TV Tuesday: Heroes

This week's episode pointed up the complicated story telling this show uses. We jumped from storyline to storyline, and location to location, and timeframe to timeframe. I feel like they are working the storytelling style a little too much and making things a little confusing. Maybe it would make a difference if I was just watching as opposed to trying to write these recaps during the show.

**SPOILER ALERT FOR REST OF POST**

• Ticking Timebomb (Sylar) is running around listening to everything. Remember he picked up that ability from the mountain woman that looked like she just jumped out of Northern Exposure? Well now that he's got Isaac's power to paint the future (Peter's been generating some artwork, too), he's freaked out. He's seen the future and thinks he acquires Nuclear Power Plant Ted's talent and it's him that is going to go ballistic. He decides to go back home to mommy who ends up in a life sized snow globe nightmare. In a tussle with sonny boy, she takes a pair of scissors to the chest and collapses to her doom. Hiro, who's been watching the whole thing, stops time and goes in to cut Sylar's head off. But Sylar is able to restart time although I'm not sure how. Ideas?
• Japanese Teleporter/Time Traveller (Hiro) and Trusty Sidekick (Ando) review the last comic book that Painter (Isaac, or as Hiro says, Eee-sahk) drew. Seems there's no words in the dialog balloons so they decide to go back in time to pay Isaac a visit and find out how the story ends. Sylar is there in the studio doing some painting of his own so Hiro and Ando splitsville and decide to follow him from a distance.
• Killing Machine (Niki/Jessica) and her husband Walks Through Walls (DL) have a fight about their son Electronica (Micah). Remember that Shapeshifter (Candice) is posing as Niki/Jessica and kidnapped him for Mastermind (Linderman). Micah eventually sees that it isn't really his mom. Yep, there are THREE characters running amok looking like the same person. An interesting acting challenge for Ali Larter.
• Grandma Petrelli, with a keen fashion sense, is sashaying around insisting that Save The Cheerleader (Claire) get over to Paris while she continues to hide her own power(s). Claire's uncle Power Absorber (Peter) tries to convince her and his brother (her father) Flying Politician (Nathan) that it could be Ted that's the exploding Hero and not Peter after all. Well, with this news, Nathan calls Linderman and tells him all about this little factoid.
• Linderman calls Grandma Petrelli to get Nathan back in line. She admits that she's in the scheme up to here (I hold the edge of my open hand to my forehead). With a little motherly coercion and guilt, Nathan buckles and agrees that killing millions to save many more will be like Truman dropping the bomb on Japan.
• HRG, Mindreading Cop (Parkman), and Ted "hot" wire a car to get them to NYC. When they arrive there's a nice reunion between HRG and his little Claire-bear. Meanwhile, Peter absorbs Ted's nuclear capability and is having some initial problems controlling it. This after just telling Claire that if he goes all meltdown, she's to pop a cap in the back of his head to stop him. You know, where she yanked the shard of glass out of his noggin to bring him back to life after his "disagreement" with Sylar.
• Professor Mohinder says he has the "formula" to find more Heroes. He meets Molly Walker, the child who can take care of Sylar, has the same disease that Mohinder's sister Shanti had and caused her death as a child. I think we saw her parents being spirited away into the Heroes parents protection program. Her power? A human GPS in reverse. She can pinpoint where YOU are anywhere in the world. But she's sick and her virus crashed her operating system so Mohinder needs to make her better so she can reboot.

Anything I missed?
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