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You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
/Inigo Montoya

Second, next season will probably have a search for the component which Jack’s father had on him at the end of the show. Consider that a PRC sub will send divers to retrieve the module from the body on the ocean floor, and then reverse-engineer everything within that component. Next season will probably have a large plotline within China, with a Chinese-speaking CTU/CIA covert operative who, of course, will die on the penultimate episode.

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The good things I took away from it was the VP’s comments about not knowing anything until you “sit in this seat” and how it’s easy to have all the answers when ultimately it’s not your responsibility. I think thats a point not made often enough.

I also liked the realization some of them came to regarding not dealing with sociopaths like Jacks dad and Fayed.

Nice little Laura Ingraham cameo there towards the end.
Blacklake on May 21, 2007 at 11:01 PM

So it WAS her!

At least it wasn’t a ‘cliffhanger’…. (even though he WAS standing on the edge of a cliff… DOH!) I hate ‘cliffhangers’ that last more than a week.

LegendHasIt on May 21, 2007 at 10:58 PM

Ummmm, I think it was a “cliffhanger” in both senses of the word. We’re supposed to believe Jack is contemplating suicide either by jumping over the precipice or shooting himself and we have to wait until next year to find out if he did it.

It’s possible. Remember: it’s only been 24 hours since he was released from years of torture in a Chinese prison. I know from personal experience how bad that can be. My brothers gave me Indian Burns and noogies all the time and they called it Chinese torture.

Who’s that sneaking up behind Jack, with a psychotic look in their eyes, at the cliff’s edge?

That was me. I mistook him for Joel Surnow.

Sylar squaring off against Peter? If it’s featured prominently in the promos, mentioning it isn’t really a spoiler.

Yeah, the face-off is not a spoiler. The adjective you put in front of it is a potential spoiler.

Be careful about potentially ruining shows.

Sylar squaring off against Peter? If it’s featured prominently in the promos, mentioning it isn’t really a spoiler.

Why they schedule the (only) two ‘broadcast TV’ shows that I enjoy opposite each other …. Well, I know why, but I don’t have to like it.

Meanwhile, the season finale of “Heroes” was characteristically good (though I have to admit, I expected a little more dazzle from the [**SPOILER**].

Be careful about potentially ruining shows.

And all in all, it sure was exciting! When the groups of people were sitting around their tables talking about the threat that the Russians might attack “our base” in “central Asia,” my heart was pouding! I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty emotionally invested in the notion that we have a base somewhere in a vague geographic region that might be under some kind of threat, which I know because some people talked about it a lot! Good stuff!

Then, when the Navy armed, fueled, mission-planned, and launched two F/A-18′s in about four minutes, I was super excited! I didn’t even know we could do that!

And the suprises kept coming! The target was an oil platform, so I’d have thought they’d use LGB’s or JDAMs or at least some kind of bomb, but then the pilot gave the radio calls for firing one heat-seeking and one radar-seeking air-to-air missile! I thought maybe the Chinese submarine had somehow launched Chinese fighters and a dogfight was about to ensue! But surprise again! Instead of AAM’s, the Hornets launched what I’m pretty sure were fireworks! It was like the 4th of July!

I tell you, these guys have really mastered the twists and turns.

Meanwhile, the season finale of “Heroes” was characteristically good (though I have to admit, I expected a little more dazzle from the penultimate Sylar/Peter showdown).