Re: Heroes *Spoilers*
I totally called the Nathan flying Peter away to save the city before you did.
So there.
Mr Kring?
Claire: If she wasn't in the FINALE, she wouldn't have put the seed to do the right thing in Nathan's head, so leading to Nathan not being there. See above for further details.
Ah, but here's the thing. Except for something Hiro affected, everything happened as it would've in the future. Which means since Hiro never got to Claire when he came back from 2012, Claire was
always there and it wasn't enough originally for Nathan to save Peter. I think Hiro seeing Nathan and saying, "You're already a virrain! Virrain!" pushed him just enough so that Claire's rushing to Peter would make Nathan do it. Claire on her own at that point wouldn't affect it. Ya get me?
I thought about why peter couldn't just fly into space himself....has he ever used 2 different powers at the same time? ..like when he was invisible he couldn't do anything to get at sylar, cuz he can only use one power at a time. Just a thought.
And I really didn't get why Peter kept losing control of Ted's powers. It was just a plot device in the end; no real explanation besides the fact that they needed an exploding man.
When he learned his powers he said that to use them he had to feel what he felt when he met the person with the power, or some bull**** like that... Or the power is too big and he can't really control it.
Let us remind that Peter need training to learn to control his powers, Sylar in the other hand now how things work. He just need to eat the brain and he already know how to make the power work. Of course there are some powers that he needs to get used too (superhearing) but most of them he knew how to use almost instantly
My thinking on this -
Whenever they refer to Peter exploding, Linderman, Mama Petrilli, all refer to it as "the bomb".
I think the powers are genetic and inherently linked in some fashion. I think this concept is similar to the concept used in Rising Stars, where each power is meant to play a part in restructuring the world (and the opening crawl of Gensis implies that the heroes will change the world). I think Sylar's ability to find heroes (he can sense them) and immediately see how things work meant he's the guy who is supposed to be finding heroes and utilising their powers to make a better world, to get whatever destiny has in plan rolling. This is why he keeps ending up with Chandra or Mohinder Suresh looking for other heroes. It's his destiny. But he went crazy and abused his power to make him a predator of destiny. I think, originally, Linderman, Petrilli, and the Company were going to use Sylar (and Molly Walker) to set off the bomb - since Sylar knows how powers work, he could maneuver Peter into going boom. I also think that Peter is the 'back up hard drive' of the powers and that's why he can use any power he gets close to - he's destiny's back up plan.
Either that or if the powers are genetic, Peter is kind of a superpowered stem cell and perhaps the powers can be chosen at birth by certain members in the company and Linderman and Petrelli purposely gave him the 'stem cell' power to facilitate the bomb.
Regardless of the specifics, it's seems to me that those who wanted the bomb to go off were very calculating in utilising Peter's ability to absorb other powers to turn him into a bomb.
Now, Linderman said if you put Isaac's paintings together they tell the future, and when Sylar painted in his mother's blood the explosion, he saw his future as President. Linderman, a collector of Isaac's paintings, could've possibly put them together (as Isaac and Peter did to save Claire) to fortell the future and he knew Ted and Peter would meet at a certain point.
Remember, Linderman said his plans had become unraveled - if my theory of Sylar as the guy who puts destiny together is correct, then his going insane and killing supers would be a big blow to Linderman's plans.
This is because if you watch the finale, Sylar
knows how Peter works to some extent (he says in Parasite, "I'd like to see how that works, referring to Peter's power") and I think he did this - Peter copies all the powers of people next to him. By fighting Peter in the Kirby Plaza where there is SEVEN supers (Claire, DL, Niki, Micah, Molly, Parkman, and even Hiro) and Sylar who possesses many powers, including Ted's, I think Sylar understood that if Peter got overloaded, and copies Sylar's Ted powers in
addition to him already having that power that he'd go boom. I think this is what everyone was planning on. Remember, Claude told Peter this is what would happen. (On the other hand, perhaps Sylar was hoping that when Peter entered meltdown, now would be his chance to eat his brain and take all his powers...)
Considering he's on overload, I'm not surprised he couldn't do anything. And Peter himself tells Nathan he can't do anything. Essentially, if he's a back up hard drive, he just crashed.
The unanswered question is the details of how the conspirators were going to make Peter go off, and I think that's tied directly into the origin of where the powers come from - and considering Hiro seems to be at the inception of the first superpowered guys, I think we'll find out very early on in season 2 how these powers work and more about where they come from (and probably discover exactly how Sylar 'power stealing' thing works). But while the details of the motivations are left unanswered, it's very obvious that they specifically intended this to occur, and while we may not know how, we are aware of that because of the way the series had continually pointed out that this moment was inevitable. We're unsure as to why, but it's pretty much resolved. And far more so that anything else on tv at the moment. One season and look at how much happened, compared to say, Lost, Galactica, or anything else. The main villain at the beginning of the season, Bennet turns into one of the main heroes. Lots of great stuff here.
