I get where you're going, but say Hiro had jumped from the 1600s to the day before his dad was killed instead of the week after. Say he was on the roof with his dad and Ando when Adam tossed dad of the building: Would he be allowed to freeze time then? Or even step between them without using his powers and trip Adam up? Just his presence would change things and no one would tell him he'd arrived on the "wrong" day and dad was fated to die because they wouldn't have that foreknowledge.
Time and events can be changed by time travel and Peter not blowing up NY proved that. Isaac painted it the buildings burning, but it didn't happen. If Hiro jumping forward in time fixes him in the time he should be in, then he should never have jumped back from five-years-in-the-future in the first place. But he did and because he did NY didn't blow and no one is saying that the bomb was fate and he and Ando should have stayed five years ahead.
Anyway, there's a paradox anyway because the reason NY didn't blow is because future!Hiro told Peter about it, and because Peter and Nathan knew about the future it didn't happen that way. But now that future!Peter isn't there anymore to tell Peter in that subway that he's going to blow, so the time-line should be straightening itself out again to the original timeline where Peter was ignorant and blew up... does that make sense?
Now, if blowing up NY was fate and the world/timeline is trying to right itself by lining up a different "apocalyps" and will keep lining them up every time they stop it (a la Final Destination) - so we get NY bomb, killer virus, maybe what else in the future, then I'll shut up. :)
And I do realise I'm obsessing about this waaaay too much and that it really doesn't matter! :)
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Time and events can be changed by time travel and Peter not blowing up NY proved that. Isaac painted it the buildings burning, but it didn't happen. If Hiro jumping forward in time fixes him in the time he should be in, then he should never have jumped back from five-years-in-the-future in the first place. But he did and because he did NY didn't blow and no one is saying that the bomb was fate and he and Ando should have stayed five years ahead.
Anyway, there's a paradox anyway because the reason NY didn't blow is because future!Hiro told Peter about it, and because Peter and Nathan knew about the future it didn't happen that way. But now that future!Peter isn't there anymore to tell Peter in that subway that he's going to blow, so the time-line should be straightening itself out again to the original timeline where Peter was ignorant and blew up... does that make sense?
Now, if blowing up NY was fate and the world/timeline is trying to right itself by lining up a different "apocalyps" and will keep lining them up every time they stop it (a la Final Destination) - so we get NY bomb, killer virus, maybe what else in the future, then I'll shut up. :)
And I do realise I'm obsessing about this waaaay too much and that it really doesn't matter! :)