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jack* Funny, don't art dealers keep records of what pictures they sell, with a quick picture, etc? It would have saved about an episode's worth of plot if Simone had just said "Oh, I sold that. Here's a picture."
* Thermonuclear guy is cool. His ability seemed way more real than many pyrokinetics. Powerful, but tragic in a more natural and straightforward way, the slowly heating radiation is ominous. I was excited to see he'd escaped.
* And hey, I just had an idea what the city apocalypse might have to do with powers.
* I had predicted Mohinda (and Micah, and other non-psychic characters) acquiring powers being the beginnings of sell-out, it's so easy to make someone more relevant by making them suddenly psychic so they don't feel left out. But actually, since it explains why his father was interested in the first place, it ties the plot together rather than diluting it out.
* Is Mr. Beckett evil or just sinister? He cares about Clare, and isn't anti-mutant, which are pluses. But he goes around kidnapping people and using them for his own purposes, when talking to them and asking their help might get them further.
* If Isaac is clean, wouldn't it be at least worth trying painting whilst drunk, stoned, or otherwise uninhibited? I don't know enough about it, but it seems better than the harder drugs, and by analogy with normal art, anything that gets his conscious mind out of the way might do.
* Ah, so Syler is killing specifically mutants. I don't know why yet, but it ties things together.
* Thermonuclear guy is cool. His ability seemed way more real than many pyrokinetics. Powerful, but tragic in a more natural and straightforward way, the slowly heating radiation is ominous. I was excited to see he'd escaped.
* And hey, I just had an idea what the city apocalypse might have to do with powers.
* I had predicted Mohinda (and Micah, and other non-psychic characters) acquiring powers being the beginnings of sell-out, it's so easy to make someone more relevant by making them suddenly psychic so they don't feel left out. But actually, since it explains why his father was interested in the first place, it ties the plot together rather than diluting it out.
* Is Mr. Beckett evil or just sinister? He cares about Clare, and isn't anti-mutant, which are pluses. But he goes around kidnapping people and using them for his own purposes, when talking to them and asking their help might get them further.
* If Isaac is clean, wouldn't it be at least worth trying painting whilst drunk, stoned, or otherwise uninhibited? I don't know enough about it, but it seems better than the harder drugs, and by analogy with normal art, anything that gets his conscious mind out of the way might do.
* Ah, so Syler is killing specifically mutants. I don't know why yet, but it ties things together.
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Date: 2007-09-03 07:31 pm (UTC)I don't think he's evil, he's not really been shown that way yet. He has a job to do, and does it, sometimes without thinking about other's feelings or priorities. But that's not evil; evil would be going out of his way just to mess up other people's lives. He doesn't seem to do that, that only happens as a side-effect of serving his own ends. Evil, no. Selfish, perhaps.
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Date: 2007-09-03 11:24 pm (UTC)What he does he does in a fairly ruthless but feeling way. But I don't know why. (Did I miss anything?) Detaining people against their will is wrong whoever's employing you, but may be justified if there's a good enough cause. If he's setting up his own little augmented empire, that's probably evil, but if he's trying to study and bring into acceptance mutants without either letting them blow up cities nor get lynched, then that's ruthless but justifiable...