We don’t really know that they’re not using the symbol because of a connection with the Big Bad. I certainly got the impression that we’re to think that littlewhatshername drawing that symbol, and the symbol on Angela’s and Sulu’s pictures are connected.
I’m expecting Matt to make that brilliant leap of logic… any week now. Maybe next month, giving Maya time to kill a few more people and cry about it.
Anyway, I don’t think that the Big Bad is Kensei, although they’re probably somehow connected. My WAG would be:
smith puts Godsend “kanji” on sword.
Kensei takes symbol as his personal mark.
Hiro’s dad sort-of “inherits” the symbol.
Previous generation of (7? 8?) SuperFriends adopt use of the symbol from Hiro’s dad.
Previous generation creates the Company, and the Petrelli law firm, and maybe some other stuff, and uses the symbol they’ve adopted.
Big Bad cribs the symbol from there, probably because he/she/it was one of the previous generation of SuperFriends.
So while one of those groups in that mess is probably resonsible for tattooing the Godsend symbol on Jessica, and probably Peter, I don’t think it was Kensei who did it.
Although if rumors that Kensei is immortal prove to be true, he’ll probably have been one of the previous generation of SuperFriends, making the whole symbol mess even more of a muddle.
I like the idea of Takezo Kensai being the new bad guy, maybe we find out over the next few episodes that he has multiple powers, reminiscent of the ones that we have seen and more, and maybe he really IS immortal (or very long-lived) and has determined that the emergence of all the supers is BAD and needs to be stopped, and so he’s starting with the elder generation…after all, it was the elders that wanted to stage a nuclear explosion in a major city, maybe Takezo’s (eventually) highly developed sense of honor demands that this will not be his legacy.
Yes, it’s a TOTAL fanwank. Still, I think it would be cool.
A just watched it and since no one had an explanation for “Kindred” I thought I’d help:
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[li]Claire finds a kindred spirit in another freak.[/li][li]Mohinder is told “You’re family now” by the Company man.[/li][li]Niki drops Micah off at one of DL’s relatives.[/li][li]The Irish gang leader says his gangmates are like his brothers.[/li][li]After a job well done, he considers Peter part of the brotherhood.[/li][/ul]
I also really enjoyed this episode and I don’t think the show is headed for a death spiral anytime soon.
You overlooked the obvious. The big bad is actually Prince Julian Luna, out of torpor and looking to muscle into new territory. Mohinder discovers all the heroes are actually revenants. West is revealed to be a Tremere puppet. Mister Muggles is actually a Malkavian Justicar!
If he does that, I’ll never, ever be able to call him anything but Sark again. I already do that as it is, but he’ll never break out of the Sark mold in my mind.
Was the morphing there just because they wanted us to notice the symbol within the tattoo (call attention to it), or did the symbol actually morph on his body?
When they showed the tattoo scene, I paused the show and said to my husband, “But wouldn’t a tattoo disappear? The ink is a foreign object that would get expelled.” Yay for me for guessing right.
I hope West doesn’t turn out to be a bad guy. I don’t mind him (though I keep thinking Claire’s going to snap her neck looking up at him. What is he, 7’ tall?)
And I’m glad I’m not the only one who wishes the Maya & Alejandro storyline would speed up.
It morphed rather than parts of it fading to “reveal” that the symbol was already in it. The tattoo was a fairly intricate network of fine lines; not seeing how the symbol could have been concealed in it.
I stand by my contention that the tattoo did not disappear because Peter healed it away. Tattoos take a good while to apply. If his healing factor was going to “heal” the tattoo, it wouldn’t have courteously waited not only for Colleen O’Lassie (no idea what her name is) to finish tattooing it but several minutes beyond that while Peter and Mickey O’Stereotype (or his) had their bonding moment and for Peter and Colleen to have a conversation about the Mystery Box. There’s never been any indication that there is any delay in the healing factor kicking in absent some outside issue (like a chicken foot-shaped branch through the noggin or having to physically reinsert a displaced rib). And, if it were “healed” out his body the way the bullets were, we’d see tattoo ink dripping down his arm. So, no, not healed. Morphed and concealed.
I think you are reading into it a level of attention to detail that has not been shown in the show. I think it was just a throw away extra they tossed in there, never to be heard from again. If cornered they will say it was his regeneration but I doubt there was that level of thought behind it.
