Heroes 3x24 "I Am Sylar" Discuss and Grade

[exodus]

Devnull wrote:

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That was pretty boring, a lot of setup... Sylar still not interesting and not dead. Oh how much better even season 2 was in retrospect.

I agree.

I think I've watched my last ep. of this show.

I'm going back to "24".

[TheArsenal]

Aragorn wrote:

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When did Sylar gain the ability to morph his clothing? When the show decided to take another shortcut?

It wouldn't have been so bad if they clearly didn't show us before that Norman Bates couldn't morph the clothes. It also flies directly in the face of how they're showing/telling us his power works, but whatever, it's a sloppy change but it moves the story along.

I like to complete things, and I'm so close that I'll ride this season out. But I can't see coming back next season.

[Mallet]

Well, I'm not sure if everyone got the same preview of next weeks episode as I did (Watched it on Global TV in Vancouver) but one line/scene that they showed might have given away the whole big ending on the season (ie, who dies).

It involves some speculation, guesswork, etc... but if anyone wants to know what the scene was and what I think will happen please look at the spoiler below.

Ok, so the clip showed Matt Parkman & Noah standing in a smashed up room, both looking distraught and panicked like a big fight has just happened. Noah says: "You have to, Matt, otherwise everything that was Nathan Petrelli will be gone forever."

So, what this leads me to believe is that Sylar will kill Nathan, but will also somehow be "Stuck" in Nathan's shape because of his screwed up shape-shifting powers or maybe Matt Parkman mind controls him into being stuck in one shape. Either way, Noah is going to make Matt somehow "transfer" Nathan's memories/mind into Sylar's body/brain effectively now making Sylar a clone/copy of Nathan. No one else would know, not even Sylar/Nathan.

So Nathan physically dies, but mentally lives on in Sylar, while Sylar physically lives (but stuck in Nathan's shape) but is mentally killed.

At least until they change everything up next season.

And now that I think of it, didn't Professor X do something similar to Magneto in the X-Men comics? ANd if so, that's just another good reason on why it will happen on Heroes since they get a lot of their stuff from the X-Men comics.

[Dream]

exodus wrote:

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I'm going back to "24".

I stopped watching 24 during season 6 and I'm really glad I did. Season 6 was horrible like season 4.

I heard that 24 recently brought back a popular main character to life after that character had been dead for nearly two seasons. It seems death is utterly pointless on that show.

[exodus]

Dream wrote:

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I stopped watching 24 during season 6 and I'm really glad I did. Season 6 was horrible like season 4.

I heard that 24 recently brought back a popular main character to life after that character had been dead for nearly two seasons. It seems death is utterly pointless on that show.

Too bad, this season is really gotten the show back on track.

If you watched the show and heard the how & why, you might see the character did avoid death. Besides, how is death pointless if everybody else who has died over the last 7 seasons has stayed dead but one?

[melancholymecha]

Mallet wrote:

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Well, I'm not sure if everyone got the same preview of next weeks episode as I did (Watched it on Global TV in Vancouver) but one line/scene that they showed might have given away the whole big ending on the season (ie, who dies).

It involves some speculation, guesswork, etc... but if anyone wants to know what the scene was and what I think will happen please look at the spoiler below.

Ok, so the clip showed Matt Parkman & Noah standing in a smashed up room, both looking distraught and panicked like a big fight has just happened. Noah says: "You have to, Matt, otherwise everything that was Nathan Petrelli will be gone forever."

So, what this leads me to believe is that Sylar will kill Nathan, but will also somehow be "Stuck" in Nathan's shape because of his screwed up shape-shifting powers or maybe Matt Parkman mind controls him into being stuck in one shape. Either way, Noah is going to make Matt somehow "transfer" Nathan's memories/mind into Sylar's body/brain effectively now making Sylar a clone/copy of Nathan. No one else would know, not even Sylar/Nathan.

So Nathan physically dies, but mentally lives on in Sylar, while Sylar physically lives (but stuck in Nathan's shape) but is mentally killed.

At least until they change everything up next season.

And now that I think of it, didn't Professor X do something similar to Magneto in the X-Men comics? ANd if so, that's just another good reason on why it will happen on Heroes since they get a lot of their stuff from the X-Men comics.

I havent seen this version of the promo but some of the other slight spoilers Ive read on other boards match up with your theory. I hope its true b/c:

its seems pretty certain now that Nathan will die, at least in a physical sense but I would be really happy if they keep the character around (I mean actually Nathan not Sylar pretending to be Nathan which wouldnt really be Nathan)by still keeping his consciousness alive somehow. Though the way they are gonna go about it(if it turns out to be true) sure is convoluted. Me, I would have gone with Peter picking up "sixth sense" like powers & being able to talk to Nathan's spirit(which would throw the show into supernatural territory but I dont think that would be a big deal for such an already campy show like this.)

[Aragorn]

Why was Micah surprised to see Sylar was a shapeshifter when he witnessed the Sylar-as-mom moment, but the night before he saw Sylar shapeshifted to pretend to be Micah?

[Forbin]

melancholymecha wrote:

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I just found out on another forum the guy Sylar killed tonight was Clint Howard. I thought he looked familiar.

Hard to miss when he had his name credit superimposed right over his face at one point.

[Mr Light]

Because he was watching an unbalanced invincible serial killer have an argument with himself in the form of his dead mother he killed?

[blockaderunner]

Average. I was hoping that they could capitalize on last week's episode showing the Heroes starting to organize. But noooooooooooo. We get more Sylar mommy drama (that whole shape shifting conversation thing got old real fast) and, oh look, in pre-Fuller fashion, they all get caught.......again!. One step forward, two steps back!

[Yoda]

The only enjoyment I got out of this episode was when during the stupid Sylar and his Mom scene I started singing a rousing rendition of "Suddenly, Sylar" in my head.

[The Habs Fan]

I loved this episode and give it one of the few Excellents of the season.

I especially liked the whole Sylar/Mommy Psycho thing going on. Pretty creepy...

[Hyperspace05]

The Sylar/Mom stuff was interesting... Although it breaks the established rules of that ability. But who's paying attention to details?

Claire's hairpiece is looking more and more ridiculous for every episode...

[McCoy]

^ Why is she wearing one, anyway?

[Captain Fine]

I found this episode pretty boring. I'm so tired of Sylar especially.