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Six Months Ago

A few quick thoughts on last week's Heroes episode, before the fall season finale airs tonight.

It was cool for me to see Sylar as a watchmaker and hearing all that ticking - I knew that the music for him in previous eps incorporated a ticking sound and now I know why. I'm still not sure how he 'absorbed' the telekinesis from Brian what's his name. Sylar's ability is to be able to see into and understand the inner workings of a complex mechanism, so he was able to see into Brian's brain and see that he had a power, but what did he mean when he said he was "broken"? I'm still thinking he ate the guy's brain. That makes Sylar scarier, imo.

I think that (for some of the Heroes at least), there was some strong emotional event that brought out their power (like the mutants in X-Men):

~ the car crash was the first time that Nathan flew and he didn't really know how he ended up in the air
~ Nikki's bad side came out when her father came back into her life and showed aggression towards her son
~ Claire's healing ability came to light after a fight with the other cheerleader (can't remember her name)
~ Matt failed the detective's test for the third time and then heard his wife's thoughts

Did Eden "push" Sylar to kill Suresh? Bennett sent her back to get Claire's name off of Suresh's list - why? And if Sylar knew about Claire, then it seems that Eden, in spite of getting chummy with Suresh, never did get her hands on the list. Am I right?

Finally, I've been thinking all along that Nikki's power is her bad side, but what if her power is simply superhuman strength? It manifests itself as the ability to kick the absolute sh*t out
people because she was unable to protect herself from her father's beatings when she was younger? And she can only do those things when she takes on the tougher, protector personality that was her sister (who was killed by her father)?

I'm pretty certain that tonight's episode, "Fallout", is the final episode of the 'fall season'. It picks up right where "Homecoming" left off. Here's the Yahoo TV description:

The tragic events in Texas have serious repercussions for many of the heroes, their families and friends; shocking details about the moments leading up to Isaac's predicted New York nuclear bombing.

Have fun watching tonight!