lol, yeah. i think most people stop paying real attention when claire's mum goes into her mode.
the whole hiro-going-back-in-time-and-messing-up-history... time travel is a very tricky thing to get your head round. if you go back in time from today, then in the past, history has it that someone came back in time from the future. nothing really changes. people tend to remember that they shouldnt be back in time, but the fact that they are, means that they should. they are doing what they're "supposed" to do, because its already happened.
what i want to know - if kensei has a healing ability - and i dont know how it can be called "minor" he had a hole through his heart which then closed itself! - then how can he not have known beforehand? living in that era, especially in samurai japan, surely you'd be injured at some point, and you'd see the effects? or maybe thats why he's an alcoholic? he saw some things he couldnt handle, mentally?
and does every freakin school in america have a superhero? what else can the new flying guy do - aside from peter, this is the first time more than one person has the same power. the whole claire-kensei comparison, its not the same cos there's about 250 years between them.
ps. i reckon that the box has that pendant with the kanji character meaning godsend - wasnt peter wearing it when they found him in the container?
pps.
lol. 2 claires might've been a bit of a giveaway