlie back for healing. Is an aneurysm something you can excise?

eta: wikipedia makes it look like something you want to clip or block up, nsm with the cutting unless he's cauterising after himself now.

Jayma Mays is Charlie! I love her but it took a bit of the suspense out of it knowing she's got a full time job on another show.