So is Hiro going to let Adam just walk away?

[Xanderman]

It's funny that he was willing to make a major change to the past (saving NY), and to hell with the consequences, yet saving the life of one man (Sulu) is something that's too chancy on the space-time con-tinuum? lol (the hyphen is there because the board thought I was saying something dirty the other way...ha) So yeah he saved NY all right, but the new future might be much worse (the one Peter visited). Way to go, Future Hiro. lol

[4Clana]

Originally posted by Xanderman
It's funny that he was willing to make a major change to the past (saving NY), and to hell with the consequences, yet saving the life of one man (Sulu) is something that's too chancy on the space-time con-tinuum?

Hiro letting Sulu die wasn't about the space-time continu-um. I mean, he did just travel to the past to save Sulu. He interacted with him, warned him, so that act in itself is just the same as FHiro having gone back to warn Peter. He did risk a rift in the space-time continu-um for his dad (they even time travelled together, sweet!), the result is just different. Just as Peter was free to do whatever he wanted with the information FHiro gave him, Sulu was free to do whatever he wanted with that information; but where Peter chose to save Claire's life, Sulu chose to accept his impending death.

The point wasn't about the space-time continu-um it was about making sure Hiro understood that he shouldn't play God. By honoring Kaito's wishes, Hiro allowed for free will, Kaito was free to choose his own destiny. If Hiro had saved Kaito against Kaito's own wishes, then he would have been playing God. This is in contrast to Matt, who in the very same episode, is playing God, making people do what he wants them to do, at every turn (Molly, his boss, Angela Petrelli).

[Xanderman]

Very well said 4Clana, loved the analogies.

And yeah Matt's shaping up to be quite the "anti-Hiro" isn't he, lol he was scum in Five Years Gone, chances are he'll be scum again (maybe not as scummy, but still dirt). heh (Funny thing is he didn't really seem more powerful in that future...he was just doing basic mind reading, that's it...hmm wonder why)

Oh, and I hope Sulu's last words are "Beam me up, God." lol

[last man of krypton]

Originally posted by Xanderman
Matt's shaping up to be quite the "anti-Hiro"

lol

[Matro]

Originally posted by Xanderman
(Funny thing is he didn't really seem more powerful in that future...he was just doing basic mind reading, that's it...hmm wonder why)

Possibly because he hadn't met his dad in that future yet.

[Xanderman]

Originally posted by last man of krypton
lol

thanks

Originally posted by Matro
Possibly because he hadn't met his dad in that future yet.

Don't the advancements just come with time? If someone else with the power was required to trigger them in some way or whatever, then how did his father ever get more powerful? Surely in five years time Matt would have gained/discovered his new abilities on his own, meeting/interacting with his father or not.

[Matro]

Originally posted by Xanderman

Don't the advancements just come with time? If someone else with the power was required to trigger them in some way or whatever, then how did his father ever get more powerful? Surely in five years time Matt would have gained/discovered his new abilities on his own, meeting/interacting with his father or not.

He could have always had the power. He just didn't know he did until his dad told him. He may have found out eventually accidentally but after meeting his dad he actively tried to control other peoples brains.

[Xanderman]

I guess that's possible. But five years is a long time....you'd think he would have stumbled upon what he was capable of in that amount of time, if only by accident, with or without being told what he could do if he tried.