Mar 12, 2007
Is Explosion necessary?
ComicBookResources.com reveals Linderman plans for us. They get a chance to attend the Heroes Screening and Q&A at the Museum of Television & Radio’s Paley Festival, and saw a clip from the upcoming episode “.07%”.
In the scene, Linderman entertains Nahan in an art gallery which showcases his extensive art collection, paintings of the future all, by Isaac Mendez and people like him. Included among the paintings were those of the fictional Japanese warrior Takezo Kensei. “We all have our roles to play in the events to come,” Linderman says. “This isn’t just a collection of art. This is a road map. These artists envision a brighter future. Peace, prosperity.”
Nathan jabs his finger at a painting of the New York explosion and asks: “Is this your idea of a brighter future?”
“What if I was to tell you that it was?” Linderman replies.
Linderman goes on to explain that he, too, has powers, which came with an audible reaction from the audience. He’d become aware of them years earlier, and banded together with others like him “to make a difference to the world.” But some of his comrades in arms lost their way. “Greed set in, and we split apart. And all the good we’d done, well, it amounted to nothing,” Linderman says.
Then Linderman drops a bombshell, literally and figuratively: the explosion is to be the catalyst for a better future. When Nathan wonders out aloud about the cost in lives, Linderman counters, “There’s six and a half billion people on the planet, that’s less than .07%. Come on, that’s an acceptable loss by anyone’s count.”
“It is your destiny, Nathan, to be the leader who uses this event to rally a city, a nation, a world,” Linderman continues. And to drive the point home, Linderman unveils a prophetic painting of Nathan Petrelli in the Oval Office, seemingly painted by Isaac Mendez.
Read rest of the Nathan & Linderman Scene at CBR
From the article:
“If you know all this, you also know the exploding man is my brother Peter,� Nathan says.
“As I said, we all have our role to play. Peter’s curtain call will come the day after you’re elected.�
I still have a problem with this, and I have since it was revealed. I just refuse to believe that the exploding man is Peter. I think everyone is drawing a false conclusion based on what Peter saw when he was in a coma.
I think Peter saw himself as Sylar. After all, he made Sylar look like his brother when he was in jail, so it isn’t a stretch. Also, when HRG made Issac paint where Sylar was before Homecoming, he painted the “Exploding Man” picture. I know he wasn’t in full control of his powers yet, but he was asked to paint Sylar, and I think he did.
I think Linderman is pulling the long con to get Nathan onboard with his plans.
What’s known so far about the alternate future is:
* The future is changable, although hard to change.
* Peter survived.
* Peter has a scar.
* In the initial timeline, Peter didn’t save the cheerleader and absorb her powers so he couldn’t have started the explosion (although he might in this updated timeline).
* At least one person (Hiro) isn’t happy with that “brighter future”.
* In Peter’s vision, the streets were emptied in a hurry (cars were littered everywhere and no-one except the heros were visible), so something caused people to evaculate.
* In Peter’s vision, something brought all the heroes together.
* In Peter’s vision, Nathan appeared to die when Peter exploded, so Linderman is lying or ill informed or Peter’s vision is wrong.
I had forgotten that Nathan was so close to Peter in the vision. That just shows that Peter’s vision should not be taken as a literal truth. Or that Linderman is lying.
Either way, I have yet to see any reason to believe Peter causes the explosion.
Now that I think about it, what Linderman is saying – blowing up New York and killing a bunch of people will eventually make the world a better place – it seems a little bit too ‘Watchmen’. The rest of you comic fans, know what I mean?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eEV_2BCmmU
I uploaded to youtube a video (slide show) with most spoiler images of episode 19 posted at CBR
I think it came quite nice
Dunnoz butta.. I still believe that Peter ‘ll explode though all my mates said he wouldn’t =P