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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torx" data-source="post: 3196816" data-attributes="member: 2730">This post is spoiler-rich and mostly rantish.  Move on if that's not your thing...I thought the episode was rather poor, myself.  It struggled with the problem it's had from nearly the beginning: too many characters and not enough time to tell each of their stories.  It acted like an origins story but only told the origin of a character we now really see for the first time, Sylar.  On that front, the episode did very well.Otherwise, it was a miserable failure.  Hiro's and Charlie's love story was far too short to be believable.  Don't get me wrong, I'm as much a gushing, gullible romantic as the next guy, but I found their romance unbelievable because of its brevity, poor editing, and lack of chemistry between the actors.  It also left too many threads open that shouldn't have been.  How exactly does Charlie die now?  An aneurysm or Sylar?  And when did she die?  How did Hiro get all that money?  He's had financial issues before but he buys multiple international tickets before and after he loses his power.  How exactly did that happen again?  These seem more like hand-waving than planned plot devices.Peter and Nathan's background story also lacked spark.  We learn nothing new about Nathan save the actual circumstance behind his wife's injury.  He shows that he has developed not at all.  The story mentions of both Linderman and their father remain superficial since we have not been privy to either character save in reference.  The fact that the brothers were willing to turn on their father means little if all we know about the father is that he deals with a mobster (whom we haven't seen).Matt's backstory told us that he's not the flawed character who failed the detective exam serveral times like we thought.  Nope, he has a disease, so it's not his fault.  It serves to weaken his character and make him flatter, taking away his flaws and richness.  Eden's backstory illuminated little beyond what we already knew or strongly suspected.  Claire's backstory was nearly nonexistent.  It served only to show that her father has known about her ability from the beginning, and that the slogan should have been: "Save the Backup Cheerleader, Save the World."Even the Niki/Jessica plotline, arguably the strongest of the established characters, was pretty boring.  This may be my bias against her character showing through, but I didn't really buy it.  She was a recovering alcoholic who, by all accounts, had a perfect wife/mother relationship with her family but was struggling with the financial aspects.  Then her estranged father rolls in, tries to patch things up, and it is revealed that Jessica is really Niki's [older?] sister.  Then Jessica beats up their father and gives back money that could help her family.Am I the only one who thinks Jessica does not have Niki's best interests at heart?  Most of Niki's problems have been financial in nature, that has been well established.  She returns their father's assumedly large donation.  Then D.L. is about to make the score of a lifetime and Jessica highjacks it and puts the $2 million in the attic.  Then Jessica allows Niki to borrow $50k from a mobster and not be able to pay it back.  Not a very wise alter ego.Sorry about the longish and disagreeable rant.  I recently went on and saw all the episodes of Battlestar Galactica for the first time in a long, multi-season marathon.  Heroes this week did not add up.</blockquote>

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