wasn't into watching Heroes last Monday, can this recap get me interested for tonite?
the trouble is that this show is -not- basically character-driven (wh was said about FriNightLights, that it is basically about the characters not the football) but about the suspense-plot. right?

Television Without Pity » Heroes » One Small Leap p1:
He thanks her and mentions her heroine status as the girl who saved the guy from the train wreck. She's all, oh, gee! Thanks so much! You heard about that? Claire's all, uh, dumb-ass? You only told everyone to TiVo the damn broadcast. Also? You're about thirty-two and far too old to be on the cheerleading team. Now go get me something flammable so I can set my hair on fire.
oh wait, that's a quote. Clare says: "It was on the news, you told half the school to to set their tivos." and when jackie is expressing false surprise she says "O M G does everyone know?".
are the kids saying (not just typing) OMG now? ~ eh.

Peter tells his brother that he tried to fly again and Nate's like, dude? Ixnay on the iying-flay. that is not a quote. what Nate says is to be quiet ~ so, pig latin gets the spirit of that, funny.

..Nathan flings the Suresh book onto a desk, and we cut to the same book on a table in Mohinder's apartment in Brooklyn. I like that the recap notes the transitions. here, book to book. earlier, from the trunk of Niki's car (with dead bodies in it) to the trunk of Clare's dad's car (with a mascot in it). ...
He's feverishly stabbing at the laptop keyboard when there's a sound at the door. He grabs a gun and cocks the hammer. In walks Pixie, brandishing a big white china bowl and a set of keys. "Sorry!" she trills. "I still have your dad's keys!" Well, that's interesting. Seeing as just the other day you were talking about how you knocked and knocked but Papa Suresh was nowhere to be found. Why, if you had his keys, didn't you just, I don't know, OPEN THE DAMN DOOR? See, I don't think this is a character issue or even a bad acting issue; it's a sloppy writing issue. No, I don't think I could necessarily do better, but I do think that, if I were around, the Angel of Continuity wouldn't be over in the corner guzzling martinis and eyeballing the PAs.
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Isaac's Den of Iniquity. Simone is moving paintings around, one of which seems to be of Claire walking away from Nerdeo as we just witnessed in the previous scene. transition. So…what? Isaac's visions capture exits from scenes? His talent isn't very exciting sometimes.