Winter sucks. Allergies suck. Suites alarms that alarm no one but beep incessantly like car alarms suck. And there is not enough coffee in this universe to offset a two-cat-yak-cleanup night. (Isn't it interesting that I'm hypersensitively attuned to feline retching upon my unsealed hardwood? It's like those mothers who hear their babies crying from far away.)
I was tragically thwarted from watching Heroes last night by unfeeling friends who believe that dinner out, semblance of a life, etc. trump my viewing experience.
So. I got caught up via Television Without Pity. Wow, lots happening, no? Adrenaline cranked up a bit? Toby called Adam/Kensai. And of course I missed Peter without his shirt. Sigh.
Thoughts?
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Definitely picking up speed. Good things are afoot. I can feel it. So, I guess this means that Claire should be immortal as well. My one big question is, if the Irish woman is stuck in the future, and Peter changes the time line so that the virus never happens, what happens to the Irish woman? Is she stuck in the future forever? Not that I really care if she makes it back onto the show. Just curious.
Yay, Claire! Immortal? I know this is nitpickiness, but Kensai is the same age, right? So he ages until when? Then he doesn't age anymore? Claire will be 16 forever?
Yeah, what happens to the Irish woman once the future gets changed? I'm guessing she stays there, the reality around her changes. She'd notice it, because she's not part of the timeline.
But frankly, this whole malleability of time thing just makes my head hurt and is rife with inconsistencies. If Kensai is part of the past and the present, does that change the person he is? I.e., previous timeline, he was a hero in past, Hiro mucks it up, he turns evil and vindictive? Different person emerges in the present?
The beauty of the episode yesterday is that the Sword Makers daughter says she will relay the legends of Kinsei Takezo based on what Hiro did (and most of that was mimicking the stories he heard as a child) and not what the real Kinsei Takezo did. So, the stories that Hiro heard as a child remain unaffected. This means that there is only one past timeline. In it, Hiro always comes back and mucks everything up but manages to set it right with what gets carried down through the centuries. Kensei was never a hero in the past. It was always Hiro who sets him on the right path but then makes him vindictive as well. One can only assume that Adam realized that killing Hiro before he traveled back in time wouldn't result in a better outcome for him, so thus he didn't try to kill Hiro when he was a child or teenager. Now that he's back from the past, however, I think the gloves might be off (and maybe why Sulu was the first one to go). As for when an immortal person stops aging, that's always a tricky question (one Highlander never decided to resolve either. Why is Sean Connery in his 50s but all of the other immortals in their 30s and 40s?). I doubt they'll answer that one for us here, though.
I've been thinking about that, and it's a sort of Terminator-like inevitability of events, isn't it? If Hiro was always supposed to be the one to be the savior about whom legends were created, that sort of argues against the concept of changing the future. That's part of why I thought about Hiro turning into the badass, because I don't think altering that timeline necessarily changes Hiro's evolution. He's obviously growing more confident and heroic as the series progresses.
But, then, e.g., Nathan: tool for good? or evil? Depends on the timeline playing out.
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