And yeah, Angela clearly check-mated Denko – if she hadn't, he'd have made a move. H.R.G not going to pieces over Claire's predicament? Again, it runs counter to what we know about these people.

Nah, I'm not going to relent because I didn't like the episode for what I saw – you can throw your interpretation and the possibilities at me all you want, a more constructive debate could be had at the end of the season though… by then, it'll either assume the speculations you put forth, or fall apart. Man, though. I miss Heroes season one – not enough to pretend its still the same show though. I'll leave that to the 30% of the audience that remains.

And yeah, Angela clearly check-mated Denko – if she hadn’t, he’d have made a move. H.R.G not going to pieces over Claire’s predicament? Again, it runs counter to what we know about these people.

Nah, I’m not going to relent because I didn’t like the episode for what I saw – you can throw your interpretation and the possibilities at me all you want, a more constructive debate could be had at the end of the season though… by then, it’ll either assume the speculations you put forth, or fall apart. Man, though. I miss Heroes season one – not enough to pretend its still the same show though. I’ll leave that to the 30% of the audience that remains.

K, so just to start things off: I"m sure you could go "all day long" in shredding Heroes. However, my point? You can't do it with consistent arguments. At least, not this volume. Many of your points are reaching, and even the ones you elaborated on just now are as well. Let me clarify…

HRG handed Danko Angela on a silver plate because, as he said, he knew she could handle him. And she did. But riddle me this: was Danko anywhere to be found when the team tried to collect Angela from her car? The correct answer? NO. Not one time. So why would HRG be there?

Speaking of collecting Angela, you call him running off "with his tail between his legs" an inconsistency? Oh, PLEASE. We haven't seen this guy give up once, not once, and you expected him to just leave Angela be because she schooled him in a restaurant? Did you REALLY think he wouldn't send someone after her, especially after finding out she'd lied about Nathan and had an ability of her own? HRG even said it himself in the episode: "she can see these things" in reference to when she escaped Danko's team. He knew she had an ability. What on God's green Earth makes you see this as inconsistent?

And, again, this brings me back to HRG being everyone's last hope. Do you really expect him to go "Danko, please don't take my daughter or I'll kill you" or "Okay, Danko. Take my daughter. *thinking to himself: In the mean time, I'll make sure she stays in good hands*"? I guess your logic (if we dare call it that) baffles me, because I haven't seen one choice of his be inconsistent. Besides…Nathan made the deal with HRG to keep Claire safe, not Danko. I'm sure he knew better than to expect the negotiations to carry over into Danko's neo-Nazi control.

But enough about HRG. Let's talk about Hiro and Ando. How do you jump to conclusions like you do and try to call yourself "fair"? You're assuming Hiro and Ando's story is going to go into them raising Parkman Jr., but I'll be damned if I didn't hear them say they were going to try to find adult Matt and give him his son. Either you're reading some spoilers I'm not, or you're making things up.

And finally…you weren't excited about Tracy? Okay, to each his own. However, for you to say her storyline served only to reveal Rebel and die shows me you're one of those Heroes fans that can never truly be pleased. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you were one of those people who shouted "WOE IS ME! Heroes has no character development anymore" last volume, seeing as you say the show is steadily sinking. And here we are, developing Tracy like it's August of 1974 (look at her Wiki and you might get that), and you chalk her entire story arc this episode up to revealing Rebel and dying? Aside from the fact that any person who saw this episode with the IQ of 57 could tell you she's not dead, this episode clearly dove into a character that had previously been 2-dimensional and fleshed her out. If that's not good characterization, I don't know what is.

Anything else? Or do you relent? Fact is, I don't care if you liked the episode or not. Like I said earlier, to each his own. But you reviewing this episode the way you did, and spitting out negativity about it when there wasn't much negative, just rubs me the wrong way. Mostly because you're reviewing a show, and I feel you owe it to your readers to do it "fairly."

K, so just to start things off: I”m sure you could go “all day long” in shredding Heroes. However, my point? You can’t do it with consistent arguments. At least, not this volume. Many of your points are reaching, and even the ones you elaborated on just now are as well. Let me clarify…

HRG handed Danko Angela on a silver plate because, as he said, he knew she could handle him. And she did. But riddle me this: was Danko anywhere to be found when the team tried to collect Angela from her car? The correct answer? NO. Not one time. So why would HRG be there?

Speaking of collecting Angela, you call him running off “with his tail between his legs” an inconsistency? Oh, PLEASE. We haven’t seen this guy give up once, not once, and you expected him to just leave Angela be because she schooled him in a restaurant? Did you REALLY think he wouldn’t send someone after her, especially after finding out she’d lied about Nathan and had an ability of her own? HRG even said it himself in the episode: “she can see these things” in reference to when she escaped Danko’s team. He knew she had an ability. What on God’s green Earth makes you see this as inconsistent?

And, again, this brings me back to HRG being everyone’s last hope. Do you really expect him to go “Danko, please don’t take my daughter or I’ll kill you” or “Okay, Danko. Take my daughter. *thinking to himself: In the mean time, I’ll make sure she stays in good hands*”? I guess your logic (if we dare call it that) baffles me, because I haven’t seen one choice of his be inconsistent. Besides…Nathan made the deal with HRG to keep Claire safe, not Danko. I’m sure he knew better than to expect the negotiations to carry over into Danko’s neo-Nazi control.

But enough about HRG. Let’s talk about Hiro and Ando. How do you jump to conclusions like you do and try to call yourself “fair”? You’re assuming Hiro and Ando’s story is going to go into them raising Parkman Jr., but I’ll be damned if I didn’t hear them say they were going to try to find adult Matt and give him his son. Either you’re reading some spoilers I’m not, or you’re making things up.

And finally…you weren’t excited about Tracy? Okay, to each his own. However, for you to say her storyline served only to reveal Rebel and die shows me you’re one of those Heroes fans that can never truly be pleased. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say you were one of those people who shouted “WOE IS ME! Heroes has no character development anymore” last volume, seeing as you say the show is steadily sinking. And here we are, developing Tracy like it’s August of 1974 (look at her Wiki and you might get that), and you chalk her entire story arc this episode up to revealing Rebel and dying? Aside from the fact that any person who saw this episode with the IQ of 57 could tell you she’s not dead, this episode clearly dove into a character that had previously been 2-dimensional and fleshed her out. If that’s not good characterization, I don’t know what is.

Anything else? Or do you relent? Fact is, I don’t care if you liked the episode or not. Like I said earlier, to each his own. But you reviewing this episode the way you did, and spitting out negativity about it when there wasn’t much negative, just rubs me the wrong way. Mostly because you’re reviewing a show, and I feel you owe it to your readers to do it “fairly.”

Hiro/Ando – They are doing what they have done all season – providing extremely lame comic relief. It was tonally inconsistent, and we can speculate all day that – finally – they'll be used for a good subplot again, but it seems like a bizarro resurgence of the Matt/Suresh two father's thing. In otherwords, self-cliche. (Matt/Sursesh/Molly = Genius, BTW)

Tracy – I wasn't overly excited by this. Her storyline served to reveal rebel and die. Very utilitarian.

Hiro/Ando – They are doing what they have done all season – providing extremely lame comic relief. It was tonally inconsistent, and we can speculate all day that – finally – they’ll be used for a good subplot again, but it seems like a bizarro resurgence of the Matt/Suresh two father’s thing. In otherwords, self-cliche. (Matt/Sursesh/Molly = Genius, BTW)

Tracy – I wasn’t overly excited by this. Her storyline served to reveal rebel and die. Very utilitarian.

I didn't even begin to dig into the inconsistencies. Wasn't it just last episode that Denko got humbled in a one on one with Angela due to her possession of a secret file? Angola? Denko saunters off with his tail between his legs?

But that is really only the beginning. HRG was there to keep Claire safe more than anything, but at the end of last weeks episode Claire was on the run from Denko's agents sweeping in to pick her up. Her Pass was up.

Is any of this ringing bells? Because it wasn't in Fuller's episode. In Fuller's episode it was business as usual for H.R.G. Unless the whole thing was a flashback and they forgot to tell us.

The point is, I wasn't out to shred the episode as much as I was saying not to necessarily blame Bryan Fuller. If I were out to shred it, I could do it all day long. Being fair also means not being an apologist. If you want to blame someone for the upset over the episode, go to somebody like Aint It Cool News who raised the bar so high by declaring it "The Best Episode since Company Man."

I didn’t even begin to dig into the inconsistencies. Wasn’t it just last episode that Denko got humbled in a one on one with Angela due to her possession of a secret file? Angola? Denko saunters off with his tail between his legs?

But that is really only the beginning. HRG was there to keep Claire safe more than anything, but at the end of last weeks episode Claire was on the run from Denko’s agents sweeping in to pick her up. Her Pass was up.

Is any of this ringing bells? Because it wasn’t in Fuller’s episode. In Fuller’s episode it was business as usual for H.R.G. Unless the whole thing was a flashback and they forgot to tell us.

The point is, I wasn’t out to shred the episode as much as I was saying not to necessarily blame Bryan Fuller. If I were out to shred it, I could do it all day long. Being fair also means not being an apologist. If you want to blame someone for the upset over the episode, go to somebody like Aint It Cool News who raised the bar so high by declaring it “The Best Episode since Company Man.”

The only part of this episode I liked was the Daphne/Parkman part of it. The Rebel part was instantly predictable at the beginning of the episode, at least for me. I admit, I had no idea before this episode who it was, but as soon as they said REbel had been in contact with Tracey, I instantly said, "Its Micah." After that, there weren't any more tricks and turns in that story. I still enjoyed it more than the rest of the episode though (other than Daphne/Parkman). I like Micah and am glad he's back.

Though you make a point in saying that "Cold Snap" didn't get the viewers people anticipated it would, this seems to be the only VALID point you make.

HRG seems to be trailing both sides of the fence, but for someone who seems to question rather or not the writers are following their own show, you seem to not be doing it either. Fact is, we already know where HRG's loyalty is: Angela. Everything else he's doing is because, as said before, he is the LAST one keeping the Heroes safe (well, as safe as they can be).

Since when have you seen ONE episode of a story, that very episode being the beginning of the story, and chalked it up to no connectivity? It's much too early in Hiro and Ando's story to claim that there's no connection to the main plot. I realize it's your job to try and pick things apart and make them seem bad, but at least have a little bit of credibility in the things you say. Wait until the story unfolds a little more before declaring it isn't connected to anything.

And finally, I notice you left out probably the most impressive arc of the entire episode: The Ice Queen, Miss Tracy Strauss herself. Or did that whole story with her and Rebel just slip your mind? I won't even begin to compliment the twists and turns of her story this episode because, if you watched the same episode I did, it should speak for itself.

Moral of the story? Let go of some of your Heroes negativity and start reviewing the show fairly, instead of trying to please the masses of ship-jumpers who no longer watch the show. Anyone who's anyone can tell you this was a great episode, and not nearly "as good as" the others from this season.

Though you make a point in saying that “Cold Snap” didn’t get the viewers people anticipated it would, this seems to be the only VALID point you make.

HRG seems to be trailing both sides of the fence, but for someone who seems to question rather or not the writers are following their own show, you seem to not be doing it either. Fact is, we already know where HRG’s loyalty is: Angela. Everything else he’s doing is because, as said before, he is the LAST one keeping the Heroes safe (well, as safe as they can be).

Since when have you seen ONE episode of a story, that very episode being the beginning of the story, and chalked it up to no connectivity? It’s much too early in Hiro and Ando’s story to claim that there’s no connection to the main plot. I realize it’s your job to try and pick things apart and make them seem bad, but at least have a little bit of credibility in the things you say. Wait until the story unfolds a little more before declaring it isn’t connected to anything.

And finally, I notice you left out probably the most impressive arc of the entire episode: The Ice Queen, Miss Tracy Strauss herself. Or did that whole story with her and Rebel just slip your mind? I won’t even begin to compliment the twists and turns of her story this episode because, if you watched the same episode I did, it should speak for itself.

Moral of the story? Let go of some of your Heroes negativity and start reviewing the show fairly, instead of trying to please the masses of ship-jumpers who no longer watch the show. Anyone who’s anyone can tell you this was a great episode, and not nearly “as good as” the others from this season.