I admit, I get a little tired of the “The Future’s So Bright, I gotta Wear Shades” cliche, so I just couldn’t bring myself to use that in the post title, even thought it was the episode title.

First off, I found last night to be a sort of “very special” episode of Kyle XY.

Sure, we learned more about Kyle and Jessi’s powers — we’d seen Kyle previously step off the Traeger’s roof (early in Season 1, remember Amanda crashes the car into the trash can when she sees him do that?), but that wasn’t as high as the school roof and the ground at the Traegers was lawn rather than the hard blacktop of the parking lot.

And we saw how Kyle was able to manipulate water particles in his experiments with Adam. But his ability to, more or less, levitate was still pretty interesting, as was Jessi’s ability to basically walk across water.

All this indicates that we’ve really only just seen the tip of the iceberg in terms of their abilities. They are, more or less, a whole bunch of superheroes tied up in one hot high school body apiece.

But the whole interaction between Kyle and Jessi was annoying, truth be told. And I just wanted to punch Hillary in the face about five minutes after she made her first appearance — not because she was being mean to Jessi, not because she was so self-absorbed, simply because she was SO. Freakin’. Annoying.

Even the Josh/Andy storyline got a little treacly. His whole, “I want to be a doctor so I can save you” thing made me throw up a little in my mouth. That said, Josh had the best line of the episode in the pre-opening credit scene, where Ma and Pa Traeger declare they need to stop talking about Jessi and Josh wonders aloud, “So what do we talk about?”

I’ve always enjoyed Josh’s ability to bring everything back down to reality. Even when he was trying to convince everyone that Kyle was an alien. He was still closer to reality than anyone else in the family was.

And Andy was too cutesy and appropriately mannered (and I agreed with Josh on the wig). I like her more when she’s on the edge, like last week when she used her cancer to get a crepe. I hope that cancer doesn’t make her character too “nice.”

And Nicole going to Brian Taylor to give him a talk about what it means to be a parent also made me throw up a little in my mouth. Especially when he was all, “I never realized she was doing this, blah, blah, BLAH.”

What was interesting, however, was the fact that we learned a wee bit more about Sarah, Jessi’s genetic precursor.

But how is Brian Jessi’s father? Did he also love Sarah? Did they have an affair? Did he provide the second X chromosome to create Jessi? There’s still an interesting mystery here that I suspect we’ll find out more about this season. I hope, at least. (And, is it just me or did Brian’s hair get a lot grayer this half of the season?)

And Emily’s employment at Madacorp was weird. I know we found out last week that she was going to replace Ballantine, but her attempt to get Stephen to stay working at Madacorp was totally bizzare. She really thought that just because Ballantine wasn’t there anymore that Stephen would consider working there? And her attempt to recruit Jessi to Madacorp? Jessi’s emotionally messed up enough that it’s entirely possible she’ll take Emily up on that offer, but talk about a titanium-coated pair, to even ask Jessi to work there after what Emily did to her.

Sure, I know we’re supposed to feel badly for Emily, that her own family was on the line, but she also created that situation herself by accepting the job and pretending she was Jessi’s big sister.

So, what I want to know:
• Who, exactly, was Sarah? I mean, who?
• If Sarah was part of the same experiment as Adam, why didn’t Adam tell Kyle? Especially when he gave Kyle the ring that opened the box that contained nothing but the photo of Adam and Sarah.
• Is Brian Taylor bad or good? His motivations are truly unclear.
• What, exactly, is Latnok? I know the word itself is Hungarian for “prophet,” but what, exactly, is the organization and its purpose? If Ballantine’s father was a member, is he truly as evil as we believe? See the snippet from Matt Dallas’ interview with TVGuide below for some insight.
• Speaking of Latnok, what’s up with all the Hungarian?

Any other questions?

Meanwhile, here are some links to some cool interviews with Kyle XY folks:
• Marguerite MacIntyre’s (Nicole Traeger) two-part (part one, part two) interview, with IF Magazine.
• Jaimie Alexander (Jessi XX) talks to Monstersandcritics.com.
• Matt Dallas (Kyle) and Julie Plec (supervising producer) spill scooplets to TVGuide.com.

Here’s a snippet from McIntyre’s interview, part one:

iF: Were you surprised at the fan response to season one that happened almost overnight?
MACINTYRE: I don’t want to say that we weren’t surprised, but I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we knew it could go either way. We thought we would either live in ignominy and go away fast or people would latch on to it. What was amazing was how much people latched on to it, and I think we were all surprised by how devoted the fans are. … This year I realized that people like our show a lot. [Laughs] Matt makes fun of me and tells me I don’t care, and it’s not that I don’t care, I just don’t know everything and read everything.

From Alexander’s interview:

Describe the connection between Kyle and Jessi, that mental connection that they have.
ALEXANDER: The connection between Kyle and Jessi, it’s a lot different than a normal human being to a normal human being.  They are pretty much made of the same mold.  They’re the only two that understand each other completely and, even still, they have difficulties.
They’re pretty much each other’s guardians.  I think Kyle would be okay if Jessi wasn’t around.  In a sense, he could manage.  But I don’t think Jessi would be okay without Kyle because she doesn’t have anybody else.  To be honest in the episodes that are coming up, their connection is questioned and it is explored heavily throughout the next nine episodes.

From the TVGuide.com article, in which Plec describes Kyle as an “evolving superhero of the soul”:

Although Adam Baylin (J. Eddie Peck), Kyle’s genetic dad — who’s currently in a vegetative state — described Latnok as “a benevolent so­ciety of great scientists,” the group “has big plans for Jessi and Kyle,” warns Dallas. “We’re the prototype for a new way of human life.”

Photos courtesy of ABC Family.