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Thought you might like this article located here: https://right-thoughts.us/index.php/weblog/comments/heroes_the_kindness_of_strangers/ Heroes - The Kindness of Strangers Spoilers and so forth abound below!  DVR’ers (wow, that is not a word) you were warned! SPOILERS BEGIN NOW. This is being written the next day, so if I skip something vital, feel free to mention it! - I guessed Parkman’s dad was the Nightmare Man as soon as he said he needed Molly to find him.  I’m sure a lot of you did as well.  This led me to a theory: The “hero” gene can still be a random mutation and/or a gift from God.  Kensei might be the first.  It is passed, family to family, slowly, mutating through the years until the generation made up of the twelve in the photo.  They have enough wealth and knowledge to set up gene splicing/research experiments, as the technology has finally caught up enough to start tinkering. The twelve are, as far as they knew, the only twelve with powers, and are all descendants of Kensei through various bloodlines.  They, in turn, tinkered and CREATED the power in their children, although they had no way of knowing what power would manifest as genetic slicing and so forth was not that exact a science in their time. So, Nathan, Matt, all the ones that age or thereabouts are second-generation from the twelve, and Claire, Flyboy, etc. are third gen born by further tinkering.  Their parents probably (and in some cases we’ve seen this to be true) didn’t know. Sylar?  Matt Parkman’s brother, fathered by scoundrel Dad when he was out and about for all these years doing whatever it is that he does.  Why?  My next theory: - Parkman and Sylar actually have similar abilities.  Hear me out.  Sylar is NOT supposed to do what he does.  He’s supposed to see how a thing works, especially a brain.  He’s supposed to FIX things, not cut them open and steal the part he wants.  He was never “designed” to have the ability to take powers into himself: his ability gave him the knowledge to come up with that little plan all on his own.  Matt reads minds...Sylar reads brains.  If Greg Grunberg (the guy playing Parkman) dropped 70 pounds, tell me he couldn’t pass as related to Zachary Quinto.  Plus, Dad’s (Nightmare Man) ability is mental as well...hence what happened to Molly.  I really think I’m on to something here. Or I’m insane and over-thinking this. - Sylar is gonna get the plague/cure combo somehow.  Jesus Lord no.  The guy really is rotten and evil to his core.  He had no reason to kill Hippie Car Thief Guy.  he totally could have punched him out and taken the keys.  What’s Hippie Car Thief gonna do, call the cops and say “Hey, some guy just stole my stolen car and by the way, I’m wanted as well?” Killing him just for the keys tells me something about Sylar.  He’s bad, through and through.  Given two choices, Sylar will always pick the one that is quickest, easiest for him and causes the most pain or death for others.  He’s pure comic-book bad.  You can’t reason with that kind of evil - it simply must be stopped One other weird thing about Sylar: Why is there always a cockroach around him?  A giant cockroach is always crawling on or around or away from him when he;s passed out somewhere. - Claire and Superboy are pissing me off on one level.  On the other level, of course two kids like that growing up in a world where Superman was mythology would do cornball shit like that.  What the hell else would they do?  So it’s not so bad in hindsight, but it annoys me endlessly to actually watch it.  P.S. what the frig is Claire going to do, steal a cheerleader uniform?  If she joins the squad, how will she hide the fact that she doesn’t practice at all (because she’s with Superboy, remember the cheerleading is supposed to be a cover story)?  How will she know the moves for game day?  This isn’t a very well-thought out plan of hers.  Pops is way, way too smart for that. - Monica - Love that power for some reason.  I’d love to be able to casually see something on TV, even in passing, and absorb the exact way to physically re-create it.  I do think that particular power smells a little derivative of the way Chuck got his knowledge...methinks a writer for Heroes got wind of the Chuck script during the writing period.  It’s also a lot like Echo/Ronin from the Daredevil comics.  Still, I like the actress playing her and I can’t wait to see what weird skill she’ll pick up next.  Imagine her watching the UFC.  She’d learn seven fighting styles in an hour.  Could be useful. Given her personality (as described by her childhood friend) I’m also curious how she will scheme to use it to lift her family out of poverty. Also, I thought the Katrina/NOLA stuff was handled very deftly.  Enough to make you remember the storm, to think about those who are still suffering the effects, but not one drop of politics came across at all.  No one need feel slighted one way or the other by the presentation of real life events.  No one was insulted or blamed...it just was.  It’s a thing that happened and this is one family’s struggle.  I appreciate that, and I hope the writers aren’t going to screw it up in the future. And I still love Micah’s ability.  That would come in so handy.  :) - Nice to see Nathan getting back on his feet.  Am I crazy or did Adrian Pasdar lose a bunch of weight to pull off the haggard, been-drinkin-mah-dinner street bum look?  He looks wore the hell out and gaunt. - Oh!  Hell, I forgot - Molly.  So is it some kind of coma?  Is she in shock, or is Poppa Parkman controlling her?  And am I crazy or did Poppa Parkman see Matt through her eyes, and that’s why she said “Matt” right before she passed out?  Is she trapped in her brain with NightMare Man screwing with her and that’s why she’s crying out to Matt?