Re: Official Heroes: Volume 3: Villains thread
Considering last night's episode, and his run-in with Claire, I am starting to form a hypothesis about how Sylar's power works. I think he has the ability to modify his brain in order to mimic the abilities of others. He does the same thing with his victims' brains that he used to do with the watches he used to repair--he gains an intimate understanding of how they function. Then, he pinpoints an abnormality or anomale within the brain (the part that controls the ability)--and, from there, he alters the corresponding area in his own brain to imitate his victims' power. Sorry if that sounds confusing--I'm still trying to work out the kinks in my theory.
That's pretty much right on the money. The characters in the show only thought he ate the brains, but there was never any evidence that he actually ate any of them. The brains were all splayed all over the place because he was examining them all. He told the elder Dr. Suresh that he can look at something as it's working like his watches and then understand exactly
how every part of it works, and all the "sources" about the show even then said that's what his power is. Exactly how he mimics the powers hasn't been explained yet, just that he can understand the mechanisms of how they manifest by examining the brains. He wasn't as gruesome with Claire, perhaps because she healed quickly or just for the sake of the audience.
Has anyone noticed that, in each season, it's all PETER'S fault?
Season 1: Peter was actually the exploding nuke. And all they had to do was get him out of Manhattan.
Season 2: Peter helped Adam release the virus onto the world. His fault, again.
Season 3: Peter altered time... the wrong way. And so begins all the problems of season 3.
I mean, SERIOUSLY people...
Someone just needs to kill Peter. OH, they can't. He's like IBS, you simply have to live with it, but it makes for interesting events.
Oh and, if you really wanted to kill Sylar... jesus fuck, just teleport him onto the moon FFS. It's NOT THAT HARD.
Heroes is simply one frustrating plotline after another... I mean, really, these people have no clue how to use their powers. They just run around like headless chickens in a plotline that NO ONE would ever actually carry out in real life. *eyeroll*
Yeah, Peter is the biggest fucking toolbag of all time. He's so fucking emo, it's disgusting. I liked how Angela called him out on his stupidity while he was working with his strings/timeline thing. Too bad he couldn't absorb Mohinder's intelect.
I read a spoiler that there's a really really bad bad guy who's power is something called the "vortex" that can basically erase someone/something from existence or send them into oblivion or some kind of void never to return again. Let's hope Peter hops into it. Or better yet, Sylar should open up his brain and gain his powers. (But if Peter has any sense he'll channel Clair's powers and heal himself.) At least then Peter's powers will be fully utilized by Sylar, and Sylar won't have to go killing people for their powers, he'll just need to be in close proximity to them. I don't think Sylar really wants to murder people but just take the powers they don't deserve because they don't know how to use them.
Then again, season 2's really bad guy only turned out to be Parkman's dad.
I'm also somewhat frustrated about how no one knows how to use their powers, but you have to remember that there's no Xavier Institute for Gifted Students or Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to train them, and they're supposed to be normal people, not comic book nerds who probably would have some idea of how to use their powers should they find they have one. It's like a different type of puberty, except they don't have any friends, relatives, or other people to turn to for guidance or instruction. Peter had the invisible man, but of course he's too fucking emotional to apply what he learned to using the other powers he absorbed.
What I'm really sad about is that there's no GAY character! If anything, I hope Sylar turns out to be gay. He's just so fucking hot.
