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Bizzare episode; seemed like sort of a detour from the main plot. Considering that all of the scenes set in the past were in color for the NBC promos, I'm guessing the decision to make the 1961 scenes black and white came relatively late in production.

There was definitely something off about Alice from before they showed up at that supernatural internment camp. I liked the way Angela and Alice's relationship mirrored Nathan and Peter's relationship. It explains why Peter was always treated with the kid gloves; Angela was projecting her habits with her kid sister onto her youngest son.

Not a "Company Man" by any stretch of the imagination, but it's kind of eery to think that the omnipresent Company that pulled all of the strings for so long started with a few teenagers sitting around a table at a diner.

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The actress who played young Angela was really good. She looked like she could have been the adult Angela actress' real life daughter. I have not checked the credits, but I'm sure they aren't related.

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Yeah, it was but I hope that the end scene where they talk about family means that the soap opera-y fighting between Peter, Nathan and Angela and Claire and HRG subsides for a good long while.

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didn't linderman not get his powers until the war? i thought we saw that in a flash back. also with sureshes dad, im guessing they wiped his memory because why would he write a book later in life looking for people with powers to only find sylar, yet had worked on them when they were younger. seemed to me this episode just contradicted a lot of stuff.

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It was explicitly mentioned that two of the company's primary tools were memory wipes and murder, but if Suresh's dad was wiped, it seems strange that he would have a bunch of records in his possession that were redacted, but not sufficiently to obscure the location of a mass grave.

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I think the problem with Heroes is that there is apparently no arch that unifies anything. There is a ton of changes, lack of show continuity, and reversals that leave everyone puzzled about what is actually going on.

I haven't commented in this thread for a bit because I pretty much stopped watching. But it's a show that in the first season, I loved. So, I caught the last two eps this morning. Last nights ep was interesting.. but again, how it connects to any of the rest of the show continuity is puzzling, and it seems to defeat the whole plot of Season 1 where Suresh's father was "chasing down a mystery" and the Company was worried about him.. if The Company knew he had helped butcher their friends/family, wouldn't they do more then just say "wow, he's figuring it out?" ??????????

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To be fair, Suresh's father did not help with any butchering. As was revealed, he was attacked by Angela's father and then the military folks responded disproportionately with lethal force. Presumably, his memory was wiped, but that does not explain why he would have the records that Suresh found in his possession.

The writers would probably do themselves a big favor if they backed off on everybody being related to everybody. If Mohinder's father had records of the camp, that would be sufficient since we know he was investigating such things. Making him one of the principles at the camp just opens up a can of continuity worms.

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The comics (which I know people *still* don't read) show he had his powers well before Vietnam.

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If you had your memory wiped, wouldn't you try to fill in the missing pieces? Presumably, he placed a FOIA request years later to find out what he could of the time he lost.

I was okay with Suresh's father being involved, despite making the world a degree smaller, because he was the leading expert (and/or crazy) on the subject. Either the Kennedy administration brought him in at random and the experience led to his life long obsession with people that have abilities or his knowledge on the subject was the reason the Kennedy administration brought him in. Which in turn raises the question of Mohinder's sister Shanti: we know she died at the age of five, just months before Mohinder was born. We don't know exactly when Mohinder was born, but assuming it was the same year as Sendhil Ramamurthy -- 1974 -- that places Shanti's birth around 1968 or 69. In other words, Shanti wasn't born until seven or eight years after the events at Coyote Woods. Which leads me to believe her powers were synthetic like Nathan's (and now Mohinder's).

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Skip this if you do not enjoy minor goofs.
Wish I had not deleted so I could check this myself.
Were they playing CRYING in the diner in March 1961?
It was recorded by Orbison on June 26.1961.

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I liked how there was the Alice In Wonderland cover in the abandoned room, and some left over medicine from 1961 laying on the floor.

Didn't like this episode at all, I didn't care about anyone or anything in this entire episode.

Well, at least we saw that the future scene from one of the paintings in S1( or is it 2?) of Nathan in the White House who turned out to be Sylar is capable of being a real timeline.

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Henry, actually, by the time of the diner scene it was May 1961. Still before he recorded the song though. So how could it have been on the radio, (for a while too, as Angela is supposed to have heard it before and really likes it)?

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Maybe she liked it because she dreamed about it...

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how many eps are left this season?

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Two. Next week and then the season/chapter finale on 27-Apr.

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Looks like two eps left - finale on April 27th.

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It's weird how May sweeps doesn't even factor into scheduling these days for a lot of shows, not just Heroes.

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Some ratings news from 'Heroes' rises: NBC's best Monday in weeks --The Live Feed

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I wonder if it's because there are so few episodes left.

I noticed that all of my shows didn't take the usual October and early December rerun break to bookend the November sweeps. They showed new episodes straight through from September until Christmas to try to regain the lost momentum from the strike season.

That left shows like Terminator with a two-month break just so there would be some episodes left to show during the February (became March) sweeps.

I guess the networks figured they could either keep the March momentum and end a lot of shows in April, or take another break and risk having a really lousy May to end their year.

I guess they'll have a bunch of specials and 2-hour finales to fill the May sweeps.

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terrible episode. if it already has not been stated:

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This is the episode you're going to pick for the overused Jump the Shark reference? It wasn't my favorite by any means, but there plenty of worse ones from earlier in the season and especially in season two.

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yeah it's definitely better, but at the same time, i think it 'jumped the whale' for most of episodes of this season already. it's been so bad, it's pretty much irredeemable and can't be repaired even with a handful of good eps now. i'm just talking about the season itself. maybe season4 will be much better... but i just won't buy this season on BD unless it was $10 .

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Exactly. My interest has been waning on this show for some weeks. I just turned off Monday's show half way through because I just didn't care anymore. It's like watching a soap opera, there's no clear story. There are various arcs that span several shows, but then the characters move on to something else. 'Heroes' isn't even an appropriate title any more. The closest they've come to anything heroic was in the first season. Not to insult those who like the show, but it's dull and boring. It took so long for Hiro and Ando to find Parkman to save him I couldn't remember what they were saving him from, and what happened after they got to him? Nothing!

I came here to read other's comments in case there was some bigger picture I was missing and maybe should go back and pay more attention. I'll tape the next two eps (since it's the end of the season) and maybe scan them, but unless something changes drastically I'm done with this show.

(Fringe, OTOH, was a show I was ready to give up on on the 3rd ep, but I stuck it out a little longer and now I can't wait to watch it each week)

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I hate to chime in to say I dont' care, but I have to because it was such an interesting show at the beginning and then went of the tracks in season 2 and I feel like there is no rational to what they have been doing other doing evey applicable TV show and comic book related cliche to see what sticks.

It's absolutely all over the place to the point that I can't keep up and worse don't care.

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It's like watching molasses rolling downhill, this show. Just glad this season is almost over, as I'm not sure if I'll be watching it next season (or relegate it to low-low priority viewing).

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Did anyone else feel like they are turning Sylar into "Norman Bates" last night?

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i got a smeagol and gollum feel.

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I think the writers room must have a giant PANIC button in their room that says in small type: "If we get trapped, just bring back tons of Sylar and lots of super powers. It spackles over all the errors."

Wipe out Season 2 characters people don't like: Increase Sylar, wipe them out.
Wipe out Season 3 storylines we don't like: throw Sylar a fat pitch to hit.
Season 3 back half gets stuck: Give Sylar whole ep to wipe most of the storyline away.

Sylar should just walk around with a jacket that says: "I AM Deux Ex Machina, bitches!"

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I'm wondering what happened to Hiro at the end.... Is there someone new with powers that can deflect other's powers?

Glad Mica got away, I knew he would.

The show is a mess now. Like daytime soaps.