Heroes...Season 1 10/09/06 Esp#3

[Crothian]

I mean it's like in the Sixth Sense. No one could really predict the ending, but all throughout that movie you got this inkling that something isn't quite right with the good doctor. I don't even think that's even the situation here.

Actually, I thought the Sixth Sense was rather obvious. But then the Usual Suspects caught me totally off guard. Different people think and pick up on different little clues. I never thought of the mimic idea till I read about it on the boards. But just because I didn't see it doesn't mean I'm going to assume no one could see it.

 

[Taelorn76]

Also, I've come to agree with the TK explanation for Clea's gun. However, again, if his TK is so powerful, why didn't he just force her to kill herself - or freeze her for that matter. Heck, just rip off her head with the TK.

Also, it doesn't explain the effect of Matt's bullets knocking him down adequately.

Finally, I think that his escape was a bit too quick for him to just levitate out.

Well the issue there is it would show someone got into the bldg and tore an agents head off. Where if he manipulated her habd to shoot herself, you got a stressed out agent who no one believes taking herself out.

As for the bullets knocking him down I think he was caught by surprise and was just able to get his shields up in time.

 

[Taelorn76]

Maybe he likes the irony of making her shoot herself?

Exactly, we know no one belives her about Sylar. When the cop reads her mind you get the feeling she may be depressed about no one being on her side on this. So Sylar covers his tracks, strung out agent shoosts herself.

 

[Fast Learner]

But still, Nathan's comment isn't a "wow, Peter's a mimic" moment. There's a difference between hard to find clues and then clues that are so out there as to not even be a clue.

For you, apparently not. Seriously, though, that doesn't mean it wasn't for me. Like Croth, my gf picked up on The Sixth Sense's secret the moment he appeared after being shot. She said to me in the theater, "Oh, I get it!" I asked her to be quiet and don't say a word to me.

We all interpret things differently. That you didn't interpret Nathan's description that way is perfectly reasonable, as is the fact that I did.

 

[Mad Hatter]

I don't think you are quite getting what I said about the Sixth Sense thing. Everyone knew something was up. I knew there was something up and you probably did too as you watched that movie. Most everyone knew something was up in that movie, no matter how dense you think you are. Maybe not the exact thing but that movie was littered with a whole bunch of stuff. And yeah people pick up on different things and put them together differently. I'm saying that there isn't sufficient reasoning in Heroes to say that Peter is a mimic. That's it. Every one of the supposed reasonings that people say point to Peter being a mimic isn't really there. However, in Sixth Sense there is a logical progression for your gf to say "oh yeah". Not so in Heroes.

Mostly it's speculation. A gut feeling without some sort of evidence to back it up. That's a guess that panned out, not a well reasoned argument. And, before you say it or think it, I am not disparaging anyone here. I'm just sayin'. And people pick up on things I don't all the time. It's no big deal. And if that was the case here, I really wouldn't be arguing or debating it. But I suppose we are at odds here and that's fine too. So it's all good.

 

[Fast Learner]

Indeed it is.

 

[Mad Hatter]

Anywho, do you think Claire is gonna really do something to the quarterback? Or do you think her basic decency is gonna shine through and she chicken out at the end? I'm thinkin' it could go either way. What say you?

 

[Ei]

Anywho, do you think Claire is gonna really do something to the quarterback? Or do you think her basic decency is gonna shine through and she chicken out at the end? I'm thinkin' it could go either way. What say you?

Well, if you have seen the previews

Spoiler

she’s going to lock her self and the QB in the car and drive into a wall. Guess which one of them will suffer serious injuries

 

[Mad Hatter]

Nah, didn't see the full preview. Just the hint of her doing something to him. Didn't know if she was gonna go all the way and do something tragic.

 

[Ei]

In regards to Hiro's extreme power, I have the feeling the bulk of it will be used as plot devices. He's actual abilities will mostly consist of short distance teleportation or time stop for a short period. No Prince of Persia style time rewinding.

And he apparently has a fairly long casting time and takes a great deal of concentration, so syler or whoever can probably easily disrupt his casting.

IMO Peter is empth, not only dose he mimic power, he seems to get some of the target’s emotions and personalities as well. And if the nose bleed after beating Nathan is any indication, if the person he’s “sync” to gets hurt, he gets hurt as well, which fits the whole empathy thing.