Full Version: HRG's Glasses
I know this has been discussed quite a bit here about the effect of HRG's glasses, but I feel we got another hint last night that there is definately something to it. Early on we are looking right through his glasses and then they transition to Sylar at the paper company. It showed nothing at all, just another hint that there may be more to his glasses.
QUOTE (Alztybrn @ Jan 23 2007, 11:13 AM) 
I know this has been discussed quite a bit here about the effect of HRG's glasses, but I feel we got another hint last night that there is definately something to it. Early on we are looking right through his glasses and then they transition to Sylar at the paper company. It showed nothing at all, just another hint that there may be more to his glasses.
Teleportation? Or jump cut in editing? Hmmmm.
Since the Horned Rimmed Glasses "define" Mr. Bennett I would have to say that they are only a prop and have no additional significance. But... I've been wrong before! LOL
I don't believe that there's anything to his glasses, they just used that as a transition from one scene to another. Remember the original Highlander movie when you'd be looking at an aquarium with water in it and then the camera would slowly pan and all the sudden you'd be back in medevil Scotland with Macleod and Ramirez in a boat. Doesn't mean the aquarium has the ability to travel through time.
Just a method to transition the scenes I think.
Just a method to transition the scenes I think.
I think the glasses are used "for effect". He's taken them off a couple times, and his humanity shows through. When he took them off in the scene where Claire had just exited, the burden of his profession was wearing on him, and he needed the temporary relief. He very much loves Claire, and that was the point that act meant to convey. He carries regret.
I saw the regret and tearing up too. Very touching.
I still think there is something to the glasses. not sure exactly what yet, but I still think there is something.
I still think there is something to the glasses. not sure exactly what yet, but I still think there is something.
I agree there is something more to those glasses then just to see though. Does HRG have powers, maybe? Matt can't read him and that is a little weird.
QUOTE (dcg @ Jan 23 2007, 11:54 AM)
I saw the regret and tearing up too. Very touching.
I still think there is something to the glasses. not sure exactly what yet, but I still think there is something.
I still think there is something to the glasses. not sure exactly what yet, but I still think there is something.
Maybe they're an object from the room.
Wait...wrong show.
QUOTE (steve2112 @ Jan 23 2007, 12:05 PM)
I don't believe that there's anything to his glasses, they just used that as a transition from one scene to another. Remember the original Highlander movie when you'd be looking at an aquarium with water in it and then the camera would slowly pan and all the sudden you'd be back in medevil Scotland with Macleod and Ramirez in a boat. Doesn't mean the aquarium has the ability to travel through time.
Just a method to transition the scenes I think.
Just a method to transition the scenes I think.
Which, btw, I remember very well, and loved that movie... of course, I haven't seen it in ten years, so it may actually seem incredibly dumb now, who know... lol... but I loved the transitions like that.
That being said, I think there is indeed something to his glasses..
I have posted In this thread about Mr. Bennett and possible powers. I'll just cut and paste, shall I? Lol...
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From reading the interview above, and a few other comments along the same lines, I do think there is something special about HRG. I just don't know what it is yet. I do think it relates to his glasses. Why?
1. The interview. It just seems to hint that there is something more going on.
2. In the episode where Claire meets the bio-rents, we see him playing with his old pair, seemingly significantly.
3. When his glasses get broken, he sure seems to replace them very quickly. Could it be that having the lense broken negated the special powers of the glasses?
4. We have seen HRG a few times doing things without his glasses, including the first appearance of him, in Papa Suresh's apt while Mohinder was there, remember? (In fact, it seems that Mohinder picked up those glasses like there was nothing strange about them. They couldn't have been Papa Suresh's could they? Nah, probably not, but I digress... ) Anyways, HRG was reading the map, going through papers, without his glasses. Now, usually, if someone really needs glasses, they will wear them, all the time, to see, right? Especially to read papers, etc. But HRG wasn't. Now, if you are the kind of person who would rather not wear them, then you tend to leave them off as much as possible. (I and most of my family wear glasses, this is what I base this on.) HRG fits neither of these categories, which makes him a very odd glasses wearer imho... Why wear them all the time if you don't like them? Why take them off when you are reading something if you need them? Unless you don't need them to correct your vision...
5. The name HRG seems significant. I mean, sure, at first we just knew him as HRG. We pretty quickly realized he was Mr. Bennett, yet his name and credits never changed. That seems a tad odd to me... unless they are emphasizing the glasses, but why?
I don't know that he has a power, necessarily, but that his glasses are special for some reason. Maybe helps him identify Heroes?
1. The interview. It just seems to hint that there is something more going on.
2. In the episode where Claire meets the bio-rents, we see him playing with his old pair, seemingly significantly.
3. When his glasses get broken, he sure seems to replace them very quickly. Could it be that having the lense broken negated the special powers of the glasses?
4. We have seen HRG a few times doing things without his glasses, including the first appearance of him, in Papa Suresh's apt while Mohinder was there, remember? (In fact, it seems that Mohinder picked up those glasses like there was nothing strange about them. They couldn't have been Papa Suresh's could they? Nah, probably not, but I digress... ) Anyways, HRG was reading the map, going through papers, without his glasses. Now, usually, if someone really needs glasses, they will wear them, all the time, to see, right? Especially to read papers, etc. But HRG wasn't. Now, if you are the kind of person who would rather not wear them, then you tend to leave them off as much as possible. (I and most of my family wear glasses, this is what I base this on.) HRG fits neither of these categories, which makes him a very odd glasses wearer imho... Why wear them all the time if you don't like them? Why take them off when you are reading something if you need them? Unless you don't need them to correct your vision...
5. The name HRG seems significant. I mean, sure, at first we just knew him as HRG. We pretty quickly realized he was Mr. Bennett, yet his name and credits never changed. That seems a tad odd to me... unless they are emphasizing the glasses, but why?
I don't know that he has a power, necessarily, but that his glasses are special for some reason. Maybe helps him identify Heroes?
QUOTE (wishing to be jessica @ Jan 23 2007, 12:03 PM)
I agree there is something more to those glasses then just to see though. Does HRG have powers, maybe? Matt can't read him and that is a little weird.
Matt can't read HRG because the Haitian is always with him, guarding HRG's thoughts. At least I think HRG's always been with the Haitian when Matt's tried to read him. Anyone remember a time when they weren't together?
haha...magical glasses...haha
They have an unusual purple tinge to them (when viewed from the wearers POV). now i dont wear glasses, but noone i know has prescription glasses with a purple tinge.
there IS something going on with the glasses.
there IS something going on with the glasses.
QUOTE (Capt Fodder @ Jan 23 2007, 12:15 PM)
They have an unusual purple tinge tio them (when viewed from the wearers POV). now i dont weaar glasses, but noone i know has prescription glasses with a purple tinge.
there IS something going on with the glasses.
there IS something going on with the glasses.
My glasses have a purple tint to them at times. It's part of the anti-reflective treatment on the lenses. Probably necessary for his glasses on the show, so the lights don't reflect off of them while filming.
Or, it could be something more sinister... *dun dun dun*
Just for the record, HRG has two pairs of glasses..one with a crack in the corner of one of the lenses, and the other with no crack. I haven't kept track of exactly when he wears each pair, but it seems he wears the "normal" pair when at home and uses the pair with a crack when he is "working".
I know for certain that when Claire and Brody were in the hospital, he talks to Claire and is wearing the normal glasses, then when he talks to Brody, he's wearing the cracked pair. When we see him later with Claire, he's back to the other glasses.
I'll look again tonight, but I'll bet the glasses he's wearing when he talks to Claire before the transition are not cracked, and then are cracked when we see him at Primatech.
I know for certain that when Claire and Brody were in the hospital, he talks to Claire and is wearing the normal glasses, then when he talks to Brody, he's wearing the cracked pair. When we see him later with Claire, he's back to the other glasses.
I'll look again tonight, but I'll bet the glasses he's wearing when he talks to Claire before the transition are not cracked, and then are cracked when we see him at Primatech.
QUOTE (wishing to be jessica @ Jan 23 2007, 02:03 PM)
I agree there is something more to those glasses then just to see though. Does HRG have powers, maybe? Matt can't read him and that is a little weird.
Matt can't read HRG because the Haitian is blocking (notice each time Matt tries to read him the Haitian is nearby). This was established in a few earlier episdose.
QUOTE (bozinka @ Jan 23 2007, 02:03 PM)
1. The interview. It just seems to hint that there is something more going on.
2. In the episode where Claire meets the bio-rents, we see him playing with his old pair, seemingly significantly.
3. When his glasses get broken, he sure seems to replace them very quickly. Could it be that having the lense broken negated the special powers of the glasses?
4. We have seen HRG a few times doing things without his glasses, including the first appearance of him, in Papa Suresh's apt while Mohinder was there, remember? (In fact, it seems that Mohinder picked up those glasses like there was nothing strange about them. They couldn't have been Papa Suresh's could they? Nah, probably not, but I digress... ) Anyways, HRG was reading the map, going through papers, without his glasses. Now, usually, if someone really needs glasses, they will wear them, all the time, to see, right? Especially to read papers, etc. But HRG wasn't. Now, if you are the kind of person who would rather not wear them, then you tend to leave them off as much as possible. (I and most of my family wear glasses, this is what I base this on.) HRG fits neither of these categories, which makes him a very odd glasses wearer imho... Why wear them all the time if you don't like them? Why take them off when you are reading something if you need them? Unless you don't need them to correct your vision...
5. The name HRG seems significant. I mean, sure, at first we just knew him as HRG. We pretty quickly realized he was Mr. Bennett, yet his name and credits never changed. That seems a tad odd to me... unless they are emphasizing the glasses, but why?
I don't know that he has a power, necessarily, but that his glasses are special for some reason. Maybe helps him identify Heroes?
2. In the episode where Claire meets the bio-rents, we see him playing with his old pair, seemingly significantly.
3. When his glasses get broken, he sure seems to replace them very quickly. Could it be that having the lense broken negated the special powers of the glasses?
4. We have seen HRG a few times doing things without his glasses, including the first appearance of him, in Papa Suresh's apt while Mohinder was there, remember? (In fact, it seems that Mohinder picked up those glasses like there was nothing strange about them. They couldn't have been Papa Suresh's could they? Nah, probably not, but I digress... ) Anyways, HRG was reading the map, going through papers, without his glasses. Now, usually, if someone really needs glasses, they will wear them, all the time, to see, right? Especially to read papers, etc. But HRG wasn't. Now, if you are the kind of person who would rather not wear them, then you tend to leave them off as much as possible. (I and most of my family wear glasses, this is what I base this on.) HRG fits neither of these categories, which makes him a very odd glasses wearer imho... Why wear them all the time if you don't like them? Why take them off when you are reading something if you need them? Unless you don't need them to correct your vision...
5. The name HRG seems significant. I mean, sure, at first we just knew him as HRG. We pretty quickly realized he was Mr. Bennett, yet his name and credits never changed. That seems a tad odd to me... unless they are emphasizing the glasses, but why?
I don't know that he has a power, necessarily, but that his glasses are special for some reason. Maybe helps him identify Heroes?
1. I'm not sure which interview you are talking about (there have been many) but it might have been significant to mention what he said that made you think the glasses were special.
I presume it was this interview:
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/television/h...4177.cfm?page=1
2. People who wear glasses fidget with them when they are stressed. I can think of no more stressful situation for HRG than trying to dupe his daughter with fake biological parents.
3. As another poster noticed, there are two sets of glasses. One with a crack in it and one without. They interchange between many scenes. The cracked glasses were broken by Nathan when he kicked the gun into HRG's face moments before flying away. I have two sets of glasses (in case one breaks) but in this instance a small crack does not mean he'd have to get another set.
4. Many people do not need glasses to read. They have trouble seeing things in the distance but not close up. But they have to have glasses to see further away. I always take my glasses off to read but have to have them on the rest of the time when driving, etc.
5. Horned Rimmed Glasses is very significant... this was a distinguishing marking for a person that did not orginally have a name. This nickname was used to identify him before he was named in the series (by the writers,directors and Mohinder later on.)
Sometimes props are just props and have no significant meaning. I believe that there is no significant meaning behind the glasses. There has been no indication in any of the episodes that the glasses are special in any other way than to identify HRG. If they were significant to the plot or story-line in any way then you would think that the writers would have dropped even a minor clue that they were more than what they appear to be.
many heroes refer to him as "the man with horn rimmed glasses" so it should have some significance.
AFAIK the haitian's powers are to STRIP memories... he doesn't seem to have "blocking" powers as he told claire that he can't replace memories or anything because "his gift doesnt work that way"
perhaps, the glasses are engineered after some research on a "hero" that could block people's powers/thoughts
but then again matt couldn't read the haitian in the bar..
soooo i am guessing maybe it has to do with the god-kami-symbol from the dragon sword? the haitian has a necklace and jessica has that tattoo...
AFAIK the haitian's powers are to STRIP memories... he doesn't seem to have "blocking" powers as he told claire that he can't replace memories or anything because "his gift doesnt work that way"
perhaps, the glasses are engineered after some research on a "hero" that could block people's powers/thoughts
but then again matt couldn't read the haitian in the bar..
soooo i am guessing maybe it has to do with the god-kami-symbol from the dragon sword? the haitian has a necklace and jessica has that tattoo...
QUOTE (The Alternative One @ Jan 23 2007, 08:49 PM)
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3. As another poster noticed, there are two sets of glasses. One with a crack in it and one without. They interchange between many scenes. The cracked glasses were broken by Nathan when he kicked the gun into HRG's face moments before flying away. I have two sets of glasses (in case one breaks) but in this instance a small crack does not mean he'd have to get another set. ...
3. As another poster noticed, there are two sets of glasses. One with a crack in it and one without. They interchange between many scenes. The cracked glasses were broken by Nathan when he kicked the gun into HRG's face moments before flying away. I have two sets of glasses (in case one breaks) but in this instance a small crack does not mean he'd have to get another set. ...
HRG's glasses being broken or cracked from the impact of Nathan kicking them was disproved on an earlier thread via screen clips. If you can not find that thread I will try to find it and post a link.
They are glasses, i agree that they are a powerful dramatic tool though, for a comic connection think of Clark Kent/Superman, except in this case the other id is HRG and when he takes them off he is the human Mr Bennet, when he takes them off it is as though he is taking off the mask that he wears to hide himself from the world, so that noone can see how the difficult decisions he has to make affect him emotionaly. Or something like that
QUOTE (dcg @ Jan 23 2007, 09:30 PM)
HRG's glasses being broken or cracked from the impact of Nathan kicking them was disproved on an earlier thread via screen clips. If you can not find that thread I will try to find it and post a link.
I'm not sure how you can disprove anything using screen clips. It is all about time and timing and continuity. HRG has NO cracked glasses prior to his altercation with Nathan. After, we see him with the broken glasses in various different scenes. Since this is the only scene in which we, as an audience, see HRG in a violent situation it can only be the moment in which those glasses are cracked. Unless, of course, they flashback to a scene in which they actually show the glasses being cracked.
Also, I'd like to read how they think they disproved this. Do you have the thread link available? I did a search and could not find it. It might be buried though in another innocuously named thread.
LOL @ "an object from the room"..I totally watched that whole show and apparently my dvd cut off the last 5 minutes...so right when he opens the door and hugs his daugter it cuts off! UgH! What happened?
QUOTE (The Alternative One @ Jan 23 2007, 07:30 PM)
Matt can't read HRG because the Haitian is blocking (notice each time Matt tries to read him the Haitian is nearby). This was established in a few earlier episdose.
Yeah, whenever someones mind powers fail to affect HRG, (Eden, Matt, maybe Sylar) they always cut to the Haitian standing silently nearby. I would cry major foul if that was just a recurring red herring.
Does anyone notice on the Primatech Paper website the pictures of some of the people look like shots from the show but from HRG's point of view, almost like the glasses are a camera. Especially the pictures of Matt.
http://www.primatechpaper.com/T3001/C002/
Password:MPggtn75x
http://www.primatechpaper.com/T3001/C002/
Password:MPggtn75x
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