The mind, she boggles... but I guess it's perceptions like this that we owe Hiro's "You care too much." speech to.
Quite. Now I imagine the writer's room:
KRING: Boys and girls, I just read Otto's newest and got a summary of the NBC message boards. Seems people still think Nathan is Lex Luthor.
LOEB: *proudly* Actually that's...
KRING: Not the Smallville version, Jeb. Sheesh, I wish you hadn't all persuaded me to actually get some geek cred by going through a marathon of superhero movies before I give my next interview. I meant the Gene Hackman guy. He was awful.
ALEXANDER: But...
KRING: Exactly. So here's what we do: next time Hiro and Nathan meet, Hiro is going to...
LOEB: Hug him?
KRING: That's what we have Peter for. Also Angela, for the creepy effect in the later episodes. No, I was thinking campaign speech.
ALEXANDER: I don't think the audience will buy Hiro interested in politics, Tim.
KRING: Not an actual campaign speech. I was thinking he should quote from my character bible for Nathan.
If you really want your kid to be the future leader of the world, and to be mutant-friendly, wouldn't you raise him in the awareness of being a mutant? Otherwise you would be in danger of having a Roy Cohn on your hands, which seems to be exactly what happened!
Re: part 2
Quite. Now I imagine the writer's room:
KRING: Boys and girls, I just read Otto's newest and got a summary of the NBC message boards. Seems people still think Nathan is Lex Luthor.
LOEB: *proudly* Actually that's...
KRING: Not the Smallville version, Jeb. Sheesh, I wish you hadn't all persuaded me to actually get some geek cred by going through a marathon of superhero movies before I give my next interview. I meant the Gene Hackman guy. He was awful.
ALEXANDER: But...
KRING: Exactly. So here's what we do: next time Hiro and Nathan meet, Hiro is going to...
LOEB: Hug him?
KRING: That's what we have Peter for. Also Angela, for the creepy effect in the later episodes. No, I was thinking campaign speech.
ALEXANDER: I don't think the audience will buy Hiro interested in politics, Tim.
KRING: Not an actual campaign speech. I was thinking he should quote from my character bible for Nathan.
If you really want your kid to be the future leader of the world, and to be mutant-friendly, wouldn't you raise him in the awareness of being a mutant? Otherwise you would be in danger of having a Roy Cohn on your hands, which seems to be exactly what happened!
Someone really wasn't being logical about this...