Well sure, I suppose that’s possible, but I think it’s a stretch to say some other random stranger just happened to give a waitress in Texas a Japanese phraseboook. I think the writers intended to make that connection from the beginning.
But that’s the problem with time travel - it’s really, really hard to maintain consistency, and often the more details you add the harder it gets to have coherent rules. You can invent parallel worlds and timelines and all kinds of other gimmicks that result in one giant Deux ex Machina.
Other than the really, really strong PK he (assumedly) got from the 1st guy he killed what exactly are Sylar’s powers? Other than some of his victims (IIRC) being frozen it’s all PKish stuff.
Nathan: Flight
Peter: Can absorb others’ powers, extremely empathic, can possibly dream walk or astral-plane
Claire: Self-regeneration, pain resistance
Isaac: Can see into the future and recreate his visions
Niki: Super strength with a Jekyll/Hyde side effect
Hiro: Teleportation, time manipulation
Matt: Mind reading
DL: Invisibility / intagibility
Micah: Technopath
The Haitian: Mind manipulator, can wipe memories, can block mind affecting powers
Eden: Jedi mind trick
Scott: Self-immolation/combustion, radioactivity
Sylar: Power vampirism, telekensis, super memory (from Charlie), and probably much more
I’ve been watching Gargoyles on DVD recently and thought that time travel in Heroes could be similar… where a person who travels back cannot change the past, but actually becomes part of creating the timeline that has already (or will) occured. So Hiro traveling back to attempt to save Charlie’s life results in her receiving the Japanese book the first time the show portrays Hiro meeting Charlie (labeled “Present Day”)
Well, that’s one power you really don’t want Syler to have…
The circumstances under which Claire came to be orphaned are suspicious in the extreme. Bennett and his wife had been unable to conceive and wanted a child badly. He went to talk to Claire’s parents about their powers, and they ended up dead. What an amazing coincidence. :rolleyes:
I am perfectly willing to believe that Bennett may be a ruthless, powermongering killer, rather than Charles Xavier.
Isn’t Sylar already pretty indestructible? I mean, unless he was wearing a BP Vest when he broke into that FBI Hospital thingy (after TeleCop found the little girl), he should have been toast. He took a full clip of bullets from the cop’s gun, and then got up and ran away. That’s not something you do even if you’re wearing a vest…getting shot still takes the wind out of you, especially if you’re hit that many times.
Or are we going to argue that he telekinetically slowed all those bullets mere microseconds before impact, and he was recoiling from t he small bruises they left on his body?
Conversely, he was one of many people who was investigating the strange mutations, found out about Claire’s parents, but was too late to save them from <spooky music> some evil force </spooky music> but WAS able to save their daughter. He then adopted her to protect her.
