Heroes: How to Stop an Exploding Man
Ok, I've mused about this for a couple of days and here are my thoughts on the last episode.
The future is not set in stone. Peter explodes at night on election day up in the sky, high above NYC. Or so it seems. In the future that Hiro visited in previous episodes we learned that the explosion occurred during the day, I think it was two days after election day. The visions experienced by Isaac, Peter and Sylar don't necessarily come true. And the events that Hiro and Ando see and hear of when they visit the future won't necessarily come true either. I think multiple possible time lines cascade off every event, every action but in our limited sense of the past, present and future we only "see" one of these time lines at a time. The line we're on and that we "see" is constantly being adjusted by events and actions in the present. Yeah, right. I'm starting to get that existential feeling now. Maybe I'll just move on to my next topic.
Will Peter survive? Hmmm, not sure but if I had to bet on it I would say yes. Mainly because he survived exploding before, er, I mean, in the future, well, in the future that isn't going to happen now. Or is it?
Peter, since he has Claire's power, might be able to regenerate. So could the explosion in NYC still happen two days from now?
Is Nathan dead? Yes. But maybe Candice (or Sylar, if he manages to get Candice's power) will impersonate him in the future leading to all sorts of mind-bending complications that I can't even begin to speculate about now.
Speaking of Sylar. Is Sylar dead? No. Too bad, Hiro should have taken his head when he had the chance. What does it take to kill this guy? Did he crawl into the sewer or was he dragged?
Will Parkman survive? Yes.
Will Parkman and his wife have a child with an amazing power? Hmmm... Someday there might be a Heroes: The Next Generation, heh, heh.
Niki now seems to be able to access Jessica's strength without actually being controlled by her. Is she going to be able to successfully integrate her split personalities? Yes. Some of the time anyway. I liked seeing her get a shot in on Sylar.
Will DL survive? Yes.
Is Linderman really dead? Yes, I don't think he can heal himself, only other people/plants/animals.
So Mr. Bennett's name is Noah. That has biblical overtones. Maybe Mr. Bennet will, metaphoricaly, build an ark and save all of the earth's species (including the species of humans with super powers) from extinction during some sort of global catastrophe. That's a real stretch for me. I'm not very good at metaphors, as you can probably tell.
Molly knows of someone who is even an even badder dude than Sylar. What is his power? It seems he might be able to "see" or telepathically connect with people who are thinking about him. It's not Mrs. Petrelli since Molly clearly said "he".
Does Mrs. Petrelli have a power. Yes, I just don't know what it is yet.
What's happening in Japan in 1671 and why did Hiro go there? Episode 1, Genesis, began with an eclipse and now we see another eclipse in 1671. How are they related? I think I'm going to do a little research into the eclipses.
Was that Hiro's father back in 1671? Is Hiro's father the Kensei? If that was him, what is his power? Bending time? Not aging? He seemed to be able to pass on his Katana fighting skills to Hiro very quickly. This could be a bending-time type of power. Or maybe some sort of teaching/training power.
There are other characters with really cool powers. What happened to the Haitian? Given his ability to suppress other heroes' powers, it would have made for a duller ending if he had shown up at Kirby Plaza so I understand why the writers would want to shuffle him off stage for awhile. I think he'll be back though! Hey! What would happen if Sylar absorbed the Haitian's power? Would that then suppress all of Sylar's other powers? It does seem to be an always on, passive sort of power so maybe Sylar would not be able to turn it off at will. Or what if Peter absorbed The Haitian's power? Maybe Sylar and Peter can't absorb his power because they would have to use their powers to do so. Whew, that eliminates that potentially messy plot development!
Candice was knocked out by Niki. Will she wake up and be a changed for the better, person. I don't think so!
Will we see more (or less, given that he can be invisible) of Claude? I hope so! Christopher Eccleston is great in this role.
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I found the ending a bit off. The fight with Sylar was very anticlimactic. As you say, Hiro should have decapitated Sylar (who's like a cockroach - he just keeps on coming!!). And there were other ways to deal with Peter - they could have shot him, or even knocked him out to break the connection with the power. I don't think he had to explode at all. I guess the writers wanted the brotherly love thing and were prepared to ignore the other options that I was yelling at the screen to make it happen!
I agree, there were potentially lots of ways to prevent Peter from exploding catastrophically. But I also like the way this ending had Nathan redeem himself through sacrifice.
I guess Nathan could have flown away very fast. But he would have to time the moment of explosion fairly closely or else Peter would have time to fall back to earth, assuming Peter couldn't get his flying ability under better control than his explosiveness. Can he use more than one power simultaneously? Anyway, with the timing that close, wouldn't Nathan receive a lethal dose of radiation? And Linderman's dead so he's not available to heal Nathan.
At least Peter did manage to punch Sylar a few times. He's toughening up, a process started when he got beaten over the head with a stick by Claude. (I'm not actually advocating violence as a means for attitude adjustment, but this is a comic book super hero story and I think the writers are not going to wander too far away from that genre's conventions.)
I downloaded all the comics last night and I'm in the middle of the stories about Hana right now. Interesting character!
I read a whole pile of the comics a while ago. The Hana ones are good, as are the Vietnam War ones. I must go check to see if there are any new ones up. Something to help me through the three months of waiting!!!
What did you think of Lost's finale? I've been kind of yeah whatever about Lost this season, but I did like the final episode.
Lost. Well, for me the finale was somewhat predictable. Not bad, it was kinda good. But no big surprises, not much suspense. I also found the body count a bit high. And they didn't knock off the one person I really did want to see dead, Ben.
I do hope Charlie survives.
Jack is also starting to bug me, especially now that they've made Sawyer into a more sympathetic character. But then I always do prefer the bad boys. More fun...
I wonder who it was that Kate ended up with in the flash-forward? There was someone she said had to get back to when she met Jack at the airport.
We'll probably have to wait until the end of the series o find out who Kate ends up with - shame....