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UNEXPECTED NAKED MOHINDER

Admittedly my main thought was "Ewww, slimy". But at least he's pretty again :)

All my other complaints about characterisation on this show pale in comparison to the whole "Elle is a sociopath and always has been -> Elle used to be nice but HRG broke her -> Elle has a moment of pure redemption with Sylar and finds peace -> Sylar +Elle =Bonny and Clyde" thing. I have lost my faith in the show as a result, before now I trusted them to at least attempt a veneer of continuity between adjacent episodes. Because I was/am dumb.

But I can't quit the show because of stuff like the "everyone loses their powers" moment. I was not expecting that and it was awesome. Though of course we've seen the future and they all have their powers, even people like Mohinder who would never ask for them back (and if he did shouldn't get the broken powers). And no, the fact that's an alternate future shouldn't change things, since the eclipse is a natural event that would presumably have happened either way. Though surely people (ie the Company. And certainly Adam, how many eclipses has he seen?) would have noticed if their powers turned off last time. Hmm.

I hope Hiro gets his adulthood back. And maybe some extra, I think the child-like thing was overplayed enough before.

Me: You know, it's actually kind of surprising that they've had a haitian character for two and half seasons and only now got around to a cliched voodoo plot.

distantcam: Actually they did one in the comics in season one.
Me: Ah.

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did we actually see the eclipse from everywhere in the world or just various locations along a similar longitude? (I can't remember)

I'm actually not put off by the Elle thing at all... I see her more as the borderline personality character that has a screwed up sense of self identity from her messed up upbringing and doesn't know what she really wants, so keeps switching between good/bad/happy/angry/scared etc, and they've put her with Sylar and his own good/bad conflict and so now as a pair they keep switching back and forth.

As for the future-with-powers, I was thinking perhaps it is just during the eclipse that they have no powers. Or maybe it's between eclipses- the first one turned their powers 'on', this one 'off', the next one 'on' and so forth, and from wikipedia on solar eclipses "At least two and up to five solar eclipses occur each year on Earth, with between zero and two of them being total eclipses.".

As for the future-with-powers, I was thinking perhaps it is just during the eclipse that they have no powers. Or maybe it's between eclipses- the first one turned their powers 'on', this one 'off', the next one 'on' and so forth

But again: wouldn't the company have noticed this pattern before? They've been dealing with powered people for decades. Unless this one is different.

The idea that they will turn of, and then turn on again some time down the road (rather than by the next episode) is pretty interesting though.

I'd really have to watch the episode again, but did any of the old-school group actually express confusion? Maybe they did know it was going to happen but we don't yet know that they knew. Though thinking about it Noah didn't know why Claire wasn't healing, but maybe he was pretending for some reason... he did seem incredibly intent on keeping Claire safe coming up to the eclipse. But I can't think of any reason he wouldn't have explained the situation to his family.

Oh one thing I did have a problem with during the episode was how does the Haitian know his powers aren't working? I thought he'd be more likely to think his powers were working REALLY well. :P

I'd really have to watch the episode again, but did any of the old-school group actually express confusion? Maybe they did know it was going to happen but we don't yet know that they knew.

Ooooh. Ooh. Interesting theory! I mean I don't think it's 100% compatible with their actions, but that doesn't mean it isn't true :D And certainly Arthur was very prepared.

Agreed about the Haitian. Though he has the memory wiping ability too, maybe he was doing that at the time.

Adam, at the very least, would have experienced some eclipses.

Actually, if eclipses took powers away from one group of people and then gave them to another group - that would be pretty cool, having a never-ending migration of powers, but obviously it would contradict a helluva lot of Heroes history.

(retcon? in my Heroes S3? it's more likely than you think!)

Ahaha, yeah, they make it that noone we know had any powers before the last eclipse, and play the old flashbacks out of context with new material to make it look like it was always that way :D

Ooh! And HRG had powers back then! And so did Chandra and Sandra! And Mohinder too, he just forgot! Not to mention Lyle...

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