on Heroes Spoilers (Episode 1- 18)

Now, on to Heroes. I just found out the next episode isn’t coming til April 23rd which is a very, very bad thing. I will need to talk about this. I mean, seriously. Like, I can’t friggin wait til then. I will have to talk about this instead.

The story so far is getting a lot more complicated than I thought. There are too many things to speculate about, but it is imperative that you go and grab the entire series and watch it. Watch it again, if you have, or die, please, if you haven’t.

Up to 18th, we know already that there’s this organization – the company, organization without initials, whatever – and there are the heroes. The organization is somehow trying to gather them up, to study them and whatnot, ultimately, to gain some sort of benefit from controlling – or otherwise understanding – these heroes.

A major plot of the story, if not the plot, is a nuke will obliterate New York City, unless someone can stop them. All the various characters are lead by their destiny to stop this from happening. The Organization – presumably lead by a Mr. Linderman – is to benefit from this disaster, I am assuming that he’s to achieve that by installing Nathan as a prominent politician, ultimately to be the President of the USA.

The whole premise of this plot is held together by the paintings of Isaac. Supposedly this guy’s seeing the future and paint them. Some people freaked out and others see opportunities to seize.

I don’t think that anymore. The show’s very cleverly written and obviously was designed to lead you to think a certain way. And I think we’re all being mislead. All of us watching the show and most of them within the show: I don’t think Isaac can actually predict the future.

Isaac doesn’t paint the future. He makes them. He is much more powerful than we think, and therefore much more central to the storyline. The Organization needs him to make their objectives happen and the other characters need him to illustrate – and convince them of their abilities (think Peter and his flying dreams).

Think about it, so far in the story, we’re getting three different versions of the future: Hiro’s time travel (he travels to the future several times, during and after the explosion), Peter’s dreams (Peter gets recurring dream of himself exploding in the street of NY as Nathan tries to stop him and many of the main cast running around) and yes, Isaac’s paintings.

While we are assuming that these things will happen, it probably won’t. Hiro’s is probably the most accurate since he actually sees the future, but then again, he is supposed to be travelling in time to prevent that future from happening in the first place. Therefore what Hiro’s seeing is more what would happen, if he failed.

Peter’s dream is a dream. Presumably, Peter gets his precog ability from Isaac (they painted a picture together earlier in the season), so Peter should be seeing what Isaac sees. Only not. Peter’s dreams show both Simone and Isaac to be alive (Isaac was found dead in his apt by Hiro on the day of the explosion and Simone was shot dead). Additionally, I am not really sure why, but Peter saw Matt the policeman helping others during the explosion, wearing uniform. Matt was supposed to be a policeman in LA, how and why he was in NY as a policeman.
Isaac, on the other hand, painted himself dead, and thus won’t be present at the explosion.

So I’m thinking that Isaac really was painting a future he wanted to see. A romantic that he was – shot up high most of the time – he unintentionally build a future that slowly materializes. The Organization needs him to keep on doing that (and deliver on the prophesies), therefore they work hard to keep him alive and painting. Linderman’s been collecting his painting via Simone. I’d venture to suggest that Simone was there because somehow the Organization arranged for her to be there. The flashback scene where Claire was handed to Bennet by Hiro’s father took place in the Devaux building where Simone’s dad used to live. He must have some relevance to the story then.

I have more theories on this and how the pieces fit together. The older generation of Heroes involve the late Professor Suresh (Mohander’s taking his place to finish his research), Hiro’s father (he used to work for the organization and give orders to Bennet & Co. He’s also hiding his son from the Organization, this is supposed to be a gross violation), Peter and Nathan’s late old man (he used to work with Linderman) and Mr. Devaux (his building seems to be central to the story, the Organization held meetings there and Hiro teleported there to find post-apocalypse NYC) and of course, Linderman himself.

One person missing from that group was the invisible guy who was sentenced to death after trying to hide someone and Peter’s mother who was obviously pretty up to date with what her husband was doing.

Sylar and Claire and the Haitian and others, ahemm, well, that’ll have to wait.

I gotta get back to work now, it is stupendously boring but somewhat bearable. Will do more on this later. Ask questions in the comment box, I’ll post links and stuff later.