History Headscratchers / HeroesNathan

*** Ignoring for a moment that allowing these people the freedom to use their powers flies in the face of everything that Danko and his men have been recruited to do and that filming a speedster in a locked room would be one of the easiest things for a video editing wizard to fake (speed up the video while changing the clock to be slower than it really is)... Okay. Let's get creative. As you say, you COULD pretend to shoot the speedster. And then she could, instead of just dodging the bullet, walk around the bullet and beat your face in with hundreds of punches in the span of a second, caving in your skull. Or she could turn out to be so fast that she can vibrate the atoms of her body to phase through solid matter and lift your brain out of your head before you could give the order to drop the knock-out gas. Or maybe you'd be lucky and she'd just vibrate through the wall and escape. Even if you left her only one hand free, she MIGHT be able still whip up enough speed waving her fingers to generate a small whirlwind which would certainly be capable of bashing you to death against the walls of the room. But wait - someone asks rhetorically - we don't know that Daphne can do all those ''TheFlash'' tricks. And they're right... but we don't know she CAN'T do that. And neither do Danko and his men. And they're unlikely to do such a thing knowing that their life would be on the line. The only reason Danko even pulled it with Tracy in the first place was out of desperation and the knowledge that it wasn't his life or the lives of his men that was likely to be placed in danger.

* ''Everyone'''s sudden changes in motivation this season, especially Sylar. The TelevisionWithoutPity of "The Eclipse, part 2" had a good riff on this where for a few paragraphs the only way the recapper could cope was by recapping a scene in the style of Film/{{Memento}}.

* I'm not sure what you're trying to say, exactly. First, Claire's not a serial killer. Second, are you implying someone on the strike force had a reason to spare Sylar? Third, ''someone finally got enough GenreSavvy to [[NoNonsenseNemesis just shoot Sylar]]'', which is '''awesome'''. What REALLY bugs me is that for some reason, the strike force decided to ignore Nathan's orders about taking care of a ridiculously dangerous serial killer, and use ''tasers'' instead of bullets, and...why? WHY would they do that? WHAT POSSIBLE REASON?! The only real answer is JokerImmunity.

** It could be wishful thinking, but it looked to me like those darts were actually hurting him -- just in little, easily-healed doses, thanks in part to Danko's poor planning. Against a team that actually knew what they were up against this time, rather than half a dozen agents who ''still'' caught him by surprise a couple times... well, that's not to say it would have necessarily gone better if their goal was only to bring Peter in range, but it's not as if they had a bad track record against supers. Nathan's speech just bugs me.

** And after ''Nathan's Nazis'' take Claire when they take Matt Parkman and he finds out that - sure enough - Claire tried to do what he was afraid she would, what is his reaction? Get rid of whatever they're pumping her with that's keeping her subdued, stick her in a car and tell her to just forget she saw anything. Even after Claire points out that there's not a damn thing he can do to stop her from telling the world TheTruth if she's allowed to go free, Nathan avoids doing the smart thing, which is to either throw Claire on the plane with everyone else or shoot her in the back of the head.

* ''Everyone'''s sudden changes in motivation this season, especially Sylar. The TelevisionWithoutPity of "The Eclipse, part 2" had a good riff on this where for a few paragraphs the only way the recapper could cope was by recapping a scene in the style of {{Memento}}.

* I'm not sure what you're trying to say, exactly. First, Claire's not a serial killer. Second, are you implying someone on the strike force had a reason to spare Sylar? Third, ''someone finally got enough GenreSavvy to [[JustShootHim Just Shoot Sylar]]'', which is '''awesome'''. What REALLY bugs me is that for some reason, the strike force decided to ignore Nathan's orders about taking care of a ridiculously dangerous serial killer, and use ''tasers'' instead of bullets, and...why? WHY would they do that? WHAT POSSIBLE REASON?! The only real answer is JokerImmunity.

** And after ''Nathan's Nazis'' take Claire when they take Matt Parkman and he finds out that - sure enough - Claire tried to do what he was afraid she would, what is his reaction? Get rid of whatever they're pumping her with that's keeping her subdued, stick her in a car and tell her to just forget she saw anything. Even after Claire points out that there's not a damn thing he can do to stop her from telling the world TheTruth if she's allowed to go free, Nathan avoids doing the smart thing, which is to either throw Claire on the plane with everyone else or [[JustShootHim shoot her in the back of the head]].