Heroes Sandwich

How disappointing to lose the character of Zach - he was one of my very favorites, and I really loved the chemistry and dynamics of Zach and Claire. And she had just earned his friendship back for the 2nd time! Thanks for the info, I had wondered what the heck happened to him, why his character just disappeared. This could have been a great launching for that kid's career, but now fans he gained on Heroes will remember him as that kid who ran scared from possible controversy. It's a shame. I mean, they had already left things so ambiguous with his sexuality that he could have just as easily been hetero if all else failed.

I loved this episode. I didn't even mind the pretense of Peter's "death" (he he he reports of his death were strongly exaggerated) - I don't think that we were meant to be in suspense over that one, I think we were meant to be excited because we knew that Claire would sort things out as soon as she saw the body. I loved their little reunion, and I thought that the main thing to take away was the reaction of Ma Petrelli and Flying Man to Peter's death - the interesting blend of grief and pragmatism. I had hoped that Claire and Peter could have had more time to talk and reflect on things - he sure doesn't seem to want her to go off to Paris, but he hasn't told her that yet. I love that connection they have, I want to see more of Claire and her newfound uncle.

I am so excited about the *future* episode next time. I loved the one where everything was 6 months in the past, and I am sure they will do a great job with the concept - and Hiro and FutureHiro working together!!! Yay!! If the future is as bad as it looked from the preview, it's about time for a rift in the space-time continuum!

In case it's not obvious: I think that's not so much a timeline as a timetree, implying that Future Hiro has been trying to fix things for a quite a while, with multiple failures that cause all sorts of bad results.

Love the 'so implausible' link!

Excellent - I was thinking the same thing about Watchmen versus Heroes. Hopefully it's meant to be a "homage" rather than an outright rip-off. Too many comic book fans watch the show for the creators to think that it wouldn't be noticed.

What bugged me about the episode, literally from the very beginning, was the fact that they included a scene in the "flashbacks" that was never originally aired! Unless I'm completely mistaken, there was never a scene in the previous episodes between DL and Nikki/Jessica in which he confronts her about which one she is and she replies, "I'm not sure." Yet, there was that scene in the flashback.

I understand that scenes from episodes need to be cut, but don't just slip it back in and act like we needed to be "reminded" of something we never knew.

I don't mind the Watchmen similarity. After all, the show has snuck in homages to all sorts of comic book references. Heck, the first appearance of FutureHiro had me screaming "DAYS OF FUTURE PAST! DAYS OF FUTURE PAST!" at my scream in fangirl delight. The online graphic novel seems to indicate that the world of FutureHiro is very much like Days of Future Past, so the homage continues.

Of course, in Watchmen, Ozymandias succeeded his goal to scare the world into peace. I wonder how close Linderman will come to achieving his version of it.

(NOTE: Days of Future Past is a classic X-men storyline from the late 70's/early 80's Chris Claremont/John Byrne run of the book.)

the first thing I thought when I heard of Linderman's plan was immediatley "Watchmen" rip-off. In fact this was the only graphic novel I've ever read so I can't really note how many other times Heroes has stolen from graphic novels but I imagine its a lot. I can't say I'm surprised Heroes went there as there really are only so many directions one can go in a superhero saga (its not like this story hasn't been told before, even if it is done well).