Heroes: SPOILERS!!!

The scene with the little boy meeting Linderman has me completely baffled.

I'm losing track of which people are good and which are bad. I guess that's because two forces thought to be evil are on the verge of some sort of confrontation. I know this, Sylar is definitely bad.

 

I think that's kind of the point ... the world isn't full of good or bad people, it's made up of complex individuals whose intentions might be noble but misguided.

Lindermann strikes as a Magneto-type character. One who isn't inherently evil, he's just doing what he thinks is right to make the world a better place and, to him, .07 percent of the population is an acceptable loss for what he thinks will be better future. He isn't doing all this for the joy of killing. He's doing it for the misguided notion that it's the only way to make these mutants (to borrow from X-Men) accepted by the rest of the world (which he, of course, thinks won't have any idea that it was a mutant who went nuclear in the first place).

My only question is, as he was showing Nathan Petrelli that he has the power to heal, I got the impression he was going to blow up NYC and then use his power to heal, thus revealing himself and the mutants to world in grand gesture that says, "We're good people!" But then he talks about killing .07 percent of the world's population. So what's the real plan here for him? Is he trying to frighten regular people into accepting mutants?

 

bigpern, I don't think Linderman's agenda is about mutants at all. If he was telling Nathan the truth, his plan is to use one great disaster as a motivation to unify people. When they pull together to move past the explosion in New York, that will lead to a better world.

Yeah, it's delusional. It is also possible that he has some alterior motive and he is just lying in an attempt to control Nathan. Aren't we pretty certain that it was Linderman's men that forced the accident that put Nathan's wife in a wheelchair? At best, Linderman is capable of brutal ruthlessness to meet his ends. At worse, he is a true bad guy with no redeeming qualitities at all and he is just playing Nathan.

Personally, I think the Magneto comparison is closer to the truth, except without the mutant-centric agenda.

Can't wait to see Linderman's utopia go to shit, because that is what I think we'll be seeing next week.

 

rasputin with the smackdown out of nowhere, wow.

 

Then Linderman heals Petrelli's wife, and that's what makes him flip.
According to the tivo lookahead. Next week has Hiro in the future encountering familiar faces but who now act differently since those with powers are now hunted down
The week after Hiro returns to the present intent on changing what he saw.
I wasn't a huge X-Men fan, but it seems like I recall a somewhat similar storyline.

 

Micah's (little boy) power is to control machines. So my guess is, Linderman sees Plan A go out the window when Nathan Petrelli rejects his offer (thus keeping Peter Petrelli from going nuclear). Now, Linderman switches to Plan B, which is to get Micah to somehow launch a nuke on New York and achieve the same result as Plan A.
Of course, they could kill two birds with one stone and switch to Plan C, which would be to have Sylar kill the Nuclear Man and thus blow up New York. There's a bunch of ways this could go.

 

great show. great tv. have no idea where they're taking it, but enjoying the ride with my kids, who luv it.

 

Wired has a great two-page spread on the show. It's interesting to see who is involved and how, and why they keep us guessing like they do.

Also, TV guide has a spoiler-type preview of this past week's episode that gives away some of what's going on. It actually helped me understand it a little bit more.

But, like others, I found myself remembering exactly why I liked this show 6 weeks ago. I'm hooked all over again.

 

Maybe Micah will control the voting machines.

 

Which one? X-Men has more than one dystopian future, though the most famous was Days of Future Past.

 

You're definitely not the first person I've seen with that theory. An interesting idea...

 

Holy shit. Still 15 minutes left and this is one of the better episodes. I'm floored at the latest development.