It’s both. Bob has said (assuming we can trust what he says) that there are some abilities that are so dangerous that their possessers need to be stopped. Would you want a grieving widower like Ted or a whackadoo like Sylar wandering around with the power to emit lethal radiation, burn people to the bone with a touch and explode? I’d put Eden and Candice in that category too, if someone with some smarts had the power. Eden could have sent a thousand strangers a day to kill the President with no way of it ever being traced back to her. Candice could have created widespread financial chaos by, say, creating an illusion of the Fed Chairman doing something terrible with interest rates. Then you’ve got people like Parkman, around who no secrets are safe, Maya, who can kill everyone in a radius around her and his little or no control, DL the potentially unstoppable assassin, Micah with his ability to wipe out any electronic record anywhere in the world and so on.
According to Tim Kring, the season is going to be divided up into at least two chapters (instead of the one chapter of the first season). so I see the conclusion of most of these storylines happening in episode 9 or 10. They’re over the hump and things should start to tie together from now.
Woah… Strontium Dog reference!
I am confused. The first season was divided into two segments (each ep is a “chapter”), “Save the Cheerleader, Save the World” and then, um, after that.
Save the Cheerleader, Save the World was the marketing slogan attached to a small set of episodes dealing with whether Sylar snuffed Claire or not.
The entire first season was part of “Volume 1.” As others have said, Tim Kring has gone on record saying that season two will feature two “Volumes” spread out over 24 episodes. Think of them as mini-seasons.
Oh. Volume, chapter, I got all confuzzled. Sorry. I did mean “Volume” as Justin said.
Why did Papa Parkman have Bob’s ‘Symbol Picture’ in his apartment?
I was wondering about that, too. It made me think maybe he’s working with someone to off the rest of the 12. He’s passing out the pictures and torturing them through their dreams and someone else that he’s working with actually killed Nakamura.
Maybe, but we don’t know where these story lines are headed (even though they don’t seem to be going anywhere for three episodes.) With Hiro everything is already set in stone. There is not much he can do except defeat the army and come back to the present.
Wow. I’d forgotten that the season was split into two arcs. The only thing that stopped me being majorly worried about the excessively slow pace of many of the storylines was the fact that 23 episodes is a long run. Now it seems there’s a hell of a lot of ground to suddenly make up in 5 episodes or so. For example, the Twins haven’t even reached America yet. And what about the Virus? Surely they’re not going to wrap that up in 3 or 4 weeks? Hopefully that will form part of the second arc.
Having said that, I really enjoyed this weeks show. Thought Parkman’s Dad was wonderfully creepy and I hope we get to see him again soon. Also really enjoying Matt working with Nathan. (knock knock - “You’re welcome.” Hee!).
Also enjoyed the lack of Claire, mostly because it also meant the lack of West.
Although I imagine next week will be some sort of grim Claire and Westathon to make up for this lack, judging how much the show seems to love them.
As long as they make this show, I will watch it. But I do worry that the creative team behind it are not a safe pair of hands.
Last night, while watching Ninja Warrior, we saw G4 run this commercial advertising their reruns of Season 2 episodes. Pretty funny 30-second synopsis.
Or Bob. And I think we all know what his superpower is.
snort Thanks for that! “Peter flips his hair.” Yeah, that’s pretty much what I sounded like describing the show to my mom only that was, you know, more coherent. 
Oh, BTW, another WAG prediction: Matt and his wife are only divorced to protect the family from the company. They will reunite later this season.
Mohinder’s blood prevents the genetic mutation that causes these abilities and they just aren’t yet sure how to use it. They mentioned it a bit in the beginning of this season.
Disagree. Papa Parkman’s whammies on Nathan and Peter exploited guilt. Matt’s dialogue with Whammy-Janice (Whamice?) indicates that the marriage broke up over her affair and the bastard she’s birthing. Janice is history, and good riddance.
Ignore this post. The next one is much better!
No, Mohinder carries the antibodies against the virus that’s affecting the heroes. The virus is what blocks their abilities. A dose of his blood would bring the abilities back in an infected person.
As for Matt, in his hallucination he tells his ex-wife that she had told him the baby wasn’t his. She counters that he can read minds and knew she was lying. Implied pretty strongly to me that the baby is his and he’s feeling guilty.
It also seems to be the case that Mohinder’s antibodies are not a hero-power, but just regular ol’ antibodies he has because of his dead sister (apparently) or something his father did to him (maybe).
And didn’t somebody a few episode threads ago complain that Matt’s wife’s kid had to be Matt’s, based on the 5-years-later future timeline?
That was hilarious. I had to go tell my wife about the hilarity, but she was not as impressed. (She’s not a fan.)