We can be Heroes....
...just for one day. See, I love anything that puts David Bowie songs in my head...

So I just watched this week's Heroes (one day late) and wow, it just gets better and better! Claire has risen from the dead, and I agree with her friend; it's like the removal of the tree branch from her head was what made her wake up. The only unrealistic thing about her plotline is the fact that Brody wasn't more freaked out when she wandered back into the school. He KILLED her, presumably checked for a pulse, dragged the body into the woods and dumped it near a stream... I mean, if anyone thought that girl was dead, it was him, no matter how liquored up he might have been. But otherwise, her revenge on him was AWESOME. (Personally, I thought she was going to drive the car off a cliff, but it might have lodged something in her and killed her again, only to make her wake up on ANOTHER morgue slab and have to escape again.) Oh, and by the way, why didn't the coroner contact the parents with a big WHA???

We finally saw the other side of Niki, another totally amazing scene. So, it turns out, when her other side comes out, it's none other than Buffy!! I squealed with absolute delight when she kicked the crap out of the guy in the elevator. And rather than use a cute little pun like Buffy might have done, "I think you're...going down" she put her stiletto on his head and threatened him if he ever came near "our" son again. LOVED it. Presumably, it was Buffiki who went back into the politician's room, and not Niki herself. Where will she wake up?

Hiro and Ando were hilarious, as usual. What made that scene even funnier is how people always say, "Hey, if I had a superpower, I'd use it to win the lottery" and we wonder why the superheroes never do anything like that. Well, Hiro is here to fulfill that. Let's hope he plays the Super 7 next. Now that Hiro's been knocked out and is unable to stop time, how will Ando get out of THAT one?

We now know that Peter's power is that he takes on the power of the superhero around him, which makes him far more interesting than originally thought. He flies because his brother does. He sees the future because he's around Isaac. As soon as everything stopped on the subway, I immediately thought wait, that's Hiro's power, but Hiro's in Las Vegas.... and then Future Hiro showed up. I LOVED that ending.

So is the black guy who hangs out with Claire's dad Sylar? Or is Claire's dad Sylar? Is Claire's dad a bad guy? My husband said at one point, what if he's not a bad guy, and is actually a good person trying to put the gang together? The thing is, they've made him far too creepy for that; if he turns out to be a really good person, it'll have been a really over-the-top mislead for us. And why did Claire's dad tell Maybe-Sylar to clean out Matt's head completely?

Have you been noticing the S symbol? The Maybe-Sylar dude had one on the pendant around his neck. Niki has the same tattoo on her back. And at the end, when Future Hiro showed up, he had a sword of some kind on his back with that symbol on the blade. I'm sure it's been elsewhere, and I've missed it until now, but it might be the 4 8 15 16 23 42 of this show, and is what connects these characters.

I've got lots more to say about this, but my husband tells me my blogs are far too long and I need to cut them down to 3 paragraphs or people won't read them. So I assume at this point I'm already talking to myself. ;)