There's a problem when Heroes leaps into the future: the show can make anything up because, hey, that future is never gonna actually take place anyway!

Cases in point: Daphne is now married to Matt?!? And working with an evil Claire?!? If this is anything like the Season One episode, Five Years Gone, we'll never actually learn how these developments take place; we're just expected to accept them as fact so the show, in its present day form, can save us from this supposedly fatal future.

Do you see the trouble with this logic? The lazy writing involved?

We try to watch with an open mind, and we maybe the show will take us on a path this season that reasonably leads to a potential future such as the one depicted in "I Am Become Death," but we're not hopeful. Read the full episode recap now.

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