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1. Comment by mph —
   October 31, 2006 @ 2:06 am

   Shouldn’t the precog have a painting of the hot chick showing up at his door?

   No.

   Cuz NOBODY expects the Hottie Inquisition!

   Particle of the Week Explanation: His precognition is Malkovitchesque and he can’t see himself, coz it’d just be paintings of himself saying “Mendez Mendez! Mendez Mendez Mendez! Mendez!? Mendez Mendez.”

2. Comment by Gary Farber —
   October 31, 2006 @ 2:11 am

   They’ve spent millions advertising their full reruns on the Web, up two minutes after the broadcast, so you might want to take advantage of that if you can.

   I’m wondering if the twinish blonde is just temporarily down, per permanently out of the picture so as to demonstrate that No One Is Safe, or in-between: dead until a surprise return later in the season, or next season. But, then, I’ve been reading nothing behind-the-scenes.

   I’m guessing that Hiro will get his “do-over” on the poker game murders, though. Sooner or later.

3. Comment by Bill —
   October 31, 2006 @ 8:32 am

   You know what would be cool (in a guaranteed to sink the show with terrible ratings next season sort of way?)

   If this season ends with the Heroes failing to stop the bomb, leaving Hiro (who is mortally wounded) just enough time to go back and do one thing to try and make a change. Then next season is a repeat of this season with a few subtle changes, leading up to the finale where they do stop the bomb.

4. Comment by Jim Henley —
   October 31, 2006 @ 8:40 am

   Gary, siezing the teachable moment here, “They’ve spent millions advertising” is what we might call the “asshole part” of your comment. It loses nothing in usefulness without that part, and gains a great deal in politesse.

   If politesse is the sort of thing you’re ever going for.

5. Comment by Jim Henley —
   October 31, 2006 @ 11:13 am

   Bill, I have to admit: I wouldn’t watch that! But it’s conceptually interesting, yeah.

6. Comment by Pooh —
   October 31, 2006 @ 2:31 pm

   I’m going to vote with “not dead” for the simple reason that this is a network show and they’re not going to axe the Token Hot Chick (contrast with “Lost” where they had several). Besides what her “power” actually is has not been explained.

7. Comment by Hesiod —
   October 31, 2006 @ 3:40 pm

   So, how does Hiro get that perfect American English accent?

   My guess: Cheerleader’s daddy is NOT the “villian,” but is either:

   A) A Government agent studying the evolvers, and gathering intelligence on them

   B) A scientist doing above for some rich industrialist.

   Therefore, I propsoe that Hiro is “taught” perfect English by Cheerleader dad’s special power sidekick who has mental abilities to alter your memories and perceptions.

   The REAL Villian is Syler, and Syler’s “power” is taht he can absorb the abilities of other “heroes” by either eating or doing sometihng with their brains. Thus, the need to save the Cheerleader, because if Syler absorbs her invulnerability, the only way to stop him would be by, say, atomizing him in a nuclear explosion.

   Hint, hint.

8. Comment by Hesiod —
   October 31, 2006 @ 3:43 pm

   P.S.

   I suppose it’s too late to start “Lost” blogging, eh?

   My pet theory seems to be coming to fruition: The Losties never really went down in a plane crash. They are all either volunteers for a “Total recall” style virtual reality experiment (which explains all the metaphysical stuff), or they are in that state unwillingly after being drugged or gassed on the plane and brought to a secure location.

   The hints and cluse taht they are all “connected” in some fashion might mean they were either all volunteers or were scouted.

9. Comment by Alex Knapp —
   October 31, 2006 @ 11:29 pm

   Hesiod,

   I’m with you on Claire’s dad not being a villain, but I don’t think that Syler’s power is absorbing power, since Peter already demonstrates power mimicry and we haven’t seen any repeat powers yet.

   Also, (and I have to keep correcting myself on this), Claire isn’t INVULNERABLE–she just heals really, really, really fast. That’s a huge difference.

10. Comment by Hesiod —
    November 1, 2006 @ 8:30 am

    No. Claire is virtually immortal.

    Wolverine heals really, really fast. Claire comes back from the dead.

11. Comment by Bill —
    November 1, 2006 @ 8:34 am

    As we’ve seen, Claire can be taken out by the simple expediency of driving a branch into her brain and leaving it there. I don’t think Syler gaining that ability would make him considerably more dangerous. He can already shrug off bullets to the chest.

    Also: Does Claire seem particularly fragile to anyone else? I mean, her neck snapped after a high school football player ran into her, and when she fell down onto a branch, it went right into her skull. Neither of those things is particularly likely for a normal person. My suspicion is that it’s just sloppy writing, but maybe she’s easy to break, hard to keep broken?

12. Comment by Hesiod —
    November 1, 2006 @ 8:34 am

    Also,

    Peter’s powers are of Mimickry, yes. But he can only mimic powers of other heroes that he is nearby. And, as far as I can tell, only one at a time.

    Syler might be able to absorb tehir powers permanently in an additive fashion. This is why Peter is essential to defeating him, and why they need to “save the cheerleader.”

    It also explains why Syler removes brains. He needs them for some reason. And, the other clue is that crime scene we saw in which the dead people were killed in different ways.

    One by freezing. The other by, apparently, telekenisis.

13. Comment by Rich Puchalsky —
    November 1, 2006 @ 10:15 am

    “As we’ve seen, Claire can be taken out by the simple expediency of driving a branch into her brain and leaving it there. I don’t think Syler gaining that ability would make him considerably more dangerous. He can already shrug off bullets to the chest.”

    It makes him considerably more dangerous in one important way: he can no longer be taken out by Hiro. Hiro’s sword is probably for the purpose of freezing time and then having something to kill people with. Against someone who regenerates from any wound, this does no good.

14. Comment by Jim Henley —
    November 1, 2006 @ 10:36 am

    But but - katanas always win! It’s an iron rule!

15. Comment by Nell —
    November 1, 2006 @ 1:37 pm

    This isn’t strictly on-topic, but it fits better here than in the Iraq threads: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds. Seemed to cry out for attention from a libertarian RPGer…

16. Comment by Hesiod —
    November 1, 2006 @ 2:58 pm

    But Jim,

    All bets are off if Hiro’s Katana was manufactured by Hitorri Hanzo!

    All joking aside, I think you are wrong about Hiro’s use of the Katana. Hiro clearly views himself, well, heroically, and probably regards himself as either a Samurai or a Ronin.

17. Comment by Alex Knapp —
    November 1, 2006 @ 3:08 pm

    I think you are wrong about Hiro’s use of the Katana. Hiro clearly views himself, well, heroically, and probably regards himself as either a Samurai or a Ronin.

    Maybe this is just me, but I thought that Hiro’s use of a sword simply has to do with a fun little predestination paradox: based on what we saw in the last episode, Hiro wears a sword in the future because Peter told him that he wears a sword in the future.

18. Comment by Hesiod —
    November 1, 2006 @ 3:25 pm

    Peter also said he spoke perfect English.

19. Comment by Hesiod —
    November 1, 2006 @ 3:30 pm

    Incidentally, couldn’t they have hired a, you know, better comic book artist to render the drawings?

    I find it hard to belive that Mendez’s artwork is Gallery quality.

20. Comment by Rich Puchalsky —
    November 1, 2006 @ 4:41 pm

    What do you mean by Gallery quality, Hesiod? I go to art galleries all the time, and the fact that someone has enough money to rent live-in gallery space is no guarantee of any kind of quality.

21. Comment by Pooh —
    November 1, 2006 @ 8:27 pm

    My guess: Cheerleader’s daddy is NOT the “villian,” but is either:

    Agreed. I think that Sylar has something to do with the half-tat on Evil-twin Nikki’s shoulder (who isn’t dead, I tell you.)

22. Comment by Alex —
    November 4, 2006 @ 1:07 am

    Hiro should always be able to kill Skylar because his time travel powers allow him to go back to before Skylar was formidable and chop him into bite size pieces. So there has to be some reason why he can’t do that, which will probably amount to some version of what Max Smart would call “the old destroying the time-space continuum trick”.

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