Some thoughts on the other night's Heroes
Sep. 26th, 2007 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kd7sovI had intended to post this yesterday, but my parents seem to think they should get to use their computer.
There are, of necessity, spoilers under the cut.
Firstly: Claire, girl, you are stupid. (You too, Noah, but we'll get to you. Also, you're both abysmal liars.)
In your new life, you have precisely two tasks. First: do not draw attention to yourself. Second: do not follow any of the patterns of your prior life. The Company, as Mr. Midas told Mohinder, has practically unlimited resources. And now that my one-person-with-any-specific-power hypothesis has been blown out of the water, it's entirely possible that they've found another cyberpath, which would give them access to any information stored electronically. Don't stand out: don't get your name or picture in the paper, don't get mentioned on blogs, don't do anything to draw attention. And don't fall into your habitual patterns.
Now, I admit, this is where control of her power would be useful. As it is, any time she gets hurt where other people could reasonably be aware of it, and then is fine a few minutes later, she draws attention.
Now, Mr. Bennett. You need to bury yourself even more deeply. The Company has had many many years of studying you - learning how you think, how you react. All companies have files on their employees, but a company that is based on investigating people who usually don't want to be investigated will have even more extensive files - especially given how many times your wife had to be memory-wiped. It's good that you've taken a subordinate position, when before you were very much at the top. But you need to accept this position. No dictating terms to your boss. No setting your own schedule after just a few months. Sure, your boss is a jerk, but everyone has to deal with that at some point.
So I looked at TV Week on Sunday to see the summary. "The fates of Peter, Nathan, and Matt." I've seen too many "summaries" that were completely divorced from what they were summarizing to take this at face value, but even so I formed some expectations. Nathan, of course, would be dead - unfortunate, but the most logical result of the end of the finale. Matt might or might not - he's someone who they can afford to kill, unlike (for instance) Sylar, Hiro, or Peter; but he isn't someone completely without fans. And Peter would of course be alive. (After all, he has Claire's power; also, no one ever gets directly harmed by their own use of their own power - Ted lacks radiation burns, Nathan doesn't get windburned [or even mussed] from flying...) If certain fans were correct he'd land in or near Meredith's trailer park, inevitably leading to sleeping with probably followed by O HAI I SLEPT WITH UR BROTHR TU. (Ow. Never make me do that again.)
Instead, what do I find? Nathan not only isn't dead, he's a drunk bum (with neatly-groomed beard) who's chased his family away. Matt is, somehow, hiding his previous police experience in order to get a new police job - and Molly's right, he is cheating, although my view's a bit different. More later. And Peter is locked in an iPod warehouse with what appears to be a power he shouldn't have in any timeline for about another eight months, a hole where his memory should be, and what looks like the Haitian's pendant.
Personally, I was also expecting Niki and DL to adopt Molly. Perhaps it's just that she and Micah look quite cute together.
Hiro, meanwhile, has his own problems. First, he doesn't seem to realize what's been obvious to me since 5YG: in Heroesverse, changing the past divorces you from the timeline. (To put it another way, you go down the other Trouser Leg of Time.) Second: over the preceding 335-odd years, haven't Japanese and English both undergone a fair few changes? Should he and Englishman even understand each other?
Now, for Matt. It appears that he has passed his detective exam. If we are to take previous canon at its word, the only reason he didn't do so in LA is his unadmitted dyslexia. As my brother pointed out, telepathic reception in a hostage situation like the test shown would be actually a good thing - especially if you can keep it to a general surface scan. However: as far as I can tell, dyslexia doesn't go away, and I doubt the NY and LA PDs have substantially different requirements, so Matt has used his gift to take the answers to the written test out of someone else's head. That is cheating, and it is wrong.
And Mohinder is perpetuating the illusion that everyone everywhere understands English.
New Supers introduced this episode: Mr. Midas, Flyboy, "You", Maya (and Alejandro? Also, do we have any idea how Maya kills?). I still want to know Kaito's and Angela's powers, and I suspect Nathan's sons and Simone have the coding for powers. (On the other hand, Shanti almost certainly did but Mohinder almost certainly doesn't, so.)
I think these may be something of a regular feature from me.
There are, of necessity, spoilers under the cut.
Firstly: Claire, girl, you are stupid. (You too, Noah, but we'll get to you. Also, you're both abysmal liars.)
In your new life, you have precisely two tasks. First: do not draw attention to yourself. Second: do not follow any of the patterns of your prior life. The Company, as Mr. Midas told Mohinder, has practically unlimited resources. And now that my one-person-with-any-specific-power hypothesis has been blown out of the water, it's entirely possible that they've found another cyberpath, which would give them access to any information stored electronically. Don't stand out: don't get your name or picture in the paper, don't get mentioned on blogs, don't do anything to draw attention. And don't fall into your habitual patterns.
Now, I admit, this is where control of her power would be useful. As it is, any time she gets hurt where other people could reasonably be aware of it, and then is fine a few minutes later, she draws attention.
Now, Mr. Bennett. You need to bury yourself even more deeply. The Company has had many many years of studying you - learning how you think, how you react. All companies have files on their employees, but a company that is based on investigating people who usually don't want to be investigated will have even more extensive files - especially given how many times your wife had to be memory-wiped. It's good that you've taken a subordinate position, when before you were very much at the top. But you need to accept this position. No dictating terms to your boss. No setting your own schedule after just a few months. Sure, your boss is a jerk, but everyone has to deal with that at some point.
So I looked at TV Week on Sunday to see the summary. "The fates of Peter, Nathan, and Matt." I've seen too many "summaries" that were completely divorced from what they were summarizing to take this at face value, but even so I formed some expectations. Nathan, of course, would be dead - unfortunate, but the most logical result of the end of the finale. Matt might or might not - he's someone who they can afford to kill, unlike (for instance) Sylar, Hiro, or Peter; but he isn't someone completely without fans. And Peter would of course be alive. (After all, he has Claire's power; also, no one ever gets directly harmed by their own use of their own power - Ted lacks radiation burns, Nathan doesn't get windburned [or even mussed] from flying...) If certain fans were correct he'd land in or near Meredith's trailer park, inevitably leading to sleeping with probably followed by O HAI I SLEPT WITH UR BROTHR TU. (Ow. Never make me do that again.)
Instead, what do I find? Nathan not only isn't dead, he's a drunk bum (with neatly-groomed beard) who's chased his family away. Matt is, somehow, hiding his previous police experience in order to get a new police job - and Molly's right, he is cheating, although my view's a bit different. More later. And Peter is locked in an iPod warehouse with what appears to be a power he shouldn't have in any timeline for about another eight months, a hole where his memory should be, and what looks like the Haitian's pendant.
Personally, I was also expecting Niki and DL to adopt Molly. Perhaps it's just that she and Micah look quite cute together.
Hiro, meanwhile, has his own problems. First, he doesn't seem to realize what's been obvious to me since 5YG: in Heroesverse, changing the past divorces you from the timeline. (To put it another way, you go down the other Trouser Leg of Time.) Second: over the preceding 335-odd years, haven't Japanese and English both undergone a fair few changes? Should he and Englishman even understand each other?
Now, for Matt. It appears that he has passed his detective exam. If we are to take previous canon at its word, the only reason he didn't do so in LA is his unadmitted dyslexia. As my brother pointed out, telepathic reception in a hostage situation like the test shown would be actually a good thing - especially if you can keep it to a general surface scan. However: as far as I can tell, dyslexia doesn't go away, and I doubt the NY and LA PDs have substantially different requirements, so Matt has used his gift to take the answers to the written test out of someone else's head. That is cheating, and it is wrong.
And Mohinder is perpetuating the illusion that everyone everywhere understands English.
New Supers introduced this episode: Mr. Midas, Flyboy, "You", Maya (and Alejandro? Also, do we have any idea how Maya kills?). I still want to know Kaito's and Angela's powers, and I suspect Nathan's sons and Simone have the coding for powers. (On the other hand, Shanti almost certainly did but Mohinder almost certainly doesn't, so.)
I think these may be something of a regular feature from me.
