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linaerys in vote_petrelli

Nathan Questions

Jan 29, 2007 07:53

Hi, y'all, I'm working on what looks like it will be a fairly epic Nathan and Peter (and almost certainly Nathan/Peter) fic and I need your help figuring out some stuff in Nathan's past ( Read more... )

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sarah82 January 29 2007, 13:57:05 UTC

For whatever reason, I was thinking that Nathan was in the Navy. (maybe I just read that somewhere in a story:P)

Nathan's kids were in the ep where we first saw his wife. I'd guess they were between eight and twelve years old?

linaerys January 29 2007, 14:00:43 UTC

Thanks! I was thinking Nathan was in the Navy, (mostly because Adrian Pasdar was in Top Gun) but he wouldn't have seen action in Bosnia, then, would he?

And if the kids are even 8 I'm going to have to revise my timeline, darn it. Okay, thanks for the info.

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linaerys January 29 2007, 14:06:53 UTC

Really? Then who was pressuring him to go after Linderman?

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linaerys January 29 2007, 14:11:36 UTC

Thanks for the info!

Again, how is he getting pressure to go up against Linderman, though, if he's not in the D.A.'s office?

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linaerys January 29 2007, 14:54:48 UTC

Well, I didn't think he was the DA, but was an ADA. Okay, confusion lifted.

Thanks for your help!

adeline January 29 2007, 14:22:54 UTC

I'm not sure how much relevance this still has, but an early version of the pilot script had 'Harrison' (Nathan) be 34 years old. Then again, he and 'Ethan' (Peter) were supposed to be twins, so... Make of that what you will. :)

linaerys January 29 2007, 14:24:43 UTC

Yeah, I think they must have revised things since then . . .

wee_warrior January 29 2007, 15:36:34 UTC

I think for the Bosnian Civil War, either airforce (hee. I would love if the show went there, if only for Adrian's Top Gun connection) or navy would work.

As for the kids, they were rather young, I'd say between five and eight at the heighest. Compare them to Micah, he is much more active and has lots of lines, while they were just sort of bouncing around, and he's meant to be what, nine, ten?

Concerning the campaign, I was chalking this up to the magics of television - or maybe he took over for his father, since I'm pretty sure he mentioned taking up the candidacy because of his father's death, which probably was meant emotionally, but could of course also have been literally taking over for Petrelli Sr.

Good luck for your story!

wee_warrior January 29 2007, 15:37:09 UTC

*facepalm* heighest = highest.

linaerys January 29 2007, 15:46:07 UTC

I've been trying to research US military involvement in Bosnia, and it really seems like mostly Army, but I'll look into it more. Although I like him as Top Gun, being a pilot doesn't really work with the chronology, since the Navy, the Marines and the Air Force require a longer commitment than he'd have time for. The Marine's commitment for a pilot is 8 years, IIRC ( ... )