Ed_Laprade said:
Interesting. Many have been yammering about the time paradoxes, but no one has mentioned the obvious. In the original dark future it was Sylar who blew up NY. It's in the new dark future (created by Peter saving Claire) that it was Peter who blew up.
But I still want to know what planet these people are living on? The writers are naively assuming that because the US does something every country in the world will go along in lock-step and do the same thing. I find it much easier to believe in Supers who break all the knowns laws of the universe than I can believe in that! Also, please note that despite all the controls, fear, hatred, etc., that new Supers are being born every day. And more of them. Obviously the Human race is evolving into a new species and if it keeps up the only way to stop it will be to kill off the entire Human race. Not a practical solution in my book.
Well, that's probably a question that might need delving in current political situations, but I think the idea is like this:
We are seeing now what happened when the US was attacked by representatives of a certain group (representatives might be saying to much, but they are seen as such). The world is pretty much deciding between western and islamic society now, but it can't really do it, as there is still a lot of common ground, and the key difference is something pretty hard to define and something not very easy to measure - it's cultural, it's religious. It is hard to really identify who is friend and foe, and anyone trying to make it easy will simply fail (and might in fact just make himself a few new enemies or "no-longer-that-close-friends")
But an attack by a "evolutionary anomaly" is something extremely different - you can use physical and/or biological science instead of wishy-washy psychology/sociology to differentiate between the two factions. And you find out that one of the factions is pretty small.*
Still I agree it is a bit too easy to believe just because we see a common foe means we will work always together. The fall of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia's break-down, Iraq, all indicate that old enemies can work together for some time if united by a common goal (or oppressor), but if you don't fix the real reason behind it, things fall apart again and the old conflicts arise again once the pressing concerns have been fixed or the oppressing forces have been removed. (I think we can also an example on how to make things work out better - the European Union seems a good example for former foes finding together since the underlying reasons - mostly economical differences - where fixed). Well, maybe Linderman and Sylar had a few good ideas in this area, too, but otherwise it is probably naive.
But that's also the reason why Lindermans plan should be stopped - it will fail, even if Sylar wouldn't wreck them for his personal gain...
*) Note that this alone is very simplistic - I mean, come on, how is someone dangerous just because he has healing powers? Still Sylar/Nathans policy would condemn these too, and there would certainly be a lot opposed to simplifying things down to just the genetic component, too.
