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

[Fast Learner]

I will kindly ask...to refrain from posting pre-night vewing of the show. Since this thread is made specifically for Monday night showing.

Why? I don't follow. Several million people had it broadcast to them on Sunday.

I live in the West and normally can't see the show until after there have been a bunch of posts here by east-coasters. Is it reasonable for me to ask them not to post until it's been broadcast here? I also generally can't watch it Monday night, usually don't see it until Tuesday morning. Surely it's not reasonable for me to ask for a delay of posting until then.

Me, I really wanted to read people's thoughts about the episode once I saw it, which happened to be Sunday this time, and was thrilled that someone else had already posted their thoughts, and was happy to be able to post mine. Should we have started a separate, overlapping thread?

 

[Rystil Arden]

I think Haitian just wiped Bennet's mind of any plans they discussed for Claire. Bennet may have provided him with some resources for going on the lamb, and didn't want those secrets spilled.

So, how much radiation does it take to give someone cancer? I'm thinking Matt and the Bennets soaked up quite a bit.

It just takes a few stray photons with enough energy in exactly the wrong places to give you cancer--however, the chances of photons hitting exactly the wrong places and causing an infinitely-growing malignancy that ignores the body's calls for apoptosis and the like are vanishingly small unless you experience a lot of radiation. This is why they let you have X-rays if you don't have them very often--it is quite possible to get cancer from X-rays, and thus they try to minimise the exposure.

That said, I was thinking the same thing myself--holy carcinogenic exposure, Batman!

 

[RigaMortus2]

This may be old news, but I just found out who is playing Linderman...

SPOILER (highlight to read): Malcolm McDowell

 

[F5]

I doubt there's a gun fairy hero, but I think it will be revealed that his hand was somehow forced. Watch the scene again. You'll see that his first shot wasn't braced, that he was casually holding the gun close to his body. The next two shots, which are clearly purposeful, are braced and done professionally. He's clearly trained with a gun, and there was no reason in the world for him to fire at that moment.

Easy. Knowing that he would need Claude as a mentor, Peter [channeling Hiro] goes back in time, [channeling Claude] invisible, and [channeling Sylar] telekinetically pulled the trigger, knowing that this is what Claude needed to make his escape.

And it's logic like this that says Peter's gotta die by the end of the season. This, or the Wireless/Micah combo above, is a prime example of how Petey can get out of control.

 

[pallandrome]

Naw, killing him isn't really needed, but you WOULD need to make him a non-central character to some extent. This can be accomplished any number of time-honored comic booky ways. Send him off to the aliens, have him absorbed into some extra-dimensional power force, or even just say that he can't help with the delimma of the week because he's off stopping a tidal wave in New Guinea.

Honestly though, I fully expect him and Sylar to kill each other at some point.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Interesting theory, I like it. If true, I wonder if Sylar was similarly bred.

This would imply that mother Petrelli has powers, along with the theory that father Petrelli does.

Or that "mother Petrelli" isn't their biological mother at all.

(Which considering what a cold and remote Patrician bitch she is to her sons, may well be the truth).

 

[Kaodi]

I am going to go out on a limb here and hypothesize that Linderman has an ability that is somehow related to aging, which makes Linderman an extremely long-lived individual, which has allowed him to become this crazily effective evil mastermind. I mean, it's possible he could just be a normal guy, one in a long succession of evil masterminds, or that he has really figured all of this out in his lifetime, but seeing as this show is about people with extraordinary abilities, I'd put money on my first guess, were I a bettin' man. Maybe that would seem a kind of obvious extrapolation though...

 

[James Heard]

Heroes, as a whole, reminds an awful lot of Aberrant.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

...awful lot of Aberrant.

Funny, but I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if the supers will ever go public and I wonder if aliens are involved.

 

[Glyfair]

The truly scary incarnation of Peter is one that has come into contact with both Hannah "Wireless" and Micah (DL and Nikki's son)..

Assuming he can use multiple powers at the same time (I don't recall him combining them). It could be "Ultra Boy" syndrome where he has to choose which he is using.