If there were no-one to stop him I think he would have. He would have hesitated (as he did with Claude) but have counted out the greater good, weighted it for Claire and done it.
Agreed. He knew, going in, that he'd have to kill a person to "take down the Walker system", and the fact this was a child would ultimately not have stopped him.
And that second screencap gives the whole thing a look of the betrayal scene in Gesthemane.
I was thinking more of Godfather II, but you're right, Gethsemane will do nicely.*g*
Father Nakamura seems to know about the bomb but I don’t think he ever names the villain he expects Hiro to kill
No, he doesn't. He shares that general Elder tendency of being cryptic. (There is a great s2 quote about the Elders from a member of the younger generation on said tendency, but I can't say by whom about whom without spoiling you.) Also, the story he told little Hiro about Takezo Kensei and which Hiro now repeats is interpretable in many ways. Let me repeat the story: the hero gets offered by the dragon the power to "unite the whole of Japan" by the dragon, but he'll have to kill his princess, the person he loves most/stab her through the heart. Instead, he choses to offer his own heart in her place. Now Hiro puts the emphasis on "cutting out his own heart" in his conversation with Kaito, but you could just as well emphasis the trade and why he does it.
Maybe Linderman was an only child :-)
That's what I assumed from .07% onwards.
Otherwise the only person they’ve spoken to is Nathan and up until now all the people who seem to have knowledge of future events have been telling him he’ll make a good difference. So Hiro telling him he’ll be a bad man is something new.
Again, I'll limit myself to saying something I did then: given that one of Isaac's paintings shows Micah burning behind glass in an exploding New York, given that Micah is in fact dead in the 5YGverse, whereas here it looks like he's about to be rescued by his mother, what are the chances that Nathan in the 5YGverse also told Jessica/Niki and DL where to find Linderman? I don't think he did...
Lastly, because they're fun, and a counterweight to the heartrendering Hiro 'n Nathan scene, another quote from that podcast. Masi Oka is still raving about Adrian Pasdar:
M: He's such a generous person and actor. It's just completely amazing. A: Yea, it's great. M: I actually got to hang with him when I was in New York last week. A: Oh yea? M: We had some crazy adventures. We actually went to Times Square to recreate… A: Oh the scene? M: my Yatta thing. A: Oh, did he do it, too? Did he spin? M: Yea, well, he actually too the camera and spun around me and had me spin in the other direction. G: Oh, he shot it? M: Yea A: He didn't play you though? I mean, I'm sure… people do go to Times Square and do that. M: Yea! I think that's what happens. People didn't think it was me. "Oh, just some crazy tourist pretending to be Hiro again." A: Right. M: But little did they know… G: You can go and do that again, unrecognized. M: It was really me.
And it has an absolutely hysterical follow-up, where a tourist wanders over with a camera to the Heroes boys, but no, he doesn't want to take their picture, he wants an unrecognized Masi O. to take HIS picture in Times Square:
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Re: II
Date: 2007-12-03 07:59 pm (UTC)Agreed. He knew, going in, that he'd have to kill a person to "take down the Walker system", and the fact this was a child would ultimately not have stopped him.
And that second screencap gives the whole thing a look of the betrayal scene in Gesthemane.
I was thinking more of Godfather II, but you're right, Gethsemane will do nicely.*g*
Father Nakamura seems to know about the bomb but I don’t think he ever names the villain he expects Hiro to kill
No, he doesn't. He shares that general Elder tendency of being cryptic. (There is a great s2 quote about the Elders from a member of the younger generation on said tendency, but I can't say by whom about whom without spoiling you.) Also, the story he told little Hiro about Takezo Kensei and which Hiro now repeats is interpretable in many ways. Let me repeat the story: the hero gets offered by the dragon the power to "unite the whole of Japan" by the dragon, but he'll have to kill his princess, the person he loves most/stab her through the heart. Instead, he choses to offer his own heart in her place. Now Hiro puts the emphasis on "cutting out his own heart" in his conversation with Kaito, but you could just as well emphasis the trade and why he does it.
Maybe Linderman was an only child :-)
That's what I assumed from .07% onwards.
Otherwise the only person they’ve spoken to is Nathan and up until now all the people who seem to have knowledge of future events have been telling him he’ll make a good difference. So Hiro telling him he’ll be a bad man is something new.
Again, I'll limit myself to saying something I did then: given that one of Isaac's paintings shows Micah burning behind glass in an exploding New York, given that Micah is in fact dead in the 5YGverse, whereas here it looks like he's about to be rescued by his mother, what are the chances that Nathan in the 5YGverse also told Jessica/Niki and DL where to find Linderman? I don't think he did...
Lastly, because they're fun, and a counterweight to the heartrendering Hiro 'n Nathan scene, another quote from that podcast. Masi Oka is still raving about Adrian Pasdar:
M: He's such a generous person and actor. It's just completely amazing.
A: Yea, it's great.
M: I actually got to hang with him when I was in New York last week.
A: Oh yea?
M: We had some crazy adventures. We actually went to Times Square to recreate…
A: Oh the scene?
M: my Yatta thing.
A: Oh, did he do it, too? Did he spin?
M: Yea, well, he actually too the camera and spun around me and had me
spin in the other direction.
G: Oh, he shot it?
M: Yea
A: He didn't play you though? I mean, I'm sure… people do go to Times
Square and do that.
M: Yea! I think that's what happens. People didn't think it was me.
"Oh, just some crazy tourist pretending to be Hiro again."
A: Right.
M: But little did they know…
G: You can go and do that again, unrecognized.
M: It was really me.
Adrian P. put that vid up on YouTube later, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hjvva4qpzE
And it has an absolutely hysterical follow-up, where a tourist wanders over with a camera to the Heroes boys, but no, he doesn't want to take their picture, he wants an unrecognized Masi O. to take HIS picture in Times Square:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFv6JC0b9MM