----- Original Message ----- From: "jdiebremse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 9:43 AM Subject: Re: Heroes Spoilers as of 11/5
--- 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?) Considering his methods, I believe they suggest that Mr Bennet works for the government in some dark ops capacity and has a good deal of "pull". > > -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, I agree that this issue is a singular curiousity. > and (possibly out of pure >revenge) on the high school quarterback I don't think it is *simply* revenge. Remember Brody threatened to expose Claire: "She isn't human!". Mindwiping Brody to such a deep extent not only protects Claire from exposure, it also protects Brody from his own established behaviors. The boy is certainly a serial rapist. Killing him would be an act of revenge, but a deep mindwipe could be considered a kindness and a way avoid having to kill him to protect Claire. Bennet seems to have some sort of covert operation going with at least 2 minions (The Hatian and Eden) and 2 associates (the fake parents). At the least Bennets actions can be seen as methods to protect the operation. > > -deceit.... not just telling his daughter that her birth parents > were >unlocatable, but hiring two people to act as her birthparents > I believe this is a ruse to placate Claires desire to meet her birth parents, and divert her from searching on her own. Perhaps Bennet sees that as a potential problem that must be avoided. > > >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... The common wisdom is that Claire's danger comes from Sylar, and not her foster father. Remember the painting that Peter Petrelli completed for Issac Mendez......a cheerleader with blood surrounding her head and a trenchcoated stranger standing over her. (Spoiler speculation is that the cheerleader dead in the painting is not Claire but the airhead who took credit for saving a cop in the train fire.) >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." Agreed, but Bennet still could end up as an anti-hero, possibly a foil with common cause with the heroes. > >I also speculate that somehow Claire was genetically engineered, and >her >Dad is involved in it somehow.... but that's pure speculation.... > That is a common speculation, that they are all engineered and Professor Suresh the elder is wrong in his thesis. > >> 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. Super Ultra Maximally Cool! > >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. I suspect the show is cut that way for dramatic effect, to heighten tension. > 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.... > I'm sure the attempt would be interesting if not illuminating!<G> xponent Niki/Jennifer Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
