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I like this explanation best, but it doesn’t seem to fit with no one else recognizing him at the diner. Although it would explain how she got the Japanese phrasebook.
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Yeah, diners not recognizing Hiro and the appearance of the Japanese phrase book are hard to reconcile. I figure it’s a result of the ripple effect of time travel. When Hiro first enters the cafe the likelihood of his eventual TT is minimal, so no one recognizes him. As he begins to interact with Charlie, some small ripples from the soon to be future past begin to take effect, resulting in Charlie having gotten a phrase book “for her birthday.” After Hiro jumps back in time, more ripples become evident to Ando, who has a unique perspective on what’s happening. Hiro’s picture appears on the wall, the other waitress remembers Hiro now. The more time Hiro spends in the past, the stronger the ripples get in the future (don’t think too hard on this). Hiro reaches a point where he realizes he never really could change the time stream in a significant way and at that moment gets yanked back to a present time and geographic location which prevents him from causing a rift. Ando and Charlie have spent the most time closely interacting with Hiro so they have the strongest awareness of changes in the time stream. Everyone else gets at most, a strange sense of deja-vu when Hiro walks into the diner several days after he’s mucked with everyone’s past - but only in minor ways the time stream can accommodate.
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My feeling is that Hiro’s travels somehow took him out of the original timestream so that he was never at the diner the first time. There’s not enough information on-screen yet to know exactly what the answer is or if the creators intended for there to be a specific answer. But with all due respect I hope you’re wrong because if you’re right that would suck. The noble sacrifice is all well and good but if Charlie indeed allowed herself to be killed then she allowed herself to be killed for nothing. There was nothing stated anywhere on-screen indicating that she had to die to preserve the timestream or keep Hiro safe or any other reason. Her “first” death was senseless and her “second” death, if she could have avoided it, was even less senseless than senseless.
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I figure Charlie had to die on schedule at Sylar’s hands or it would have thrown off Sylar. He doesn’t find Charlie so he goes and kills Claire a day early, or maybe waits around a few days and kills Claire a day or two later. In either case, events don’t converge such that Sylar gets captured. He’s still on the loose and he’s killed Claire and the world doesn’t get saved.
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Mystery Sock is probably the single greatest nickname in any of these Heroes threads. Too bad the angry, lurking masses will start yelling if the Prognostipainter got yet another nickname.
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I tried calling him E-Sock but it didn’t catch. Mystery Sock is way cooler though and I vote for it.
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Seriously am not understanding all the Niki/ikiN hate. Usually this board goes absolutely insane over hot chicks who kick ass.
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I don’t hate Niki at all. I think the actress does a pretty good job of switching faces when she’s talking to herself. But, hot chicks who kick ass can be had a dime/dozen on TV and they don’t even need super powers. Show us how she rips bodies in half and make it interesting or I vote she can die.
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If Sylar’s innate power is “fixing stuff”, it’s possible that he can upgrade people’s powers - he certainly seemed to have better control of his telekinesis than the original owner did, and there didn’t seem to be that much time for him to learn. Maybe with Claire’s power he could better himself to the point where he’s capable of much better healing than she is?
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Good point. It’s very common in comics that super heroes don’t really use their powers to their fullest potential. Maybe for fear of hurting an innocent or something. But it’s common for a villain with a strong will power to gain control of the hero’s body and use their powers in ways the hero never did, what with not having a conscience and all.
Moving on, I can see Isaac dying. They said they’re going to prove their seriousness by killing a hero and Isaac joined Hiro & Peter in the hero category when he finally jumped on the “save the cheerleader” bandwagon. But what good is he now? In a crisis, he’s the last person I want on my team. “OK everyone, let’s take a break and let me paint for awhile. The paintings may have nothing to do with the current crisis, but what the heck.”
Most useless and irritating power ever. He’s going to have to figure out how to produce visions of the future a heck of a lot faster. I’d rather have Niki backing me up in a fight.
Nathan is a possibility. He’s done some bad things and has failed to step up to the hero plate. Hiro has experienced loss now and Peter losing Nathan would be even more devastating. Maybe while Nathan is dying in Peter’s arms, Peter will permanently gain his flying powers. I will be very sad though.
That’s awful to hear about Doyle of Angel fame. I didn’t realize Glen Quinn died. What a shame. I think part of the reason I never really stuck with Angel was disappointment over Doyle’s demise. He was a big part of my watching every week.
