Heroes Season [Volume] 2 (#33)---11/26/07-'Truth & Consequences'

[Darkwolf71]

How do you know he was guessing.

Someone else here said that HRG head was blown away and the blood still healed him. But remember that last season Claire didn't come back until the stick was removed from her brain. I say the blood is a side effect of their healing powers, Linderman healed by touch. His brain was scrambled by DL and he could not come back from that. Blow the healers head off and they are done.

That wasn't 'someone else', it was me.

As for Linderman, his power was to heal others, not regenerate his own injuries. Even if he could heal himself it would have to have been intentional. His was not a passive ability like Adam and Claire have.

 

[Krug]

Quite a muddled mess... I'll still watch it. But from the trailer, I think they should have dragged out Noah revealing to his family he's still alive. It also meant those poignant moments of Claire griefing over him were pretty much pointless.

 

[Mark]

I think if the brain is destroyed the healing ends. Linderman seems to be a direct example of this.

 

[Taelorn76]

I honestly don't believe that he walked in and convinced someone (most likely a company lacky) to let him take over. After all, would you let some random man and lady walk into a house unannounced AND without prior notification from the owner and leave them there with the home owner's child that you were told to babysit? I wouldn't, and I don't even have children, especially considering the risk of child molestation or kidnap. I doubt that the company would take that risk considering that Molly is valuable to them since if something happens to her they loose their control over Mohinder.

Reallistically, speaking, I'm surprised that Mohinder and Matt didn't receive a call about a man calling himself Gabriel Grey coming over and asking if its alright to leave Molly with him. Since that didnt happen I'm assuming that Sylar and Maya actually killed the sitter (which is more believable).

You may not, but we don't know what a teenage girl would do.

Also, I will repeat, Sylar said he sent the babysitter away. Regardless of everything else there was a sitter there. Molly was not alone.

Chuck it up to bad writing for the way the situation played out on screen, and for the way it made the viewers perceive the scene.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Because "The Company" is not monolithic. There were two factions within it: those who were pro-Adam and those who were pro-Kaito.

Victoria Pratt tells us that there are others in the Company who aided Adam in disclosing to him the location of the 138 strain - information which had been hidden from Adam.

Then why didn't they destroy it themselves, without telling the others? Talk about everyone taking stupid pills!

 

[Darkwolf71]

I think if the brain is destroyed the healing ends. Linderman seems to be a direct example of this.

Linderman's power was not the same as Claire's and Adam's.

He healed things, he did not have the ability to self-regenerate.

 

[DonTadow]

Okay, if Adam's lying, then we're back to Peter being an idiot, because Adam told him that the company couldn't kill him, and now he's telling him that there's "no coming back" from getting his head blown off.... He's directly contradicting himself and Peter doesn't even get a little suspicious.

I liked Peter better when he wasn't a complete moron.

Peter seems to have the Keanu Reeves/ Neo complex

 

[DonTadow]

and discovered that Sylar was wanted for murderer..

Agreed wit heverything but this. He's an illegal alien who is also wanted for murder.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Then why didn't they destroy it themselves, without telling the others? Talk about everyone taking stupid pills!

One of the two remaining sources in the world of the small pox virus is locked away in a CDC lab in Atlanta. The other remaining sample of the strain is believed to be under lock and key in Moscow. Doubtless, both Russia and America feel the samples they retain are at the highest level of high security containment that exist for biological hazards in the entire world. They probably also have elements of "nuclear weapon" security - at least in Atlanta - given that this virus is awesomely dangerous. We don't even innoculate for it anymore. It's been wiped out in the wild since 1979.

(Note: It is possible that the virus does exist in the wild on Vozrozhdeniya Island in Kazakkstan due to a biological weapons testing program having been conducted by the Soviets in the 1970s. The scary part is that the island is in the Aral Sea - which is shrinking and the "island" is soon to be merely a peninsula - connected to the mainland. Happy thoughts, eh?).

I'm old enough that I've been innoculated for smallpox. I bet a significant percentage of the readers of this post are not though.

But those virus samples exist, just the same. Never know when you might need something like that - right?

Vague contingencies coupled with the self-assuredness that "it's perfectly safe here" are good enough for America. Hell - even WHO changed its policy and now accepts that small samples of the virus should be retained for possible research for some vague and uncertain future contingency.

If that's good enough for the UN, the CDC and the USA...

Why wouldn't that be good enough for a dozen people at the Company?

 

[GlassJaw]

Like others in this thread, I really didn't like this episode. In all honesty, I enjoyed Chuck and Reaper this week more than Heroes.

Heroes just seems too disjointed and scatterbrain. The writers seem like they can't decide how characters should act in certain situations. Motivations and personalities change from week to week. Power usage and (or lack thereof) change from week to week. Heck, I wish there was more power usage.

Peter should be kicking major butt with all the abilities at his disposal - invisibility, mind-reading, flying for pete's sake (no pun intended). Obviously his wide range of powers can signficantly change the outcome of scenes but if the writers aren't comfortable with that, they shouldn't have given him all those powers in the first place. The worst thing in a superhero story is selective use of powers, at least not without some kind of explanation.

Power inconsistency aside, I'm just becoming annoyed with some of the other characters. As much as I don't like the snooze twins, why Maya became his disciple so fast really bothered me. And as someone else mentioned, those scenes were creepy in the not-good-kind-of-creepy way. I feel bad for Zachary Quinto/Sylar. He was doing everything he could to hold those scenes together but he must have been like "what the heck is this" when he read the script. I would have preferred that he just kill them both and be done with that story arc.

I really don't like the Company/Claire/Bob/Claire storyline either. Claire has been totally misused this season. Mohinder seems to not remember anything from each previous episode. I also don't feel Bob adds anything. The Company storyline has been a complete bust IMO. Sure there's a super powerful virus about to be released but the Company just doesn't come across as that sinister on-screen. The "faces" of the company (Bob, Ellie, etc) are more annoying than anything else. I just don't them seriously to think that they are responsible for these far-reaching world dominating plans.

The Monica storyline went from pretty cool with some potential to a throwaway.

But by far, my biggest complaint this season has been relative lack and inconsistent use of power usage. It's just so frustrating, especially with Peter and Sylar. They are the strongest characters on the show are they have been dealt lame storylines.

They are right - season 3 better get back on track.