I’m not sure. But I believe that peter can only absorb a power if its being used. I think Sylar figured this out and while he was laying there bleeding. he activated all his powers (the eye thing) which Peter absorbed causing him to then overload.
Boo, so I’m in for a long summer. :( Still a cool way to introduce new characters though. After hearing about it from a friend who is also a fan of the show I was excited about seeing the upcoming introduction episodes.
Nah, he flew without Nathan flying, he regenerated without Claire actively regenerating, he drew his stick figure prophecy without Isaac drawing anything, and his hands went nuclear when he met a calm Ted Sprague.
Did he really get shot? Or did he stop them with the TK ?
He dropped like he’d been shot, slowly got up, and then vanished when the camera was pointed elsewhere. I guess that could have been trickery after a TK block, but when is Sylar ever subtle?
NBC is planning on running their “Heroes 360” stuff all summer long.
Here’s hoping they can pull it off in a way that entertains.
Greetings:
Now, see, this is why I come here. Lots of great points, and I totally agree on the shortcomings of the episode. However, I would have forgiven them all of their plot holes and inconsistencies if they had only killed Sylar. Everything else has some plausible or semi-plausible motivation (except for Candace - totally agree that she should have reverted to fatty-hood), but the only reason anyone can offer for why Sylar crawled out of that scene is that the writers want him around for next season.
That just completely breaks the fiction for me. It’s not just bad writing, it’s lazy writing, it’s self-centered writing. I don’t care if Sylar is redeemed next season and turns out to be a great hero after all, he should have died because that’s what the narrative needed to come full-circle. Linderman and Sylar are twins, in the same way that Peter and Sylar were twins, and like so many other mirror-images in the show, the opposition holds weight, right up until the point where the writers broke it because they like having that character to work with.
The finale should not be the episode that reminds you that it’s a bunch of crap made up by mediocre storytellers who’ll ignore the consistency of their world and characters whenever it makes their work easier.
Harumph,
Michael.
Yowch. And, basically, agreed.
Sylar died, but his body was dragged off by the Cockroach King whose underground lair lies ready to reanimate Sylar’s body for the Cockroach King’s nefarious schemes.
Elton
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Yeah, we’ve already seen Sylar magically come back from an apparent death in the Corporation’s secret lab, right?
I was assuming that Peter will survive the explosion and Nathan won’t, but I might be subconsciously biased by predictions to that effect earlier in this thread. And also, aren’t five characters supposedly dying in the last two episodes, according to someone with the show? Three died in the previous one … I predicted Bennett and Nathan for this one, but maybe it was the two Petrelli brothers.
Agreed that it was a generally unsatisfying episode, barring the eerie foreshadowing of the new Big Bad. Still very eager for next season regardless.
jeffd
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I don’t know why anyone believes Peter is dead. They established in Five Years Later that he’s more than capable of surviving his nuclear explosion.
He explodes in the air, falls to earth, is in pain briefly and then gets up and walks away. Peter’s alive.
I hope Nathan isn’t. His dramatic arc doesn’t work if he survives.
I enjoyed the episode. One thing unique about this show is that on network TV, characters don’t die off at the speed Heroes has been killing them.
Eden McCain: Suicide
Simone: Isaac shot her
Isaac: Sylar’d
Ted: Sylar’d
Nathan: Presumed Dead
Peter: Presumed Dead
Thompson: Shot in the head. Twice.
Linderman: Brain punched
Matt Parkman: Possibly Dead
Hana Gitleman: Atmospheric renetry, but apparently ascended to a ghost in the machine.
Charlie: Sylar’d
DL: Hospitalized, status unclear
Hiro: $*%^!
He is definitely not dead. Just watching a kick ass battle before warping back to the present :)
Who was this? It’s not ringing any bells for me.
And what ever happened to Wireless? Did I miss the episode where she said “Screw you guys, I’m going home?”
They’re playing out her story in the graphic novels. They’re also dealing with the “marks” from early in the season in the comics as well. Kinda lame actually.
When did he fly? He jumped off the roof and fell like a stone Nathan flew up and saved him. I believe Claires power is allways active, He’d been to Issac’s loft when Issac was painting. As for Ted? Well you have me there.
Hana is Wireless. Read the online comics. She appears all the time in them.
