We don't need another Heroes. We need two.

[thebitterguy]

Heroes: One Day Later

As always, I sploil like crazy beneat the cut.

Man, down to the last two episodes already? Things are staring to wind up.

First off: excitement! The Blog of one of the show's producers.

Okay, so we get a bit of a cliffhanger this week as Peter and Ted finally meet. I take it back, it would have been much better if they'd met in Nevada. They're used to uncontrolled nuclear explosions there.

The Sylar thing was interesting. I guess it's nice to see the "villain just wants to live a simple life as a watchmaker but their psychotic snow globe collecting mother insists they must be destined for great things (but not superhuman things, obviously) and who accidentally kills said mother during an altercation after he starts hurling snowglobes around the room while making it snow in her living room" bit again, but it's getting a little tired.

Just once, I'd like to see a villain who does not doubt their path, who knows that they are following a destiny. Where are the Magnetos, the Dooms, the Dubyas? Dammit. I'd felt that Sylar was certain of his path, but when he saw Issac's paintings he felt uncertainty. It did give an interesting perspective into his reasons for harvesting the delicious grey matter, that being that he feels the people he's taking them from are wasting their abilties. It is good that he's not one of those "and the lives of puny humans means nothing to me!" types, though.

Although maybe he just wasn't until now.

spacecrime mentioned an Angela Landsbury/Manchurian Candidate vibe off of Mama Patrelli, and that pretty much hits it on the head for me. She's hip deep in the blood of the .07%.

I think we also need to start putting names down for who's first against the wall when this is over. Linderman, Mr. Nakamura (and his daughter?), Mam Petrelli, possibly Mr. Devereaux. Remember, these guys are aware that NYC is gonna go off, and are not trying to stop it, but are planning for the eventuality. That makes them kinda guilty.

Is there really a Kirby Plaza in NYC, or is that another geek treat?

Hiro does need to get his sword repaired. Could he be planning to jaunt back in time, get his blade fixed, learn swordsmanship, and pop back with a soul patch and Ando's English lessons after a few months to stop Sylar?

Comments

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

Is there really a Kirby Plaza in NYC, or is that another geek treat?

Geek treat.

[rickj.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think the sword breaking is a sign that the Heroes need to go outside the box and find another solution. Everything's been about fate and destiny and all that stuff. They need to break fate and make their own future.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

What was that cunt's name that stole the kid? Her, too. Though I'd give just about anything for her power.

[stop-no-dont.livejournal.com]

I don't know if he gets sword training, but the preview did feature Nakamura-Sama back on the scene.

[thebitterguy]

Right. I spaced on that. But was it a full sized sword, or the demi-sword he had left after the Sylar Snap?

[thebitterguy]

Candice, yeah. She has nice powers, and by powers I mean legs.

In addition to super-abilities.

[michael-b-lee.livejournal.com]

Full-sized sword. I was all, "oh, cool, he gets the sword fixed". But now I wonder if it's a different blade altogether. It almost looked like the sword Nakamura was holding had etching along the blade, but I can't be sure.

[thebitterguy]

Sweet. They're so nice.

[stop-no-dont.livejournal.com]

I agree with lighthorse; that looked to be Papa Sulu's own blade. Which makes sense to me, given how generational this story has become. And hey, perhaps Nakamura-Sama knew Hiro would get to this point? Maybe his offer earlier this year to Hiro that he run the family business was as much a test of his resolve as a way to avoid the upcoming chaos.

[jdarkwulf.livejournal.com]

Hiro does need to get his sword repaired. Could he be planning to jaunt back in time, get his blade fixed, learn swordsmanship, and pop back with a soul patch and Ando's English lessons after a few months to stop Sylar?

Dude, that was a fast sixteen months of intensive sword training!

[optimussven.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the whole Sylar thing. I mean it was fine, but just didn't seem right. I was more excpecting him, after he discovers his fate by taking Isaac's power to get all flustered because he was going to die, not because others were.

Also, Mama P is totally going to turn out to be the most evil character in the whole thing. I've been thinking it for a few episodes, but this last one seemed to cement it.

[thebitterguy]

So he may be abandoning the use of his magic katana and just looking for a substitute blade.

[thebitterguy]

One of the massive advantages of time travel.

Man, someone needs to write a crossover where Bill & Ted meet Hiro.

[thebitterguy]

The parents are turning out to be a damn manipulative bunch on this show. I wonder if Mr. Deveraux was in on it, too? His building got used for a lot, after all.

[thebitterguy]

It's all about stopping the exploding man.

It would be cool if, for example, Hiro took them back to Hiroshima when they detonated. Given his background (and what he did to Action #1, gah) that would make a certain amount of sense.

[neosis.livejournal.com]

There is something interesting in all of this. Where were the behind the scenes movers and shakers in the future we saw?

It certainly didn't seem to be the world they were looking to create. What are they trying to heal, anyway? Are they essentially like future Sylar? Are they simply trying to get rid of the competition?

What end is furthered by destroying New York? They're going to "heal" the world, how so and why wasn't that apparent in the future Hiro jumped forward to? Is Sylar the spoiler on whatever plans they have coming down the pipes?

What power does Ma Petrelli have? From her comments it has to be some kind of precognition or something similar. She knew both of her children had powers apparently before they knew.

I think Candace's power is going to screw things up in the final episode. I think the reason future Hiro stabbed Peter instead of Sylar must be because Candace;s power was used to confuse Hiro. I say Candace's power, because Sylar may have already killed her and absorbed her power. He should be capable of doing so using TK and super hearing.

There's another question, too. What does Linderman need Micah for? Is he already aware that their plan isn't going quite right?

[stop-no-dont.livejournal.com]

Mr. D has ended up becoming something of a loose end, hasn't he? Good point there.

[stop-no-dont.livejournal.com]

Good point there; while we've seen, in the comic, the sequence leading up to Hiro stabbing Sylar, we haven't seen any other scenes. Could it be that Isaac's pre-cog abilities are more limited than we thought?

[thebitterguy]

I had the impression that Linderman needed Micah to jinx the electronic voting machines in the NY race so Petrelli wins.

The only sign we had of any of the conspirators in the Jump episode was the Linderman Act which apparently was enacted to restrain supers.

Something must have happened, because Bennet was able to setup his underground railroad through Primatech.

[thebitterguy]

It would have been interesting to have him try to decide if he'll hunt Ted or leave him forever (or just kill him and not absorb his power) once he knew what would happen to him if he ate him.

He should have done more painting, now that I think about it.

[stop-no-dont.livejournal.com]

I had just thought about Micah pulling a Diebold on this election. Obviously something else fell through, though, because that picture showed him left behind in the burning building. Unless he was swapped out for Huey from The Boondocks at the last second.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

It's kind of reminding me of Runaways.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that looked like Huey to me, too.

[thebitterguy]

Wow, I totally missed that. Shame Vaughn is working on Lost and not this.

[neosis.livejournal.com]

Ah, that would explain why Micah is needed, and it would also fit nicely into the "why do they need to blow New York up" question. It would eradicate any physical evidence of whether the election was hacked and, of course, server as a huge distraction from the anomalous election results.

In that case, I suspect leaving Micah behind would be intentional. He knows too much and could discredit someone they've worked very hard to put in the oval office. And because of his power he could literally broadcast the truth to everyone in the country any time his conscious got the better of him. No, much better for the conspirators if he dies in the explosion.