Isaac Mendez

[strongbad_wi]

Well, we are seeing Issac really get a better grip on his powers

*no drugs
*can pinpoints things now - looking for Peter

I guess the question now is, and I bring this up because of the Issac / Simone / romantic pic on the rooftop... kind of like our boy Peter, is Issac more powerful than we give him credit for?  can he just paint the future, or now as his powers develope, can he help shape the future?

[IwishIwasaHero]

Good point, although it does raise a few time paradox issues...let me elaborate:

1 - The very action of painting the future affects it (for example Issac's painting of Peter below the highschool banner, Peter wouldn't ever have gone there if he didn't know it had to happen)

2 - How much can he predict things and how much are they self-forefilling prophecies? (Issac's painting of a woman being hit by a bus so disgusted her she fled the gallery and got hit by the same bus)

3 - Can he direct them or is it convinient that this time they coincided, appearing as if he managed too...he did paint where Peter was but he also painted himself and Simone(...which in a way included Peter but not really)

4 - If no-one saw his paintings would they still happen, with the exception of his very early drug induced work lots of people who are in the paintings have seen them

5 - they are all open to artistic interpretation by their very nature...I thought it was claire dead on the floor in his cheerleader series...does a small model blow of NY city blow up or does someone dream about it?

Just my thoughts put to paper... very confusing even for me...I'm exhausted 

[MrsVenti]

wow....I am exhausted just READING all those theories...

[IwishIwasaHero]

imagine thinking them! AHHHHH! 
I did get a little bit tounge tied and  had to stop and start again at one point!

[Vertical Bill]

The thing is that Isaac is painting the future, but with the hope of changing it, and now that he is directing it to try and paint Peter it is getting very sticky.  Will Isaac be able to paint more specifics?  The painting of Peter at the Homecoming could have been anywhere, and the same with the Taxi painting.

Will Isaac be able to say paint Peter or Sylar at a location and time that can be targetted by HRG?

[IwishIwasaHero]

Well the homecoming painting couldn't have been anywhere and that's how Simone worked out where Peter should go!

[Hellish Gnome]

5 - they are all open to artistic interpretation by their very nature...I thought it was claire dead on the floor in his cheerleader series...does a small model blow of NY city blow up or does someone dream about it?

Open to interpretation, yes. But they have never been WRONG so far.

[Grim Reapster]

Open to interpretation, yes. But they have never been WRONG so far.

Definitely, but is the painting of the exploding man Peter, or someone else? Is it Isaac on the floor dead, or Ted?

Since he's never wrong, we can conclude that the explosion will happen; Isaac did paint one of the roof of the Deveaux building showing the aftermath of the blast.

[guaxini]

finally one of his paintings didn't come true, peter did not blow up new york.