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Thought you might like this article located here: https://right-thoughts.us/index.php/weblog/comments/heroes_out_of_time/ Heroes - Out of Time Now THIS is what I’m talkin’ about!  Heroes was good last week and absolutely kicked ass this week.  This show is great when they remember to answer questions as they ask new ones, and always make sure something happens.  Do not emulate Lost.  Be a comic book.  The last couple weeks have given us a return to form.  On top of that, we’ve had very little Toxic Twins, cross-eyes Veronica mars or Faux Irish, which only improves everything. Spoilers below! - Adam.  Lots of people guessed this one, so it’s no great achievement in precognizance to have realized Kensei was Adam and is immortal.  Also, this means Peter and Claire are likely immortal as well, as long as the virus doesn’t (or can’t?) affect them. - As for what Hiro has done here...he’s created a monster, albeit inadvertently.  Adam/Kensei is still stewing over losing the princess.  400 years is a long time to hold a grudge. The symbol is an Asian dragon, and it’s Adam/Kensei’s. See, Hiro’s father told him the story of Kensei’s final test.  Kensei must face the man that showed him the way of the sword.  He must defeat the Dragon.  What we have here is a typical Japanese parable, where the obvious examples of “good and evil” are both flipped and have dual meanings.  Kensei is Hiro, and the Dragon is Adam.  Now, in the myth, the Dragon taught Kensei the “way of the sword.” I interpret this to be Hiro teaching Adam how to use his sword to be a Hero.  This satisfies the duality part of the first half of the story.  The second half, that Kensei had to “cut out his heart to save her, to save Japan,” flips the roles again, and Hiro is now Kensei.  Yaeko is his heart in Edo Japan, as is Ando in the modern day.  Either or both may have to be sacrificed to stop Adam from either going back to try to stop Hiro and Yaeko from falling in love, or from finishing his killing spree in the present day.  So...Adam = Dragon.  Hence the symbol. What other powers must Adam have?  It seems like he should have more than just healing/regeneration.  I suspect that he might be the original “Hero.” The wellspring from which all future genetic “mutations” flow.  Maybe.  I also think he might not be a bad guy in the end.  I think he can be talked around.  I think he’s driven by pain and rage.  It’s interesting that he’s the “visionary” and was Linderman’s “sensei.” One wonders how many of the other Old Guard Heroes think like he does.  I still say that he can be talked around.  I believe it because Hiro believes it.  That’s really the only reason.  :) I think that Sylar is still the most evil thing on the show and God help them all if when he gets his powers back. - Bob.  No one is buying this bumble-stumble nice guy routine.  Company = Evil, and Bob is a bad guy.  Mohinder is an idiot who continues to make terrible judgments and decisions. - HRG - Nice to see him back in form.  I swear he was about a millisecond from slapping Claire when she threw her little tantrum.  And STILL NO CAMERAS IN HIS HOUSE.  That is a major writer’s flaw right there, nothing more than a deus ex machina designed only to keep him from seeing West.  I think Claire will continue to make terrible decisions right up until the moment she has to choose between HRG and West.  She’ll choose Daddy.  But she won’t make the ride easy.  After all she is a teenaged girl.  With stumpy dwarf little people arms. Matt/Poppa - Matt should have been here in the LAST season...it would have made the ending so much more exciting, as he could have coordinated an attack against Sylar and turned the chance meeting of small groups of Heroes into a real force to do battle with a powerful enemy.  Instead we got this anti-climactic *POP* - *stab* - “Wait, it’s over?” kind of thing.  Very nice to see him advancing his abilities and flip the script on Daddy.  Now the question is, was Maury acting under influence, or was he simply a believer in what Adam was selling/preaching?  If it was influence, what the hell else can Adam do? - Peter.  The virus is clearly going to be a modified/mutated version of Bob’s Folly.  If Mohinder’s blood no longer cures it, there’s no telling what the virus might do if it came into contact with the wrong Hero.  What if Adam caught it, and instead of rendering him powerless, it mutated and learned to regenerate?  It could withstand any attempt to kill it.  Hence the great plague.  What if it combined with the Toxic Twin Maya’s ability somehow?  What if Sylar gets all three in his body? Anyway, it’s nice to see Peter getting back to being himself.  Amazing job by the actor last night.  When his memories came flooding back a change came over his face...he looked like Peter again.  Does he remember everything now?  Or just stuff relating to his bitch-on-wheels of a mother? I can has no more Faux Irish now?  Could this maybe be the frigging end of the half-ugly non-brogue-havin’ stereotype?  No more Caitlin please.  DO NOT WANT. - Nikki.  Did I understand this right, that she’s integrated now and, when not being manipulated by Poppa Parkman, in control of when she uses her power?  She seems to have chosen the name Nikki instead of Jessica. All I know is, they better not kill her off like they (might have) did DL.  Ali Larter is a reason to keep tuning in, and Nikki is a great character.  If you have to kill someone, make it a new person.  Like Lightning Girl. - Paintings.  We’ve seen them all happen now, except for Mohinder and the gun, and HRG shot in the eye while Claire and West look on.  Given what Bob did there with the gun, I think that will happen next week, or maybe the week after.  Like all of the paintings, it will happen, just not exactly as it seems.  At least it better damn well not.  Again, HRG is someone that makes this show good.  Killing Noah Bennet would be idiotic.  I’d rather lose *any* of the new people except Monica. - Predictions: Adam is the one who had Sylar in the cabin.  He’s also going back in time (using Peter) to try to stop Hiro from stopping him by stealing Yaeko, but as he’s twisted by his pain, he might try to kill Yaeko instead of just preventing her from loving Hiro.  That might be the cutting out of the heart...maybe he has to let her die.  Follow me here.  Hiro sees Yaeko as a symbol of Japan.  So when he said “to save her, to save Japan” it might not have meant her as in the woman, but her as in the country? - The virus will mutate and hit the general population but not until the end of “Volume 2” which airs December 3rd, and may be the season finale due to the strike. - Mohinder will point the gun at HRG but will not be the one who shoots him.  West will.  In fact I think Mohinder will turn the gun on West, but West will shoot anyway.  OR...Bob will send someone else to back up Mohinder and THEY will shoot HRG.  Either way HRG doesn’t die. - Monica becomes the Batman of New Orleans soon So...what’d I forget?