Timeline mucking
All right, it's later. Apparently, I don't have class today. So let's get started.
The most problematic part of the "Heroes" timeline (at least in my mind) is whether "save the cheerleader" was carried out. Future-Suresh certainly remembers that Peter received the prophecy, but future-Peter's scar implies he never met Claire. (Actually, there might be something embedded in his skull, causing a cyst, but I'm trying to prevent a single closed time-loop from arising in this analysis.) Therefore, I claim that Claire would have escaped without Peter's help, and Sylar would have been captured anyway from Isaac's paintings.
But that leaves unanswered why Peter didn't arrive to save Claire. My candidate answer is that Ando is a wildcard, able to alter events as I suggested in my last entry. This is an ill-defined premise, but it may be refined so as to allow Ando's two intervening interactions with Peter to steer him away from Claire.
Whether there is more than one timeline is probably a matter of contention on the forums, but this has a simple answer. In the second episode, Hiro called Ando in Japan from America, but Ando at least has to be in New York around the (proposed) time of the explosion. This cannot reasonably be a single timeline; if it is, it would certainly require a lot of unsatisfactory finagling. (Also, the gunshot in the episode I think is called "Unexpected" both happened and did not happen.)
Now, what about Sylar? Did/will Hiro kill him or not? How did/does he survive future-Hiro's sword without Claire's ability? I have two short answers which rely on information not yet available.
FIRST POSSIBILITY: Linderman revives him. This makes no sense, but he did order that Sylar be kept alive (for a while) for unknown reasons. Perhaps Sylar is going to be a backup bomb, though Sylar will only thank him by slitting his forehead.
SECOND POSSIBILITY: Sylar meets Candice before Hiro tries to kill him again. It's not important to this theory whether she survives this encounter, since her power can fool all six common senses (where I count the sense of balance along with the other five). If she somehow survives, then she might be impersonating Sylar herself when she gets killed, for reasons not yet known.
Other things I've been thinking include that there are now three possible bombs (Peter, Sylar, & Ted), that I should cross-check my day-of-the-week comparison with the "two days after the election" figure, and that my next entry should relate to the Colorado Math Olympiad.
Edit: P.P.S. (because this whole entry is like a P.S.) "Heroes" was originally about "ordinary people with extraordinary abilities." No way are the writers throwing that away for an immutable dystopian future.
Also, I call retcon! I wrote that the date on the newspaper was November 5, whereas Election Day 2006 was November 7... and the date of the election was just shown to be November 7! ...Ha!
The most problematic part of the "Heroes" timeline (at least in my mind) is whether "save the cheerleader" was carried out. Future-Suresh certainly remembers that Peter received the prophecy, but future-Peter's scar implies he never met Claire. (Actually, there might be something embedded in his skull, causing a cyst, but I'm trying to prevent a single closed time-loop from arising in this analysis.) Therefore, I claim that Claire would have escaped without Peter's help, and Sylar would have been captured anyway from Isaac's paintings.
But that leaves unanswered why Peter didn't arrive to save Claire. My candidate answer is that Ando is a wildcard, able to alter events as I suggested in my last entry. This is an ill-defined premise, but it may be refined so as to allow Ando's two intervening interactions with Peter to steer him away from Claire.
Whether there is more than one timeline is probably a matter of contention on the forums, but this has a simple answer. In the second episode, Hiro called Ando in Japan from America, but Ando at least has to be in New York around the (proposed) time of the explosion. This cannot reasonably be a single timeline; if it is, it would certainly require a lot of unsatisfactory finagling. (Also, the gunshot in the episode I think is called "Unexpected" both happened and did not happen.)
Now, what about Sylar? Did/will Hiro kill him or not? How did/does he survive future-Hiro's sword without Claire's ability? I have two short answers which rely on information not yet available.
FIRST POSSIBILITY: Linderman revives him. This makes no sense, but he did order that Sylar be kept alive (for a while) for unknown reasons. Perhaps Sylar is going to be a backup bomb, though Sylar will only thank him by slitting his forehead.
SECOND POSSIBILITY: Sylar meets Candice before Hiro tries to kill him again. It's not important to this theory whether she survives this encounter, since her power can fool all six common senses (where I count the sense of balance along with the other five). If she somehow survives, then she might be impersonating Sylar herself when she gets killed, for reasons not yet known.
Other things I've been thinking include that there are now three possible bombs (Peter, Sylar, & Ted), that I should cross-check my day-of-the-week comparison with the "two days after the election" figure, and that my next entry should relate to the Colorado Math Olympiad.
Edit: P.P.S. (because this whole entry is like a P.S.) "Heroes" was originally about "ordinary people with extraordinary abilities." No way are the writers throwing that away for an immutable dystopian future.
Also, I call retcon! I wrote that the date on the newspaper was November 5, whereas Election Day 2006 was November 7... and the date of the election was just shown to be November 7! ...Ha!