Many people have raised an issue with the finale of Heroes…
I will put this under an LJ Cut to spare those who haven’t seen or don’t care:
Why didn’t Peter just fly off?
I think Peter was primarily using all his focus to hold what control he was loosing over Ted’s ability.
I think had he taken the time to concentrate on flying as well as holding down Ted’s ability he would have entirely lost it.
I think the explosion going off in NY as originally seen might have been Peter trying to fly away when Nathan wrote him off.
Many of the exploding man pictures seem to show him slightly levitated if memory serves.
Nathan provides the flying, then Peter can spend more time slowing the loss of control.
My $0.02
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Has Peter ever used two powers at the same time? I haven’t seen all the episodes yet (but I have seen the finale), so I don’t know. But it seems to me that if the nuke-power was manifesting itself, and he could only use one power at a time, that would be a nice, pat explanation for why he didn’t fly off on his own.
That’s plausible. What I want to know is, why didn’t every electronic circuit on the eastern seaboard fry from the EMP?
I’m thinking both Peter and Nathan are alive — that Peter survived the blast (known to be possible thanks to the episode “2012”) and Nathan hurled him into space rather than letting himself get nuked (less likely but plausible).
God I’m a geek.
Nikki’s comment
was, “What happened to them?”, leaving it open for a sequel, eh?
Two points:
1. I agree with the ‘two powers at once’ but moreso I’ll note that he’s often shown having to think hard before he uses a power he’s not used to. Invisibility became second nature. Repair was involuntary. Hearing thoughts was never intentional or focused, it just slipped in (like it did with Matt before he mastered it). In order to fly, he’d have to focus hard on it for a few seconds…plenty of time to go boom.
2. The paintings were bogus. In that, everyone put way too much stock in them. They were the future -as it stood at that moment-. Nathan in office, Peter exploding…at that point, that’s what was going to happen. But that was changed. The future isn’t written in stone. Everyone, Linderman included, who thought the paintings were how things would be, period, end of story…well, most of those folks are dead now, so that way of thinking didn’t do them much good.
I think you’re pretty much right about Peter & Nathan, particularly since he would have been busily absorbing every power Sylar had picked up since he killed Peter … although it’s interesting that he never manifested any of them, no?
Some of my other observations/speculations/questions are:
–I think Angela’s power is highly likely to be a subtle persuasion. Note how Claire just meekly handed her phone over (Claire? meek??? a disdainful glare would have been much more in character) even though she *knew* it was almost certainly her father calling. I suspect part of the reason we’ve been seeing almost a split personality in Nathan–sometimes nice, sometimes nasty and self-centered–is because he’s inherently fairly nice but his mother has been shaping him to be, um, more like her all his life. It also looks like she hasn’t been bothering much with Peter, except possibly to reinforce his low self-esteem, which would explain not only why he’s nicer and less self-centered, but also why his memory is much better than Nathan’s. Nathan has a tendency to forget important conclusions, even after he’s been bludgeoned with them … like Linderman attempting to have his wife killed.
–Keito Nakamura is Kensei. Not only did he make some very odd remarks to Hiro when he was training him, but the face behind that Samurai’s mask looked awfully familiar. And it would also explain why each of the people “the company” was tracking had Kensei’s chosen symbol tattooed on them. I *don’t* think Hiro is Keito/Kensei; it would require him to be in the same place at the same time way too damned much … and as anyone who’s ever read any science fiction at all knows, that’s a baaaaaaad idea. Hmm … maybe Kensei *started* the company himself and made some unfortunate choices in business partners?
–What *is* the story behind the whole Nikki/Jessica thing? Obviously they were abused by their father, obviously Jessica died … but how did they end up sharing the same body, and why hasn’t that talent expanded to include other people as well, particularly given Jessica’s propensity for causing spirits to, um, become disembodied?
–Who was Sylar’s father?
–Whatever happened to the girl who could send email with her brain? Caught in a spam filter somewhere?
–Did Mohinder’s sister really die?
–Where’s the Haitian?
–Assuming that the “true dream” power is one that Peter absorbed from someone else … who did he get it from? It seems to have been one of the first he manifested, even before Nathan’s. (I don’t buy that he got it from Charles; Charles perceived his presence, which is something different.) Maybe that’s what his father’s power was?
–And speaking of Charles … who was Simone’s mother, and did she (Simone) have a power? Since she had been “matched” with Isaac and then possibly Peter, I’d tend to think so.
Very impressive speculations! Definitely gets me thinking.
I REALLY hope Charles has a power involving being able to exist after death. I really like his character a lot. Maybe he has an ability like the little boy who visits dreams. Hmm… don’t know.
Also, I completely agree about the Keito being Kensei theory. I really thought the face behind the mask was WAYYY too Sulu.
The good news is, all of these speculations and cliffhangers mean lots of good episodes to come!
Whatever happened to the girl who could send email with her brain? Caught in a spam filter somewhere? I Can’t seem to say this enough lately… if you love Heroes… check out the online comic at NBC.. it explains lots taht might be missed in the actual show.
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That’s exactly what I was thinking. He was too unstable to do anything but focus on calming down.
Yay for Heroes online!
Now that I’ve seen the show…the thing that gets me most (and makes me happy that they found a more subtle way of continuing the show – though the end was NOT subtle at all and that just peeved me) is WHO is worse than Sylar? WHO is the person that Molly is scared of, who will see her if she THINKS about him? We’ve got a bigger bad than Sylar coming up, methinks.
Re: Yay for Heroes online!
I think Sylar is interesting because in a way he sees himself as doing a service.
The moral ambiguity is the manner in which he carries out this service.
One can always find deeper and more challenging moral ambiguities. The scariest creatures are the ones that we transcend understanding.
Re: Yay for Heroes online!
I do like Sylar’s character, don’t get me wrong. I just don’t like that they had to hit you over the head with “we are continuing this cuz, look!, Sylar disappeared.” I thought the passing mention of someone more dangerous than Sylar was more than enough.