Heroes Season [Volume] 1(#23)---5/21/07-'How to stop an Exploding Man' Season Ending.

[Brown Jenkin]

My theory on the BBEG that Molly won't search for because "he" looks back at her is that it is Ma Petrelli. Mom is deffiinitely associated with the last generation of supers but has yet to reveal what her power is. She was well aware of the bomb and was working with Linderman to make that future happen. She is fairly evil and if she thinks that Hiro and company are responsible for both her sons death (but especially Nathan's) she might just go overboard.

It was also good to see that the writers avoided a paradox by having Hiro leave the Kensai sword with Ando.

 

[Umbran]

As for the big question of "Why doesn't Peter do X to save himself?" there is a very simple answer: Peter isn't a fast-thinking combat genius, folks. He's just a guy. However else the scene might have been resolved, the people in it were either waffling, or down. Nathan's solution became the one to use, maybe only because he was the one decisive enough to assert it, and with enough power of personality to make it stick before Peter went boom.

Sometimes, you don't get the optimal solution.

 

[drothgery]

If they want Nathan and/or Peter back, it's easy enough (and if Sylar's back, they pretty much need Peter back) -- just say Nathan flew high and out over the Atlantic, and then dropped Peter when he was about to blow up. Nathan flies to safety. Peter crashes to the ocean, sinks, regens, floats to top, flies home.

 

[Steel_Wind]

I got the impression that the Generation's story was to be a tag on this one but looks to have been changed at the last minute for a summer show.

No. "Generations" is the name given to the second season of Heroes next season, i.e. Heroes: Volume 2

Heroes: Origins is the name of the 6 episodes to be given to the one-off, mid season bridge episodes. Those are not destined to be shown in the summer but will appear sometime in the early part of 2008, when the main series is forced to go on hiatus as the time it takes to finish the episodes in post production otherwise necessitates a mid-season break.

The stated intention is to commence the series in the fall and have it run, uninterrupted, for 30 weeks straight. The only interruption is the six week stint when the show switches over to "Heroes: Origins".

The only thing we are getting this summer in continued installments in the graphic novel and other features in the "Heroes 360" online marketing machine - whatever those turn out to be.

Oh - and it looks like they are aiming to deliver the first novel in the Heroes universe, titled - Saving Charlie, which chronicles what Hiro attempted and failed to do - offscreen - in his quest to alter the past and save Charlie from Sylar. Whether that novel appears this summer or in the fall (Xmas season) remains to be seen.

I would prefer more 4 and 5 part graphic novels so that the story each tells is more complete and approaches the content you would find in a complete comic book.

I'm surprised Marvel has not pitched a regular monthly Heroes comic book. I'm such a Heroes addict I actually think I would buy it.

 

[Taelorn76]

A few things I noticed about last nights episode.

I have never seen the streets of NYC so empty.

How does Claire, a girl from Texas, know how to get from Patrelli's campaign office to the building where the fight is going down.

 

[Belen]

I'm not convinced Claire's power could help Peter in this. If a stick or shard of glass in the brain can keep them from regenerating, how will it work when Peter is atomized all across the atmosphere? Which molecule is the one the the stick has to be in to stop the regeneration.

Claire survived her encounter with Ted because she burned all her hair and skin off, but her brain was intact. Peter going nova? Not so easy.

Of course I'm sure for plot, he'll be back if they want it (and I assume they will).

Ted did not die from his power. I think Peter was the center with exploding energy radiating outwards. He is immune from the effect as was Ted.

 

[Belen]

I thought this was the perfect ending to the show and I was not disappointed in the ending at all. The fight between Sylar and Peter in 5 Years Gone was a fight between two people mature in their powers. Peter had been fighting with Hiro in the interim period and was MUCH more experienced.

The Peter in the finale has not learned to use his powers yet. The Peter in the finale had just come to accept that he was worth something. He had to rid himself of his baggage before he could ever become the power that he is destined to be.

I also like the fact that Peter is the counter to Sylar. Shaft tells him that there is always an opposite or balancing agent. Peter is meant to balance Sylar.

I loved the episode last night. It was spectacular.

 

[Randolpho]

My prediction:

Both Nathan and Peter will be back. Peter will survive; he inherited Ted's powers and (as has been pointed out earlier) Ted is pretty much immune to his own powers. Nathan, however, will be back in a different form. Or, rather, an *illusory* form. Either Sylar will find and absorb Candace's powers, or Candace herself will assume Nathan's place as Congressman. The real Nathan, however, will actually be dead.

Also, re. the explosion:

The EMP and/or eyes melting may not have occurred if the explosion was high enough away. It's quite possible to watch a nuclear explosion from a safe enough distance, and the EMP doesn't exactly have an infinite range.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Heh, I felt that way, from last week, when I realized, that yes, the city can be saved. But it will take something emotional to make it happen.

Thanks to Claire, that happened.

Nice finished, will watch it again.

Problem with hanging on the 9th Wonders Boards too much was that mostly everybody figured out Nathan was going to fly Peter up to save the city...

And they were right.

Nobody guessed "Noah" though . Poor HRG, now he's got a name like everybody else. In this mirror-mirror of the the Star Trek Universe that Heroes is, now he can die like everybody else!

I agree that it would have been better if Hiro had *bamfed* in on top of Sylar and run him through (from behind - a la Sam Gamgee in the Tower of Cirith Ungol)

But I was still cheering.

Angela Petrelli is a real bitch though. We still have her to contend with next season.

The plot hook of putting Molly somewhere where Mohinder can get to her drives the "finding the specials" part of the show.

Last point: Does Mohinder have a power after all? Is this walking in the past - talking to the dead in your dreams Angela's power that Peter got from her? I thought so...

But if you think about it - it is exactly the same thing that Mohinder did. No difference at all. Peter never dreamed in the past until after he met Mohinder in the cab, either.

I'm not so sure Mohinder is a "normal" after all.

 

[Sir Brennen]

Both Nathan and Peter will be back. Peter will survive; he inherited Ted's powers and (as has been pointed out earlier) Ted is pretty much immune to his own powers. Nathan, however, will be back in a different form. Or, rather, an *illusory* form. Either Sylar will find and absorb Candace's powers, or Candace herself will assume Nathan's place as Congressman. The real Nathan, however, will actually be dead.

Per some casting news for next season, it looks like Nathan will be back. But perhaps after Peter's proximity to Niki, Nathan will become Peter's "Jessica".