My wife has a theory that Mohinder is turning into the Dinosaur that Hiro was shown fighting in one of the 9th Wonder comics. That would explain his scales, but not his webbing.
We never saw anything about Sylar and Elle’s beach to be able to figure out where it was. I’m guessing that Hiro either stuck them on some tiny atoll in the Pacific, or on a beach in the distant past. Maybe Japan, during the time of Takezeo Kensei? Or perhaps Sylar’s exploration of Elle’s gray matter will be interrupted by an allosaur walking by?
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Err… maybe, Hiro, was eh, slowing time down so it seemed to take a while, except, he was umm, powerless.
But jeez, how long did the eclipse actually take place? Arthur had enough time to figure out what was happening, get Mohinder working on it, have enough time to leave him for a while, then come back and be pissed that he hadn’t made progress. So he waited, what like at least 1/2 an hour to come back? Maybe more? At the very least, the eclipse took an hour - only 8 times longer then your longest eclipse. Well, maybe it was a supernatural/powered eclipse. Who’s got the power to slow the cosmos?
And I’m ignoring that fact the an Eclipse visable from the US West Coast probably wouldn’t be visible in Haiti…
I think the understanding is she’s just been dead for a minute or so when the sun came back out, ditto Sylar. Hadn’t begun to rot yet.
Remember when they used Claire’s blood to fix HRG, some significant time after he was shot? He woke up in the facility (New York? Texas?) and had clearly been dead for rather longer than someone would normally be revivable. That would seem to be comparable to Claire dying during the eclipse, powerless.
So evidently the Magical Healing Power completely trumps pretty much everything except beheading (from someone saying last season that they’d have to cut off Adam Monroe’s head, from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure).
I’m wondering when the police are gonna show up to ask Sandra just what’s going on. They were about to drag her away for questioning when Claire went into cardiac arrest, guess they decided to let her stay for a few under the circumstances (though real-life experience suggests they won’t really be so understanding).
But sooner or later they’re gonna twig to something and be doing some head-scratching themselves. “Uh, ma’am, we’re here to question you about your daughter’s gunshot wound” (and assuming Claire’s back from her time-trip): “What gunshot wound? Do you see any scars?”.
Claire’s mom gave then a fake last name. Can’t remember what it was, but they called her Mrs. something and it wasn’t Bennett. So since they got away from the hospital, they’re home free (no pun intended).
Speaking of the Bennett family, what ever happened to little brother? We haven’t seen him in a while.
Isn’t the 7.5 minutes just the length of totality, though? I’ll grant you I’ve never seen a total solar eclipse, but the two partial eclipses I remember lasted for hours, as long as you’re counting from the time the lunar disk first intersects the solar disk, until the time it moves completely away. Which they were… Nathan and Peter fall out of the sky when the eclipse has just started.
Though I’m right with you on the conceit whereby the entire world can see totality (and at the same time, no less). ISTR that even the writers admitted that was “artistic license” (aka BS).
Would it really have been “less cool” to admit that only one or two pertinent locations would see totality, and everyone else got a partial eclipse? (Also, Mohinder’s “total annular eclipse” amused me. An astronomer, he is not.)
They called her Mrs. Butler, which is the alias the family is using since they moved to Costa Verde (?). They’re going to have to relocate again.
He’s marooned on an island with Nathan Petrelli’s wife and kids and Matt Parkman’s wife and infant child.
Do you suppose Sylar and Elle are on the beach of that same island? Talk about a plot twist!
And Micah, and Grandma Uhura, and Reflexive Memory Girl, and Totally Not Gay BFF, and the two FBI ladies who Parkman briefly worked with, … Soon to be joined by Daphne’s dad, no doubt.
Chucked a bucket of water on Elle and made her fritz out! The un-heroes have to innovate; maybe he should give lessons
I wondered about that too but I’m not sure HRG was ever actually dead as opposed to clinging on to the vestiges of life. I can’t recall. Either way the healing factor restoring you after you’re dead seems silly, somehow. If you’re dead, there seems no system on which to run the healing factor and no means of recognising that the Magic Blood is suddenly there. Bit like trying to run the world’s strongest best antivirus software on a PC with no battery. I know the whole show is not exactly Ken Loach style gritty realism but I have difficulty buying this one.
Ah Lyle! I actually give a tiny cheer at home whenever he makes one of his rare onscreen appearances. He accepts his position in the Bennet household, that of somewhere beneath Mr Muggles, with rare stoicism.
And yeah, Nathan apparently forgetting his own children is so annoying. When he was bitching at Angela the other week for genetically modifying him as a baby or whatever, she’d have been within her rights to point out at least she was taking an interest in his upbringing. Especially maddening in a character who supposedly places a lot of importance on family, generally.
Sorry for the unfortunate comb metaphor! And yeah, you’re probably right.
Wasn’t he shot in the eye? I’m not an expert, but I’d be surprised if a bullet in the brain is going to leave you “clinging on to the vestiges of life”.
Besides, compared to powers disobeying the laws of thermodynamics, the ability of the Magic Blood to fix dead people isn’t that unrealistic.
I’m sure it would kill you, sure, but not necessarily instantly. I was trying to avoid invoking real world examples because it 's kind of heavy handed for a fluffy little thread but there have been some sad examples of people being shot in the head though obviously having no hope of recovery, taking some time to actually die.
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When Noah was shot and subsequently brought back with Claire’s blood, they showed his eyes go from “definitely dead” to alive, though I have no idea what human eyes actually look like in the “definitely dead” stage. The point was, there was no question at all that Noah was definitely dead prior to the infusion of Claire’s blood, the same as there was no question that Claire was “dead” when she had the branch stuck in her brain before someone pulled it out.
As for Claire being dead for X number of minutes and the question of how the magic blood is supposed to work on an inactive system…it’s comic book magic. Sylar already told Claire that she can’t die, she’s been called “the catalyst” etc., so there’s obviously SOMETHING in her blood that should render her essentially immortal (like Wolverine in the X-Men comics, the only way to really stop her is decapitation, and even then you would have to keep the head away from the body).
Regarding Nathan and his family: there were a few brief scenes in season 2 that showed Nathan, all bearded up, sneaking a visit to his boys who were in some private school, and the teacher came up and said something like, “You know you’re not supposed to be here.” Someone else (pretty sure it was Angela) also told him that just because he had gotten rid of the beard didn’t mean he was clean and sober and that he should concentrate on that so he could get his family back. The implication here is that his wife divorced Nathan and won custody of the kids and obtained some sort of restraining order to keep Nathan away. Odd that he seems to have kind of given up on them now, but if he’s now going to join Arthur (and if the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree) then maybe it’s not so surprising after all.
Pretty sure there was also some sort of throwaway line in season 2 about Parkman’s wife leaving him and that the child she was carrying wasn’t his after all. She did make a reappearance, after all, in one of Matt Parkman’s nightmares (courtesy of Maury Parkman).
In regards to the other MIA characters that Lightray mentioned…do we REALLY want to see them again anyway? Wasn’t overpopulation one of the main complaints about the Heroes cast?
You’d think, though, that once he became Senator that problem would go away.
I think they want to forget last season happened - when it suits them. I also think that in a month, they’ll want to do the same with the current season.
I mostly wonder if Ele is dead for real, if so this would be Sylars first actual murder for no reason. he already has her power and we have seen in the past that he only kills to gain more powers.
I was going to point this out too. Claire has already been dead for hours, and still revived just fine. The attempted rape was after the football game, presumably around 10 or 11pm, and she didn’t get home until the following morning. When she revived on the autopsy table, it had probably been at least 8 hours. So reviving a few minutes after dying wouldn’t pose much of a problem.
Well, he pops people open to figure out how they work. Up to now it’s been figuring out how their powers work, but there’s no reason to believe he wouldn’t be interested in understanding her sociopathy and what the hell she wants from him.
Okay, so it looks like my memory on Noah is wrong - fair do’s. And yes, I suspect we are stuck with Claire, it seems. Lucky us!
Yes, but in that earlier instance, she wasn’t killed without her healing factor being present at the point of injury/death - it was always there, trying to heal her, but being kept from doing the job due to the tree branch. Thus, by the show’s pretzel logic, I could sort of accept that it rushed to finish the job as soon as the impediment was removed. And, as mentioned, the show does seem to show that they killed Future!Peter with a simple gunshot by killing him whilst his healing power was suppressed. I concede that Claire is Just Special, though.