Heroes: ".07%"

[fajrdrako]

That was fun. That was so much fun I won't even complain about the absence of Claude. Of course, as I reflected a few times, he could be there, in any of the scenes, especially since we didn't see the Haitian.

Much shrieking and squeeing and speculating from me and maaboroshi as we watched. Things I particularly loved:

- Mr. Bennet using Matt and Nuclear Guy to escape; that was brilliant. he is so smart and they are so dumb. What a team. maaboroshi said, "It's the two and a half stooges!" I found poor dumb Matt so annoying for a while, but he was delightful here.

- Nathan's comment to Claire about his mother: "She isn't always so cold." But we don't learn what her power is.

- Nathan's collapse over Peter's apparently dead body. (Don't those people ever read comic books? Don't they know no one ever stays dead?) I thought he was going to start kissing the corpse. And their later dialogue: "I'm nothing without you!" Whew. This brotherly relationship is maybe less strange if it's actually sexual - it's certainly a hotbed of psychological intensity. Incestuous or not, the family dynamics there are bizarre. I love the way Nathan is both controlling of Peter and dependent on him. I liked Peter's hair better the way it was before; but I still adore Peter, however he looks.

- The end: Hiro meets Hiro. Wow. We figure that Hiro is going back in time, trying to fix what went wrong, mapping the timeline each time, using Isaac's apartment as a base, until he can make everything turn out right. A person has to agree with Ando: "I'm confused!"

- Was Sylar painting himself in the White House? maaborohsi figured what Linderman must be intending to use Mica for: vote-rigging in the federal elections coming up, to get Nathan elected. They have electronic voting in the States.

- Candice becoming Jessica (or Niki) to deliver Mica to Linderman. Her power is so cool. She seems so nasty.

- Where'd the Haitian go?

- Why does Mama Petrelli want to take Claire to Paris?

- I used to think Nathan was horrible, scary and creepy; now I think he's sympathetic and creepy. His mother is Machiavellian. Linderman is crazy - though I liked the point made in wikipedia: that Linderman's plot to do good by wiping out half of New York and bringing hope to the world, is the same as the plot of Watchmen by Alan Moore. The problem being, that was the part of Watchmen I didn't like. Methinks Tim Kring has been reading some comic books.

- Now that Peter has met, confronted, and fought Sylar, he must have all Sylar's powers, if he can figure out what they are. That would include telekinesis and super-hearing and goodness knows what else.

- Since maaboroshi and I both realized that it wasn't either Niki or Jessica with Mica at the end, surely Mica realized it too? Since he seems to be able to tell Niki and Jessica apart even when one is pretending to be the other, presumably he can tell when it's neither of them. And Mica is smart. Maybe he'll save the day.

- When will we learn Mohinder's power? When will Mohinder learn his power? When will he finally do something that doesn't come to disaster?

- Loved Claire's grandmother's line to her, something along the lines of: "That mouth of yours, that comes from me."

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Or instigating it. Quite a monster!

[raissad.livejournal.com]

Here's what I find interesting. There are parallels between Linderman and Claire...

*He can heal others, but he can't bring others back from the dead; she can't heal others, but she can heal herself, even back from death.

*His godfearing parents freak and effectively disown him; her godfearing mother calls her a miracle, asserting that "God makes us all the way we are."

Linderman's psychosis set in when Petrelli wouldn't let him heal Au Co; The catchphrase from the beginning has been "Save the cheerleader; save the world.

Is there a literal, as well as thematic tie between them apart from the fact that Linderman runs the company HRG works for?

I think Grandma Angela stepped out with Linderman and Peter is actually his son. There are physical similarities between young Linderman and Peter, and they both initially chose healthcare-related jobs.

And yes, if this is true, and if Linderman knows who Peter is, it makes him even sicker.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love the idea that Peter is Linderman's son! That's a good one.

I don't think anything here is purely symbolic or thematic - that is, I think it all has practical meaning, including the various symbols.

I think Linderman is sicker than we guess, either way.