Heroes
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While watching the show last night I think I figured it out - not the storyline or anything, but the overall narrative theme - it's communism versus capitalism.
I mean you have two sides it looks like - the one led by Claire/Cheerleaders Dad and the other wher eit always says "They're coming together" - i.e. the "heroes".
Cheerleaders Dad is the exploitive capitalist - he's secretive, exploiting the powers of the "workers" for his own purposes with no ethical basis. He uses these powers - specifically Eve and the bald african shaman dude to control others (Mass media? Psy-ops?) The other heroes are like the clueless proletariats coming together of their own accord through their genetic, evolutionary (read marxian historical) dialectic..
Mohinder's Pop is obviously Marx, the guy who figured out the historical inevitabilty of these people, Sylar is Trotsky or whoever betrays the worker by being tricked by the capitalist...
Hiro's little time travel adventure last night to try and save CHarlie ends up in futility, because like a good Marxist he just discovered that the march of the worker is a historical ineviatabilty, unchangable..
However, I think we see Jessica/Nicky, her husband and son as sort of the Liberterians..out there on their own, pursuing self interest..
The whole story/theme is going to hinge on Nicky/Jessica's kid...who seems to have the same power as Sylar at understanding the 'means of production' but without Sylars compromised insane visions as manipulated by the capitalist - Claire's Dad. The kid will have some kind of Lockean, proto-rights of man naivite and save the world, even as the "heroes" come together in a communistic orgy of working together for the greater good of mankind crap, they will find they'll need the liberterian innocence of the kid to make it all work...
I think I've lost my mind with this show..