Heroes Season 1(#16)---2/19/07-'UNEXPECTED'

[drothgery]

I'd have to agree that a Peter that can use powers of anyone that he's been in contact with (rather than just anyone that's close by) does tend to make everyone else superfluous. And Sylar's doing the same thing via other means. So I wouldn't be surprised for both of them to go down by the end of the season.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

...if it's an alias, it's a really old one that HRG somehow fell for.

Maybe HRG Daddy calls him that for lack of anything better to call him or becuase as a nickname it stuck, in the same way we usually call HRG Man... HRG Man, rather than Mr. Bennett.

I think Mr. Bennett is too savy to be pulled in by an alias as flip as Claude.

 

[Fast Learner]

I think Mr. Bennett is too savy to be pulled in by an alias as flip as Claude.

I agree, but that's why I think it's his name, and that in the Heroes world there was no actor Claude Rains who portrayed The Invisible Man.

 

[RichCsigs]

I was rewatching the episode, and I think Peter actually used The Voice on Isaac when they fought. After Peter says, "Don't lie to me," Isaac immediately starts answering Peter's questions honestly.

So when did Peter meet Eden?

 

[Rystil Arden]

So when did Peter meet Eden?

He was looking for Mohinder back in an earlier episode, and she was around.

 

[LightPhoenix]

He was looking for Mohinder back in an earlier episode, and she was around.

Way back around episode three or four... IIRC he even shook her hand, so even if Peter even absorbs powers through contact, he got The Voice.

We also know Peter can and does absorb powers without knowing - Claire's regeneration and Claude's invisibility are two big ones.

 

[Alzrius]

I agree, but that's why I think it's his name, and that in the Heroes world there was no actor Claude Rains who portrayed The Invisible Man.

I think they had that same actor, but that Peter's mentor Claude has simply been using that name for himself so long that it might as well be his real name now. E.g., it's how he thinks of himself, what he tells everyone to call him, etc. Like a superhero name without a real name.

 

[Cor Azer]

Besides, Claire might survive it. We already know she can heal massive trauma to the brain.

Not quite - she can heal anything as long as her brain is intact - she was dead and non-healing until that branch was removed from her brain.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Not quite - she can heal anything as long as her brain is intact - she was dead and non-healing until that branch was removed from her brain.

I can't see how her brain was intact after the branch was removed when it wasn't before.
It might be a bit more complicated.
We have seen that her healing can't remove things that stick into her body - I think in one of the early episodes, there was a case where she had to remove something in her chest or so - it didn't heal out.
I think her body also regenerates the worst injury or the "most important" body part first. While she was lying on the coroner's table, her worst injury was her brain, but it couldn't heal until the branch was removed. So the rest of the body stayed injured...

"Branch in Brain" for Claire is the same as "Stick in Heart" is for a (D&D) Vampire. It remains to be seen if "chopping head off" is the same for Claire as for a Vampire .

 

[WayneLigon]

I dont think Peter is an "empath" in that sense, simply because that's not the sense in which most folk understand the word. In common parlance, "empathy" is the ability to sense emotions. While one Star Trek epsiode took it somewhat further, it really doesn't mean "the ability to copy various aspects of other people" to most folks. The show is written with teh broad audience in mind, so I doubt they'd go that route.

Actually, Empathy meaning 'sense emotions' is only used in SF circles. Once I read the actual definitions of that word, describing Peter as an empath made vastly more sense.

1. the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.

Identifying oneself completely with an object or person, sometimes even to the point of responding physically, as when, watching a baseball player swing at a pitch, one feels one's own muscles flex.

2 : the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the capacity for empathy

[Emphasis obviously mine]

Also, empathy's root word means 'passion' or 'feeling' which describes led-by-his-emotions Peter to a T.