Okay, I had to go back and look - where's the incest joke?
Mohinder lacks presentation in…everything. I'm imagining some random subject/class he's teaching that has nothing to do with evolution or abilities and then he spins off on some evolution/abilities rant and everyone is too polite to leave or interrupt the nutjob. I had a psych teacher (you recall my rants about HER): Intro to Psych, talking about politics, socialism, sex and gender, English, geography, econmics…Then her stuff on Psych was out of date, useless, Freud-obsessed, reading from the book…So, it happens.
I think it's perfectly appropriate to tell someone who just lost a parent (no questions as to HOW he died, mind you, not on screen anyway) to "let go" when the supposedly grieving, admittedly estranged living son is more focused on "his father's work" than he is about, say, finding the killer, making arrangements for the body/funeral, telling his mother, now a widow…Mohinder isn't acting like your normal truly "grieving" son, so Nirav's justified in being concerned that Mohinder's…doing something stupid. Nirav is saying "let go" of Chandra's work, not "let go of your father" because clearly Mohinder doesn't give a rip. He's even more focused on helping EDEN grieve Chandra's death (that's a WTF?) It's like Mo doesn't even remember anything unless Eden reminds him, yes, his father is dead and he died estranged, like, "Oh, my father bought me my first car, and I remember when we had ice cream after I graduated" (then Mo inserts something negative or blase about it, like "Sorry for YOUR loss, Eden because I didn't lose anything I cared about"). Nirav is the one properly wondering, "Um…take a minute and remember your father and that he's gone now? Never mind that Chandra would probably want his work to continue even though he pushed you away from it..." In the grander, human scheme, emotions are important, and Chandra's work is unimportant even if it is a life's work. And the writers had to rush that to give Mo (and Bennet, Eden, and Sylar) a plot.
Great points about Mohinder and him helping Eden grieve rather than dealing with anything himself. Or even seeming to need to deal with it. Peter's later response to Nathan passing away is positively healthy in comparison!
The incest joke is when Simone says Charles sees Peter like a son, and Peter says that would make dating her inconvenient, because then they'd be brother and sister.
Mohinder lacks presentation in…everything. I'm imagining some random subject/class he's teaching that has nothing to do with evolution or abilities and then he spins off on some evolution/abilities rant and everyone is too polite to leave or interrupt the nutjob. I had a psych teacher (you recall my rants about HER): Intro to Psych, talking about politics, socialism, sex and gender, English, geography, econmics…Then her stuff on Psych was out of date, useless, Freud-obsessed, reading from the book…So, it happens.
I think it's perfectly appropriate to tell someone who just lost a parent (no questions as to HOW he died, mind you, not on screen anyway) to "let go" when the supposedly grieving, admittedly estranged living son is more focused on "his father's work" than he is about, say, finding the killer, making arrangements for the body/funeral, telling his mother, now a widow…Mohinder isn't acting like your normal truly "grieving" son, so Nirav's justified in being concerned that Mohinder's…doing something stupid. Nirav is saying "let go" of Chandra's work, not "let go of your father" because clearly Mohinder doesn't give a rip. He's even more focused on helping EDEN grieve Chandra's death (that's a WTF?) It's like Mo doesn't even remember anything unless Eden reminds him, yes, his father is dead and he died estranged, like, "Oh, my father bought me my first car, and I remember when we had ice cream after I graduated" (then Mo inserts something negative or blase about it, like "Sorry for YOUR loss, Eden because I didn't lose anything I cared about").
Nirav is the one properly wondering, "Um…take a minute and remember your father and that he's gone now? Never mind that Chandra would probably want his work to continue even though he pushed you away from it..." In the grander, human scheme, emotions are important, and Chandra's work is unimportant even if it is a life's work. And the writers had to rush that to give Mo (and Bennet, Eden, and Sylar) a plot.
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The incest joke is when Simone says Charles sees Peter like a son, and Peter says that would make dating her inconvenient, because then they'd be brother and sister.
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