Because they're physical, not mental. She's bending light and sound, much as Claude does to become invinsible. (Micah, bless him, geeks out about this and gives a comics-style "scientific" explanation in Landslide, which is where we get the most background on Candace.)
It’s like a be-careful-what-you-wishverse, on paper many of the survivors are more successful post-explosion.
Oh, good point there, and you can include Peter in this, as in this future, he has complete control over his powers, effortlessly so, something he never manages in the present. Similarly, Future!Hiro not only has his power completely mastered but is a warrior of the type Present!Hiro admires in comics, films and tv shows. And yet, all of them are completely screwed.
And the irony: not only are Linderman & Co.'s actions in the present based on a false premise - Isaac's painting doesn't show Nathan in the White House, it shows Sylar (they recreated that moment and posture in the Oval Office in this episode), and presumably Ozymandias plan or no Ozymandias plan, that's definitely not what Linderman & friends would have wanted - but so are the good guys'. Because Future!Hiro's entire action of going back to the past, telling Present!Peter to save Claire, is based on a wrong premise as well - that Sylar was the bomb. (Which is why a living Claire alone made no difference to the timeline, other than existing; her survival was irrelevant to the explosion.) And Sylar never was, Peter was. Which Future!Peter never told anyone until he told Niki. And now Present!Hiro and Ando are returning to the present still believing said wrong information. In short, trusting precognition really really makes things worse...
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Date: 2007-11-16 06:34 pm (UTC)Because they're physical, not mental. She's bending light and sound, much as Claude does to become invinsible. (Micah, bless him, geeks out about this and gives a comics-style "scientific" explanation in Landslide, which is where we get the most background on Candace.)
It’s like a be-careful-what-you-wishverse, on paper many of the survivors are more successful post-explosion.
Oh, good point there, and you can include Peter in this, as in this future, he has complete control over his powers, effortlessly so, something he never manages in the present. Similarly, Future!Hiro not only has his power completely mastered but is a warrior of the type Present!Hiro admires in comics, films and tv shows. And yet, all of them are completely screwed.
And the irony: not only are Linderman & Co.'s actions in the present based on a false premise - Isaac's painting doesn't show Nathan in the White House, it shows Sylar (they recreated that moment and posture in the Oval Office in this episode), and presumably Ozymandias plan or no Ozymandias plan, that's definitely not what Linderman & friends would have wanted - but so are the good guys'. Because Future!Hiro's entire action of going back to the past, telling Present!Peter to save Claire, is based on a wrong premise as well - that Sylar was the bomb. (Which is why a living Claire alone made no difference to the timeline, other than existing; her survival was irrelevant to the explosion.) And Sylar never was, Peter was. Which Future!Peter never told anyone until he told Niki. And now Present!Hiro and Ando are returning to the present still believing said wrong information. In short, trusting precognition really really makes things worse...