Anybody notice that the names of the 3 agents that died at the beginning were the same names of the 3 "winners" from The Running Man movie? It was something like Whitney, Price and Haddad.

I thought it was a pretty good episode. It was a massive improvement from previous episodes (not last episode, that was just great). Sylar as the anti-hero is what they should have done with him either Season 2 or Volume 3 or even the beginning of this Volume. All the mess that happened to him before has kind of demeaned him. Also, Claire as the hero is getting old. ARGH.

heroes is getting more and more wack each week. and when its finally gonna pick up watch the season is gonna be done and gonna have to wait 6 months for a new episode that will have to slow down the show again.

if things dont improve over the end of this season and probably half to all of next season im cutting my loses.

Or, a fourth option in the polls:-
I'm fine with the in depth focus on fewer characters, except when the characters are pretty much anyone from the Petrelli family and/or Sylar.

This episode goes to show that some characters really can't carry a 40 min episode; it just comes out feeling forced and cliched.

I have to say that I liked this episode. True, some of the stories were cliched, but there was actual character development. I found myself thinking that a lot of these avenues (especially the relationship with Claire and Nathan) should have been explored more back in season 2 but were sort of ignored. Now that Bryan Fuller's back, I felt a massive rearrangement of the story to get back to a story that he wants to tell. Claire and Nathan have now at least talked a little about their roles in each other's lives. I was very interested in a desperate Angela Petrelli, one who is seeking forgiveness. It was fascinating to see that side of someone who is usually so in control. Peter's character has become a mess, and I think it will take some time to sort that out, but I definitely saw progress last night. He's always been kind of an unquestioning servant of whatever the big picture is, so it was great to see him questioning and even angry. And Sylar... he has always been my favorite character and it was fantastic to see Sylar back as a crazy, manipulative master mind. Overall, I'm eager to see where this is going, which is something that I haven't said about Heroes in a long time.

I felt this show was poor. I don't see any problem with the concept of focusing on fewer characters each week (Lost seems to do that very well), but there has to be some action or at least something going on besides Nathan and Claire talking endlessly about their family problems, or Angela and Peter talking endlessly about their family problems (see my concern?). Even Sylar and Danko dancing around and getting together on a killing seemed rather blah. I'm still hanging in there, hoping for fewer episodes like this one and more like last week's.

I thought this was a really good sleak episode. Good use of music and it gave these guys a chance to act

It's too bad the writers are once again making the mistake of giving a character more powers instead of advancing an actual plot. It certainly didn't work out for Peter, Hiro, and Sylar in previous seasons where they were pretty much omnipotent and they ended up just taking their powers away. I don't see how shapeshifting doesn't make Sylar into a good again. Of course, it'll probably just be a power Sylar somehow "forgets" to use when it's actually convenient.

Wasn't the reviewer of this show on TVSqaud(don't know who) only a few episodes back saying the writers needed to focus less on trying to have as much of the cast/plots as possible in each episode? I agreed much more with that person. The last couple episodes have been the first episodes in a long time that I've actually enjoyed, and although the show isn't perfect it's a hell of a lot better than what we've been getting since the end of season 1.

no doubt the quality of this show has drastically reduced.
However, this post illustrates why we are ALL unqualified to complain!
My point being, that one of the main complaints viewers had (and bloggers nonetheless) is that TOO much was going on, and too many appearances meant that each story line had only 2 - 3 mins of screentime, unlike shows like Lost.
Now they are doing something about it, yet the blogger still complains.
I'm not saying that i have a solution of the show, but obviously nobody has a solution.
Either a show works or it doesnt.