Didn't that blade break?

[Merfish]

forze by sylar broke in half, we never saw that swordsmith fix it, and if so why didn't use it in the first season? also why didn't Adam kill him?

[Mello Penelo]

The swordsmith did fix it. While Ando was out in the lobby talking to him, he was fixing it while Hiro and Kaito were in the back room sparring.

[Merfish]

then why didnt he use it against sylar?

[JW_102792]

When Hiro teleported Ando back to Japan, he gave Ando the sword, remember? And took the crappy one Ando had, that he took to try and kill Sylar, and said "It is not the sword, it is the man."

[Mello Penelo]

Originally posted by Merfish
then why didnt he use it against sylar?

Did you miss the finale last season? Hiro stabbed Sylar right through the gut with the sword.

[JW_102792]

Originally posted by Mello Penelo
Did you miss the finale last season? Hiro stabbed Sylar right through the gut with the sword.

That was with the sword Ando took from the blacksmith guy, the real sword was with Ando in Japan.

[joefcos]

Speaking as a blacksmith, repairing a sword that was snapped in half like that is impossible. The blade can't be mended without losing complete structural integrity. It would snap again the first time you hit someone with it. Best you could do to get a usable weapon out of it is either shorten the blade to the break point and grind on a new tip, or replace the blade completely and just keep the hilt, guard, and other fittings (known as koshirae). If you really want a metallurgical explanation I can type one up, but it might be long, and really boring :lol:

...no sword is going to cut through a forged iron chain without taking massive edge damage, we're talking bad, ugly chipping.

...how dull is that friggin sword? Impact on the security guards in "Powerless" when Adam was swinging the thing made it seem more like a baseball bat than a fine cutting implement. I know it's TV and all, but really.....

All that aside...this is one of the best TV shows I've seen in ages. Hope the darn strike is settled soon.

[MidgardDragon]

Originally posted by joefcos
Speaking as a blacksmith

One should never view fiction as a professional. Because fiction is, well, fiction. No matter what the realities, fiction is not reality.

[The_Frag_Man]

I'd be interested in reading the metallurgical explanation.

[Iritscen]

Originally posted by MidgardDragon
One should never view fiction as a professional. Because fiction is, well, fiction. No matter what the realities, fiction is not reality.

I don't think there's anything wrong with him bringing his knowledge to the table. I actually knew that in general terms a broken sword cannot be fixed just from watching so many samurai shows (the more realistic ones acknowledge this fact), but I forgot when watching the show.

As long as he doesn't say, "This show is ruined for me now," which he didn't, it's fine in my opinion to point out when a show doesn't adhere to reality.

I just think it's cool that a blacksmith is on the board. :-) To most people, that's like, a pre-Industrial era occupation. It's interesting to think that people are still practicing it.

[last man of krypton]

Originally posted by joefcos
...how dull is that friggin sword? Impact on the security guards in "Powerless" when Adam was swinging the thing made it seem more like a baseball bat than a fine cutting implement. I know it's TV and all, but really.....

I agree; it didn't seem like a sword at all.:\

[Matro]

Originally posted by last man of krypton
I agree; it didn't seem like a sword at all.:\

I thought it was the case