Just a subtle observation here, I think Peter both slowed time AND TK’ed the taser darts. When the scene panned back, you could clearly still see the vortex trail on the taser darts, implying a matrix-like slowing of time. Then he stopped them with TK (I assume that’s how he did it, and it wasn’t some Neo “tapping into the matrix” thing he was doing).
Anyhow, I thought it was way cool.
A lot of people are also forgetting that the Hatian also appears to have free will. He could simply not be blocking stuff sometimes, in service of “the greater good” like allowing Peter and Claude to get away.
As for why throwing Claude off the roof? Paybacks are a bitch. I’m sure Claude had to be thinking “Holy shit I hope he remembers how to fly, or we’re screwed!”
It occurs to me Peter may not have TK’d the darts. He might have been using Hiro’s time-stop power. But anyway, my point still stands. Haitian wasn’t power dampening.
DigitalC just mentioned it again, Haitian apprehended Eden and every time AED has said “your powers won’t work here (at the paper company)” Haitian has been standing nearby. I think Haitian can block powers, but maybe he has to be close enough and maybe he needs a moment or two to prepare himself to do it.
On that point, did you notice that they actually hit Sylar with some sort of projectile or force emerging from those guns, and Sylar was hurled across the Bennet kitchen with such force that he put a deep dent in the refrigerator when he hit it.
Those can’t be ordinary guns.
And speaking of the Haitian, has it been addressed in these threads that everyone who sees him seems to know he’s Haitian, when to all appearances he’s a nondescript black guy?
Well, clearly the first thing he does is implant that thought into their minds so no one confuses him as some other nationality. He must have gotten fed up when all through his life he was called African-American and had to correct them.
I don’t think that was a vortex-like matrixy special effect; I think that was the wires. They were taser darts. When they fell to the ground, the wires were clearly visible.
Okay, I see now that I misunderstood your previous post. I thought you were saying that the opposite was true.
I suppose carterba’s recollection of Peter briefly meeting Eden at Mohinder’s fathers’ apartment leaves some room for doubt. But personally, I don’t think the show’s writers/director would have included the scene of Eden blowing her brains out if they wanted us to think that Sylar was able to gain any powers from her.
During one episode (don’t remember which), Eden is trying to reason with Bennet (possibly about killing Sylar) and says something along the lines of, “you know I’m right, and if he could talk, that Haitian would tell you so, too.”
Yeah, Eden, Radioactive Dude and Telepa-Matt and I assume Claire all know he’s Haitian. I don’t think anyone else in the show has called him that, have they?
When Sylar came to murder the lady mechanic, she said, “It’s strange I didn’t hear your footsteps.” He replies, “That’s because there were no footsteps.” So what power did he acquire that explains that? Is there a Captain Tippytoes missing the top of his head?
I think Matt referred to him as a Haitian as well when he was interviewing Ted. But then I think he also called the Haitian a “student,” so, huh?
Perhaps he levitated himself using teh TK. Which doesn’t explain why she didn’t hear his heartbeat given the big damn deal she made out of it earlier in the ep.
She was listening to her iPod, which she said earlier “cancels” her power (actually she said “I hate rap music, but it’s the only thing that cancels…” and then didn’t finish the sentence, but I inferred she meant it cancels her super-hearing).
So that explains why she didn’t hear Sylar’s heartbeat, but begs the question of why she’d ask about his footsteps when she should have known her iPod would mask them from her.
My guess is that her hearing is still good enough with the rap music going that she could hear something as “loud” as footsteps, but not as soft as a heartbeat. And I also assumed he just levitated himself with his TK.
But she did hear his heartbeat, didn’t she? That was why she came out from under the car and took the earbuds out–because she’d heard another heartbeat without footsteps, which struck her as odd. That’s how I’d read the scene, at any rate. She definitely knows someone is there before she sees him and seems confused by it.
They were pretty cagey about her power. She seemed to hear him approach with the iPod blasting anyway, but playing it while using a welder earlier was sufficient coverage.
Sylar is starting to confuse me - why bother cruising around gathering super-hearing and metal melting? Oh sure they would both have their advantages, but hasn’t he already found someone who is indestructible? Wouldn’t that be his main focus right now? I don’t see him being all that worried about Bennett and Haitian getting in his way, being all mad-with-power.
Are you joking. It’s the perfect plan. He can hear them coming from forty miles away, and melt their toasters before they arrive. When they get there Bennett’d be all like “Oh no dude. He melted the toaster” and the haitian would be all like " " because he wouldn’t wanna talk. Then they’d run.
Or maybe Sylars deaf parents were killed by toast and Sylar doesn’t want to go down like that.
Did anyone else while watching Sylar struggle with his super hearing (way to think that through schmuck :smack: ) think of the Simpsons episode where Barney has all the ears on his chest from the medical testing.
Mohinder: Are those ears!?
Sylar (covering his ear covered chest): Not so loud!!
Another thing about Sylar. They pumped him full of all sorts of other stuff as well and putting a plug into his brain. They never bothered to put some of that blood radio isotope tracking whateveritwas into him?
That’s exactly how I saw it as well. Sylar’s heartbeat can be heard on the soundtrack and Ms. Mechanic notices it, without hearing the accompanying footsteps.
Because she was wearing her iPod, she could only hear his heartbeat when he got close.
If Hatian dude could block powers (even if he could only block powers he knew existed), what was the point of using heat-vision goggles to see the invisible folk?