No Sunday Night Football this week on NBC due to the World Series (Go Tigers! Stupid Yankees!). So, in its place the network will be airing a mini Heroes marathon.

The marathon will begin after Football Night in America. The three episodes that will be airing are "Don't Look Back", "One Giant Leap" and "Collision". The pilot episode, "Genesis", will not air that night. On Monday Heroes will air in its normal time slot with a new episode.

Heroes has been one of the bright spots in a schedule featuring expensive dramas with poor ratings. Earlier this month the show was picked up for the entire season. I'm guessing that this marathon is to give viewers unfamiliar with the show a chance to see what it has.

(S01E03) Ya know, you'd think if Niki could leave her son Micah with a friend during the day, she could find someone to watch over him while she heads into the desert to bury bodies, rather than leave him in the backseat and claim she's just out stargazing. It's like this Las Vegas stripper-with-a-porn-site and an evil mirror-twin is a bad parent or something. Also, if Hiro's comic shows him back in Tokyo with his friend, how come he didn't know he was five weeks in the future in New York last episode? I have my doubts about Hiro ... why does he keep calling the comic-book artist Isaac, whom he knows is an American, and try to talk to him in Japanese -- then wonder why the guy hangs up?

Sadly, this episode struck me as disjointed and I'm more annoyed with nagging little questions like those above than anything else.