Failure of suspension of disbelief

[semperfiona]

We finally watched the Heroes season finale last night, and my suspension of disbelief hit a wall. Not on the superheroics or the continuing bumbling idiocy of Mohinder Suresh but on a fine point of Japanese culture. Nobody is ever actually buried in Japan. Bodies are cremated, and the urn is buried. No fancy satin-lined coffins, no six-by-three burial plots. I've seen a few cemeteries in Japan, and they were both very small and very crowded, with markers nearly on top of each other.

Don't ask me why I didn't notice this during Kaito Nakamura's funeral.

Comments

[reannon.livejournal.com]

I believe Hiro's parents WERE cremated. My theory: Hiro suspended time while he buried a coffin under his parents' grave, and there was space for it because they had been cremated, and because it's a cemetery no one will ever dig it up, and then he bampfed Kensei in there and left him there, the end.

The creator is always right! Besides, there were so many other problems that one didn't bother me nearly as much as a world in which Niki dies and Maya lives.

[gasslight.livejournal.com]

Yuh. Maya hatred here, as well. She's a whiney dangerous stupid li'l chick, ain't she?

[gasslight.livejournal.com]

Mulwhiner Suresh! Just hate him! It's a little amazing how much I <3 Heroes, considering how many of the characters annoy the s**t out of me!

[opalturtle.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Why didn't she sneak up behind Sylar and kill him instead of screaming at him and getting shot? I mean. . .DUH!!!

I've wondered all along - if she and Alejandro are twins why does she speak really good English and he doesn't even understand it?? This doesn't make sense to me.

[opalturtle.livejournal.com]

It does make a perfect hiding spot. Nobody would think that he'd desecrate his family's cemetery plot in such a way - cause they would definitely see it as desecration. So nobody would look there.

He should've chopped his head off before he buried him, though.

[semperfiona]

But no room for the big patch of dirt surrounded by grass that they showed us...there'd have been three other families' plots in the space taken up with dirt and a hundred in the amount of grass we saw.

I really should have linked the picture, but I didn't want to steal some guy's bandwidth. Google Images 'cemetery japan'.

[ohari.livejournal.com]

she didn't sneak up and kill him because she couldn't - she can't kill SOMEONE, she can only kill EVERYONE.

Re: English....because she bothered to learn it and he didn't? That is about the least bothersome thing about those two, to me.

[semperfiona]

Well, to be pedantic about it, she can't kill specific people *with her power*. She could theoretically have used a weapon. Not that she had one.

[opalturtle.livejournal.com]

She could've picked up something heavy, snuck up behind him and whacked him a good one with it - she has other methods of killing people besides the scary black eyes thing. :D