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Date: 2011-07-14 04:17 pm (UTC)It would be interesting if it turned out that in this show the Alphas are less Homo Superior and more people rendered borderline dysfunctional by the necessary preconditions of their enhanced abilities. Like, you don't see a lot of people with Bill's power because it's eventually lethal to the person who has it and they tend to die before having kids. Although Bill is the only one in a successful long-term relationship that we see...
It may be that Kindly Old Doctor is deliberately seeking out people who are isolated because it's easier for him to manipulate them into accepting the team as a substitute for all the things they are missing in their lives.