ANDO/HIRO FOREVER! I don't say it often that the subtext practically became text, but ... the subtext practically became text. Future!Peter's commentary on how losing Ando destroyed Hiro's very soul kind of, um, sealed the deal.
That made my Ando/Hiro loving heart very, very happy.
I'm a little afraid that Ando's going to end up dying anyway
So am I, especially because I feel like there is a suggestion that the future is immutable (I mean, the series could go either way, but it can't be said that the creative team has failed to lay out the possibility that the destruction of New York is inevitable). I think I won't breathe a sigh of relief over Ando until we get to the end credits of the season finale and he's still alive when they start to roll.
Yeah--I mean, some things they seem to have been able to change (saving Claire), but some things they haven't (Isaac's death), so I am really up in the air about where they're going. I'm enjoying that, though--I felt in the first half of the season I anticipated almost every single plot twist, so I'm enjoying this half of the season a lot more since I can't always predict what's going to happen.
But the thing that still redeems future!Mr. B. for me is that he didn't have to go the extra step of trying to protect additional meta-humans. My impression was that his initial interaction with Matt may have been a one-to-one deal: protect Matt's son in exchange for Matt turning a blind eye on Bennet's harboring of Claire. Mr. B. could have stopped there, but for some reason he didn't. He went beyond merely protecting/helping Claire and that does count for something, I think, because the alternative is that no meta-humans had a chance (or a significantly lesser number of them did).
Oh, that's a really good point. I've gotten so sold on Mr. B as a character that I think I've forgotten how much he's basically just been a company and family man up until this point, so even doing that much is growth for him.
And I'm not *really* a Mohinder/Sylar shipper--Sylar pretty much creeps me out and I don't actually find him attractive--but DAMN. Keeping Mohinder in his pocket is a good way to put it.
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That made my Ando/Hiro loving heart very, very happy.
I'm a little afraid that Ando's going to end up dying anyway
So am I, especially because I feel like there is a suggestion that the future is immutable (I mean, the series could go either way, but it can't be said that the creative team has failed to lay out the possibility that the destruction of New York is inevitable). I think I won't breathe a sigh of relief over Ando until we get to the end credits of the season finale and he's still alive when they start to roll.
Yeah--I mean, some things they seem to have been able to change (saving Claire), but some things they haven't (Isaac's death), so I am really up in the air about where they're going. I'm enjoying that, though--I felt in the first half of the season I anticipated almost every single plot twist, so I'm enjoying this half of the season a lot more since I can't always predict what's going to happen.
But the thing that still redeems future!Mr. B. for me is that he didn't have to go the extra step of trying to protect additional meta-humans. My impression was that his initial interaction with Matt may have been a one-to-one deal: protect Matt's son in exchange for Matt turning a blind eye on Bennet's harboring of Claire. Mr. B. could have stopped there, but for some reason he didn't. He went beyond merely protecting/helping Claire and that does count for something, I think, because the alternative is that no meta-humans had a chance (or a significantly lesser number of them did).
Oh, that's a really good point. I've gotten so sold on Mr. B as a character that I think I've forgotten how much he's basically just been a company and family man up until this point, so even doing that much is growth for him.
And I'm not *really* a Mohinder/Sylar shipper--Sylar pretty much creeps me out and I don't actually find him attractive--but DAMN. Keeping Mohinder in his pocket is a good way to put it.