Bravo. I completely agree with your assessment. Based largely on how it was played I always got the impression that Nathan loved Heidi and was faithful to her up until the accident (after all it seems that it was largely to get revenge for Heidi that drove him to oppose Linderman even more than before) and the complications in their relationship from the accident were what drove him to cheat. I also doubt that he cheated very often before Niki, if at all, as doing so would be rather risky to his political standing if word got out.
Nathan obviously doesn't have the best track record with relationships (see: Claire's mom) but pre-accident Heidi doesn't strike me as the kind of woman who would put up with her husband running around if she caught wind of a hint of it.
I can go either way about Nathan. I think that Niki might not have been the first time he cheated on Heidi, but it might be. Peter also seems upset enough with Nathan that it could be the first time that Peter knows Nathan cheated
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I can go either way with Nathan. It's possible to argue that his self-centeredness is of the same type as Peter Parker's: he has to put himself first because he has greater responsibilities than just to his family. In the pilot, he pretty much dismisses both Peter's and his mother's problems, but his family has Drama with a capital D. Since he's in the middle of this extremely delicate and dangerous operation with the FBI, I can see why he'd see Peter's obsession with flying and his mother's shoplifting as things they were doing to himI just keep thinking about that scene in "Six Months Ago." Putting aside the broyay, he seemed very in tune with his wife and happy, as opposed to in the series where he doesn't even refer to his children by name
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From the way Adrian Pasdar played the scenes leading up to the infidelity and after, I'd have to say he was playing it as though this was a first time thing. The chatting up he does with Niki, talking obliquely about flying and his kids and family, is all so bittersweet and innocent, it seems like he's both trying to remind himself what he has to lose by cheating and what he's already lost in that regard (notably, his parallel to Niki's fugitive-but-still-married husband is his crippled-but-still-alive wife). It was one of the very few scenes where Nathan seemed almost cuddly, he was so vulnerable there
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Nathan obviously doesn't have the best track record with relationships (see: Claire's mom) but pre-accident Heidi doesn't strike me as the kind of woman who would put up with her husband running around if she caught wind of a hint of it.
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