Tio, Mrs. D_Odds said the same thing - you are not supposed to meet your future self, as if there is a time travel rule that all writers must obey. I wonder if future Hiro has learned how to use the sword, because present-day Hiro would get his ass whupped by a chipmunk with a Barbie-sized plastic knife.
Just how good is that healing power? Peter may have been hours without brain activity, but he’s up and running less than 30 seconds after coming to. He needs to really lay the smack down on Sylar. Obviously, the way they assume powers is different; I don’t think ‘eating’ the brain is literally Sylar’s route, but it must have something to do with figuring out how the brain works and incorporating it. Hmmm, having been exposed to Sylar, if Peter ate his brain, would he be twice as powerful?
Remember future-Hiro’s comment to Peter in the subway, something about Peter not having his scar yet? I thought Peter was going to get his scar from his fight with Sylar. But he didn’t. After Claire pulled out the glass shard and Peter regenerated, there was no scar (which you could see clearly now that his bangs are gone).
So where did his scar go? And how does someone who can regenerate actually GET a scar?
Am I the only person that just dislikes the character Sylar? I understand the concept of him being able to digest other peoples powers, but he just seems like a big, huge cheater to me.
I can’t remember the show/movie where they were discussing Superman and that he didn’t really count as a super hero because he could do anything and everything. That’s kinda how I feel about Sylar. What ever random power he needs at any given time is one he pulls out of his handy-dandy lunchbox.
I’m also shocked that Micah did not pick up on his mothers weirdness. He’s pretty good at that historically. I just can’t believe he fell for it.
I’m guessing that Mama Petrelli’s super power isn’t stealing since she used to get busted for it. I’m also confused by the former bauble stealing, election risking antics of Mama compared to the cold, calculating super she’s supposed to be.
ETA: I originally thought the title was in reference to Sherlock Holmes 7% solution. Oh well.
That’s a meaningless convention that a small subset of time travel stories accept. There are zillions of stories in which meeting oneself has no effect on the time stream.
David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself, one of the best such books ever, takes this to fascinating extremes.
Yeah, that bugs me too. I hope they explain it…maybe when he goes nuclear there’s so much damage he can’t completely heal? Although Claire walked out of a fire caused by radiation with nary a scar. Who knows?
Sylar’s like the Anti-Peter. Both can absorb other’s powers and make them their own, but Sylar is doing it…dishonestly, to say the least.
I think it’s the movie Angus. Angus’s grandfather is telling him how Superman is practically invulnerable, and therefore doesn’t have to fear anything, and isn’t a “real” hero, since being a “real” hero means having courage.
And when Hiro and Ando walked into the room with the lines and newspaper clippings everywhere, I knew one of two people would be there, Future Hiro or Sylar, even more powerful (I figured the newspaper clippings might have been reports on “superhuman” events that Future Sylar would have used to get more powers.) As soon as I heard that metallic scraping sound, I knew it was a sword being drawn and Hiro and Hiro would meet.
I thought it was a great episode, though I had a couple pre-Heroes celebratory drinkies so maybe that helped.
I actually really enjoyed the Sylar/Peter smackdown, though I do wish it’d gone on longer. Speaking of which…
Peter! Is! So! Badass! I love him being able to use his different powers so fluidly. And I also totally called the glass-in-the-brain being the only thing keeping him dead. Otherwise I like to think someone would have closed his eyes…yick.
Mr. Bennett is so cool. That’s all I have to say about that. Oh, and morphing-girl is a bitch, but we all knew that anyway.
Was I the only one who thought Ted was dead? I was a bit shocked to see him, and it threw off my whole theory that they can’t possibly kill Peter because then there’s no one left to go nuclear.
I’m really not liking Nate right now.
And booo to us not getting any Hiro until the last couple minutes, though it was cool to see the two Hiro’s facing off. Our Hiro is way cuter than future Hiro, by the by.
Well done to those who predicted (snort) Isaac’s death. I figured it’d happen eventually, but not quite this soon. The crucifixion-via-paintbrushes was pretty hardcore.
By hereditary did you not mean passed on through the genes?
Not that we were shown, but someone has to be the first in the line to be a [del]mutant[/del] hero.
Maybe you could try to find some of your own business to mind.
Do you mean that he didn’t pick up on Jessica, he didn’t pick up on the chameleon chick, or both?
Ah, but you see, stealing those socks and getting caught was part of her Master Plan to derail Linderman. If she mucks up Nathan’s campaign then Linderman can’t use him later. Although…did she suggest concealing Peter’s “death” because of the negative effect it would have on the campaign? I can’t remember.
Regarding Peter’s scar, I thought I could see one even after he’d un-died, but that may have just been because of the line of blood (which is itself a bit of a variance with Clare’s powers, as she’s been shown absorbing her spilled blood back into a wound).
I didn’t think that we were seeing the result of Sylar’s inability to paint, so much as we were seeing the way that Sylar sees the world. The colors were off, garish even. Everything was distorted, so much so that Nathan Petrelli’s fingers were claws.
It’s not that Sylar’s a bad artist. It’s that he’s batshit insane.
As for Peter’s scar, my interpretation (assuming I’m remembering the sequence of events correctly) is that in FutureHiro’s world, Peter hadn’t been able to save Claire, and thus had never absorbed her regeneration ability. However, thanks to SuperHiro’s warning, the Cheerleader was Saved, and so the future can, in fact, be changed.
I still say that Future Soul Patch Hiro was just being polite, back when he told Peter to “Save the cheerleader.” He said that he didn’t recognize Peter without the scar, but really it was those ridiculous emo bangs. We can thank Sylar for that one small favor, at least.
I’m thinking he stopped healing when he started concentrating on being invisible. Maybe he can only used one power at a time? And then later the window of opportunity for the headwound to heal completely was closed? Who knows?
Thanks for the reminder - Peter now has all of Sylar’s powers up to that point. Except he doesn’t know about many of them, and he seems to need to know about them to consciously manifest them. Peter needs to follow Sylar around and see all the powers he uses (because as we’ve seen, killing Sylar is not a priority).
Regarding the genetic components and inheriting mutant genes: my guess is that the kids of mutants obvioulsy don’t inherit the particular trait, but the tendency to have a trait (as we’ve seen from all the kids of mutants so far). We don’t know if it is dominant or recessive yet, as all the mutant kids we know of so far are from two mutey parents.
How is that possible? Genetics == genes == heredity.