I swear, Lyle and Claire are the only functional non-angsty siblings on this show, and they of course are not biologically related, as opposed to certain other examples.

Hee. Yup.

Speaking of which: so, among our newbies we have these siblings where one has a destructive power and is afraid of hurting people and the other is assuming the protective role; also, they're mistaken for a couple. I'm just saying. Okay, without kidding now, Maya and Alejandro are obvious parallels (and no, not just to Peter and Nathan, also to Niki and Jessica, in their way), though I doubt Alejandro will be with us for much longer; he looks like a redshirt designed to generate some spectacular power display of a grief-crazed Maya to me.

I actually feared Alejandro was gone for good halfway through the episode; that he made it back through the jungle and to Maya came as a bit of a surprise.

If he's indeed being villanous in the present, I'm looking forward to finding out whether he can bring on the menace; that was something Sark was distinctly lacking in, even when killing his bio dad or torturing Vaughn.

Sark was heartless, I felt, but he wasn't scary or creepy, see, respectively, Arvin and Sylar.

I always wondered what Claire actually wanted Nathan to be for her, you know; since the father role is already occupied by Noah, and the friend role by Peter (and before him Zach). But she wants him to be something, and given both his current condition and the fact he didn't raise her and hence never got to create a father persona for her in the way he did for Monty and Simon (as mentioned to Niki), she might become the other person in addition to Peter who gets the real deal.

I like that idea. Their exchanges never struck me as particularly familial and Nathan not as someone paternal with her; it gives us the chance for a meaningful and, yes, true relationship.

Nathan and Angela were the second-best Nathan bits, in my opinion, but I haven't looked at them as closely as you have. & ;-)

Like you, I like the Elder Heroes in general, and not just because their powers are still largely a mystery. (I do hope Kaito's powers will be revealed post-mortem, and a little bit of Charles Deveaux wouldn't go amiss!)

Though for those of us keeping score on the "does Nathan have moral awareness other than what is good for his family?" question, I want to point out that without Peter, he's still very clear on the fact that the whole let millions die in New York idea was evil. Which is a term I don't think we've heard Nathan use before. (Though he was similarly without euphemisms when talking about the plan to Linderman and Angela, only then it was "this insanity" and "mass murder".)

*nod*

and the idea of him co-parenting with Mohinder amuses me to no end, though we haven't seen that in action yet.

I KNOW. & :-D I saw the "Molly Has Two Daddies" idea crop up earlier and was too amused to feel spoiled, even.

Molly's nightmare villain, despite the symbol, is not identical with David Anders' character, though the two might be allies or one could be the tool of the other.

Said the same thing, yup.

Finally, here is my review:

http://monanotlisa.livejournal.com/638389.html