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(I posted this below when I meant to reply). Cdawg, Parkman's father is the guy who was giving Nathan and Daphne those visions of Linderman, and Arthur snapped his neck and killed him a few weeks ago.

There WAS an eclipse the morning after Heidi's accident; the reflection of an eclipse can be seen in a hospital window when the doctor is telling Nathan about Heidi's condition. Nathan's kids are with Heidi.

I'm pretty sure it was stated that Parkman and his wife are separated now.

The writers stated in a Q&A at comicbookresources.com that Seth Green and Breckin Meyer's characters will explain how 9th Wonders is still in print in Part 2. They are also going to have a theory that explains how an eclipse can affect the physiology of specials.

I think Mohinder was more surprised that he was suddenly back to normal than he was by the cocoon.

With Isaac dead, who's drawing the 9th Wonders comic?

I've been wondering that for a couple episodes now.

I found it very hard to feel suspense in this episode when they showed us everything that was going to happen in the sketches in the very beginning.

http://vacelts.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/25/2148132-cheerleader-in-peril-as-the-eclipse-starts-on-heroes

The best part of the show was watching everyone’s reactions when they lost their powers.

Elle was only a company girl to try to merit her father's love and approval, which she never got. She was into Sylar from the beginning - after turning him into a monster, she backed off, but when he started playing nice - and then took away her pain - she fell head over heels for him. The whole wanting him to kill again thing is odd - but its a rebellion against the Company, which she sees as an extension of her father. She can't rebel against him, since he's dead. But she can screw with the Company since she has their best weapon under her spell, (not a Heroes power - a woman power).

I'd have to go back to the first episode to explain Peter's need for Sylar's power, but there was a perfectly good explanation for it. Something about saving the world. Stopping the everybody-has-super-powers-drug from hitting the streets, and thus leading to the end of the world - or at least the nuking of a small town.

Nathan's powers are artificial, and the Company's founders all had their powers decades before the eclipse. The eclipse doesn't cause the powers - it's a genetic thing tied to Adrenalin, that's been explained. But the eclipse obviously effects those powers, just as the moon affects the tide, and some say more babies are conceived under a full moon, etc. The eclipse has been the symbol of the show since the beginning, it kind of needed to make a comeback.

Claire doesn't want to help the company - she wants to stop the Villians. She wants to use her powers for good. It has nothing to do with the Company - she just wants to fight bad guys. As an immortal, Wolverine-esqe healing machine - fighting bad guys is a no-brianer. She just sucks at fighting, and so her dad, (and other people) are or have tried to help her develop that skill. Get her into a gym with some hand-to-hand, martial arts training, and weapons training, and you've got an unstoppable killing machine. Kinda like the version of Claire that killed Peter in the future. She's sick of being a victim. She's sick of other people putting their very-much-not bullet-proof lives on the line to save her, when she doesn't need saving, since she can't die. And the whole "I can't feel pain - I must not be human" thing is really screwing with her head, too.

Parkman's ex-wife was a slut - she was cheating on him with his best friend. She's long gone - what show have you been watching. He loves Daphne because he saw that he loved her in the future, and he desperately wants to love her. Heck, she's a lot hotter than his ex, and she's got super powers. And she saved his life from Arthur. That develops some feelings I'm sure.

All Arthur had to do to save Parkman's dad is send the Hatian to get him. That would have ended both Parkman's power, and his dad's. So whichever one trapped Parkman's dad, would have been ended, and thus setting him free.

Nathan's kids? That I don't have a good answer for. I think that's one of those questions the writers don't want you to ask. Like what happened to Aunt Rachel and little sister Judy Winslow on Family Matters. They just disappeared without explanation, and you, simple TV viewer, are supposed to forget about it. Or Richie's older brother on Happy Days. They are characters who don't work, people don't like, cause too many problems by existing, or whose actors want too much money, control, whatever, and are therefore swept under the rug. Nathan having kids would cause too many problems for his Right-Wing supporters who want someone who strongly believes in God. If he's religious, why did he divorce his wife? Why is he with this blonde woman now? Why isn't he raising his kids? How can a single father take care of his kids and be a Senator? And for us - how can he be a single father and be flying around the world fighting bad guys? It's just better to forget he has kids. He obviously has.

Methinks you haven't seen enough 'nice racks' as of late to say that she's got a nice rack, but then again, I am a big boob fan in both senses of the word.

As I already replied to cdawg, next week, Seth Green and Breckin Meyer's characters will explain how 9th Wonders is still in print. It probably amounts to the real-life fact that comics are often finished far, far ahead of schedule. It works because, despite being on the air for 2 years, less than a year has passed in the series' timeline since the pilot. Season 1 took place in Oct/Nov 2006, Season 2 took place four months later (Nathan was shot on March 20, 2007), and Season 3 picked up right where Season 2 left off, meaning it's still spring 2007 for the characters and Isaac would only need to have had four or five months' worth of comics lined up before he died for there to still be new episodes. Plus, in the Season 1 finale he gave a fan his sketchbook, and the writers have said they may use that sketchbook to keep Isaac's drawings in play if need be.

Ah, that's a better question, one I was asking myself. The writers have stated in online Q&A's that Maury was locked up in Level 5 and escaped during the breakout we saw. In fact, it was easy to miss, but last season, following Maury's nightmare imprisonment, Matt Parkman was looking over that group photo of the company founders and while most were labeled "dead," Maury was labeled "incarcerated" so the company got him locked up by that point. I guess we're left to assume that Parkman let his father out of his nightmare once he was securely locked up in Level 5.

Only problem then is that Nathan's visions of Linderman this season PRECEDED the Level 5 breakout by one episode, so... how was Maury already working for Arthur at that point? THAT is a legitimate continuity error, but not a show-ruining one, IMO.

Parkman was able to escape his fathers mind trap last season, so it only stands to reason that Maury, who is far more experienced with his powers than Matt is, was able to escape Matt's mind trap.

Ando has been speaking English since season 1. Hiro used Ando frequently to communicate with people. Remember when Ando showed up at Niki's place thinking she'd help because they had chatted online? Ando was able to communicate with the cops just fine. When Peter called to tell Hiro that Future Hiro said they're supposed to meet, Ando was their inbetween on the phone.

And as for 9th Wonders, as I explained in comments above, in series timeline, Isaac died in November 2006 and it is now only a few months later (Nathan was shot on March 20, 2007 and Season 3 picked up right where they left off, resulting in the awkward situation of having it still be spring 2007 on a show airing in fall 2008). Isaac only needed four or five months' worth of comics done at the time he died for there to be new issues finished, and comics are often finished long ahead of their release date.