Heroes: The Hard Part
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Another great episode, we get backstory and some answers as well as new questions!
*** SPOILERS ***
- I thought it was weird how all of a sudden Sylar turns from murder machine to pseudo-sympathetic, and how icky was it that he drew the picture with his mothers blood?
- I’ve never liked Nathan Petrelli, but do you think he’s just playing along with Linderman to stop the bomb? In the future he wasn’t the president, but Sylar pretending to be him. And I knew his mom was power-hungry, but she’s clearly up to her neck in Linderman’s nutty death cult.
- Damn you, Hiro, cut his head off! Was it significant that Hiro could use his powers even after the sword was broken?
- Who’s sexier? Jessica or the Evil Illusion Woman (Missy Peregrym)? Also, I find it weird that the character is more attractive to me when she’s she-devil Jessica than goody-two-shoes Niki.
- I wonder if Micah’s power is connected to the little girl’s power?
- You would think Peter Petrelli would go “oh, that’s the exploding guy from my drawing, maybe I shouldn’t stand right next to him”, but noooooo
- I think Claire’s one of the most realistically written teenagers on tv. Being a superpowered freak sucks, but she knows she has a place of destiny.
- Only two more episodes and then an entire Hero-less summer? Oh, cruel fates.
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So how is it that Sylar can break the time-stop power of Hiro? I don’t need to know where the frost power came from, but I do need to know how he can break out of a time-stop…
I don’t think he did break out of the time-stop. It’s been shown before that Hiro can only interact with the rest of the world in limited fashion during time-stop. I think he undid the time-stop (witness Sylar’s falling mother, in sync with Sylar’s recovery) just before the sword would have hit Sylar, and Sylar just reacted with stunning speed.
The sword has always been a crutch for Hiro. It didn’t fully register that it was broken until after he and Ando had teleported.
Sylar’s change was actually fairly acceptable. He sees himself exploding, and doesn’t know he’ll survive it. That’ll shake up anyone…
And I agree with the theory that Sylar will probably think that Ando has the powers, since he saw the two teleport only after Ando had touched Hiro. If he does manage to kill Ando, he’s gonna be very disappointed…
J.
But in the comic, dead Ando still has his skull intact. That tells me Syler isn’t looking to kill him in a search for new powers, it’s for some other reason.
Anyone else creeped out by the Micah painting?
Yeah, the Nathan story is very Manchurian Candidate. He doesn’t seem to have given himself over to the idea completely, but they do present him as a greedy opportunist.
Totally evil illusion woman. And the whole Jessica/Nikki story is a time waster.
Why Micah and the little girl? Because the company wants them both for specific missions? Have they ever pointed out what Suresh’s sister could do? I’d be interested to see if that degenerative disease is related to a certain power.
Linderman wants Micah because he’s going to use the lad’s “screw with electronics” power to rig the ballot boxes in Nathan’s favor.
The company wants the girl because she can track all the Heroes.
Also I was wondering – does Sylar now have some of Hiro’s power due to his close contact with him?
Sylar doesn’t work that way–he’s not an empath like Peter.
My guess is that Hiro lost focus during his time stop due to the extreme nature of his action, which he was unready for. (There’s also something to be said for him feeling subconscious shame…there were several ways that his attempt to execute a helpless Sylar violated bushido.)
One criticism; Why don’t Hiro and Ando stop and read the ENTIRE comic book so they aren’t surprised when they run into Sylar!!? This happened with the last comic too and frustrates me! Come on! I’d study that thing like the Torah!
Sylar takes power by cutting their heads open.
If Linderman can heal, why doesn’t he heal the little girl?
(A) It’s possible Linderman doesn’t know about Molly Walker…I don’t think either party in this relationship–The Company or The Linderman Group–trust the other side completely.
(B) It’s possible he doesn’t have enough control over his power to do his work on such a precise cellular level.
How interesting it is that such a sinister being was granted such a benevolent power.
Syler won’t have Hiro’s power, but maybe Peter does (He just absorbs by proximity instead of full-on brain surgery).
showshineboy,
The whole comic book hasn’t been written yet. Maybe they can hook up with Peter and let him “fill in the blanks” like he did with the painting of Syler standing over a dead Claire.
Also, all of Isaac’s artworks had multiple interpretations…the cheerleader in the painting that Peter finished, for example, wasn’t Claire, but Jackie; and even though Peter did end up on the ground in a pool of blood, the painting didn’t show him regenerating.
Right now the question is less whether or not Hiro will stab Sylar, but whether or not that will actually stop him.
How interesting it is that such a sinister being was granted such a benevolent power.
That’s what I like about all these characters. Their powers are in some way, a direct reflection of themselves. I’m not sure how exactly yet, but some of them definitely. Claire’s emotional wounds=regeneration. Nikki’s husband (name?), an ex-con’s ability to walk through walls, etc.
Much more robust than Lost.
I thought it was weird how all of a sudden Sylar turns from murder machine to pseudo-sympathetic, and how icky was it that he drew the picture with his mothers blood?
Showing his humanity is not completely lost. He still feels like an outcast. But, yeah, right back to crazy with the blood.
Duros – The ex-con is D.L. Hawkins.
The online comics have a great six-part story going into the Vietnam War adventures of Linderman and his platoon-mate, a man named Petrelli. Very interesting and insightful stuff.
Spider, could I trouble you for a link?
Here.
Enjoy. It will take some time to catch up, but it’s well worth it.
kthx
Peter didn’t realize that was Sprague until it was too late– he was already close-enough to him.
As for Sylar, he’s completely psychotic. I mean, if he wasn’t at the outset, eating that many brains has to have a downside. Swinging from heartless to loving son to painting-in-mom’s-blood isn’t that much of a stretch.
…eating that many brains has to have a downside.
You mean, like Kuru?
Jet, you might be on to something there. Perhaps Sylar has Mad Cow.