Unless Linderman and Mama Petrelli were actually hoping for a future where everyone with powers is going to be murdered by the serial killer in the White House, I think we can say that they screwed up.
Quite. cadesama, wee_warrior and self were speculating of how the future could possibly be worse from their pov, and short of the good old fashioned WWIII scenario, which would kill normals and specials alike, we didn't find anything.
Future!Hiro and Ando: ohhhhh yes. When F!Hiro smiles again at last in that talk with Ando, I go to pieces.
We have Matt Parkman hitting Hiro in the face (HOW CAN ANYONE HIT HIRO IN THE FACE?),
Never mind killing Bennet, that's the true proof of Future!Matt's state.
Mr. Bennet helping refugees with one hand and turning them over to the government with the other.
You won't believe how many people managed to miss the second part and thought Bennet was only doing the rescuing, completely ignoring his conversation with Matt. (Also ignoring that when F!Hiro says he brought DL and Candice to Bennet, and we later see Sylar has eaten those two, there is one very obvious conclusion why Bennet refuses to "let them help" Hiro. Anyway, I loved it, in a grim way, because it retains Bennet's moral ambiguity.
I admit it, I was incredibly slow and did not realize that Nathan was not Nathan until the big reveal.
And here I thought from your last review you had figured it out in advance. Cadesama suspected it based on the trailer for the episode where "Nathan" says his "I'm the most special person there is" line, which is just not a Nathan line but very much a Sylar line. I wasn't sure, but the moment "Nathan" was all over Mohinder, doing his patented shoulder grasp and wanting Mo to commit murder with him, I knew it. Because again, obsessing about Mohinder is Sylar's thing, and though I can see Nathan approaching Mohinder for help (as he did in "The Fix"), I can't see him actually become intimate. (Those kind of moves are reserved for family members and Hiro when Nathan does them.)
It's a very good performance on Adrian Pasdar's part, too, because while it's never that obvious that we wonder why the other characters don't see it, there is something slightly off with "Nathan" all the time, and then of course more and more Sylarisms creep in until the big reveal. As Kattaj said below, he had Zachary Quinto read some key lines for him so he could incorporate this in his performance.
I was horrified and fascinated to realize that Sylar has had an indeterminate proportion of the previous five years to make nice with Mohinder all over again. While wearing Nathan Petrelli's face. Meep.
See above. See also: Sylar totally obsessed with Mohinder. Oh, and: "To be fooled by a serial killer once may be regarded as a misfortune. To be fooled twice looks like carelessness." (Darling Oscar is so useful to misquote.)
Oh, and another great thing: it's totally open to debate when exactly Sylar replaced Nathan. Some place it as late as the year the episode takes place, some as early as shortly after Nathan's election to Congressman. My own timeline guess is that Nathan was still Nathan for the next two years as Congressman, then successfully participated in the next presidential race as someone else's Vice President running mate. (My basis for this speculation is that I can't see Sylar having the patience for actual Congress work.) And then Sylar struck. (My basis for "not later" is that it's much, much harder to get a VP, let alone President alone in order to make the switch, because of the constant security.)
Oh, and I have a speculation on how Sylar actually went about killing Nathan, which led me to my first Heroes fanfic:
Brave New World (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3520653/1/)
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Future!Hiro and Ando: ohhhhh yes. When F!Hiro smiles again at last in that talk with Ando, I go to pieces.
We have Matt Parkman hitting Hiro in the face (HOW CAN ANYONE HIT HIRO IN THE FACE?),
Never mind killing Bennet, that's the true proof of Future!Matt's state.
Mr. Bennet helping refugees with one hand and turning them over to the government with the other.
You won't believe how many people managed to miss the second part and thought Bennet was only doing the rescuing, completely ignoring his conversation with Matt. (Also ignoring that when F!Hiro says he brought DL and Candice to Bennet, and we later see Sylar has eaten those two, there is one very obvious conclusion why Bennet refuses to "let them help" Hiro. Anyway, I loved it, in a grim way, because it retains Bennet's moral ambiguity.
I admit it, I was incredibly slow and did not realize that Nathan was not Nathan until the big reveal.
And here I thought from your last review you had figured it out in advance. Cadesama suspected it based on the trailer for the episode where "Nathan" says his "I'm the most special person there is" line, which is just not a Nathan line but very much a Sylar line. I wasn't sure, but the moment "Nathan" was all over Mohinder, doing his patented shoulder grasp and wanting Mo to commit murder with him, I knew it. Because again, obsessing about Mohinder is Sylar's thing, and though I can see Nathan approaching Mohinder for help (as he did in "The Fix"), I can't see him actually become intimate. (Those kind of moves are reserved for family members and Hiro when Nathan does them.)
It's a very good performance on Adrian Pasdar's part, too, because while it's never that obvious that we wonder why the other characters don't see it, there is something slightly off with "Nathan" all the time, and then of course more and more Sylarisms creep in until the big reveal. As Kattaj said below, he had Zachary Quinto read some key lines for him so he could incorporate this in his performance.
I was horrified and fascinated to realize that Sylar has had an indeterminate proportion of the previous five years to make nice with Mohinder all over again. While wearing Nathan Petrelli's face. Meep.
See above. See also: Sylar totally obsessed with Mohinder. Oh, and: "To be fooled by a serial killer once may be regarded as a misfortune. To be fooled twice looks like carelessness." (Darling Oscar is so useful to misquote.)
Oh, and another great thing: it's totally open to debate when exactly Sylar replaced Nathan. Some place it as late as the year the episode takes place, some as early as shortly after Nathan's election to Congressman. My own timeline guess is that Nathan was still Nathan for the next two years as Congressman, then successfully participated in the next presidential race as someone else's Vice President running mate. (My basis for this speculation is that I can't see Sylar having the patience for actual Congress work.) And then Sylar struck. (My basis for "not later" is that it's much, much harder to get a VP, let alone President alone in order to make the switch, because of the constant security.)
Oh, and I have a speculation on how Sylar actually went about killing Nathan, which led me to my first Heroes fanfic:
Brave New World (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3520653/1/)