Easily Entertained

OK. If you had a friend who started telling you… “I’ve been having strange dreams for the past six months…” and went on to tell you she actually has this other person named Jessica who takes over and set up and framed her ex-husband… would you tell her, “No sweetie, your only one person. None of this is true!” or would you say something like. “Really? Is she the one who picked out that red tank top last week? Tell her it looked fabulous! And the thing with the hair… love it!”

Well, Niki’s friend chooses the former. (I think she’s nuts, the friend not Niki.)

Hiro is heroic, as is Niki’s husband… in the process of driving away with (kidnapping) Micah. (Saving person from burning car trumps kidnapping in the state of Nevada, right?) Hiro shows Micah the comic book and points out how even the car is the same (a Nissan Versa – Nissan better pay their marketing guys a big fat bonus this year for one of the least annoying as well as perfectly tuned product placements of the year… not quite Reesce’s pieces but at least they didn’t pass up putting Barbie in the first Toy Story!) Later Micah psychically fixes an out of order pay phone to call his mom, he is able to tell the difference between mom and Jessica even without seeing the hoop earings!

Peter finds out that right before Simone’s father died, he talked about how Peter told him he would save the world and flew around with him. (Peter dreamed the same thing…) Then goes on to have a photo-op ready brunch with the rest of the Petrelli family. (We find out that Nathan’s wife is in a wheelchair because of a car accident with Nathan driving.)

Matt helps out the FBI again, locates a guy with a radioactivity problem, and punches out the guy stupid enough to think to himself, “Looser, I’m sleeping with your hot wife.” (That guy so deserved it.)

Claire freaks out her younger brother when he finds and watches the “attempted suicide tape,” but keeps him from making a million dollars by posting it on YouTube by appealing to his need for a stable family and popular albeit adopted sister. (Besides “YouTube is free, idiot!”)

So, does anyone else thinking that Peter’s power may not be flight, but instead is the ability to channel other people’s powers? It explains why he has only flown (or levitated) when in the presence of the brother or in a dream. It also explains how he was able to complete the painting as well as why Hiro chose to appear to him from the future. (Peter is the only person up to this point who has not been frozen by Hiro. Thor thinks the last one is simply because Hiro is still learning (an obvious assumption) but it doesn’t make my argument any less plausible.

Obviously I must like this show because I’m willing to go out on a limb and try to puzzle bits together in a public place. I haven’t even done that with Lost yet!