Heroes Season 1(#17)---2/26/07-'Company Man'

[shilsen]

As a Texas, I feel a need to complain a bit. Odessa is in the Texas plains, the Staked Plains. It is flat as a pancake for hundreds of miles in all directions (well, except for up and down). There are Desert Mountains and gorges in Texas, but they are in far west Texas, in the panhandle, several hundred miles from Amarillo. This is more of that flexible Hollywood geography that lets people see Denver being nuked from inside the Kansas state line. Meh. Just venting.

Big deal. If you can sail to Bohemia (a land-locked country) and get eaten by a bear, then a little flexible Hollywood geography to fit the scene is a good thing.

 

[James Heard]

Heh, I was looking at the quick clip of the back of his head from the next week's promo and I thought it looked a lot like Donald Sutherland too.

 

[hafrogman]

Can't wait to see the fallout from this.

Fallout? ha!

My biggest question though, am I the only one that heard that the metas were being shipped off to a colony or something?

I think you must be. Because I distinctly remember a different fate. The word vivisection kinda jumps out at you.

 

[pallandrome]

The word vivisection kinda jumps out at you.

Take your memory over mine. I happen to be hard of hearing

 

[noretoc]

I thought it lookes like Malcolm McDowell.

 

[Fast Learner]

Sylar didn't throw around the Hatian and Eden, because Eden told him not to. Then she told him to go to sleep.

She doesn't use the voice, but more importantly, Sylar is running from the cops at this point, he comes up the hill, and a good 5 seconds pass from the time he's close to her and she actually says anything. My assumption was initially the same as yours, but going back and rewatching it, Sylar's way too inactive-seeming.

As for wireless, according to the comic, she used to work for HRG up at the Alaska Facility. Surely he would have recognized her.

Reviewing both eps, they're not the same actress, though they do look too much alike for a good casting choice.

 

[F5]

Excellent episode. I missed signifigant chunks of it (the opening bit, and the part where Ted started losing control), but I'm still a little unclear about some of the "revelations". We saw HRG's boss, but still don't really know who he IS, or who they all work for, right? We already knew that he answered to a powerful superior, we already knew that they abducted and experimented on Heroes, and suspected pretty much everything else. Other than the details of how Claire came to live with the Bennetts, what do we really know?

Don't get me wrong, this was a terriffic episode. I really want to see where they go with HRG now...in this episode he became an extremely sympathetic villain. Without

Spoiler

his memories of Claire

, will we still see these glimmers of goodness in him, or does he become a monster?

Also, does anyone remember Mohinder mentioning off-hand that he was working on a "cure" in last week's episode? Wanna bet, given Matt and Ted's insistance that HRG "fix" them, that the cure becomes really signifigant as the series progresses? And that it ultimately gets Mohinder killed?

As for Sylar's not TK-ing Eden and the Haitain, remember that he was seriously injured. The way he was stumbling through the woods, he was probably just barely keeping to his feet. Maybe he just didn't have it in him to fight at that point.

 

[Lobo Lurker]

There were quite a few posts over on kryptonsite (in the HEROES forum) that Malcom McDowell had been confirmed as Linderman.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Regarding the Haitian, I think it's relatively clear that his ability is specifically memory manipulation, and not any sort of power dampening. That's why he can block Matt and Eden's powers - he subdues the target's thoughts in the former case, and erases the command in the later. He himself my be immune to mental manipulation. In theory, he could make someone forget they were going to use their powers, or even have them.

 

[James Heard]

There were quite a few posts over on kryptonsite (in the HEROES forum) that Malcom McDowell had been confirmed as Linderman.

Wow, I didn't think about him because I thought he was dead.