Chapter 20 - "Five Years Gone" - Discussion Thread 4/30/07

[Felix Fangor]

It's funny how Ando has the ability to forget all that's bad once he sees a pretty girl. While his best pal is getting beat up and interrogated he says:

"Maybe the future is not so bad."

 

[TheCorpulent1]

His name's Masi Oka, and I agree, it was a great double-performance.

 

[3 Dev Adam]

Conceptually speaking, that single episode was FAR more ambitious, daring and intelligent than a lot of big-budget Super-Hero Hollywood movies.

 

[3 Dev Adam]

His name's Masi Oka, and I agree, it was a great double-performance.

Masi Oka, I won't forget.

 

[3 Dev Adam]

Conceptually speaking, that single episode was FAR more ambitious, daring and intelligent than a lot of big-budget Super-Hero Hollywood movies. And it wasn't even SFX heavy.

 

[GL1]

For those wondering about the freezing time thing in Peter vs Sylar, keep in mind that Time-freezing has an activation time and requires concentration... it's a move that peter could get off in a small room with two to three guards, weapons pointed elsewhere, or even in a large room with lots of guards with Future Hiro's help...

But ten feet away from sylar, closing your eyes for a split second? That's a death wish... Peter would be dead before time even slowed... and I think he was far too angry to concentrate anyway...

 

[Majmun]

I haven't read all the posts for this episode, so I don't know if this has been mentioned.....but I thought it was strange that Peter and Future Hiro felt like they couldn't take on the Haitian because he'd negate their powers. Hiro could still slice and dice him with his sword couldn't he?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Not with all of the Homeland Security agents between them and the Haitian. If the Haitian were alone in a room, sure, they could storm it and just beat the living hell out of him even without their powers. But there were dozens of armed men on the same floor as the Haitian, and they had no way of knowing where exactly he was on that floor. They could've gotten shot before they even realized they'd lost their powers with the Haitian standing just on the other side of a corner or something. It wasn't impossible, it was just way too risky to justify.

For those wondering about the freezing time thing in Peter vs Sylar, keep in mind that Time-freezing has an activation time and requires concentration... it's a move that peter could get off in a small room with two to three guards, weapons pointed elsewhere, or even in a large room with lots of guards with Future Hiro's help...

But ten feet away from sylar, closing your eyes for a split second? That's a death wish... Peter would be dead before time even slowed... and I think he was far too angry to concentrate anyway...

I don't know, both he and future-Hiro seemed to pull it off very easily on a couple of occasions. I have a feeling Sylar may just be freeze-proof. It'd be a convenient way to explain why Hiro and/or Peter don't just time-freeze him and be done with it, and it keeps the show exciting. Maybe he ate the brain of someone with similar but less potent abilities to Hiro's, which he adapts to keep himself immune to time freezes. As much as I love Hiro's power, freezing time and stabbing Sylar in cold blood is a pretty weak way to go.

 

[hippy fascist]

I haven't read all the posts for this episode, so I don't know if this has been mentioned.....but I thought it was strange that Peter and Future Hiro felt like they couldn't take on the Haitian because he'd negate their powers. Hiro could still slice and dice him with his sword couldn't he?

shame about the 50 or so armed guards between them and the haitian

 

[SoulManX]

Nice ep last night...

 

[amazingfantasy15]

For those wondering about the freezing time thing in Peter vs Sylar, keep in mind that Time-freezing has an activation time and requires concentration... it's a move that peter could get off in a small room with two to three guards, weapons pointed elsewhere, or even in a large room with lots of guards with Future Hiro's help...

But ten feet away from sylar, closing your eyes for a split second? That's a death wish... Peter would be dead before time even slowed... and I think he was far too angry to concentrate anyway...

It took just as much time to light his hands on fire as it would have to freeze time, Peter vs. Sylar is very personal, Peter wouldn't want to take the cheap way out.

 

[Sentinel X]

I liked the Claire/Sylar scene...I didnt see that coming but I have to admit that this episode wasnt good..it was just okay,it was pointless to me. I give it 6.5/10

 

[Sawyer]

This episode reminded me of a combination of Days of Future Past and Civil War.
It was pretty great, but i saw the Sylar being Nathan thing pretty early on. Once Nathan said something about understanding how things work, I was like ".......sylar?"

 

[blksuperman2]

I wonder why they feel that they need this Little girl Molly. All they need is the Haitian to negate Sylar's powers. He's already shown that he could do it.

I highly doubt that Hiro's gonna be able to pull it off. He doesn't have that killer instinct yet.

 

[Abaddon]

Just finished watching. Pretty cool. But we don't find out what happened to Linderman

 

[The Sage]

Awesome episode.

 

[The Sage]

I really enjoyed Sylar being Nathan, and seeing how everybody's lives were different. But other than that it wasn't great. I got tired of Peter trying to out-cool everybody.

How did he try to outcool everybody?

Why does Peter have a scar when he as Claire's regeneration ability?

No clue. I'm predicting that Peter regenerates from exploding but can't completely heal himself for some reason, thus the scar.

(I still laugh at the fact Future Hiro told Past Peter that while he was panicking on the time frozen train. Terrible writing.)

I don't remember Peter panicking.

With the Hatian down, you would have thought Future Hiro would have been a lot more trouble. He just went through an entire building of heavily armed guards with just a sword, he gets up stairs with his power fully restored and is taken out with a handgun.

Seems to me Future Hiro didn't know he could use his powers around the Haitian. Plus he was about to tell Present Hiro how to travel back. He was caught off guard.

 

[Abaddon]

I wonder if Sylar got to Claire's birth mom, or if Peter had met her.

 

[hey yo its sean]

Everyone in the future wears black designer apparel.

 

[-Æ-]

looks more like an ice attack agaisnt fire/nuclear....

 

[Abaddon]

Everyone in the future wears black designer apparel.

yeah, I wasn't too happy seeing Peter Matrixed out.

 

[Nivek]

Conceptually speaking, that single episode was FAR more ambitious, daring and intelligent than a lot of big-budget Super-Hero Hollywood movies.

It was more enjoyable and satisfing than Ghost Rider was, and we didn't even see what was happening in the battle between Peter and Sylar.

 

[dr venture]

That episode was amazing. Damn this show is good

 

[hippy fascist]

yeah, I wasn't too happy seeing Peter Matrixed out.

reminded me more of equilibrium

 

[Sebastos]

His name's Masi Oka, and I agree, it was a great double-performance.

Agreed!!