Nathan: Misguided or Villian?
I've seen and heard a lot about Nathan being an idiot this new volume. I disagree. Nathan has been used all his life, from his father pushing him to become a lawyer to being injected with the formula to make sure he has an ability. Nathan himself has admitted he has done what he has to be more like his father or to make both his parents proud of him.
I think Nathan doesn't know how to think for himself, the few times he has tried it has not gone well. He's nearly died twice, lost the one person in his life who mattered for four months (Peter) and lost out on the chance to raise his first born daughter thanks to doing what Angela or Arthur wanted of him.
As the eldest child it is very clear, he has never had the chance to do what he wanted to do without massive disapproval from everyone in his life, but Peter. Peter allows Nathan to be himself unless they are angry at each other, then we have trouble with a capital T. So he could be reaching out for the first time on his own hoping he is making the right choice.
We do not know what Nathan's motivations are for doing what he is doing. We assume he is doing it for villainous ones but Heroes has a history of being very closed were Nathan is concerned. We still don't know how his power works unlike everyone else, we don't know if his ability being synthetic is true or not, Angela has a history of lying.
It could be he is protecting those he cares for but keeping them away from the government, it could be he knows something that we yet don't. I find it interesting if the press releases are anything to go by that the President who okayed the capture would suddenly turn around and have Homeland Security look at Nathan unless there was something else going on.
So what do you all think, is Nathan really an idiot, a misguided stubborn man who thinks he's on the right path, or someone looking out for people he knows are in deeper trouble.
Discuss!
I think Nathan doesn't know how to think for himself, the few times he has tried it has not gone well. He's nearly died twice, lost the one person in his life who mattered for four months (Peter) and lost out on the chance to raise his first born daughter thanks to doing what Angela or Arthur wanted of him.
As the eldest child it is very clear, he has never had the chance to do what he wanted to do without massive disapproval from everyone in his life, but Peter. Peter allows Nathan to be himself unless they are angry at each other, then we have trouble with a capital T. So he could be reaching out for the first time on his own hoping he is making the right choice.
We do not know what Nathan's motivations are for doing what he is doing. We assume he is doing it for villainous ones but Heroes has a history of being very closed were Nathan is concerned. We still don't know how his power works unlike everyone else, we don't know if his ability being synthetic is true or not, Angela has a history of lying.
It could be he is protecting those he cares for but keeping them away from the government, it could be he knows something that we yet don't. I find it interesting if the press releases are anything to go by that the President who okayed the capture would suddenly turn around and have Homeland Security look at Nathan unless there was something else going on.
So what do you all think, is Nathan really an idiot, a misguided stubborn man who thinks he's on the right path, or someone looking out for people he knows are in deeper trouble.
Discuss!