Re: tubebox

Dear Tim Kring:

I'm watching "Company Man" on Sci-Fi's Heroes marathon and am reminded that, when Claire sedates Ted, it's a little unrealistic that the metal parts of the needle don't, say, melt, or that the glass tube doesn't explode, given that he's set every combustible item within line of sight from him aflame and is meanwhile burning the living flesh from Claire's face.

But that only reminds me of the other thing I noticed, which is all about Hiro. While the frozen time sequence at the beginning of "Hiros" looked good, I hope you are aware that light doesn't actually work that way: if time were frozen, you would not see anything, as the photons entering your eyes would also be frozen in place. If Hiro's time freezing is really making time pass very slowly, as one might infer from his limited power in "Godsend" making time only slow, you would instead see very dimly as fewer photons per second hit the retina.

Normally I wouldn't really care, but, other than it being incredibly difficult to show on television, it would be even more compelling to show that as Hiro walked he would see trippy color patterns from his eyes colliding with photons stuck in mid-air. That could be cool.

However, more realistically, he would be seeing those patterns as instant flashes, as when freezing time Hiro would fly laterally at around 70,000 mph due to his inertia relative to the instant halting of Earth.

Congrats on the season finale,
Mark