More Heroes (SPOILERS!)
 

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Unless you just really like blacking stuff out. I mean sometimes it's just kinda fun.

Shouldn't we just leave open and sticky a Heroes discussion thread? I mean, it's easily the most discussed TV show here anyway, and it seems kinda pointless to be closing and making a new thread every week or two.

Anyway, on the genetics of powers, it is a crap shoot. I mean, Phasing + Super-Strength = Control over machines? However, for Alejandro and Maya, the powers are probably related because they are twins.

Also, as revealed by Greg Beeman, in the original toe-nail clipping scene Claire was not supposed to be able to regenerate the lost toe, and instead had to hold the severed toe up to the bloody stump to regenerate. It was changed due to time constraints, and the original effect just not working as well.

And now, a theory: I think The Company actually has the virus, and is using it to get what they want. I mean, Molly contracted it at the right time to convince Mohinder to help them the second time, and then The Haitian, who most likely has a lot of information that The Company wants, just happens to contract it, effectively confining him to one location. Unfortunately for The Company, Bob didn't know that Mohinder doesn't really think things through when he does them. It's too early to really call, but it's something to think about.

Am I the only one that thought that this episode was just a weak rehashing of last week?

HipstAir is a dick and stalks around Claire before flying off, again.
Hiro mucks around in the past, again.
One of the Company's founders gets attacked, again.
Parkman acts boring in his job, again.
Wondertwins run, again.
Yadda yadda.

I dunno, I thought this episode was pretty weak. Besides the reintroduction of the Haitian I can't really think of anything that moved the plot forward/was different from last week. I'd be more excited about Faux Kensei having a power if it wasn't already mined for all its entertainment worth (Oh no, he got hurt, oh yeah, he's fine! repeated ad nauseam).

Speaking of Claire's power, she CAN still feel pain right? I might be a nancy boy, but whenever I accidentally splash myself with boiling water I tend to devolve into profanity, and I'm sure that after cutting off my little toe I'd do more than scrunch my face up. I guess she's been stoically suppressing the assumed pain since the first episode and its high tower ground dives, but I think the writers are trying to gloss over the brutality of her ability to recover by deemphasizing how much she gets hurt in the first place, but now we've reached a point where she seems to relish any opportunity to damage herself. Are we supposed to get the impression that Claire would probably enjoy being pushed to her limits by the Company?

I feel bad for Alejandro. Aside from Aquamanism, I can think of no power more demeaning than cleaning up another person's mess. What happens if Maya experiences character growth and learns to control herself? I'm giving 1:1 odds that Alejandro gets bumped off by season's end.

Hopefully Sylar coming back jumpstarts some actual development.

She can feel pain, she's just building up a tolerance what with falling off of buildings, getting in car crashes and getting killed.


I bet Alejandro ends up taking in too much of the evil doom and evolves into some sort of death bringer.


This episode was more of a "LOOK AT ME MAH!" episode, what with Peter throwing around powers left and right, Claire showing off her powers and the big bad unknown cutting/smacking/whatever Peter's mom, while Maya and her bro do their magic.

Yeah I figure once you work out mentally that no amount of pain will actually kill you, you probably just stop giving a fuck about it.

I do wish Kensei had been given a power at least more in line with being a conniving druken English fucker, whatever that power might happen to be.

Invisibility!

I think it was stated by one of the shows creators that Claire does feel pain, just not in the same way we do. And besides, any pain she would feel is instantly supressed as soon as her regen kicks in. Apart from that time in the first episode when she didn't notice her own bones poking out her side.

Oh and I don't think Alejandro is going to be killed off, seeing as he's the only one who can cure the disease his sister creates. 'Cos you know, it might cause problems in future eps if he ever snuffed it.

Well, quite a bit happened. Claire's flyboy stalker saw her power. Peter's pretty much being blackmailed into doing an Irish mob's dirty work. The person who was hunting down the original group of The Company has the ability to at least attack a person in a locked room in the middle of a police station and not be caught or seen. Hell, Mrs. Petrelli was ATTACKED in a locked room in a police station. Hiro's got Kensei back on the path to being a hero instead of just drinking and being a scary white man. More was revealed of Maya's and Alejandro's power. And, also important, we know the virus really is on the move. Furthermore, we learned that there is a series of paintings out there by Issac that show all of the major company players that are marked for death.

Yes, there was quite a bit of plot movement, it was just spread out over all the stories, so there are no monumental leaps. Which is to be expected at this part of the season. You build a solid base for the story, then you drive it forward. It was like this at the start of the first season, it just wasn't as 'subtle' as people were discovering powers then. But the plot movement will probably be a bit more on this slower pace until the storylines start linking up more.

I kinda got the idea that he could absorb disease in general. Kinda like John Coffey in The Green Mile. Much more useful, and possibly a chance to kill off Mohinder and let someone else cure the disease?

Nah, I think being twins may have 'split' the power, so to speak. Maya gets the Bleeding Eyes of Death, and Alejandro got the ability to control that power, and reverse it.