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Dec. 9th, 2007 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusFirst off, is it International Let's Try And Out-stupid Mohinder month or something? Jeez.
Secondly, the plot twist de jour seems to me to have a major blindingly obvious problem. You know the one, the whole 'let's inject Claire's magic blood into dead people and it will miraculously bring them back to life' thing that's been used twice over (though I'm not quite sure why they had to bother with Maya but still...).
I'm not sure how that's supposed to work when people are actually dead because the thing that would be circulating the magic blood isn't working any more, so how does the magic blood get to anywhere in the body that it needs to heal in the first place? In theory, I suppose if you stabbed someone in the heart with a needle and injected the magic blood straight into the heart then that could kick-start the circulatory system, but I don't get how the needle into the arm is supposed to result in anything other than a puddle of magic blood.
Theories, anyone? I know there's at least one medical person reading this, so any thoughts from them or is it just suspend-my-disbelief-from-a-crane time? ;)
In other news, not like you care, the cold is definitely settling in for the long haul. Need more aspirin. *sigh*
Secondly, the plot twist de jour seems to me to have a major blindingly obvious problem. You know the one, the whole 'let's inject Claire's magic blood into dead people and it will miraculously bring them back to life' thing that's been used twice over (though I'm not quite sure why they had to bother with Maya but still...).
I'm not sure how that's supposed to work when people are actually dead because the thing that would be circulating the magic blood isn't working any more, so how does the magic blood get to anywhere in the body that it needs to heal in the first place? In theory, I suppose if you stabbed someone in the heart with a needle and injected the magic blood straight into the heart then that could kick-start the circulatory system, but I don't get how the needle into the arm is supposed to result in anything other than a puddle of magic blood.
Theories, anyone? I know there's at least one medical person reading this, so any thoughts from them or is it just suspend-my-disbelief-from-a-crane time? ;)
In other news, not like you care, the cold is definitely settling in for the long haul. Need more aspirin. *sigh*
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Date: 2007-12-09 04:43 pm (UTC)I think Mohinder and Peter have been in a "Who's the Prettiest Yet Stupidest" contest for a while now. I've decided that Mohinder is no longer allowed to make decisions without checking with Matt first, and then they get the real decision making done by Molly. She's the smartest on in the household.
Secondly, the plot twist de jour seems to me to have a major blindingly obvious problem. You know the one, the whole 'let's inject Claire's magic blood into dead people and it will miraculously bring them back to life' thing that's been used twice over (though I'm not quite sure why they had to bother with Maya but still...).
That was my question too when they did that with Noah. There's no blood pumping, so why would an IV with a dose of Claire's blood do any good? Adam used a more direct approach, putting his blood directly on Nathan's burned face. Perhaps Mohinder put some of Claire's blood on Noah's face to start the healing process, then the IV would finish healing any internal injuries?
I think Maya is still important to the story... eventually. ::sigh:: She's still useless, but I think she's serving an ultimate purpose. I don't think the virus Peter destroyed was the one he saw the results of in the future, I'm thinking Sylar ends up with Maya's powers or else whatever disease she "carries" goes wild.
I honestly don't like using the blood cure as a "cheat" now. You'll never believe anyone's dead as long as there's the possibility of a special blood transfusion. I wish they'd played Noah's death as more of a fatal injury, but he was still barely alive when they hooked him up to the IV.
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Date: 2007-12-09 05:10 pm (UTC)No, he injected it into Nathan's IV, but Nathan had the advantage of not actually being dead. ;)
I honestly don't like using the blood cure as a "cheat" now.
It's a bit too deus ex machina for my liking too. Unless, of course, you just chop someone's head off, in which case all the magic blood in the world isn't going to help much...
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Date: 2007-12-09 05:52 pm (UTC)I know the blood cure is very much a "comic book" sort of answer, but I don't want them to rely upon it too much. There needs to be a bit of kryptonite in its use. ;)
I have a feeling Adam will be back again, and he'll be even crazier than before. Though if his body still needs something as simple as oxygen, he'll run out of that eventually (or at least enough to sustain life) and go into the equivalent of a coma, if you want to get all logical and stuff. But he'll probably end up hacking off a leg bone or something and using it to claw his way out of the grave.
I am expecting a very Highlander-esque ending, with Hiro having to behead Adam to stop him. There can be only one. ;)