@crood - I agree. You could say that there was no point to killing off Jessica/Nikki and then bringing her back as Tracy in the first place, but that's a matter of opinion. It seems like Heroes is suffering from "too many cooks in the kitchen". I sometimes wonder if the writers even collaborate at all on their episodes, or if they're just given a brief summary and then head off on their own. Episodes will make a big deal about a certain event (like Claire helping Doyle), just to negate it a few episodes later. They'll kill off Daphne, just to give us hope that she's alive, just to kill her off again.

And yes, Danko is an idiot. There is no way that he wouldn't know, or at least suspect, what was going on. They had a similar kind of problem over on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but they found a brilliant way around it. I expect less quality writing from Heroes, however.

@darthmike431 - Tracy's "cold snap" was AWESOME. If the episode had just been that, I would have given it a glowing review. It was executed beautifully and it was friggin' cool watching everything freeze around her in slow motion. Also good was Hiro's time-freeze, but we've seen that before so it wasn't as interesting. The effects were actually quite good, but Heroes tends to rely on that instead of a good story. I'd say the episode was "hit and miss, but mostly miss". The few excellent parts just couldn't outweigh the really lame parts.

I haven't given up on Fuller entirely - I idolize the guy - I'm just sad that the one episode we get from him didn't do as much as I hoped it would. We go back to staff writing now, so don't expect it to get better for a while. They've been renewed for another shortened season, but unless they start pulling some rabbits out of hats pretty soon, they may not have much of an audience left for it.

@ethuman - Right now, Season 4 doesn't sound so appealing to me, but with any luck they'll bring the show around in it's final episodes to give me something to look forward to. Even then, the NBC marketing team is daft cunning, so I'm sure even if it's crap they'll find some way to advertise it that makes it look like the next big thing.

@crood - Definitely. I need to make a kind of rating system for these episodes, maybe something going from 100 (Season One) to 0 (Season Two). Or maybe I could do it by episode, with Company Man as the top score (I consider it to be their best episode). I'd put this episode up there around a 70 or so. It was fun and entertaining, but had some serious problems throughout.

@manzy704 - Agreed. Watchmen? Needed more Ted Danson. I hadn't thought of it like that, but the Daphne thing makes sense - I do really like that he put an end to that liability finally (although I would have liked to have it end with her being alive). Yeah, I don't know why Tracy is still alive. I have a sneaky feeling they're going to try to do a whole "redemption" plot with her, but I really don't care to see that. Maybe Tracy should go back to just being eye candy.

And I was pretty sure that Jessica/Nikki had a twin sister that died (or am I remembering wrong?) so I guess I just assumed that was the third triplet and that Tracy was the only surviving one. Then again, I don't remember if the dead twin was named Barbara and the doctor had a picture of her all grown up in his home, so I guess you're right. There's still one more triplet out there, so even if they eventually do get around to killing Tracy off, she can always come back as Babs.

@crood - Thank you. I actually just got done re-reading the wiki pages about it (thank god for wiki's or I'd never be able to keep all this stuff straight) and there's a lot of fan speculation about Barbara.

While you have a point with the control subject, I doubt that Heroes would introduce another non-powered character into the mix. Seems like they give everyone powers (I'm still waiting for them to reveal that either Danko, or someone close to him has powers). There are all kinds of theories, but it's widely believed that the point of giving the triplets powers was to see the effects of the serum on biologically similar people. Nikki got super strength, Tracy got freezing powers, so it's pretty much up in the air what kind of powers Barbara will have. I'd wager a guess that since we already have a physical power and an elemental power, she'll have a mental power. Then again, they've been teasing that Ali Larter might have another role towards the end of the season (Babs?) and used the word "pipeline" as a clue. Maybe Barbara has water powers? I dunno.