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Action Figure · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject:

its not that combined they make those phrases, its that the symbol (somewhat) resembles the two characters thats mean "godsend" and "great talent"

Upsidedown they dont look like anything...

"yo" means godsend "sai" means great talent.

Hercules67 · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject:

Sorry -- I was sure you understood me the first time!

Thanks for the clarification.

I was just wondering.... My opinion then is this... I don't believe Squeeker's interpretation, because it's based on the translation of the characters.

"GODSEND" comes to us from the Japanese language. If these characters meant something reversed, and so Molly drew them reversed, then I would believe there was something there... That Molly is saying "SEND GOD"? I don't buy even for a millisecond. Sorry Squeeker.

Payquage · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:30 am Post subject:

I thought Squeaker's "send God" interpretation was meant as a joke. Was it?

Upside-down sometimes means something is backwards or even evil. A horseshoe upside-down from the direction which means good luck calls for bad luck. In different countries, which direction that is varies! Putting a stamp on a letter upside-down used to mean something, but I forget what, unfortunately. And to some, turning a cross or pentagram upside-down makes it into a symbol for evil. So if "godsend" is upside-down, I think it means something is backward or wrong about it, not that the characters or words are reversed.

Squeaker · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:23 am Post subject:

I'm pretty sure Hiro or Ando said that the symbols combined to say 'god-send', which meant 'great gift'.
Not that one part of the symbol was 'god-send' and the other 'great gift'.

Bleh. As I mentioned somewhere on the other page, it could just mean that his symbol is a perverted version of the godsend symbol, like an upside down horseshoe is a pervesion of the symbol of good luck,

AcidTWister · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:41 am Post subject:

Direct quote from episode 12, Godsend:

"That symbol there. It's a combination of characters. Great Talent... Godsend."
(Godsend is said as the camera shifts to a character similar to a nuber 5 with a line drawn through the bend)

It's actually two characters. The bottom half (the part with two lines going left) is "Godsend", while the top seems to be the "Great Talent" part. If anything, it's completely backwards. nwodedisdepu tub ,siht ekil ecnetnes a gnitirw em ekil eb dluow tI. The characters aren't just upside down, they're mirrored as well. They just flipped them around is all.

Squeaker · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:01 pm Post subject:

Aye, I didn't mean flipped upside down, it is rotated 180 degrees. Thanks for checking the scene again. I'll stop calling it the Godsend symbol now, since its the 'GreatTalent/Godsend' symbol; hence forth known as GT/GS! Razz

HH!
~*~ Squeak ~*~

popkorn615 · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:38 pm Post subject:

Squeaker · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject:

Oh! I missed these, sorry;

KombatKoala · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:54 am Post subject:

It just occured to me that i havent seen any mention in this thread of the symbol appearing on Caitlyn's arm when her and Peter kissed at the end of Kindred. It appears shortly after he is given the box and decides not to open it yet.

just thought id point that out Razz

teoooooooo · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject:

popkorn615 · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:50 am Post subject:

I think the tattoo on Peter's arm is on the same boat as the cockroach - just symbolism.

And the tattoo disappeared because Peter has the ability to heal. So his skin healed and the ink went away Cool

teoooooooo · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:54 pm Post subject:

popkorn615 · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject:

He's too cool for a tattoo.

Well, except for when he's in Fergie music videos, lol...

Ryano · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:46 am Post subject:

I saw it in the grains of virus and test tube, did you (screenie attached)

Hercules67 · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:27 am Post subject: The Helix Symbol Revealed?

Tim Kring, in today's episode of the POST SHOW, the show that airs after the re-air of the latest "Heroes" episode on the G4 TV network (Saturday, December 8th, 2007) revealed that his intention was to let everyone know what the "Helix" or "Symbol" means in the first episode of "Heroes: Origins". His explanation would have tied together ALL THE OTHER explanation we have seen put forward so far (the Japanese symbol, the tatoos, the necklace, etc.)

However, with the writer's strike, of course those plans are now on hold. He will either save it for when "Heroes: Origins" DOES air, or incorporate in the regular storyline down the road.