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<blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 4564827" data-attributes="member: 115">The problem with trope is that it has to make sense within the characters.&nbsp; Here's the problem I see with that scene:1) HRG is blinded by need to protect Claire, carries her off and ignores finishing Elle and Sylar.&nbsp; Yet, he'll go and leave her when she's vulnerable to return and finish them off?2) HRG is the bad-ass we know him to be and can (and would) finish Elle and Sylar, but chooses instead to whisk away Claire, whom he says has a flesh wound?The two are mutually exclusive.&nbsp; Either HRG is merciless and kills Elle and Sylar when he gets the chance, or HRG is merciful and protects Claire at the expense of leaving Elle and Sylar alive.The way I think the scene should have played is that HRG finishes the beat-down on the two, and draws his gun for the kill, assuming Claire is fine due to healing.&nbsp; Then she cries out (and is actually hurt), and HRG has to make a choice to do one or the other... but absolutely not both.&nbsp; It's not a choice if he can choose to do both.&nbsp; I'm thinking back to the S1 scene where HRG/Haitian are going to catch Peter/Claude, but HRG has to abandon that to attend to Sandra.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LightPhoenix, post: 4564827, member: 115"] The problem with trope is that it has to make sense within the characters. Here's the problem I see with that scene: 1) HRG is blinded by need to protect Claire, carries her off and ignores finishing Elle and Sylar. Yet, he'll go and leave her when she's vulnerable to return and finish them off? 2) HRG is the bad-ass we know him to be and can (and would) finish Elle and Sylar, but chooses instead to whisk away Claire, whom he says has a flesh wound? The two are mutually exclusive. Either HRG is merciless and kills Elle and Sylar when he gets the chance, or HRG is merciful and protects Claire at the expense of leaving Elle and Sylar alive. The way I think the scene [i]should[/i] have played is that HRG finishes the beat-down on the two, and draws his gun for the kill, assuming Claire is fine due to healing. Then she cries out (and is actually hurt), and HRG has to make a choice to do one or the other... but absolutely not both. It's not a choice if he can choose to do both. I'm thinking back to the S1 scene where HRG/Haitian are going to catch Peter/Claude, but HRG has to abandon that to attend to Sandra. [/QUOTE]

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