# Heroes 12/4: "Fallout" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-12-4-fallout/382882 "2006-12-04T23:17:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-12-4-fallout/382882/241 "2006-12-07T21:55:04Z")
Perhaps Peter will gain the power to mimic beyond just powers. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-12-4-fallout/382882/242 "2006-12-12T05:17:11Z")
If anyone’s wondering whether the character Zach is gay or straight, there’s a spoiler article here which sets things [straight.](http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2006/12/heroes.html) Don’t read if you don’t want to know. It doesn’t contain anything else about the show. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-12-4-fallout/382882/243 "2006-12-12T18:26:22Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] The thing about the dinosaur is Hiro doesn’t really have to fight anything if he sees it coming and has time to freeze it. I almost see the dinosaur as a psychic attack of some kind he’ll have to deal with. The dinosaur represents a fear he has about his power. [/QUOTE] But haven’t all of Isaac’s paintings been pretty much literal representations up to this point? I mean, he paints a train wreck, Claire saves a guy from a train wreck. He paints an atomic blast demolishing the city, Hiro sees the explosion in the future. I see no reason that Isaac would resort to symbolism now. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-12-4-fallout/382882/244 "2006-12-12T20:46:26Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo] But haven’t all of Isaac’s paintings been pretty much literal representations up to this point? I mean, he paints a train wreck, Claire saves a guy from a train wreck. He paints an atomic blast demolishing the city, Hiro sees the explosion in the future. I see no reason that Isaac would resort to symbolism now. [/QUOTE] I figure if he ends up fighting a dinosaur it doesn’t have to be symbolic if he really does have to fight a dinosaur - on a psychic plane - or something. I’m thinking of the times in comic books when Professor X has been drawn into a psychic battle and his opponent can conjure all sorts of fantastic things on the astral/psychic plane and if you lose, you’re also dead in the real world. It’s a total wild ass guess on my part though. I just can’t imagine how he’s going to end up on some sort of rocky outcrop, surrounded by flame and facing a dinosaur which is about to eat him. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-12-4-fallout/382882/245 "2006-12-12T22:00:36Z")
There wasn’t any actual flame. The background went from brownish to orangey to brownish but no actual flames. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-12-4-fallout/382882.md?page=12)