Heroes Season [Volume] 2 (#31)---11/12/07-'Four Months Ago'

[Wulf Ratbane]

Ali Larter, who I could watch read the newspaper for an hour.

You're in luck!

You get to watch her read her lines for an hour.

 

[Hand of Evil]

As far as we know, the company considers Adam to be "mutant 0" so they most likely keep him alive just to study him and test the limits of their power nullification drugs.

Seeing his powers, his blood's power, can you say fountain of youth? I mean, if it heals as it does can it also slow down the aging process?

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

I think it worked better mid season, AFTER the Kensei stuff.

Adam is just such a great character, and the reveal of him in the modern time, while expected, would have definitely been killed if done before the entire Kensei arc.

I think reversing it and revealing that Adam is Kensei would've had a similar effect on the character development. But even so, I think you could've taken many of the other things that happened in the episode and used that to make a much more interesting opener.

In fact, what if the Haitian had only erased memories of Adam and the Company? You could've done everything in this episode as the opener, kept the season largely in tact as-is, and then when Adam finally shows up to meet Peter in Ireland, we flash back and see how things really happened. Just my thoughts on it anyway.

Still, Vol. 2 closing is shaping up well. Here's to hoping that this season ends the only way it can:

Sylar tk-drilling into Maya's head, with a big ol' brain-eatin' grin on his face.

 

[Mistwell]

Several people said Peter could have used "insert" power after the breakout. Do remember that Peter was still under the effects of the drugs and was having a hard time trying to figure out some way of breaking out of the cell with the one power.

Heck, if he had full control he could have teleported to montreal.

Peter possesses the one power?

Cool!

 

[Kaodi]

I have not been able to see much of Heroes this season, but perhaps the Haitian is unable to block Adam's power because Adam has had hundreds of years to develop it. Perhaps it is literally too developed for the Haitian to be able to block it.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Peter possesses the one power?

Cool!

No no no.

Not cool.


Woah.

 

[Darkwolf71]

Still, Vol. 2 closing is shaping up well. Here's to hoping that this season ends the only way it can:

Sylar tk-drilling into Maya's head, with a big ol' brain-eatin' grin on his face.

Hmm, I don't think so. Mainly because I think that would be far to powerful an ability to give to Sylar. There's a love intrest growing with Maya and Sylar. I think he will find a way to kill Alejandro and take his power so he can keep Maya close and emotionally dependant on him instead of her brother as she is now.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

Hmm, I don't think so. Mainly because I think that would be far to powerful an ability to give to Sylar. There's a love intrest growing with Maya and Sylar. I think he will find a way to kill Alejandro and take his power so he can keep Maya close and emotionally dependant on him instead of her brother as she is now.

Well... whatever. One's just as good as the other.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

The nuclear blast above the city is easy to explain away. How many of us really can tell the difference between an experimental millitary plane exploding and a small nuclear bomb. ]

Considering I"m watching a show of prose, isn't everything a part of the plot or plot device? The problem i had was this show was that the story didn't do anything for me. An extended excape scene with peter and adam would have rocked or a more drawn out fight with DL. Instead both were wiped under the rug prety easily.

They might have downplayed the explosion, but there wouldn't have been nothing. But there's no way that they could have downplayed the EMP. It was a nuclear explosion, there was an EMP. People should have still been b****ing about it four months later! And no way in He!! did they cover that up!

Anyway, I think I've figured out Ma Petrelli's power. She can coax people into believing her. (Or wanting to believe her.) However, that would seem to defeat the proposition that the longer you have a power, the stronger and more versatile it becomes.

As for "We can't kill Adam." Bah! Wrap him up in a few tons of concrete and dump him in one of the ocean deeps. Problem solved. (At least, in that it will be delayed for such a loooong time that it'll be some other civilization's problem.)

Yeah, too many weirdly contrived, and lame, Plot Devices for me. But I do like the suggestion someone made that Elle is the one who helped Adam. And the timing for burning down Claire's mom's place is about right.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

As for the Haitian. We saw that he can selectively use the dampening when he wants too (Bob, Elle, and Peter in Bob's office where Peter is blocked but Elle still was able to zap his nose to wake him up). It is quite possible that when HRG had Nathan they weren't sure what Nathan's power was and the Haitian may not have had it turned on (The Ms. Patrelli loyalty is good too) and as we saw it took but a fraction of a second for Nathan to be out of range.

As for the Haitian blocking Adam so that he can be killed, that only works as long as the Haitian is nearby. As soon as Adam (or Claire, or Peter) leave the Haitian's field the healing will kick in and they will come back to life. So to kill Adam the company would have too keep the Haitian dragging Adam's dead body at all times. Better to bury Adam alive in 30 feet of concrete.