This could turn out to be very interesting.

Did anyone else notice that they spelt "Righting" wrong? I don't blame them, writing so many subtitles must be driving them up the wall!

Aerdna, I know that you are a mod, but if you make fun of the show, etc.

What?

You can spell it either way, spelt or spelled...

Now get back on topic, will ya?

Ok, Aerdna, what do the other Hiro scrolls contain?


And yes I am looking forward to any "smart ass"/ "tongue in cheek" answers.

"Righting History"

As in correcting history.

Well most people wouldn't be in that position where they're 'righting history'...so the word is not used a lot. Or maybe it is misspelled...IDK

Seems fine to me, I'm not surprised that they would do something like the scrolls, this way Ando is still kept in the loop

I Just have one problem with hiro's scroll even if they were protected in the swords casing they would have deteriorated over time without the proper management and even with it it would still be falling apart because its from 366 years ago! the deceleration of independence is fading and its only 100 years old.

What's the point of getting into the logistics of it? You're right though they wouldn't have lasted

LOL thats what my bro told me when i told him.

Another useless observation...
He put the scrolls in and he changed history, and wrote Ando Open on the hilt, and in all those years nobody noticed it?

clever hiding place though

Don't you think that somewhere along the timeline, one of the presumably numerous owners of the sword would have noticed that the handle is hollow and the bottom comes off. Someone would have found them, and they more than likely would have been displayed in the museum along with the sword, or at least, replicas of them

WOW...we got some real english majors in here...they spelled "Righting" right. "Righting History" as in making sure history is right. Not "Writing History" as in writing a history book.

And I don't know what to say about the scrolls, maybe you all are just looking too deep into this.

hmm i dont think they mispelled it, and with the word spelt use, i searched google and it cant be spelled that way unless you want it to.

It just so happens that Ando picks the right scroll to read from...

Thats how TV works eh

But OT:

Well did you watched that Takezo Kensei stuff ?
It said that the sword of Takezo Kensei was never found untill recently by Mr. Linderman..
They said it had a curse upon the sword that whoever would have them would either die or disappear.
The sword was hidden for hundreds of years...
Since Linderman found the sword.. He never looked into it since he was merely collecting items for other purposes I believe (dont know his exact reasons).
After Linderman only Hiro got the sword...
So after Takezo Kensei there were only 2 original people who had the sword for a period .
Mr. Linderman + Hiro himself...
Kaito Nakamura held on to the sword to give it to Hiro. So maybe you can count that as 3.
My point is..
The sword was hidden for a long time by most likely Hiro and we most likely will see where the sword will disappear.
The only one who could have read the scrolls is Mr. Linderman so far because in the video Mr. Linderman was the only one who found them stated by some scientists in the videos of Kensei.
So maybe Linderman knew and he just let the scrolls in it so Ando would read it.

spelt

past and past participle of SPELL.

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/spelt?view=uk

American's shouldn't question the English language

Someone would have noticed the sword handle was hollow and stuff crammed into it, anyone using the sword would:
a) have noticed that the balance was off due to the hollow handle.
have noticed the rattling around of tiny bits of paper inside the handle.
It's obviously just going to be completely overlooked, which is bloody typical.

yea I agree on that people will just overlook that particular part of the sword. So its easy for the writers to write something like that

Well, to be fair.. I couldn't think of any other way of getting Hiro to talk to Ando via 366 years or whatever it is. Not like he can phone him! (Dr Who haha!)
I think it's just something you have to accept really, at the end of the day it's TV and its supposed to entertain. If everything was 'realism' nothing would happen as everything is far too coincidental. It's all about things being super-natural. The safe well being of the scrolls is exactly that.

Hello by the way

indeed, its TV and anything is possible on TV.
They can do whatever they want, although they want to make it realistic

Hi ad

You tell 'em, skippy... especially since you broke some basic grammar rules doing it. The plural of "American" is "Americans" -- there is no apostrophe. And of course, you missed a period at the end of that sentence.

Point being, if you're going to cop an attitude about people's grammar, spelling, or chosen dialect of a language, you probably shouldn't use sloppy grammar, bad spelling, etc. Or you could simply not raise the specter (or spectre, if you prefer) of trans-Atlantic linguistic posturing, and save everyone on the discussion board the grief of having to wade through ill-informed "Our way is the right way of spelling" posts. Sorry to say it, but nobody "owns" a language, and it's silly to claim that one dialect is somehow superior to another.

Also, if you follow the link to Oxford's entry for spell, you'd see that the Oxford dictionary clearly states, "past and past part. spelled or chiefly Brit. spelt." It's ridiculous to jump on someone's case for using "spelt," though clearly since this discussion board is mainly populated by Americans (since Heroes is a U.S.-produced show), this spelling might seem odd to most readers. Trust me, things only seem odd because you're simply not accustomed to them. Case in point, I grew up spelling the past tense of kneel as "knelt," so whenever I see "kneeled" in print, it seems wrong to me. The same thing can be said for irregular plurals I learned (or is that "learnt?") as a kid, which are slowly dying out.

Languages evolve. American English isn't the same thing as British English. And saying that Americans have nothing valid to say about English (the family of languages) is pretty asinine... about as asinine as going off on someone for using a variant spelling peculiar to their dialect.

Whew... glad to get that off my chest.

It's hard not to be a curmudgeon when so many people post half-baked theories that could be easily discounted by a careful re-watching of the show. (Yeah, I know people aren't that observant these days, but personally I like Heroes because it doesn't spoon-feed me the details.) If anything, it seems as though the signal-to-noise ratio has gotten worse this season. I'm not saying you need to buy a DVR to play this game... but it sure wouldn't hurt to invest in a TiVo. Seriously, TiVo's instant replay feature is great for when you just aren't sure of some detail...