I'm twenty minutes in, watched the first part while grating zucchini.
I appreciate how Peter admits that he's scared and that at the base, he just wants his brother because he wants his brother. He's reaching out for comfort and security and he *knows* that. You can hear it in how he plainly asks Nathan for help, without any idea of what Nathan can do for him. He just expects Nathan to be there for him, as Peter has insisted to Claire that Nathan always was in the past. I wonder how much of that is Peter looking at the past through exceedingly rose-colored glasses, because we see repeated moments where Nathan wasn't there for Peter, but Peter ... glosses over those. Like not believing he can fly, or lying to him about what happened after he jumped, or obstructing him from going to save Claire. That's what we've seen in canon and it seems likely to have been a pattern of behavior. I think S1 Peter is really bound up in denial and in seeing the world (especially his family) in the way he's been programmed and conditioned to see them; and to no small extent, in the way he wants to see them. I think in later seasons he not only has more inexcusable things to hold against them, but that he starts seeing them more realistically.
Molly's ability - she says she can find anyone but one person, who is later revealed to be Maury Parkman. I wonder about Rene. Can she find him? What about Claude? Does she have to know of a person to know if she can locate them? For example, maybe there's twenty people in South Africa she can't locate, but if no one ever asks her to look for them, then she wouldn't know they were blocked. I like the interpretation that she can only detect people she's aware of, from some kind of identity marker (a unique name, or a picture that's close enough to their current appearance to work). That way, I can ignore little logic problems like Rene and Claude and the unknown folks in the world by simply saying she's a little girl, with a little girl's worldview, and she doesn't know those people so they don't count.
Also, I continue to dislike and ignore, as much as possible, Hiro's stupid arc. But I have to add that it makes no sense at all for Ando to suddenly get heroic and rush off by himself to deal with Sylar. Maybe that's character growth on his part, but here at the finale it just seems contrived.
And now I shall move on to packaging up the grated squash for the next portion of the show. After that come peaches and nectarines.
I think S1 Peter is really bound up in denial and in seeing the world (especially his family) in the way he's been programmed and conditioned to see them; and to no small extent, in the way he wants to see them.
Yeah, I haven't thought about that, but I agree with you, well said.
I can ignore little logic problems like Rene and Claude and the unknown folks in the world by simply saying she's a little girl, with a little girl's worldview, and she doesn't know those people so they don't count.
It really looks like she can only locate people that she knows the name, saw the picture, or something along those lines, since she have to think about them to find them. So yeah, if she is not aware of any of the other "special people" she won't know where they are.
I appreciate how Peter admits that he's scared and that at the base, he just wants his brother because he wants his brother. He's reaching out for comfort and security and he *knows* that. You can hear it in how he plainly asks Nathan for help, without any idea of what Nathan can do for him. He just expects Nathan to be there for him, as Peter has insisted to Claire that Nathan always was in the past. I wonder how much of that is Peter looking at the past through exceedingly rose-colored glasses, because we see repeated moments where Nathan wasn't there for Peter, but Peter ... glosses over those. Like not believing he can fly, or lying to him about what happened after he jumped, or obstructing him from going to save Claire. That's what we've seen in canon and it seems likely to have been a pattern of behavior. I think S1 Peter is really bound up in denial and in seeing the world (especially his family) in the way he's been programmed and conditioned to see them; and to no small extent, in the way he wants to see them. I think in later seasons he not only has more inexcusable things to hold against them, but that he starts seeing them more realistically.
Molly's ability - she says she can find anyone but one person, who is later revealed to be Maury Parkman. I wonder about Rene. Can she find him? What about Claude? Does she have to know of a person to know if she can locate them? For example, maybe there's twenty people in South Africa she can't locate, but if no one ever asks her to look for them, then she wouldn't know they were blocked. I like the interpretation that she can only detect people she's aware of, from some kind of identity marker (a unique name, or a picture that's close enough to their current appearance to work). That way, I can ignore little logic problems like Rene and Claude and the unknown folks in the world by simply saying she's a little girl, with a little girl's worldview, and she doesn't know those people so they don't count.
Also, I continue to dislike and ignore, as much as possible, Hiro's stupid arc. But I have to add that it makes no sense at all for Ando to suddenly get heroic and rush off by himself to deal with Sylar. Maybe that's character growth on his part, but here at the finale it just seems contrived.
And now I shall move on to packaging up the grated squash for the next portion of the show. After that come peaches and nectarines.
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Yeah, I haven't thought about that, but I agree with you, well said.
I can ignore little logic problems like Rene and Claude and the unknown folks in the world by simply saying she's a little girl, with a little girl's worldview, and she doesn't know those people so they don't count.
It really looks like she can only locate people that she knows the name, saw the picture, or something along those lines, since she have to think about them to find them. So yeah, if she is not aware of any of the other "special people" she won't know where they are.
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