One good sign for Heroes' future - with each episode, the number of people in my living room watching it grows by one. If this is happening elsewhere, the ratings should be really nice for the climax during the November Sweeps.

TV Guide will be featuring the cast of Heroes in their October 19th issue. The mark of a good show is when it can improve on its lead-in, and Heroes has done it big-time.

Claire's predicament is proof that in the Heroes-verse, superpowers are based on cerebral activity. Claire was fortunate that her power of regeneration has a standby mode if her brain is temporarily disabled through severe injury. Hmm, looking at where she was stabbed, I'm wondering if her medulla oblongata had been severed. With her brain unable to connect to the rest of the body, she entered a state of apparent death. When the spike was removed, the brain was able to re-fuse the medulla and initiate revival.

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