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Can I just say how much I hate Matt Parkman? The guy turned the corner from insecure but sympathetic to total bastard this season. Daphne died, what? Six weeks ago? And he's already back with his ex-wife?
Daphne was supposed to be the love of his life, too. And wasn't baby Matt like possibly not Matt's kid anyway!?
I'm not so much a fan of the inking ability – it's too convenient, and this is a show where they've already had several precognitive artists. He can control the earth, and that includes ink? Fine. But why the artistic flair of making it a hand when you want to hurt someone? Why can it tell the future?
I know referring to the early days of Heroes is pretty much moot, but in those days I actually felt most sympathetic to Matt Parkman. Now, everything out of his mouth makes me want to scream. World's coolest and most useful superpower, and manages to take all of the fun out of it. I'm glad Sylar is sniping at him for being so Matt Parkman about it.
Possibly depends on the composition of the ink; sort of like that "There's too much iron in your blood" bit with Magneto in X-Men 2. I don't think the ink can tell the future – it has to do with the topless blonde chick. Somehow, the two abilities when working together can do that.
At least, that's what I'm guessing.
I have always been so depressed about what they never managed to do with Matt. Matt has probably the most devastatingly powerful ability. As we've seen, he was actually able to take out Sylar. (Mostly.) This had not previously been possible. He could be like the Puppet Master only pulling strings from afar. He could be all but untouchable.
It's not that I don't like the show making him vulnerable, but do they have to do it by either humiliating him or making him an asshole?