- Mr. Bennett could have shot Nathan, I guess...I don't know if I buy it, though. Why would they fly him all the way to NY, in custody of Bob, to do something he probably didn't really want to do himself? I'm sure Angela tipped someone off...it might be a character we haven't seen before.
- "Why Peter didn't just fucking read Kensei/Adam's mind I don't understand." Agreed. Likewise, why couldn't Matt and/or Peter hear the thoughts of whoever shot Nathan before he did it? The only way I could buy either of those situations is that Matt was preoccupied with mentally herding that crowd so he was distracted...and Peter's kind of stupid. (Though I hope not stupid enough to not realize he can use his blood to save Nathan. He should really be able to figure that out.)
-Yeah, I thought about the Caitlin thing too. She was kind of a useless character...and this is part of why I hate time travel stuff, because them having destroyed the virus means that future won't happen, which means Peter's past didn't really happen...I just try to suspend my disbelief with this show to assume that Peter and Hiro can exist outside of the normal time/space continuum, and so can anyone with them at the time...so if Hiro went back in time and killed his father before he was born, he can still go back to his present and exist. Just only one of him.
- Elle is improving, but I want her to electrocute her father. Somehow it's actually quite difficult for me to see them as family...he's such a cold-hearted bastard, why would he have had a kid at all, with whom he has no chemistry, not even a believable sense of expectation and disappointment? Maybe she was an "assignment child," like Claire.
- Sandra and Lyle are also dead weight. But I would be really happy if they did something more with Sandra, like gave her a real motivation to DO something. Lyle can get hit by a truck for all I care.
- I agree that Maya sucks. Though honestly it was kind of funny when Molly staggered into the room clutching her eyes. Somehow it reminded me of Oedipus. I'm a sick bastard.
-I think it was Mr. Bennet because it could have been part of the deal he made with the Company. Plus this show is always looking for ways to keep his character nice and grey.
-Peter is constantly underusing his powers or conveniently forgetting he has certain powers. Like why bother to telekinetically rip the safe door open when he could just fucking walk through it? Seriously. Bad writing people. (This is why having characters like Peter are so problematic.)
-The time travel paradox is the same as we get with season 1 and Hiro seeing the explosion in NY. I guess they could exist outside the time-line. That's the Back to the Future take on it I guess.
-I actually have no problem seeing Bob and Elle as a very dysfunctional father/daughter dynamic. Bob clearly doesn't care much about her mental well-being though and values her only for how useful he is to him. I guess I'm feeling it more from her end.
-Lyle is so hilariously purposeless on this show. It would be great if someday he could maybe have any significance to the plot.
- "Why Peter didn't just fucking read Kensei/Adam's mind I don't understand." Agreed. Likewise, why couldn't Matt and/or Peter hear the thoughts of whoever shot Nathan before he did it? The only way I could buy either of those situations is that Matt was preoccupied with mentally herding that crowd so he was distracted...and Peter's kind of stupid. (Though I hope not stupid enough to not realize he can use his blood to save Nathan. He should really be able to figure that out.)
-Yeah, I thought about the Caitlin thing too. She was kind of a useless character...and this is part of why I hate time travel stuff, because them having destroyed the virus means that future won't happen, which means Peter's past didn't really happen...I just try to suspend my disbelief with this show to assume that Peter and Hiro can exist outside of the normal time/space continuum, and so can anyone with them at the time...so if Hiro went back in time and killed his father before he was born, he can still go back to his present and exist. Just only one of him.
- Elle is improving, but I want her to electrocute her father. Somehow it's actually quite difficult for me to see them as family...he's such a cold-hearted bastard, why would he have had a kid at all, with whom he has no chemistry, not even a believable sense of expectation and disappointment? Maybe she was an "assignment child," like Claire.
- Sandra and Lyle are also dead weight. But I would be really happy if they did something more with Sandra, like gave her a real motivation to DO something. Lyle can get hit by a truck for all I care.
- I agree that Maya sucks. Though honestly it was kind of funny when Molly staggered into the room clutching her eyes. Somehow it reminded me of Oedipus. I'm a sick bastard.
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-Peter is constantly underusing his powers or conveniently forgetting he has certain powers. Like why bother to telekinetically rip the safe door open when he could just fucking walk through it? Seriously. Bad writing people. (This is why having characters like Peter are so problematic.)
-The time travel paradox is the same as we get with season 1 and Hiro seeing the explosion in NY. I guess they could exist outside the time-line. That's the Back to the Future take on it I guess.
-I actually have no problem seeing Bob and Elle as a very dysfunctional father/daughter dynamic. Bob clearly doesn't care much about her mental well-being though and values her only for how useful he is to him. I guess I'm feeling it more from her end.
-Lyle is so hilariously purposeless on this show. It would be great if someday he could maybe have any significance to the plot.
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