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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 4591349" data-attributes="member: 20741">From the interview concerning the return of  Bryan Fuller, it appears that we won’t really see too many changes with the underlying problems concerning the structure and emphasis of the show’s writing  until Episode 19/20, in mid to late March of this year.I am also not too sure that the “end” of Volume is all that significant a line in the sand here. I expect we will be seeing significantly more continuity in episode #14 than many might prefer to see.There are a few resets here concerning the abilities of the uber_powered that many here have complained of. To whit:Peter Petrelli:  As we all assumed, Peter regained his chameleon emo power back, but I suspect that, like Sylar’s, it has been reset. Peter starts with flight, but is no longer a time traveller. That’s not a small development.  I do not think the writers of the show will be putting Peter and any (restored) Hiro back into any scenes together any time soon.Hiro Nakamura: Hiro has lost his power. I’m not sure where they are going with this. It may be that there is some small residue of power left in him, which on its own is too small for significant time travel. However, amped by Ando, together, he and Ando might accomplish some space time continuum disruption, but on a smaller scale. Teleportation and time freeze, without extensive time travel abilities. I think it’s pretty clear given how they have deliberately nerfed Hiro’s power for pretty much all of Vol III that the writers have become uncomfortable with the implications of Hiro’s time travelling power and have decided that  - for now at least – nerfing most of what he can do is in the best interest of the plot continuity of the show.Ando: The more subtle problems that can crop up when a new power is created on the show lurks beneath the surface of Ando's new Power Amplification gig. He can’t do anything on his own, but the implications of his ability to uber up others is pretty significant and potentially troublesome for the writers in the long term.  And it seems to me that these writers have demonstrated pretty clearly that they don’t write think when they are writing one hour drama on a  long term basis. Sylar: As we all know, there is no way that Sylar is actually dead. We’ll come back to him in an episode or two.  The quest for his real parents will dominate his “A “ story in Vol. IV, I expect. Meredith: Both Meredith and her brother have probably survived the collapse of the building as well...but that result was suitable sketchy in the finest comic book tradition – so I’m okay with that.Nathan Petrelli: Odd thing is, Nathan’s pursuit of his father’s plan was pretty hard to justify.  But his new spin – to be part of a Federal government plan to Gitmoize the uber_powered, is actually not  that far a stretch. I’m not even sure it is “evil”. The control and containment of the Powered has been, essentially, the role of the Company to date.  With both the Company and Pinehearst destroyed, we are moving to a less tolerant, more X-Men like governmental enemy of the uber_powered. A faceless force that threatens both the Heroes and Villains.Nathan pursuing Arthur Petrelli’s plan might have been evil, given the foreknowledge of how it worked out.  The  new Gitmo containment protocol for the uber_powered, on the other hand, is not necessarily an evil plan. Indeed, it can be defended as a *rational* plan.HRG: Does it not make sense that HRG would be the key recruit of Nathan Petrelli’s new Organization With Initials? That he joins it, conflicted, to protect Claire and his family from Sylar et al and from Nathan too?Seems a natural fit to me. And HRG remains probably the best damn thing about the show.  His comfortableness with morally gray, and dogged determination to save his family would work. It would give then a stable base to work from in terms of the OWithI....in theory.  Mohinder: I actually like Mohinder from season  1 and 2 and saw his humanity as the window of the normal’s view into the Heroic world.  He seemed ethical at the time. It’s the Mohinder from Season III, post injection I wasn’t much of a fan of. Still, he’s not only been cured – he’s ALSO been uberfied now. We don’t know exactly what this change will bring to us, but we do know that it will be something.  I expect they will be dragging that one out for a little while, to give us a new “Origin/Discovery” tale during Vol IV.Tracy: They have not given us the third incarnation of Nikki yet, but the way Tracy is going, that can’t be long as it seems that Tracy is quickly overstaying her welcome.  It might be in everyone’s interest if they just let Ali Larter go on her merry way to some other program. Matt and Daphne: The one bright spot in the show this Vol III has been that these two have worked out pretty well. Let em be and don’t burden them too much with the travails of normalcy.</blockquote>

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