It wasn't the greatest episode so far (I'd give that honour to "Company Man," with "Five Years Gone" a close second), but I did feel a sense of loss when it ended. I haven't felt that about the season finale of a TV show in a long, long time... hurry up September!

I always figured that Hero 1 (as I shall refer to him to avoid spoilers), while he has an advantage over Villain 1 in terms of acquisition of powers, has a disadvantage in that he can only use them one at a time, unlike Villain 1 who can use them simultaneously but finds it hard to get them in the first place.

Ah! Good point! Now it makes sense!

I never thought about that possibility before, but there was a part in "5 years gone" where he momentarily endangered himself by stopping one power before using another. I wondered why he didn't just use the 2nd one before stopping the first one.

"Only one at a time" is a great, logical limitation. That's why he couldn't use a 2nd power in the finale, because he couldn't stop the 1st one first.

Now, why didn't Hero 2 take Hero 1 some place safe/distant, and then take off himself? Wasteful.

The "cliffhanger" though, was given away way back when Hiro went to the museum.

Foreshadowing events and actually following up on them? How dare they!