Heroes Season 1(#8)---11/13/06-'Seven Minutes to Midnight'

[Pseudonym]

I did like the nice juxtaposition of the waitress cutting the top off of a can and the top of her own head getting cut off.

 

[Grymar]

Probably the best episode yet, I think. Hiro's quest and the picture reminded me of either Somewhere in Time or the original Shining movie.

 

[dravot]

Yes. No. Yes. A lot happened in that we learned almost as much in this one episode as we have in any two or three of the others. For example: Syler does have some telekinetic ability. How Claire ended up as Bennet's adopted daughter. That the guy who tried to snatch the girl from Matt and the FBI chick actually was Syler. (That seemed most likey, but I wasn't 100% sure.) That Claire's timeline is in sync with everyone else's. Etc.

We learned:

- Circumstances about how Matt the psi-cop and Radioactive Man, including that the Haitian (Evil Dad's Mindwipe guy?) was present when it happened, and that they woke up 2 days later.
- We verified that Matt the psi-cop and Radioactive Man have marks on them - are they the beginnings of the half-helix symbol? I think so
- Radioactive Man is now on the loose, whereabouts unknown
- Evil Dad's been tracking 'heroes' for 14 years, maybe more
- Eden seems to have persuasive powers
- Now we know how Hiro will learn perfect english - by going back in time and hanging out with the waitress
- Evil Dad knows that Sylar will kill Claire-bear tomorrow, at homecoming (how does he know that?)
- Evil Dad may or may not be evil, but he definitely uses evil techniques to achieve his goals
- Mohinder may have powers of his own - dream powers to observe the past

Tons happened.

I think that people want pure action scenes as the only form of getting things done.

 

[Umbran]

And more to the point, Sylar's MO involves removal of the brain which apparently is his way of taking their powers for his own.

I don't recall any actual evidence that Sylar is taking brains to steal powers. I think that's entirely supposition on our part.

However, I hold to the supposition myself. And given that, saving the cheerleader seems quite a reasonable thing to do. Not because she's important, or that she'll do something wonderful in the future, but because her power would probably make Sylar pretty much unstoppable.

My current thought - if Sylar gets the cheerleader, it requires Radioactive Man there to go nova on his butt to kill him. Or, alternatively, with her power he can steal Radioactive Man's power, and use it to such degrees and still survive himself - so he can go *boom* defending himself against the heroes.

Either way, without her power, he can be stopped without destroying NYC...

 

[dravot]

Not Sean Bean.

The rumor that would not die.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I am thinking the marks are implants for tracking the gifted and are different from Nikki's tatoo/mark as she as far as we know has yet to be taken.

 

[atom crash]

I am thinking the marks are implants for tracking the gifted and are different from Nikki's tatoo/mark as she as far as we know has yet to be taken.

Unless she's already been taken in the past. This is just a theory, but it seems to make sense. Mr Bennet wasn't interested in her in the hotel when they took Petrelli. Maybe it's because they've already bagged and tagged her. And maybe they found Petrelli by tracking Niki. And her split personality could possibly be a side effect of the Haitian guy's mindwipe ability.

What makes (Syler) tick and why is he whacking only specific hero's and not all? He clearly had a shot at Hiro but did not take it. He has to have some way of knowing they have abilities. It could not have been coincidence that led him to a small dinner out in the middle of nowhere.

It's my assumption that Syler and Bennet are rounding up supers (independently of each other, of course, and for different purposes) using the same info, gained partly from Chandra Suresh's research. Syler killed Suresh, and Bennet had been in the apartment before Mohinder got there. Bennet has only now become aware that there's a guy out there who can teleport, and he got that info from Eden's phone call last week. Syler doesn't know who Hiro is or what is powers are. However, now that he's used them at the diner and apparently hooked up with the speed-learner girl in the past, Hiro may be in danger of losing his head next.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Sucks to be Radioactive Man. Anyway, I wonder what the upper limits of his powers are... could he, or Sylar if he takes the powers, blow up NYC?

Does Hiro save the waitress, and how far back did he go and how does he get back? Wait around for the normal flow of time or squint his eyes and travel forwards?

 

[Hand of Evil]

Does Hiro save the waitress, and how far back did he go and how does he get back? Wait around for the normal flow of time or squint his eyes and travel forwards?

I figure he learns a very important lesson with the girl, playing with the timeline. I also think it was only about five weeks, because that was he was gone for his first trip to New York, it went boom and he found the artist dead with his brain pan empty, just don't think he can be in the same space at the same time. He lost five weeks and now filling in the time. Not knowing their timeline makes it interesting.

The question, is the artist safe now because of being taken?

 

[dravot]

I figure he learns a very important lesson with the girl, playing with the timeline. Why, he was so concerned when he came back and talked to Peter.

At the very least, he learns English from the waitress.