Heroes 1x19: 0.07 %

[rachelmanija]

Wow, there is just no way to say anything at all about this episode without massive spoilers.


Alas, poor Isaac. I quite liked him, once he got off the heroin. Then when the comic book fan showed up with a similar haircut, I thought he might die instead, but no.

However, I think there is a chance that Isaac might come back due to time travel complications. Here's my reasoning, plus general thoughts on time travel:

1. Everything we have seen Isaac paint so far has either come true or not happened yet. However, I don't think the show will conclude with New York exploding, because it's not that kind of show. Therefore, it is possible to change the future.

2. I am leaning toward the thought that this entire season so far is a re-set; that New York already blew up, and we're now in the past, or an alternate past. Linderman's speech about how they tried to fix things and it didn't work out sounded like in the past, he and his buddies (probably including Mama Petrelli, Daddy Petrelli, and Mr. Sulu Nakamura) went public with their powers, it crashed disastrously, and this is a rewind courtesy of someone who can time-travel, perhaps Mr. Nakamura, and Linderman is trying to do it differently this time.

3. It's possible that Hiro can only change the future past the point that he's already lived through. That is, if he teleports to the future, that's a possible future; but events that he just lived through, not teleported to, are set. This is just me theorizing, not anything we've seen evidence for; but since Isaac's death is something Hiro teleported to but hasn't lived-to, that may be part of the flexible future.

Also, the first time Hiro found Isaac dead, the election had already happened; in this timeline it hasn't yet. Has the future already been changed (slightly?) Or did Hiro find the body days after the death, after the election? I remember the blood still being wet, but I could be wrong about that.

Speaking of Isaac, I suppose his latest comic book had save the world instructions? So I bet Hiro finds it next episode-- it was about him in the future, after all.

Alas, poor Mohinder. He did manage to save Peter, as no way could he recover from brain-eatery. But he should have shot Sylar in the head once he was unconscious. A few times, for safety's sake. And... oh dear... he's now back with the bad guys. Alas.

Linderman is freaking me out with his "it will totally cause everyone to pull together if I drop a giant telepathic squid on Manhattan" plot. Also, the healing? I did not expect that. I bet he offers to fix Mrs. Petrelli's spinal injury. Also, I predict that healers can also wound. But I like that healing, normally given to soppy female characters, is here the province of not merely a man, but a villain.

Also unexpected: Candice being Jessica. I just thought Jessica had some kind of master plan. Heads will roll over this!

I love DL. So sweet. So determined. So often overmatched. But luckily, his phasing powers are just the thing to snatch his son out of Linderman's evil clutches.

Other things I loved:

Mr. Bennet's telepathic tag-team. Pure awesome.

The beautiful, horrifying floating glass.

Sylar: over the top, and loving it!

The preview for the next episode. That looks amazing. I also eagerly await Hiro vs. Hiro.

Finally, I am really curious about Mrs. Petrelli's power. The ability to come up with truly terrifying wallpaper?

Comments

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Linderman is freaking me out with his "it will totally cause everyone to pull together if I drop a giant telepathic squid on Manhattan" plot.

Heh. Just posted (http://sophia-helix.livejournal.com/463251.html) on that parallel, and sadly, not for the first time (http://sophia-helix.livejournal.com/295336.html).

[oyceter]

Also, the first time Hiro found Isaac dead, the election had already happened; in this timeline it hasn't yet.

Oh hey, I completely missed that! I'm also hoping that Hiro and Ando end up saving Isaac, especially since that was the reason why Hiro dragged Ando on their giant save-the-world mission in the first place. It'd be nicely fitting.

Bwahahahaha, I totally think Linderman is Fuuma! They are both insane and want plants to take over the world! Ok, maybe not, but it amused me.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

If Linderman is Fuuma, does that make Claire Kamui? (I cannot see Hiro as Kamui: Hiro can be sad, but not emo. Hiro is Sorata only hopefully without the [spoiler].)

Then Sylar is Seishirou, and Peter is Subaru. Unless Mohinder is Subaru though, again, Mohinder is not much with the emo.

Niki/Jessica is Hinata/[spoiler]! And Micah is Satsuki except not crazy and amoral.

[oyceter]

Bwahahaha! I feel Hiro could also be Yuzuriha/girl with dog whose name I may be misspelling too; they are both absolutely adorable and cheerful. Hrm, Claire could be Kamui, but she doesn't feel emo enough.

Haha, I read Niki/Jessica as Hinata from Naruto and got extremely confused! But yes. I feel there should be some cloned emotionless Nataku character, because really, what's a comic book show without one?

[maestrateresa.livejournal.com]

The commercial break came, my son said, "If Peter can survive anything, he should be able to survive the explosion!" Then the show came back on, and Nathan asked Peter the same thing. It was pretty funny :)

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

A few times, for safety's sake

Someone needs to give that a boy a copy of Ender's Game.

"it will totally cause everyone to pull together if I drop a giant telepathic squid on Manhattan"

I guess he's been reading his Watchmen.

I bet he offers to fix Mrs. Petrelli's spinal injury

I was wondering if for some reason Peter was unable to regenerate, if Linderman would step in to heal him.

I predict that healers can also wound

Hm. Maybe like cancer rather than the normal anti-healing, butpleasedeargodletsnotgothewayofAkira.

I am really curious about Mrs. Petrelli's power

I also wonder: Whatever it is, does Peter have it already?

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Also, is Mr. Petrelli really dead?

And does Mohinder have a undiscovered power (other than really bad decision making and the ability to deliver whacky pseudo-science earnestly)?

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and also we still don't know the significance of the Indian dream girl/boy with the bouncing ball. And Mohinder's dead sister, whom I think is the same person....

[0ccam.livejournal.com]

End to beginning:
Me too, I kept yelling at the tv/Mrs. Petrelli: What's Your Power??!?

The Glass. Yikes. Following that I kept yelling at everyone who touched Peter: Pull out the Glass!!!

Yeah, Bennet is pretty resourceful. And Matt takes orders reasonably well.

Candice keeps surprising me. I'm not used to her yet. Trust No One.

I've been waiting for the Healer power to show up. Figures it'd be on the "Big Picture Bad Guy".

I like your time travel theory about whether Hiro's lived to it or not.

I disagree about Isaac. Isaac has been a weenie. First he was a weenie that was high. Lately he's been a weenie and not high. But Peter was a weenie too, until he met the invisible man and got tossed off the building. Now he's not so much of a weenie.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I am leaning toward the thought that this entire season so far is a re-set; that New York already blew up, and we're now in the past, or an alternate past.
I'm leaning toward a similar theory, but nothing involving a re-set, which would be sort of a cheat and would annoy EVERYONE, I think, if you could just do that. I think Future Hiro comes from an alternate future in which New York did blow up, and you must be right about Hiro's only being able to go through points he's lived through. He follows his own timeline, which currently is Future Hiro's. NEVER MIND THAT TIME TRAVEL DEFIES ALL LOGIC DESPITE HOW DAMN COOL IT IS. But he will have to change the future, at which point he will be able to jump to a different future because his path and Future Hiro's path will have diverged.

Also, the first time Hiro found Isaac dead, the election had already happened; in this timeline it hasn't yet. Has the future already been changed (slightly?) Or did Hiro find the body days after the death, after the election? I remember the blood still being wet, but I could be wrong about that.
I was thinking about that too. I think the blood must not have been wet. It seemed like the death was pretty recent, especially because the cops had showed up, but maybe he didn't find the body until later. Regardless, however, we know that the future's been changed because Peter saved the cheerleader. So there's been a shift, but it's not like everything's different, just...in a slightly different order. Hence the timeline that's...a bunch of lines.

Linderman is freaking me out with his "it will totally cause everyone to pull together if I drop a giant telepathic squid on Manhattan" plot.
Heeeee. Exactly!

Also, the healing? I did not expect that. I bet he offers to fix Mrs. Petrelli's spinal injury.
DUDE! I did not think of that. Wow. He will have Nathan in his pocket SO HARD.

Sylar: over the top, and loving it!
"This is usually the part where people scream." He's so great! I know some people don't like villains who enjoy being villains...but they're fun, dude.