--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Robert G. Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WARNING*******SPOILERS******** > > (And not necessarily all that accurate - rob) > > > > > > > > Claire's dad isn't the bad guy, here, though he was set up as such. > Not saying he's nice, either, but he's not hellbent on destruction of > the heroes, he really does love Claire, and he's not the reason New > York becomes a crater in five weeks (if Hiro's vision comes to pass). > Think Stryker from The X-Men here. He doesn't always do nice things, > but he isn't doing it to hurt people, least of all Claire.
It has occurred to me that he doesn't appear to be a nuclear bomber, but I don't buy (yet) that he's not a bad guy. Whatever his motivations are (which have been inscrutable at best so far), he's used some very questionable means, including: -kidnapping/abduction (definitely in the case of the police officer, and IIRC, he was somehow also involved in the abduction of Candidate Petrelli as well, right?) -assault (mental assault, but still assault) by way of his henchman (and it remains to be seen as to how/why he has control over the henchman) on both his abduction victim, and (possibly out of pure revenge) on the high school quarterback -deceit.... not just telling his daughter that her birth parents were unlocatable, but hiring two people to act as her birthparents I can see how things are being set up to make us think that the tag line of "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World" somehow implies saving her from her foster Dad, and I suspect that that is not quite right... but I'm not sure it changes the fact that her Dad is still very much an "ends justifies the means" kind of guy, and those guys are rarely held up as being the "good guys." I also speculate that somehow Claire was genetically engineered, and her Dad is involved in it somehow.... but that's pure speculation.... > We will see Future!Hiro as an intermittent recurring character, though > his actual existence is in the "distant future" (whatever that means). I can't imagine that Hiro's appearance would have been a one-time event.... it was way too cool for that. One thing we also learned last week is that even though the show is periodically cutting between different characters, the various storylines are not necessarily occurring in parallel. There were several cuts between Nikki in the middle of the night in Las Vegas and Clair in dayling in Odessa. Of course, that may just be a writing flaw.... but if Alberto was watching this show from Brazil, I'm sure that he'd try and resolve it.... JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
