Look at it this way - The Nathan template that Matt overlaid on Sylar was not equipped with instant healing. So when he was shot in the chest, Nathan/Sylar thought he was dead. This hit the reset button on Sylar, and wiped his (Nathan’s) memories[sup][/sup]. So out of the ground came a blank slate Sylar still imprinted with a Nathan template, but no[sup][/sup] Nathan memories. So at the beginning of the episode, we had an amnesic, basically descent Sylar with the common sense of a three week old cantaloupe and Mommy issues. At the end of the episode (thanks to the Rastafarian brain hacker in the hall of mirrors), Sylar had his (Sylar’s) memories and Nathan’s personality.
Meanwhile, the real Sylar template is running around in Matt’s head, and tempting him to join The Dark Side, and then rule the galaxy as father and son! Or rather as Evil Matt and his imaginary friend.
I wonder if Maury had an imaginary friend, too.
Well, almost no memories - he vaguely remembers his (Nathan’s) name and that he (Nathan) was a pilot once.
I have no clue why, but if Sylar were really Sylar again, then I don’t think he’d waste any time bumping off Winston, and it’d be feeding time at the carnival.
With the Nathan template still in place, then Samuel would need an old lady to tell Sylar “Mommy wants you to kill the nice man.”
There are some things even the most devoted poor fan should not be asked to do - contemplating Sylar having sex is sadly, beyond my limits. In all fairness, I asked the question of my brain but it sort of rebelled in sheer horror and went EEEEEEEW!! at me.
BTW - anyone else thinking that Noah and Healerboy are in jail right about now?
I mean - I strongly suspect the dead parents don’t much look like victims of carbon monoxide poisonong even if Noah and the kid did some really thorough cleanup. Plus, Healerboy is 17. The parents have been dead long enough to stink up the place. At 17, he would have been at home with them - or have some explanation for his whereabouts (friend, Scouts, camping, selling his body on a street corner in Atlanta, whatever). Why is he just now coming home and discovering his newfound orphanhood? Any county cop worth his salt is going to think that story smells worse than ex-parents, and by the way, son, who’s this Yankee hanging around you?
I was thinking exactly this, and was waiting for Noah to say something like “Remember, you were at fat camp” and then we’d see them steal away into the night after the cops left…
Watching on Hulu - Peter’s odd laughing after waking up from being healed. I mean, that’s some really strange and bad acting. I had to watch it a couple of times to figure out what the hell was going on with him.
It seems like the really smart option would just be to teleport the healer over the Hiro and then bring him back. That would’ve taken all of 0 seconds.
Too risky, he could have refused to do it, been completely nutso, whatever. And there is also the possibility that Peter, based on his current *raison d’etre * of saving lives, just wanted the ability. He was the one who went to Noah to see if he had any healers in the database. Actually, kinda smart. Also going to be hard to explain how all the gunshot victims, car crash squish victims etc managed to get better in the ambulance
Are we going to get Charlie back as a character? Seems like they’re heading toward Hiro bringing her to healer-Peter so that he can do two brain tumors for the price of one. Then Hiro’s better, he has a very smart Texan girlfriend, and he can maybe find out what the Sullivan Bros. crew are up to. The Carnival has to eventually turn out to be working toward something that threatens the safety of the world.
I sure hope not, seeing as a big part of Charlie’s story is that you can’t save everyone. Which was reinforced with Hiro’s dad’s death and the guy jumping off the building (who he could save in the present but not in the past).
Plus, she’s starring in Glee now. (Which has a better chance of being picked up than Heroes).
I agree with you that I’m sure that’s how the show sees it but to my mind, Hiro *did *save the chap who jumped off the building in the past. Admittedly the extremely recent past but he had originally jumped in Hiro’s present. Hiro eventually rewrites the ultra recent past so that he talks him down from the ledge instead.
Also, if I were Hiro, I’d really be hoping that Peter has the sense to practice using that healing/killing ability on, I dunno, the plants in the hospital garden first until he’s really sure how the settings work.
So…who has a lamer power? Emma with her power of synesthesia, or Lydia, who can be drawn on? I think I have to go with Lydia - give someone a sharpie, and they can draw on any of us.
Or, why are you harshing JUST on Peter? I have yet to see anyone making anything that could be defended as an intelligent decision (most recently Hiro popping off to save Charlie - when he could have waited a little while for Peter to fix him, then popped back in time. When you can time travel, a few hours is nothing. Argh!).
I thought that every time Hiro tried to save the guy, the fellow found another opportunity to Xerox his butt and get fired, and therefore jumped. Or did I miss that after x-bazillion tries he finally succeeded? I don’t recall seeing that, just seeing an exhausted Hiro coming back downstairs covered in toner.
Also - refresh my memory - at one point, Hiro had lost all his powers, then Ando zapped him, and he got back his ability to freeze time but not teleport, right? (that was at Baby Matt’s house).
When did he get the time-travel / teleporation power back?
What I mean is that in the initial version of the show’s “now”, the fellow does jump off the roof. So when Hiro saves him, by definition it is done in the past. As you say, he has several goes that are shown to have failed in the present. Eventually, Hiro returns to the same very recent point in the past and successfully talks him down instead of performing copier sabotage or what have you. But it’s still the past - the original timeline had the guy jumping to his death. Actually, I think Hiro never returns to the original “now” afterwards and is just living in that ultra recent past forever.
Or not. Time travel makes my head hurt, much as I love it to bits.
ETA: I think it is implied that all of the inconsistencies in Hiro’s powers working or not this season are just down to his illness. Or maybe he needs to get that samurai sword back again - worked in S1
