There’s a bitterness to Linderman as if the bomb were not only destined but welcomed as some kind of revenge on the world. Nathan said his father was his hero, I suppose he remembers him from before the disillusion set in whereas Peter being that much younger cannot.
Again, very difficult to comment on that without spoilers, but this was when I started to wonder what happened to the earlier generation - Linderman, Angela, Petrelli Senior - to make them what they are. And yes, Nathan's pov and Peter's pov on their father being that different might very well be connected to their age, but in Nathan's case there is also restrospective guilt and consequent glorification at work. You'll note that Nathan says "(Pa) would have me committed for even considering this insanity" to Linderman. This would be the same Petrelli Senior who worked with Linderman-the-mobster for years and years and years, and even if that started as fellow idealists, it was followed by a lot of crime. But I think Peter was dead on when he said to Nathan, in "Six Months Ago", that if he went to court against their father, "you'll never forgive yourself". (Regarding Peter, it's telling his objection wasn't "think of what that would do to Dad" but relating to how it would affect Nathan.) There is a deleted scene for 6MA on the DVDS which is a longer version of the scene where Nathan tells Peter their father died. (Which, remember, was by suicide, and Nathan knows this, though he doesn't tell Peter, that's left to Angela in the second episode of s1.) Said scene makes it even more explicit Nathan did blame himself for his father's death. Which I think makes for projecting in the Linderman scene from "Landslide".
Yep, the DL and Jessica/Niki scenes were much fun. They also inspired the final bit of silliness in this crack!fic of mine (spoilers only until Landslide, so you can read it). Re: Linderman, I think what he missed completely was that Jessica's original reason of existing was protecting Niki. Protecting Niki also means not to let her do something which she won't be able to live with (i.e. kill D.L. in this instance).
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Date: 2007-12-03 05:55 pm (UTC)Again, very difficult to comment on that without spoilers, but this was when I started to wonder what happened to the earlier generation - Linderman, Angela, Petrelli Senior - to make them what they are. And yes, Nathan's pov and Peter's pov on their father being that different might very well be connected to their age, but in Nathan's case there is also restrospective guilt and consequent glorification at work. You'll note that Nathan says "(Pa) would have me committed for even considering this insanity" to Linderman. This would be the same Petrelli Senior who worked with Linderman-the-mobster for years and years and years, and even if that started as fellow idealists, it was followed by a lot of crime. But I think Peter was dead on when he said to Nathan, in "Six Months Ago", that if he went to court against their father, "you'll never forgive yourself". (Regarding Peter, it's telling his objection wasn't "think of what that would do to Dad" but relating to how it would affect Nathan.) There is a deleted scene for 6MA on the DVDS which is a longer version of the scene where Nathan tells Peter their father died. (Which, remember, was by suicide, and Nathan knows this, though he doesn't tell Peter, that's left to Angela in the second episode of s1.) Said scene makes it even more explicit Nathan did blame himself for his father's death. Which I think makes for projecting in the Linderman scene from "Landslide".
Yep, the DL and Jessica/Niki scenes were much fun. They also inspired the final bit of silliness in this crack!fic of mine (spoilers only until Landslide, so you can read it). Re: Linderman, I think what he missed completely was that Jessica's original reason of existing was protecting Niki. Protecting Niki also means not to let her do something which she won't be able to live with (i.e. kill D.L. in this instance).