A couple other Heroes comments

[darcydodo]

Chibi furry Hiro? Excuse me? I am soooooo disturbed by that, mostly because chibi generally makes me run screaming. (Link takes you to one of the comic books, so spoiler alert for 2.01-2.03.)

Regarding Nathan's scarred reflection — I wonder if he's pulling a Nikki/Jessica? Because he (seemingly) thinks that his brother's dead, and the reflection he's seeing of himself makes no sense. And if he looked like that post-explosion, then how did he get healed? Peter never encountered Linderman, so far as we know, and therefore wouldn't have had his power. (As an aside to that, why does Peter only have Sylar's telekinesis power, and not things like freezing things or super-hearing? My thought for right now is that he only has the powers that Sylar's manifested in his presence.) But I'm very curious to see if Nathan's scarred reflection starts moving on its own. We still don't have an explanation for the Nikki/Jessica thing — being two people at once wasn't her power, being super-strong is her power. Although Jessica having The Symbol as a tattoo is still weird.

And then, going back to Peter, I wonder if the Haitian is responsible for Peter's condition. For a start, he's the only one we know that can mind-wipe, and secondly, Peter's now got the Haitian's necklace. Or at least, Peter has a necklace that looks exactly like the Haitian's, and the Haitian is no longer wearing a necklace. I deduce from this that Peter has the Haitian's necklace. But I don't know if Peter intentionally magicked himself into the iPod crate, or if someone else stuck him there. (And where did all those iPods go, anyway?)

Comments

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

I suspected that the Haitian might be behind Peter's lack of memory!

But that's only because I've been checking e-mail and reading blogs in Matt's living room while his roommate watches Heroes over the past couple weeks. I didn't watch much last year.

I think the show needs to have more Peter with his shirt off, and less everything else. They seemed to agree a couple weeks ago.

Also, Matt's roommates always call the show "hoes", because they saw an ad once on the side of an AC Transit bus, but the "er" in the title was on a window that was opened, so you couldn't see those letters.

[darcydodo]

because they saw an ad once on the side of an AC Transit bus, but the "er" in the title was on a window that was opened, so you couldn't see those letters.

Actually, that's not quite true.

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

How did that happen? Or is it photoshopped?

Perhaps the two letters were blocked by a mailbox or something, rather than a window.

[darcydodo]

No no, that's actually what it was. I saw one of the buses myself, back when they had that ad on them. If you look at the arrangement of the letters, the O is right next to the H.

It seems to have just been AC Transit, strangely, since nowhere else mentions it.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Chibi furry Hiro? Excuse me?

I concur. Seriously, this really doesn't fit stylistically with the rest of the comics. Plus it's kind of pointless and stupid (IMAO).

One possibility for Nathan's reflection (which I only glimpsed--I haven't seen most of the episode): maybe he has a touch of the "dream vision"/precognition thing that Peter used to have (remember those sketches of him flying?). (He may still have that ability, but if so we haven't seen it, probably because it's not as sexy as his other abilities.) Anyway, it could be that sort of thing. I'm still wondering how Nathan even survived in the first place: if he was at ground zero when Peter went up, he'd be lucky to end up with a hideously scarred face (as opposed to, say, being disintegrated).

On a vaguely-related note: who did Candace believe that she was working for, if anyone, when she talked to Sylar about how her employers would fix everything? (I don't think that the Company still wants him for anything other than lab rat, although maybe that's what she had in mind.)

The mechanics (and, dare I say, logic) of Peter's abilities are not well-explored in general, but whatever he might have absorbed from Sylar does present a particularly tricky case.

I don't necessarily assume that Nikki's power is unitary.

Hey, here's a funky idea: Peter got the ability to mindwipe from the Haitian, and then _did it on himself_, either intentionally or unintentionally.

(Side note: I realize that given the scope and extent of Peter's powers, you pretty much have to cripple him somehow in order to allow for any kind of dramatic tension; otherwise the show pretty much devolves into Peter (And Maybe Hiro) Kick Ass For Great Justice. But I get tired of their methods for doing so...and of the general lack of imagination that Peter brings to his abilities, even when he remembers that he has them. It would be far more interesting if his limitations were consciously self-imposed or, say, driven by a need to replenish his energies somehow, as opposed to being not-terribly-bright and emotionally about 16.)

[darcydodo]

Seriously, this really doesn't fit stylistically with the rest of the comics.

That's presumably why they said "sponsored by manga!" or something like that. I can make a great intellectual argument for why they would have done it that way, but I somehow doubt that they made that great intellectual argument.