Heroes

[herewiss13]

 

• Have we seen the last of Nikki?  I do like her former husband, but hope she manages to survive have her innards re-arranged.  Everyone else has a simple, straight forward power; "he flies"  "he walks through walls"  "She's indestructible",  but Nikki's is more complex: "She has a super-strong evil twin personality that she sees in mirrors..."   I wonder if the split personality is part of it...or just a  home-grown coping mechanism for the super-strength?
• She's probably not dead.  Narratively speaking, her husband needs someone to run from, after all.  Not to mention the fact that she's forged links with both Petrelli and Hiro & Co.  The gun on the mantlepiece hasn't truly been fired yet, so you can't take it offstage yet.
• I'm having stronger and stronger suspicions that Clare's Dad is not the main villain of the piece (aka Mr A-Bomb).  He was far too taken aback by the "save the cheerleader" message to be contemplating the nuclear annihilation of a major metropolitan area.
• Of course, I could be wrong.
• Speaking of which: why couldn't Mohinder meet a nice normal girl?  I had such high hopes for those too.  I should have known she was too cute to be good, but I thought I'd been picking up genuine UST.  Shame on me for wanting to 'ship so early.
• Hiro: It's always nice when the character already knows his Joseph Campbell.  It's even nicer when his friend knows it too.  The little guy's enthusiasm may have dampened a bit this week, but the concept of the do-over holds the promise of redemption.
• And he's going to get a sword too.  That is, of course, the most important thing.

Speaking of Hiro, I think I've got season 2 figured out.  They all get together and save the day.  Then Hiro goes back in the season 1 finale and saves those poker players from Nikki.  This turns season one completely on its head, for a variety of reasons we'll discover, and most of season one gets re-played and overwritten by new events.  Butterfly effect run amok.  Not sure if you can stretch that to a third season or not, but at this point: who cares?