agree with all your pluses. and the fact that the storylines had so much potential for exploration, even with Maya, and they just dropped it. Although the "I created you" storyline seemed to start really bad in my view, but now it's interesting. PETRELLI DYNAMICS WHOO

I desperately want to believe Sylar is still intrinsically deranged, because if he's suddenly absolved of all his mental conditions, that will just not fly (heh) with me
I'm going to wait a few episodes, see where they're going with this, before I pass judgement.