Whew. I can climb down off the ledge then.
I have no problem with Hiro’s inconsistent English skills. He studied English in school but never really used it much. We know future Hiro is fluent in English. He’s studied English before but never really got to practice it but now he’s in an English speaking environment. It’s perfectly normal for his English to improve in bursts, then suddenly stumble.
Nathan’s father may be important history.
so Peter will get a scar before he meets Hiro for the first time :eek:
Did I also see Isaac rub off some paint to reveal that mystery glyph?
The preview may have included images from other future episodes.
Not necessarily… Hiro might have come back from several years in the future, so there’s plenty of time for him to have gotten used to a scar that Peter didn’t pick up until well after Hiro meets him.
However, with the way TV shows usually compress time, Peter will get the scar tomorrow, meet Hiro three days later, then Hero will be speaking fluent english and changing his look in about a month, and come back to talk to Peter just before the bomb goes off. Eh.
Damn! Ethilrist beat me to it, pretty much word-for-word. But I’ll add: Future Hiro is attempting to change events and deliberately mentioning the scar could be Hiro’s clever way of getting Peter to be more careful this time and not get the scar to begin with.
If Hiro had met Peter before Peter got the scar, I don’t think he would have said: You look different without the scar. It implies he’s never seen Peter without the scar until that moment.
Or he just REALLY got used to seeing him with it.
I’ve had a beard for the past year. I’ve been on this contract a year and a half. My boss swears she’s never seen me without a beard. If I shaved tomorrow morning, she wouldn’t recognize me right away.
Thinking about time travel is an exercise in frustration, but here’s a take on things: In James P. Hogan’s novel Thrice Upon a Time, some people invent a sort of radio that can send messages back in time. Since they also have the only receiver, they can send messages back to themselves. However, they find that they can get a message, but never need to send it at some later time.
They theorize that the act of sending the message back creates an entire new reality at the receiving time, which is no longer connected to the timeline that sent the message. It is uncertain whether the messages are passing from one parallel universe to another (in one, the message is sent but was never received, in the other the message is received but never sent) or if there is only one universe and sending a message destroys a reality in the act of creating a different one. The receiving party never becomes the sending party, so they are often left wondering why ‘that guy’ (who is a version of themselves) decided to mess with the timeline like that.
Anyway, it is possible that the reality from which Hiro came will never exist in the timeline he appeared, so the Hiro of that timeline will never need to go back and talk to Peter. Freaky, no?
So, Peter will never have a scar, and Hiro will never have a soul patch?
From Future Imperfect
“This is giving me a headache.”
“Discussions of time travel have a tendency to do that.”
good grief! maybe Nathan & Peter’s father is Claire’s birth father!
According to my DVR preview guide:
Claire meets her birth parents this week.
Or maybe Nathan and Niki are her birth parents and after she’s born Hiro takes her to the past to be raised by Evil Dad and Pomeranian Mom?
Re: Hiro calling Issac on the phone. I think he gets too excited and ends up talking too fast and in Japanese. I don’t know why he didn’t have Ando call for him, maybe he’s just being stubborn and wants to do it himself?
I almost put that in, actually. I decided it wasn’t enough to warrant a line, same as Hiro crossing paths with Niki in the casino.
I agree. A recap on the Patrelli brother’s late father: He battled depression then committed suicide, and he was “owned” by Linderman.
I noticed a long time ago that all the heroes except Hiro have family issues, and we’ve only met mothers of only two of them (D.L.'s mother and Angela Patrelli), but no fathers.
Follow me on this train of thought:
Sylar is “escaped” experiment or subject.
He thinks the powers are an abomination and sets out to destroy those who have powers.
He hates them and he hates himself.
At the same time he feels powerful, especially when he kills a mutant and consumes their power.
He perhaps even knows of one particlar person with a regenerative ability from being a test subject.
Claire’s adoptive father is looking for Sylar to protect Claire, but is also doing evil in other ways.
In the Claire-dies chronology, Sylar consumes Claire’s ability, making him practically invinceable.
Sylar creates the New York explosion in a suicidal act to destroy what he thinks is the last mutant.
This assumes the “Sylar eats brains to gain power” theory is correct. Unfortunately, I don’t believe that.
Nathan’s old enough to be her father. If Nathan and Peter have powers, Nathan’s kids could as well.
So one thing I though of was that if Mr. Niki can slip in and out of walls and handcuffs and other matter, he can slip into Niki and kill Linderman’s goons and threaten to spike a guy in the brain with a Nine West heel
Which makes the Doppel-bangage really interesting 
Haven’t we met Niki’s mother (watched Micah a couple times)?
And we have met Cheerbleeder’s mom. The Pomeranian Woman.
Don’t worry, it seems like she’s a nonentity in her family’s life, just as much as the show’s.