What’s with the eclipse thing, anyway? The way they used it originally it seemed like it was going to be a big deal. Then they pretty much forgot about it. I figured they were making it up as they went along and decided to change the backstory and the new one didn’t involve eclipses. But then they bring the eclipse back this season, so it seems like it’s meaningful.
I said this last season and I believe it was confirmed by Kring, the eclipses were just to bookend the series. The season started with an eclipse and ended with one. Sure we see a handful of people discovering their powers around the eclipse but as things go on we also learn that there were others who knew about their powers long before that. Since the focus of the series was the handful with newly discovered powers, the eclipse was just to showcase them.
It’s possible it’s original intent was meant to be more but they tossed the idea out, which IMO is good because the science in the show is iffy enough without suggesting that mutations are caused or enhanced by an eclipse.
I guess I should stop complaining about how every single American on the BBC sounds like he just walked out of 1930’s Chicago.
I was glad that the Maya/Alejandro plot picked up. I’m still wondering how they get across the border with Claire’s hot car.
I’m glad they gave a couple of plotlines a break this week. Last week was getting too confusing with too many active plotlines.
This was the first episode this season that actually held my interest. Seemed like it was the first time anything actually happened at all. And I have to say, I didn’t miss Peter, Nikki, or Hiro at all. I like Hiro, but there’s only so much puppylike optimism I can stand. I used to like Peter, but now he’s become this boring, empty-headed thing with no shirt and a puffed-up chest. I never liked Nikki/Jessica.
I can’t wait to see more of the new chick with the learn-by-sight power. So many awesome things they could do with that.
I wonder if the addition of Kristin Bell’s character will make Peter’s storyline tolerably interesting? I’m hoping yes. Maybe she can displace that ugly Irish forehead Peter’s currently banging.
OK, no one else mentioned it, so maybe it was even more coolly subtle than I thought. I loved it when Molly’s pupils briefly turned into the symbol when she announced that Parkman’s dad was Nightmare Man.
This far into the thread, and nobody’s suggested that the woman next to Parkman’s dad in the photo might be Parkman’s mom? Okay, I will.
And am I the only one hoping that Mr. Bennett (Butler) turns Clare over his knee and thrashes her within an inch of her life really soon now? My God, what a bitch she’s been this season. (What’s great about the thrashing is that SHE HEALS, can’t file a criminal complaint against him, because there’s no evidence.)
Wow, that’s cool, I so didn’t see that. Do you have a screencap by any chance?
Something else no one has mentioned yet is the cockroach crawling around the body of the guy the wonder twins busted out of jail after Sylar brained him with a rock.
That cockroach knows thing.
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If Parkman recognized his father wouldn’t he recognize his mother? Unless she abandoned him too, and then why wouldn’t he mention that?
Wait, what? Maybe my vision’s not the best but there were two entire people in the photo that I didn’t see? You are talking about the photo that Nathan gave to Matt, right?
While there were 10 people in the photo, Mama Petrelli and Hiro’s dad talked about how “Now there are 9” after 3 had been killed.
So two people are missing. My guess: Mr. Bennett (who took the picture) and Claude (who turned invisible to be funny).
One would think that if Parkman’s mom and dad were both in the photo he would’ve said “that’s my mom and dad” or “those are my parents.”
Right, but enigm4tic listed a blonde woman and a black woman as if they were in the photo. I freeze-framed the photo so I could list the depicted here and I would be rather vexed with myself if I omitted two entire people.
The first time they showed the photo, they omitted the two unknown women as well as Parkman’s dad (it cut off at Bob) - the second time, they showed a larger group.
I, for one, am tiring of the symbol being inserted everywhere - I like the affect, but its gone from “cool usage” to “lets see how many places we can use it”.
Otto, let me be the first to say that I thought your OP was so funny, I’ve e-mailed the link to all my friends who watch the show.
Do we know for sure that Mollie actually meant Parkman’s father and not somebody else in the photo. I know she said he was the boogeyman right after Parkman identified him, but could she have been looking at somebody else in it?
She confirmed that it was Parkman’s dad she was talking about, she got the “Godsend” symbol in her eyes when freaking out about him, she came out later and told Parkman that she would find his dad for him, and once she did she got the whammy put on her that she’d been afraid the boogieman would put on her.
No. I think that the “Heroes” writers deliberately evoked “Lost” with Sylar’s predicament, specifically to yank the chains of “Lost” viewers. And I think that, judging by the reactions last week, it worked. As I said.
I freeze-framed it at the second instance, when Mohinder and Matt were looking at it. I did not see these mystery women. I’ll look again when I get home because I can’t understand how I could have missed two entire people.
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I noticed that, too. I wonder if that means she got tattoos on her eyes?
I believe that Mr. Bennett and Claude are both more mid-level employees of The Company, like Eric Roberts was and Suresh is now.
Claude, I think, was someone that was caught and tested on and perhaps made to flip over to their side. I don’t remember what backstory they gave us for him, but I’m positive he’s not one of the Original 12.
That was my first reaction when I saw him in the photo too.
But Bob the Alchemist is in the picture and he seems even lower on the totem pole than Eric Roberts or Mr. Bennett.
We were also shown that Mr. Bennett ran the Texas facility and only answered to “higher ups” over the phone. Eric Roberts didn’t show up until The Company thought something hinky was going on. So Mr. Bennett is at least the equal of Bob the Alchemist.
I second that - Claude was most definitely not part of the “original” twelve, and so far as we know Noah hasn’t been shown to have any power(s) - which seems to be a pre-req.
Did we ever learn what (if any) power Papa Sulu has/had ?