I know a lot of people call on the comics for info on Matt's abilities, and a lot don't. I'm reasonably familiar with the comics and I think I just about understand Matt's abilities as portrayed there, but do you think they are supposed to be the same in the series, or different?
Putting aside the whole 'world on fire' thing that doesn't really make any sense and in my head is just Matt trying to be poetic and put things into a context that Claire can understand. Does he have the radar sense that he has in the comics, or does he rely entirely n his sense of hearing, touch, taste and smell to 'see' the world? In the comics he can read most text pretty easily by simply feeling the raised area where the ink in on the page or the indentations a pen has made. Can he do that in the series? I know he touches the map in episode...8? I think? And it looks like he might be getting a sense of what;s on there, but do you write him as actually able to read print in this way or not?
I guess what I'm asking (because there is probably no definitive answer until there is more series for us to gather data from) is what is your take on it. I'm especially interested to hear from anyone who has no knowledge of the comics to find out what kind of an impression you got of his abilities from the series alone? But I'm equally interested in what everyone else thinks.
Things series Matt can do vs comics Matt?
Putting aside the whole 'world on fire' thing that doesn't really make any sense and in my head is just Matt trying to be poetic and put things into a context that Claire can understand. Does he have the radar sense that he has in the comics, or does he rely entirely n his sense of hearing, touch, taste and smell to 'see' the world? In the comics he can read most text pretty easily by simply feeling the raised area where the ink in on the page or the indentations a pen has made. Can he do that in the series? I know he touches the map in episode...8? I think? And it looks like he might be getting a sense of what;s on there, but do you write him as actually able to read print in this way or not?
I guess what I'm asking (because there is probably no definitive answer until there is more series for us to gather data from) is what is your take on it. I'm especially interested to hear from anyone who has no knowledge of the comics to find out what kind of an impression you got of his abilities from the series alone? But I'm equally interested in what everyone else thinks.