Over on LJ, Vonnie (I think it was Vonnie) was speculating about this potential "older" generation of heroes.

Yeap, that was me. We know of at least two heroes (Claude and Meredith) whose powers were likely active 15-20 years ago. The prevailing thought is that the current batch of the supers were "activated" by some event, right? They started coming into their powers around the same time, unless you posit that Claire was "special" already when she was a baby, and that was how she survived the fire. Seems a bit of a stretch, since if the regenerative power was active all her life, she'd have questioned it a long time ago (especially given how freakin' accident prone she is. Seriously, who knew being a cheerleader could be so deadly?)

Anway, Claude, by implication, made it sound like there is a LARGE number of heroes underground somewhere. If he knew several *empaths* personally, then he probably have encountered several regenerators, pyrokinetics, space-time-manipulators, and precogs, etc. And since there are only 32 or 35 or whatever names on the list (presumably the current batch), all those supers Claude knows must be from earlier points of activation, perhals a generation ago. Right now, I'm assuming that Claire's father, if it's not Nathan, is also an earlier generation super. Wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Nakamura has power himself as well, given that the power seems to have a large hereditary component.

The Empty Child is on BBCA tonight.

I like the one after. Has my favorite quote " Everybody lives! "

Well, I think that's in the second half.

Daisy Jane, I love that too.

That's what I meant by the next one. I'm just horribly unclear when I'm sure you people are reading my brain.

P-C, I use that quote whenever things go unbelievably, wonderfully right (usually for a change).

" Just this once! "

the Haitian dude

...look, this has been bugging me. It might just be a reflection of my own cultural-centric-whojamaflipness, or something, what with Haiti being nowhere the hell near my country, and thus my exposure to Haitian dudes being zilch zip zero nada not a bean.

But - WTF is with everybody describing him, just from a wee glance, as 'the Haitian-looking guy'?

What is so screamingly Haitian-looking about him that every person, regardless of their social/cultural/blahblahblah background describes him thus? That nobody just said 'scary black guy' and left it at that?

I just - I don't get it. Some people saying 'Haitian dude', fine. But nobody saying 'black dude'?

I mean, okay, in Britain we've got a higher proportion of us who are of Indian/Pakistani/Kashmiri/OtherBitOfTheIndianSubcontinent extraction than you have across the pond, so I get that most of the viewers of LOST don't stare blankly at the screen and say 'but...why is everyone calling Said an Arab as soon as they see him? He looks a damn sight more Indian than Arab. WTF?' And the answer is, I guess, that most of the viewers don't see the difference, although it seems honkingly obvious if you're used to seeing Indians and Arabs that they don't look the same. (I can handwave it, because there are plenty of variations of physical type in the Middle East, and okay, Said could look like that and still be from Iraq - but Neveen Andrews is not an Arabic looking guy, so having people assume he's an Arab on the basis of skin colour and features was always a bit bemusing.)

...So is this Haitian thing an equivalent? Am I being the LOST viewer person here now? With the not-noticing-a-hugely-obvious-thing that EVERYONE in the US would see at once? It boggled me a bit.

WTF is with everybody describing him, just from a wee glance, as 'the Haitian-looking guy'?

That's how he was identified by IMDb, and then it was revealed that he had a Haitian accent.

I think Eden also referred to him at one point as "the Haitian."