Got into Heros over the summer via the magic of marathon DVD watching.
Last night's premiere was a good set-up for the season. I'm looking forward to the three major new mysteries - who is offing the original 9? who is Mr. Scary eyes? And what happened to Peter and Nathan? I guess lesser questions include: has Hiro wrecked the past? and what is Maya's power of death?
Overall, the new season should be great. I'm wondering if something crazy happened to Peter and Nathan and they somehow switched personalities or identities during the explosion. Nathan did look at himself in the mirror and saw a brutalized face of Peter (shades of Nikki/Jessica there). And Peter is clean cut all of a sudden...
oh fuck..i get it.
The Haitian took Nathan's/Peter's memory?...... or Peter took the Haitians Power and took Nathan's memory
Peter is disguised as Nathan?
Nathan is disguised as Peter?
That explains the brutalized face and Peter in the box with no memory.
Peter/Nathan also absorbed Nikki's power..thats why he can see his brother in the Mirror... interesting.
Who is the guy with the Eyes???'( that must be skylar?)
Who killed Hiro's Dad? - slylar would have showed his face, he is so arrogant.
THe boogieman is the Haitian???????????
Wouldn't it be funny if the Haitian turned out to be the most powerful one on the show?
Started in the early 70s, a group of people with special abilities slowly banded together to work to change the world for good. Starting with Linderman and Petrelli, then including Angela Petrelli. Kaito Nakamura would most likely have had at some point an Ivy League education, and probably became known to them through that, before he was made aware of his family legacy but after he had discovered his power. At some point, Robert Parkman and Charles Deveaux would also have joined. Keep in mind that the powers that these people possessed while amazingly strong in their own way are largely indirect. Linderman heals, Charles has a sort of clairvoyant astral projection dream thing going on, etc. I think Robert Parkman's power is much like Matt's, but way more developed, or communicative. While these people initially gathered to change the world for good, decades of setbacks and the feeling of ineffectiveness worked to largely weaken the incentive toward the common goal and these individually wealthy and powerful individuals with their own personal concerns and ambitions began to work from the elevated position of the group toward their own ends. For a large time, some of them stayed true to the cause but once it became apparent that the group had fallen apart, all began to focus more on their families and their own position in the world.
To the man that knew the minds of all of them, though, an educated strategic thinker, the need for an assortment of contingency plans would have become apparent. Such a person would be aware of the emergence of evolved humans increasing, would be interested in Chandra Suresh's research. Suresh's daughter coming down with a degenerative cellular disease that led to the discovery of these changes in the genome would have been of huge concern to Robert Parkman. Knowing that people with powers already exist and have for at least a few decades, the implications of Shanti's condition as a potential weapon or deterrent would be obvious. Maybe obvious enough to abduct her and fake her death, not hard to do in an Indian hospital. If the other known members of the group are any indication, parkman has _vast_ discretionary resources available to him without the knowledge of the other members. It's not unlikely that he could engineer Shanti's condition as a weaponised virus, and now it makes sense how Molly came down with the condition.
Primatech, which as far as I can tell is Linderman's gig, has Molly. Linderman, now having her ability at his disposal wants to check up on his old friend Bob. He asks molly to find him, but when she looks for him, he can see right back at her. He hears her thoughts, maybe even those near her. He knows what she can do and who has her, and that he'll never be safe if her ability exists. He (somehow, probably by infiltrating a double agent or something) infects her with the virus, disabling her ability. I think somewhere around this point he decides to make a bid for power, and the upcoming attacks on people from this generation (and the haitian's virus) are part of of this bid for power.
I'm also getting the feeling that the connection between Mohinder and Shanti is similar to the connection between Maya and Alejandro, maybe the virus affecting specials is like the one maya and alejandro put out that affects normal people, but the ability isn't fully formed, or was broken because shanti wasn't a twin, and poisoned her. Alejandro sort of regulates maya's ability or provides her with the cure or something, like how mohinder's blood cures molly/shanti's disease.
So I propose that Mohinder actually has a power, the twin of Shanti's so it wouldn't be noticable. I bet he's never even tested himself. And theres also a fairly good chance that Shanti is still being kept alive in a lab churning out virus for Bob somewhere.
