Yeah, I knew I was probably misspelling it.
Void-Comp is a rather appropriate misspelling, though. As it determines if the testee is a ‘void’ of compassion. (Well…Empathy, but compassion’s part of the whole package.)
Am I the only one who thought they missed a great chance for a HULK / David Banner reference with the atomic guy getting angry. He almost said it: “Don’t make me angry, you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry”?
Yeah, I forgot to mention it in my post, but I got that impression.
I think Hiro’s father might know Hiro has powers, but he knows that if it becomes known, the company is going to take him away. So he tried his best to essentially bully hero or appeal to his sense of duty or whatever to get him to come home, forget about his powers, and live a normal life.
I’m starting to think that Hiro’s father’s relationship with Hiro is very similar to AED and Claire.
Was I the only one waiting for a Geico caveman reference, then? Because he totally looked like the Geico caveman.
Like I said in Post #17. Glad you think so too.
I read in Entertainment Weekly that the guy who plays Ted is starting to get recognized…but as the GEICO Caveman, not as Ted! Which, he’s not.
That’s a terrible idea. I don’t want a show like this to turn into one winking comics-geek reference after another. I want Heroes to take itself seriously, and to only be about itself.
I really, really hope that Hiro is not adopted. Hiro’s father makes a big deal about how Hiro is supposed to succeed the family line, and in most parts of Asia families are so obssessed over bloodlines that adoption is usually never even considered as an option. It would be odd for such a traditional Japanese man to accept an adopted child as his heir. I know these TV series aren’t hugely concerned with cultural accuracies but if Hiro turns out to be adopted I, for one, will be unimpressed.
I don’t mind the Star Trek references and the Stan Lee cameo. Not knowing that NCC-1701 was the Enterprise, or that the bus driver was Stan Lee, in no way affected the show.
Thanks. On further thought, I came here this morning to refute my own conjecture on these same grounds.
Oh, dear. I was going to tell randwill that I’d missed his earlier comment, and that great minds must think alike… but, Entertainment Weekly, you say? Gad, I’ve been infected with the cultural zeitgeist. Is there a pill or a lotion to take care of that?
Yes. It puts the lotion on its skin.
He wouldn’t necesarily have to be adopted. Perhaps Sulu is a super himself - it’s clear that some supers were working within the organization - and that’s where Hiro got his powers from. But his father knew that if he ever manifested powers, he’d have to give his son up, and so he’s somewhat in denial about it, and trying to hide him and discourage him from exploring his powers.
But the implication from this episode is that any supers working in the organization are kept at arm’s length. Without firing up my Tivo, Doctor Where said something (with a fair bit of “this isn’t the first time” bitterness) to AED during the drive out to the bridge to shoot him. Something along the lines of “you told me where we’re going, but none of the details of why.” So far, we’ve seen AED having sidekicks Doctor Where and the Haitian. The vibe that I get is that supers are part of this mysterious organization as a necessary evil to the humans. If that’s the case, and Sulu is clearly high up in the organization, then it’s unlikely that Sulu would be a super.
Then again, we’ve had plenty of family genetics in play with manifestation of super powers. The Brothers Petrelli, Claire and her mom (and Nathan Petrelli), Niki and DL and Micah.
Just ignore me debating myself.
No, I think it’s a valid point. Hiro’s father’s attitude towards the supers didn’t seem to imply that he was one himself. I think it’s possible that he still may not know that Hiro has powers (but it’s also possible that he does - my point being that both are plausible at this point). The powers seem to be inherited and shared along bloodlines, but at the same time, at SOME point they have to spontaneously develop and create a first generation of heroes.
Hm. I wonder if the hero gene is recessive. dredges up from memories of high-school Mendel mucking around with his pea plants
Or Daddy Nak adopted Hiro *a la * Claire, and if he gave a wet fart about blood lineage, he just sucked it up for the sake of The Mission.
ETA: “Nak Daddy”? Help me people.
Isn’t there a contradiction in here somewhere? If Hiro’s father puts the interests of the organization first, then he would have turned Hiro in a long time ago. Plus, if he’d knowingly adopted a potential super whom he’d have to give up one day, why would he even bother trying to make Hiro his heir? I can see him adopting a kid for what he’d consider the greater good, but I can’t see him handing over his entire legacy to an adopted kid who will one day be taken away from him anyway.
My theory is that Hiro is Sulu’s biological son, and either a) Sulu is unaware that his son is a super, or b) Sulu and his organization are both aware but are allowing Hiro to run around because of some other goal in mind.
(Eden did mention to HRG that Peter had probably had a run-in with a time traveling super, but I don’t remember his reaction to the news. )
I haven’t seen it posted before: Sulu is Linderman.
Malcom McDowell is Linderman
I’m thinking that Sulu doesn’t know that Hiro is a super. Hiro’s powers aren’t nearly as obvious as others’. It takes a lot of effort for him to demonstrate them (how long did it take him to fold all or that origami?) And he only discovered them recently.