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Speaking of the mutant chick, I can understand her being to morph, but being able to perfectly mimick not only their physical appearance but also voice and intonation. That and being able to mimick their current outfit (a la Jessica) seems a bit convoluted. I’m guessing she would have to be able to see the person to mimic (hence her being Claire in the cheerleader outfit) but figuring out intonation? inflection?
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She mimicked Simone after Simone was dead, and in so doing apparently made dead-Simone disappear so that the police didn’t notice the corpse while they were questioning Isaac. Her power seems to be a bit more than mimicking appearance.
Also, somebody please spoil me on what new use HRG told Radioactive Ted to do with his powers? All I’ve heard is “burn bright, not hot”, but I missed that part last night.
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Also, somebody please spoil me on what new use HRG told Radioactive Ted to do with his powers? All I’ve heard is “burn bright, not hot”, but I missed that part last night.
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HRG wanted Ted to generate an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) to fry the electronics so that they could escape.
[QUOTE=Lightray]
She mimicked Simone after Simone was dead, and in so doing apparently made dead-Simone disappear so that the police didn’t notice the corpse while they were questioning Isaac. Her power seems to be a bit more than mimicking appearance.
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Seems to me her power is more one of illusion rather than physical morphing.
He told Ted to do an electromagnetic pulse, hence shutting down all electrical systems.
[QUOTE=Lightray]
She mimicked Simone after Simone was dead, and in so doing apparently made dead-Simone disappear so that the police didn’t notice the corpse while they were questioning Isaac. Her power seems to be a bit more than mimicking appearance.
Also, somebody please spoil me on what new use HRG told Radioactive Ted to do with his powers? All I’ve heard is “burn bright, not hot”, but I missed that part last night.
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AED (can I use that one last time for old time’s sake?) reasoned Ted can emit bursts of electromagnetic energy across the spectrum, and not just as dangerous radiation. He told him to “burn bright” to get his energy burst into the range of an EMP, which stupidly, neither Ted nor Matt had ever heard of.
So Linderman can heal things or bring them back to life. Anyone else think he could curry a lot of favor with Nathan by fixing his wife, especially since his thugs were the ones who put her in a chair?
Any other previously dead bodies that might show up later thanks to Linderman?
[QUOTE=Tengu]
We clearly read completely different books. Because I don’t remember anything even vaguely resembling this. [spoiler]He increased anti-mask sentiment, in order to keep them out of his way. He deliberately ruined Dr Manhattan’s life. But he did nothing to increase the tension between the US and Russia. He didn’t need to. That Dr Manhattan existed, and was an American - and that the Americans were, as they showed in Viet Nam, willing to use him as a weapon - was enough.
Of course, it’s been a while since I read Watchmen. I may have just forgotten him actually causing nuclear war to become an imminent threat. But that would completely change the novel from a complex, ambiguous story to a straight ahead superhero adventure. Except for the fact that the villain won, and three of the heroes fell into villainy at the end.
The mention of Osterman in my post should be Veidt, I’m not sure how I switched them.[/spoiler]
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What I don’t get is why you’re openly discussing plot points about a brand new television episode that not everyone has seen, but spoiler-boxing shit from a quarter-century-old comic book.
Ooh, EMP. I always like cool power stunts in comics – it’ll be interesting to see if Ted ever uses this new aspect of his power again, or if it’ll be forgotten forever (… as tends to happen in comics).
[QUOTE=Ferd Burfel]
I too would posit that the shape-shifting is some sort of Jedi mind trick. I refuse to believe that clothing would be susceptible to morphing.
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It’s not morphing. It’s clearly affecting her environment as well, as seen with Simone (and in her special effect of the change). Plus, it’s apparently both visual, auditory, and tactile – HRG didn’t notice any difference kissing his wife and whatshername-as-his-wife.
… Not that it matters; she’s dead chick walking, since both Niki and Jessica will be on her tail.
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So Linderman can heal things or bring them back to life. Anyone else think he could curry a lot of favor with Nathan by fixing his wife, especially since his thugs were the ones who put her in a chair?
Any other previously dead bodies that might show up later thanks to Linderman?
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Now, I know not everybody likes to read the comics, but……he specifically tells Nathan and Peter’s father that he can only heal the living in the War Buddies comics. So we won’t be seeing anyone coming back to life by Linderman’s hand. Unlike Claire, he has no control once death has set in.
[QUOTE=D_Odds]
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?
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Apart from the brain thing, yes. Peter learned telekinesis from Sylar.
This episode was boring and cheesy as hell btw. Did Mohinder just forget Sylar was lying there unconscious, waiting to be killed in his apartment? That’s a scene for future Hiro to revisit.
I thought it was a pretty damn good episode, actually.
The only things that bugged me were
Unconcious Sylar should equal dead Sylar
Why in hell was Peter facing AWAY from Sylar when he was clearly just about to get shattered glass all up in his junk? Why didn’t peter do what he did to Isaac? random attacks from around the room? Or fly up to the ceiling?
next week’s episode looks to be quite action packed, should be entertaining, whether or not it really relates to anything in the long run.
He wasn’t fighting, he was admiring Mohinder’s beautifully decorated apartment. I would probably have been staring at that credenza, too. I wish Sylar would hurry up and kill Nikki and her family, and probably Parkman too (though he did have the only joke). I don’t know if the writers let their kids do those scenes or if they’re just really bad actors. At least Nikki has an excuse (didnt need acting classes to get on the show, just needed tits) but Grunberg?
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At least Nikki has an excuse (didnt need acting classes to get on the show, just needed tits) but Grunberg?
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Nikki…has tits? It sure doesn’t look like there’s anything there on my screen.
I think Peter was facing away because a shard of glass through the eyeball would’ve been too gruesome, but a massive insult to the brain like that is the best way for an instantaneous, dramatic death like they wanted. Doubtful the censors would’ve let them show us Peter’s eyeball getting popped and then re-inflated when the glass comes out. Ew.
When Peter got glassy-brained, I was thinking, “Couldn’t have gone and crouched under a desk or hid in the bathroom or something, eh?” It just occurred to me reading this thread that Sylar was probably using his super-hearing to hear where Peter was - if he wasn’t, he sure as hell should have been.
Peter all glassy-eyed —> :smack:
(Slight side-note - how hard does Sylar tk stuff to get it through the skull and that deep into the brain? :eek: )
[QUOTE=CaerieD]
Doubtful the censors would’ve let them show us Peter’s eyeball getting popped and then re-inflated when the glass comes out. Ew.
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They didn’t have a problem showing us Claire gutted like a deer on the autopsy table, folding her skin flaps back together. Although apparently her healing factor temporarily thought her breasts were wounds because they went away for the duration of the scene…
[QUOTE=Otto]
They didn’t have a problem showing us Claire gutted like a deer on the autopsy table, folding her skin flaps back together. Although apparently her healing factor temporarily thought her breasts were wounds because they went away for the duration of the scene…
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Ahh, but her ribcage was delightfully curvy, no? Yeah, I’d noticed that. The fake skin must have been made without any defining curves to it, while the fake internal stuff wasn’t doing the best of jobs of hiding her breasts. It kind of made for an odd impression.
