Also did anyone get that snow falls in Miami thing?

    'Heroes' Creator Apologizes to Fans
    Tim Kring admits mistakes were made at the beginning of season 2, but promises to get back on track
   
    ''In retrospect, I don't think romance is a natural fit for us,'' says Kring of the love stories starring Claire and Hiro
    Mitchell Haaseth
    All About
    Heroes
    By Jeff Jensen
    Jeff Jensen
    Jeff Jensen, an EW senior writer, has been despondent since the cancellation of ''Twin Peaks''

    On the chilly Monday morning that Hollywood's writers went on strike, Heroes creator Tim Kring called from the streets outside the Hollywood studio where his NBC series is shot. ''Yes, I'm picketing my own show,'' says the 50-year-old writer-producer. ''So surreal.''

    But Kring wasn't calling to discuss labor woes - he was calling to explain why Heroes, suffering a creative decline and a 15 percent ratings drop from the same period last year, went from Human Torch hot to Iceman cold. The good news? A turnaround appears to be under way. After weeks of sluggish storytelling, the Nov. 5 episode recaptured some of last season's fanciful energy. We've also seen the next two episodes - and we like them, too. The cliff-hangers are back. Narrative purpose has been discovered. Old favorites like Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) and Horn-Rimmed Glasses (Jack Coleman) take center stage. Even more encouraging: Kring himself is keenly aware that Heroes is broken. Here's his candid critique:

    THE PACE IS TOO SLOW ''We assumed the audience wanted season 1 - a buildup of intrigue about these characters and the discovery of their powers. We taught [them] to expect a certain kind of storytelling. They wanted adrenaline. We made a mistake.''

    THE WORLD-SAVING STAKES SHOULD HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED SOONER The premonition of nuclear apocalypse created a larger context that unified every story line last season. Kring now sees that Volume 2 (the first 11 episodes of season 2) would have been better served if Peter's vision of viral Armageddon had appeared in the season premiere rather than episode 7. ''We took too long to get to the big-picture story,'' he says.

    THE ROOKIES DIDN'T GREET THEMSELVES PROPERLY New Heroes Monica (Dana Davis), Maya (Dania Ramirez), and Alejandro (Shalim Ortiz) ''shouldn't have been introduced in separate story lines that felt unattached to the show. The way we introduced Elle (Kristen Bell) - by weaving her in via Peter's story line - is a more logical way to bring new characters into the show.'' (That said, Kring says a few newbies won't make it beyond this second volume, which wraps Dec. 3.)

    HIRO WAS IN JAPAN WAY TOO LONG Hiro's (Masi Oka) time-bending adventure in 17th-century Japan - where he mentored samurai hero Takezo Kensei (David Anders) - finally came to an end on Nov. 5. But Kring says it ''should have [lasted] three episodes. We didn't give the audience enough story to justify the time we allotted it.''

    YOUNG LOVE STINKS Kring regrets sticking Claire (Hayden Panettiere) with a super-dud boyfriend and forcing Hiro to moon over a cutesy princess. ''I've seen more convincing romances on TV,'' he admits. ''In retrospect, I don't think romance is a natural fit for us.''

    Yet while Heroes has finally found some dramatic traction, this second volume is pretty much a wash. The Dec. 3 episode has been retooled to function as a potential season finale - a move inspired by the writers' strike and a desire to give the show ''a clean slate'' when it goes back into production for Volume 3. At that point, Kring wants to craft a rebooted Heroes that can attract new fans and win back those who've tuned out: ''The message is that we've heard the complaints - and we're doing something about it.''

It has been stated by the crew over on their Behind the Eclipse thing at CBR that with enough dedication and practice, people can learn to use other powers within their "school" of powers....the example given was that Matt, his dad, and Candice could all learn to use one another's powers with enough work.  Presumably someone like Kensei, with all the time in the world to study and practice, would be able to extend his powers to whatever their limit is. I'm just not sure what the healers' suite of powers would be. I guess most likely he could probably heal other people now, too, like Linderman. Other than that, I'm sort of at a loss.

You are both very wrong. I easily recognized the painting is of peter looking at the deaths by the virus of the future. The part that starts at 11.55 minutes of episode "7 - Out of Time" (at this moment the last episode). Easily recognized by the red biohazard sign.

 

Edit: Actual all paintings are recognizable in episode 7, only the one with Mohinder and dead Noah are still left (7/8, 8/8).