I expected that once she knocked Candace out that she was going to revert to her “true” form.

Maybe she was lying to Micah before. Yeah, that’s the ticket!

As a side note, I noticed something else in the finale that didn’t exactly track. When Niki knocked out the girl that can look like (make one see) anything, she went back to looking like she normally looks. But in last weeks episode she had told Micah that she was huge, when he suggested that people that eat like she does are usually fat. It’s really inconsequential, but it occurred to me when it happened.

And it did occur to me that Nathan might have let go of Peter and flew away, but somehow I think he’s dead.

As to the comic book superpower issue, I will freely admit that I don’t that much about the understood powers of comic book heroes as I have never actually read a comic book. That is why I was asking.

I think there is a chance that Nathan could still be alive, as he could have let go of Peter and flown farther off before Peter exploded. But with this show, killing off Nathan is a real possibility.

I could see that Peter might not be able to fly given his distraction of trying not to blow up. It was demonstrated before that he needed some amount of concentration to use his different abilities–plus he passed out previously in the episode when he tried to not explode.

I figure that Peter is alive, Nathan is dead and that Sylar is alive (and had gone down the drain, so to speak).

In regards to healing whiel touching: all I can say is that it is comic book convention that those who can phase and become invisible (e.g. Kitty Pryde and Susan Storm) can extend their powers to those they touch, while self-healers (e.g., Wolverine) can’t. I had assumed, for no good reason I suppose, that that was the case for Heroes as well.

Claire couldn’t shoot Peter because she doesn’t believe in situations without choices. She stalled hoping that some other choice would present itself, and it did. I’ll admit I wasn’t as happy with that, but that’s how I interpreted it.

I read that NBC plans a six episode interlude that has completely new characters but plays into the storyline. People will be able to vote which character they like best, and that character will make it to season two. Anyone else have info on that?

In answer to your question about why Claire couldn’t just shoot Peter and let him regenerate, it is because the plan was for her to shoot him in the back of the head in the “kill” spot that killed both Claire and Peter previously. Now it is true that they both survived, but Peter’s plan seemed to indicate that she was to kill him totally. That is why I assume she was unwilling to go through with the plan.

I am correct in my assumption that the blood trail leading to the manhole cover was caused by Sylar “getting away” so to speak, yes?

And a superpower related question. If Nikki can walk through walls when she is holding on to DL and Claire can be invisible when holding on to Peter, etc., can Nathan regenerate when he is holding on to Peter when he is regenerating?

That being said, I’m also looking forward to the new Old Japan storyline as well as the “worse than Sylar character”.

Two other random thoughts:

Since we didn’t actually see them die, I fully expect Peter, Nathan, Sylar and Officer Parkman to be back, though they will probably sit out a few episodes at the beginning of the next season.

With the eclipse in Old Japan, it looks like there may be ‘waves’ of heroes through the centuries.