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What about the ability to fly? That's sweet. Let's say it's January, 37 degrees and raining. But in Maui it's 81 degrees and the girls are frolicking in the surf. Boom, you're there. But did you think about your wardrobe before flying? You just can't fly at 30,000 feet without a fleece outfit and ear muffs. And when you get to Maui, you're going to look pretty silly in your woollies. So, on second thought, nix flying.

Next.

I hate the idea of hearing people's thoughts. I'd rather not know what people are thinking about my rapidly advancing hair loss. Just like "Heroes" Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg), who's thinking he's all that when he can read his wife's thoughts - until he finds out she's been cheating on him.

Ziiiiing .... that hurt.

Next.

The idea of being a painter always appealed to me, but I don't desire to be some cranked-up dude like Isaac who's paintings are Armageddon-like.

Anyway, my idea of the future is twisted. For instance, my paintings would depict: The San Francisco Giants actually winning a World Series; "Baywatch" in 3-D; square hamburgers.

What else?

Niki (Ali Lanter) is two people - Good Niki and Bad Niki. Now, it gets a little confusing because Good Niki is an online stripper with a husband in prison. Bad Niki? She sleeps with strangers, kills people and, generally, is tough to be around.

See the dilemma?

Do I want those superpowers? Not really. Besides, I already have two me's. There's Morning Greg - "Don't talk to me. Where's the paper? Where's the bathroom? See you in half-an-hour." Then there's Evening Greg - "Where's my dinner? Where's my remote? Where's my dog?"

So you can see why all of these characters aren't too happy about having these superpowers. I mean it's cool to be able to fly, but do you have somewhere to fly? And think of all the responsibility that comes with superpowers.

Thank you everyone for your good kharma, support, and advice.

Ando-kun is back and we're now a party of two again. \(^.^)X(^.^)/

We're finally on our way to New York but I leave Las Vegas with a couple of
questions. Recently I talked to a Peter Petrelli on the phone.

1) Who is Peter Petrelli?
He said he met a future me who told him to deliver a message to me. I guess
he is important to my mission otherwise future me wouldn't have come talk to
him. I also met flying man Nathan who is also a Petrelli. Are they related
or is it just common last name?

2) Who is the Cheerleader?
Future me said, or maybe it's will say to be exact. I don't know what the
correct tense would be \(- -)/ Anyways, he said, or I said, (?.?) ...,
save the cheerleader, save the world. So saving this cheerleader would save
Mr. Isack? Even though he/I will/was very cryptic he/I should've not
interacted with someone from my current timeline. I'm disappointed. He/I
should've known/should know the negative ramifications of time travel.
(>.<)

3) What kind of sword?
\(^o^)/
I have a sword in the future! (^o^)==[=============>
Is it a broadsword? A machete? A katana? If I know myself, I'd choose a
katana. I wonder if it's magical. +4 to dexterity? I guess my character
breakdown would be:

Hiro (Future)
STR: 14 (I'm going to have to work out more to get this)
DEX: 18 (with +4 modifier) (ditto as above)
CON: 12
INT: 18 (I can use magic)
WIS: 17 (I survive till the future so I have to be wise (^o^))
CHA: 15
Race: Human (Japanese)
Alignment: Lawful Good
AC: -1 (I would think that I would be wearing lighter gear, but get AC
dexterity bonus)
Class: Kensei

Since it's not a video game, I'm going old school abilities (^o^) I hope
the translator translates it accurately.

The biggest question I have is am I a real hero? I cowardly hid while
someone was being killed. My fingers was on L1 + R1 the whole time. I know
a do-over is possible, but I also know it's risky to mess with the
time-space continuum. What makes a hero? I got these powers for a reason.
It's destiny.

I question my heroism right now, and I hope I find my answer soon. Off to
New York!

In brightest day, in blackest night,
Hiro

P.S. I've been away from Japan for a full week now. I hope everyone's doing
well back home.

In the sunshine of your...
Current mood: restless

Claire finally got to meet her real mom and dad, which I think freaked her out a bit. I'm not sure she really got the answers she was looking for either, which is too bad. Maybe now she can just move on and embrace who she is. She needs to realize just how awesome it is to be unique, though I can imagine it's not as simple as that. It's difficult for me sometimes and I'm not even... special like she is.

In other news, I continue to search for that tape. Claire trusted me with it and I'm determined to find it, even if it takes me forever. I'm going to start from scratch and thoroughly search all the places I've already looked 1000 times.

Very little is new in my world, people are still freaked out about Brody. I heard he couldn't even remember what his name was. That just sounds insane to me... though I suppose stranger things... I guess he's going to be back at school for Homecoming, which won't make life any easier for Claire.

In a quick response to y'all:
Things is good [sic]. Thanks Kara, little Gabe looked great as a Moogle. I'm still not interested in Claire, trust me. And Happy (belated) Halloween to everyone! Oh, and err, thanks for the compliments... we're all beautiful people...

Tonight?s episode is the second episode that I directed. It was, by design, a smaller episode? It follows fewer characters and goes to fewer locations than the first 5. HEROES, as you hopefully can tell, is a big and relatively expensive TV show. To balance out the big episodes, Tim Kring and the writers have planned that there will be three or four smaller, less expensive ones which, effectively, offset the costs of the big ones.

Also, truthfully, we?re still learning what stories to tell and how to tell them. Do we always need to see the whole cast in just a handful of scenes? Or should we, sometimes, concentrate on just a few of our characters and give them more intensively developed stories.

...

Ali plays two characters in this episode. One, Niki, who is breaking down continuously and trying to hold it together while experiencing ever-escalating amounts of fear and trauma. Then, her alter-ego is introduced ? a cool and in-control character we call ?Jessica.?

• There's a lot of them. Just when you're getting pretty sick of Niki not knowing what's she's doing or Peter moping about or even (god forbid) Hiro giggling up every scene, we turn our attention to Bad Glasses Man or Matt or Nathan or Mohinder or Sylar. The story is so spread out, we're still introducing most of these characters.


• They're familiar. Not familiar as in reminding you of your best friend, but culturally familiar. Hardly anyone watching Heroes probably actually knows an office drone in Tokyo or an internet stripper, but we absolutely believe that such people exist. Sure, she's an internet stripper ? so she must have a heart of gold. He's a smarmy politician ? he must want to cheat on his wife. It's comforting without hitting too close to home.


• Lots of stuff happens. There's not a lot of soap-opery dragging of feet. There's a lot of action, whether it's cheerleaders being flayed or politicians leaping into the sky. It's fun to see people in constant motion, trying to deal with crazy stuff and keep a somewhat normal life.


• We know what they know. Namely, that this stuff is really weird. But we're all in the same boat. Fun and communal-like.
  It's not afraid of its own dorkiness. I like a show that embraces its genre. This is a superhero show, and no one's shying away from that, trying to make it into Six Feet Under. It is what it is.

Also with the online comics, when are they written? Are they planned out while an episode is being written, or after?

They are planned concurrently. We decide the best story to tell as it correlates with the episode. However, we just learned that the webcomics will be weekly, even when the show is off the air. So, check it out as we expand our pantheon and introduce new characters online.