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selenakThere is a new trailer for episode 19 of Heroes, as well as a clip from the episode, the later featuring Nathan and Mr. Linderman.
Of course, both lead to speculation:
Firstly, the clip shows Linderman revealing his power to Nathan. (Hands up if you didn't guess he had one, which makes him the oldest superpowered person we've met yet, btw.) Which seems to be healing. That's a really cool twist - giving a villain a quintessential good guy power, but I've read that someone of the writing staff compared it to Ben's power in Carnivale. For non-Carnivale watchers, Ben was a healer, but had to pay a price each time he used that power. For "minor" healings, i.e. wounds and the like, he could use the lifeforce of plants around him, or animals. In order to heal someone who had a mortal wound? He had to take someone else's life. (And yes, Ben could bring people back from the dead as well; he did it once.) I could see a similar catch with Linderman, but even if not: having the power to heal, to decide life and death, might have contributed to giving him a god complex. This being said, it could come handy very soon...
...since in the trailer, we have Mohinder paying Mrs. Petrelli a call and telling her Peter is dead. Followed later with a quick shot of Nathan cradling/hugging a seemingly dead Peter, with Angela standing behind. Now I'm not seriously worried this death is final, as obviously, Peter has to make it to the season finale at least, not to mention into the future so Future!Hiro can meet him with a scar. I'll make an educated guess and say Linderman makes an offer Nathan really can't refuse/Nathan makes the obvious devil's deal and gets Peter resurrected by Linderman in exchange for complete fealty.
It makes me wonder why Linderman goes to all this effort with Nathan. I mean, if he needs a frontman in Washington, why Nathan Petrelli (not even elected yet) as opposed to a dozen other politicians? Presumably because Isaac's paintings include one that shows Nathan in the White House, so he's a sure bet from Linderman's pov. Which positions that Isaac's paintings always become true, that the future can't be changed. Given that Hiro & Ando have just arrived in a future!New York where Peter did explode at the end of episode 18, that is pretty much the question for the remaining season - can the future be changed? Prophecy versus free will, that old genre question. Speaking of Hiro and Ando, the trailer includes two people I can't recognize because they have their backs to the viewer and the clip is over too quickly standing on the roof of the Deveaux building while someone - Nathan or a future!Peter with a different haircut and a business suit, which is a remote possibility but can't be excluded because again, such a short moment - flies up to them. And later on we have a Present!Hiro meets Future!Hiro event, it seems. At another guess, the future they ended up in isn't just months but several years later (there are reconstructions going on at the end of episode 18), enough years for Isaac's painting of Nathan in the White House to have become true. Which I think won't be a good thing.
Blame the Babylon 5 fan in me, but more and more I suspect Nathan is going to be the equivalent of Londo Mollari (with Peter as his Vir and G'Kar both; though given the scenes between them so far Hiro might become Vir later?). For non B5 watchers: what I mean is: Nathan is, along with Mr. Bennet, the show's most ambiguous character; he could go either good or bad. We've already seen him make some bad choices, but we've also seen him capable of caring. Londo was a character who thought he wanted power and had no choice on his way to gaining it, but once he had power didn't want it any longer and was truly bereft of choices, realizing he had them all the way back then. Also, his final step to power wasn't taken because he wanted it (he already was past that stage then) but to save his home planet in general and a few inviduals in particular, and he knew he was trapping himself for the rest of his life by it. If they're going in a similar way with Nathan, the future Hiro and Ando are currently visiting would show that he did, indeed, get what he thought he wanted at the start of the show - political power - but in a way that actually makes him someone else's tool (sustitute Linderman for the Drakh), with the final step towards power no longer taken for power's sake but because the alternative was unthinkable. In B5, there is a flash forward time travel episode where we see Londo near the end of his life as Emperor in a devastated Centauri Prime. Methinks future!New York (and indeed future!America if Nathan has become President while bound to Linderman) could be similarly dystopian. Londo in the episode breaks away from the control he's under long enough to send Our Timetravelling Heroes back (when earlier, while still under control, seeming to condemm them) and to orchestrate his own death. I could see Hiro's and Ando's trip to the future ending in a similar fashion.
Going back to Linderman: aside from telling Nathan that he, L., will be remembered as a humanitarian, the trailer also shows him encountering Micah and asking the boy how Micah would like to save the world. Hmmmmmm. You know, Micah can control computers. Linderman needs Nathan to win the elections. I'm thinking he intends to use Micah to make sure of that, if New Yorkers vote electronically. (Do they?)
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Dexter vid: Keep Breathing is a Deb character study through the first season and captures Deb in her brittle, zany, damaged glory. Oh, Morgans, how I love you both.
Of course, both lead to speculation:
Firstly, the clip shows Linderman revealing his power to Nathan. (Hands up if you didn't guess he had one, which makes him the oldest superpowered person we've met yet, btw.) Which seems to be healing. That's a really cool twist - giving a villain a quintessential good guy power, but I've read that someone of the writing staff compared it to Ben's power in Carnivale. For non-Carnivale watchers, Ben was a healer, but had to pay a price each time he used that power. For "minor" healings, i.e. wounds and the like, he could use the lifeforce of plants around him, or animals. In order to heal someone who had a mortal wound? He had to take someone else's life. (And yes, Ben could bring people back from the dead as well; he did it once.) I could see a similar catch with Linderman, but even if not: having the power to heal, to decide life and death, might have contributed to giving him a god complex. This being said, it could come handy very soon...
...since in the trailer, we have Mohinder paying Mrs. Petrelli a call and telling her Peter is dead. Followed later with a quick shot of Nathan cradling/hugging a seemingly dead Peter, with Angela standing behind. Now I'm not seriously worried this death is final, as obviously, Peter has to make it to the season finale at least, not to mention into the future so Future!Hiro can meet him with a scar. I'll make an educated guess and say Linderman makes an offer Nathan really can't refuse/Nathan makes the obvious devil's deal and gets Peter resurrected by Linderman in exchange for complete fealty.
It makes me wonder why Linderman goes to all this effort with Nathan. I mean, if he needs a frontman in Washington, why Nathan Petrelli (not even elected yet) as opposed to a dozen other politicians? Presumably because Isaac's paintings include one that shows Nathan in the White House, so he's a sure bet from Linderman's pov. Which positions that Isaac's paintings always become true, that the future can't be changed. Given that Hiro & Ando have just arrived in a future!New York where Peter did explode at the end of episode 18, that is pretty much the question for the remaining season - can the future be changed? Prophecy versus free will, that old genre question. Speaking of Hiro and Ando, the trailer includes two people I can't recognize because they have their backs to the viewer and the clip is over too quickly standing on the roof of the Deveaux building while someone - Nathan or a future!Peter with a different haircut and a business suit, which is a remote possibility but can't be excluded because again, such a short moment - flies up to them. And later on we have a Present!Hiro meets Future!Hiro event, it seems. At another guess, the future they ended up in isn't just months but several years later (there are reconstructions going on at the end of episode 18), enough years for Isaac's painting of Nathan in the White House to have become true. Which I think won't be a good thing.
Blame the Babylon 5 fan in me, but more and more I suspect Nathan is going to be the equivalent of Londo Mollari (with Peter as his Vir and G'Kar both; though given the scenes between them so far Hiro might become Vir later?). For non B5 watchers: what I mean is: Nathan is, along with Mr. Bennet, the show's most ambiguous character; he could go either good or bad. We've already seen him make some bad choices, but we've also seen him capable of caring. Londo was a character who thought he wanted power and had no choice on his way to gaining it, but once he had power didn't want it any longer and was truly bereft of choices, realizing he had them all the way back then. Also, his final step to power wasn't taken because he wanted it (he already was past that stage then) but to save his home planet in general and a few inviduals in particular, and he knew he was trapping himself for the rest of his life by it. If they're going in a similar way with Nathan, the future Hiro and Ando are currently visiting would show that he did, indeed, get what he thought he wanted at the start of the show - political power - but in a way that actually makes him someone else's tool (sustitute Linderman for the Drakh), with the final step towards power no longer taken for power's sake but because the alternative was unthinkable. In B5, there is a flash forward time travel episode where we see Londo near the end of his life as Emperor in a devastated Centauri Prime. Methinks future!New York (and indeed future!America if Nathan has become President while bound to Linderman) could be similarly dystopian. Londo in the episode breaks away from the control he's under long enough to send Our Timetravelling Heroes back (when earlier, while still under control, seeming to condemm them) and to orchestrate his own death. I could see Hiro's and Ando's trip to the future ending in a similar fashion.
Going back to Linderman: aside from telling Nathan that he, L., will be remembered as a humanitarian, the trailer also shows him encountering Micah and asking the boy how Micah would like to save the world. Hmmmmmm. You know, Micah can control computers. Linderman needs Nathan to win the elections. I'm thinking he intends to use Micah to make sure of that, if New Yorkers vote electronically. (Do they?)
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Dexter vid: Keep Breathing is a Deb character study through the first season and captures Deb in her brittle, zany, damaged glory. Oh, Morgans, how I love you both.
