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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3116240" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>I came on the idea he was mimicing powers during the episode, before I read the TV guide - my wife and I were discussing why they'd go into the depth they did with him if he was just going to have the same power, when it occurred to us that he <em>didn't</em> have the same power. We tossed aside the "wonder twin" option as being too hokey to be consistent with the rest of the show. This being the next obvious option, and consistent with the available evidence. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, that's a good step - gone from "not even subtly" to "not conclusive" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Hollywood isn't about being conclusive. Here it is about playing out the possibilities along the genre conventions, and breaking them occasionally just to keep you on your toes. Hiro is strong evidence of that being what they are up to - he's explicitly talking about how he needs to act to be a superhero, taking his cues directly from a comic book! These guys know that their core audience will be comic book fans and their ilk. While they want to avoid the cheese factor found in previous supers shows, they still want those fans, so they'll work it like a comic.</p><p></p><p>I guess you can call our logic rather similar to meta-gaming. We are using the information that we are watching a superhero show to help figure out what's up. Call it meta-analysis. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 3116240, member: 177"] I came on the idea he was mimicing powers during the episode, before I read the TV guide - my wife and I were discussing why they'd go into the depth they did with him if he was just going to have the same power, when it occurred to us that he [i]didn't[/i] have the same power. We tossed aside the "wonder twin" option as being too hokey to be consistent with the rest of the show. This being the next obvious option, and consistent with the available evidence. Well, that's a good step - gone from "not even subtly" to "not conclusive" :) Hollywood isn't about being conclusive. Here it is about playing out the possibilities along the genre conventions, and breaking them occasionally just to keep you on your toes. Hiro is strong evidence of that being what they are up to - he's explicitly talking about how he needs to act to be a superhero, taking his cues directly from a comic book! These guys know that their core audience will be comic book fans and their ilk. While they want to avoid the cheese factor found in previous supers shows, they still want those fans, so they'll work it like a comic. I guess you can call our logic rather similar to meta-gaming. We are using the information that we are watching a superhero show to help figure out what's up. Call it meta-analysis. :) [/QUOTE]
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