The screwed up thing for me, is, Nathan is the whole reason I got into the show in the first place. I wasn't really interested in the show at first, because the pilot episode was so ridiculously exposition-heavy and blah.
But when it was Nathan who flew up and grabbed Peter...that had me sold. And I cried like a freaking idiot at the end of "How To Stop An Exploding Man" because it was all about Nathan's love for his brother overcoming everything else.

But then they kinda ruined him this season. Le sigh. Somebody better fix me my damn Nathan.

Hiro only tore the formula into shreds in the present. He tore it in half in the past, which is why they were looking for two halves of the formula at the beginning of the season at all. So...sadly, it all happened.

(There were some good moments here and there...but yeah. The fact that my episode reaction posts are waaay shorter than they were even last year does not say good things about this season.)

I would really like it if the Magical Negro was alive, because he was amusing. But if all he's gonna do is shepherd Matt around for some boring-ass destiny where he hooks up with Daphne for no good reason other than "he saw it in the future"...bleagh.