Peter and Sylar, Jekyll and Hyde

[Joe Washington]

Imagine Sylar being Peter’s alter ego the way Jessica was Nikki's alter ego:

As a side-effect of his power absorption personality, Peter developed a psychotic split personality with a thirst for the abilities of others which he wants to physically assume instead of waiting to be around others to assume them. But the abilities the Sylar personality takes on only become active when Peter’s Sylar. When he’s not, the powers become inert. The more Peter uses his power absorption personality, the more the Sylar personality grows which causes the wall between it and Peter’s personality to weaken. Peter’s character arc would be him realizing this side of himself, struggling with it by finding ways of suppressing it or trying to stop it from killing innocents, and coming to terms with it by merging with the Sylar personality and using his killing talents in the twisted pursuit of good like Dexter.

 

[DeadmeatDiggory]

It may have been a good idea four years ago, but the characters on that show are so beyond being ruined that not even the second coming of christ and the power that dead Jewish carpenter can muster can save Heroes from itself.

The best the network can do now is put the show out of its misery, and allow everyone to pretend it never exsisted.

 

[Joe Washington]

Well, I'm proposing this idea for present-day Heroes. I'm saying what if this was a part of the show back in the first season.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

It would have been fun (and corny as hell, but still fun) if Peter and Sylar had been revealed to be separated-at-birth fraternal twins. Angela's psychic dreams revealed that Baby Gabe was a bad seed and she really did try to kill him. Daddy Dearest realized that Gabe could be an asset someday, perhaps a worthy successor, and hid him with adoptive parents. That would have explained the yin-yang thing they had going.

But I prefer them to be two separate characters, each with their own struggle. If Peter decides to glom Sylar's power in order to know what parts of the timeline to change via time travel (just time travel on its own being a useless power since you're just as likely to mess things up as do anything useful or good), then he should have to deal with the repercussions of that decision and not just have them magically whisked away when the writers get sick of that idea. As for Sylar, they never did decide who he is and what he wants, which precluded any coherent character arc for him. Maybe he was a lost cause from the start and should have been killed but if I were in charge, I'd at least try to solve his problems before taking the easy way out.