1 - Shooting Peter wouldn't actually kill him. Seems like the best plan to me.
We've never seen either him or Claire with damage to their weak point (brain stem) equivalent to a short range, large caliber, handgun round. He seems to believe it would be final, or at least debilitating long enough for them to do something.
2 - Peter can fly. On his own, without Nathan's help. He seemed pretty focused on holding in the TedPower. He also didn't HiroJump away. He didn't even seem capable of, say, picking up the gun himself, or cutting his head off with Hiro's sword, or anything. The body language seemed pretty clear to me: He was devoting all his energy to holding in the glowy.
Also: 3 - Fallout His wife's death aside (which might not even be his fault), Ted's power seemed to be reasonably "clean". Note the controlled EMP during their escape. Indeed, consider that the original FutureNYC seemed reasonably habitable, and the damage looked mostly like direct blast rather than radioactive contamination.
4 - EMP. There should be planes falling from the sky. See #3. Ted and facsimiles thereof seem NOT to be simply "Human Nuclear Bombs", but rather difficult to control fountains of vast energy, expressible in different ways, for whom "Human Bomb" is the easiest metaphor -- after multiple weeks with him, Matt didn't seem to be losing hair or teeth or intestinal lining. If he really was simply a big ole pile of sustained near-criticality, then everyone in that plaza is going to be dying in one of the most horrible ways possible in a matter of weeks.
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Date: 2007-05-22 03:45 am (UTC)We've never seen either him or Claire with damage to their weak point (brain stem) equivalent to a short range, large caliber, handgun round. He seems to believe it would be final, or at least debilitating long enough for them to do something.
2 - Peter can fly. On his own, without Nathan's help.
He seemed pretty focused on holding in the TedPower. He also didn't HiroJump away. He didn't even seem capable of, say, picking up the gun himself, or cutting his head off with Hiro's sword, or anything. The body language seemed pretty clear to me: He was devoting all his energy to holding in the glowy.
Also:
3 - Fallout
His wife's death aside (which might not even be his fault), Ted's power seemed to be reasonably "clean". Note the controlled EMP during their escape. Indeed, consider that the original FutureNYC seemed reasonably habitable, and the damage looked mostly like direct blast rather than radioactive contamination.
4 - EMP. There should be planes falling from the sky.
See #3. Ted and facsimiles thereof seem NOT to be simply "Human Nuclear Bombs", but rather difficult to control fountains of vast energy, expressible in different ways, for whom "Human Bomb" is the easiest metaphor -- after multiple weeks with him, Matt didn't seem to be losing hair or teeth or intestinal lining. If he really was simply a big ole pile of sustained near-criticality, then everyone in that plaza is going to be dying in one of the most horrible ways possible in a matter of weeks.