Last night?s was episode 11, which in some ways is the end of the first chapter of the first season. After last night we stop airing new episodes until late January.

It?s actually amazing that we?ve gotten that many episodes on the air in a row. I?ve worked on a lot of TV and - on any show that premieres in late September or early October - I?ve never seen one that got more that 9 on the air. Most 1 hour shows on TV shoot for eight shooting days? more or less 10 working days. A new episode airs every 7 days. The math of all this catches up to you, until there?s less and less time per episode to edit, do music and sound effects and visual effects. Add to that the fact that HEROES usually shoots for 10 or 12 days and it gets even worse.

Everyone who works in post production kicked butt on this ? I?ll single out Donn Aron the editor - he did an amazing job in a short amount of time ? and did some particularly inventive things in Peter?s dream sequence and in the scene where Matt interrogates Peter? Look for all the hidden jump cuts and speed-ups as the two guys try to read each other?s minds?. Hats off also to Lori Motyer the co-producer who is in charge of all things in post production. There was less than a week from the time Allan Arkush and the editor locked picture for Lori to color time the show, on-line it, oversee the sound mix and the visual affects and make sure that it physically got finished