# Heroes 5/14/07 - "Landslide" (Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091 "2007-05-14T20:37:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/101 "2007-05-21T12:29:25Z")
[QUOTE=OBJECTION!!] I, too, don’t get why Sylar was so happy to get Ted’s power when he seemed genuinely freaked out about himself exploding earlier. As was mentioned earlier, he believed he saw himself as the explosion, not Ted, so he couldn’t’ve reasoned killing Ted would prevent the bomb. [/QUOTE] Sylar, already pretty well broken, completely snapped after he killed his mother. Whatever reservations he may have had about killing all those people pretty much went away. He’s also I think decided that if what’s going to make him “special” is killing three million people he’s OK with that. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Encyclopedia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e79b87/32.png) [@Mr\_Encyclopedia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Encyclopedia)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/102 "2007-05-21T13:03:45Z")
I assumed the reason for Sylar deciding to blow up was he somehow equated his blowing up to his being the president in the future, though how exactly he could come to that conclusion isn’t forthcoming now that I think about it. Isaac’s power could have easily lent him to that conclusion, though. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/103 "2007-05-21T13:09:58Z")
Folks, Sylar painted a future picture _out of his dead mother’s blood_. He’s pretty much gone completely ‘round the bend and come back to have another go. The one, brief, moment of conscience and sanity that he had has down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile. Trying to make sense of his motivations is an excercise in futility. He’s nutso. [QUOTE=OBJECTION!!] Despite Sylar cutting it off when he fought Peter at Mohinder’s place so long ago, Peter’s Emo Bang still seems to be intact (when his hair isn’t all slicked back like it is on Badass Future Improbably-Scarred Peter). [/QUOTE] It regenerated. He has Claire’s power, now. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/104 "2007-05-21T16:28:58Z")
Great, that lock should be down to his testicles by now. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/105 "2007-05-21T17:42:01Z")
[QUOTE=Annie] Great, that lock should be down to his testicles by now. [/QUOTE] I’d like to examine that hypothesis… Actually, the whole regenerating hair thing (whether they intended for Peter’s hair to have regenerated or not, as opposed to having just grown out since it has been about a month in-show since it was cut) is annoying anyway, since hair is dead. It shouldn’t regenerate past the follicles, and if it does, it’s never satisfactorily explained how the hair “knows” to grow back to the length it was before, or how, if the person-who-heals wants to change their 'do, how they accomplish getting a regular haircut. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/106 "2007-05-21T18:09:40Z")
[QUOTE=OBJECTION!!] I liked Candice better when she was evil for the hell of it. The heavily hinted at backstory of discriminating due to her true appearance isn’t doing it for me. [/QUOTE] Yah. I was like, "Oh, bitter fat chick. How original. :rolleyes: " It was like in the movie version of _The Grinch_, where they gave him some childhood-trauma backstory that just made me want to vomit. Just let Candice be a bitch because she’s just not a nice person. Sometimes it’s better that way. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/107 "2007-05-21T20:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I’d like to examine that hypothesis… [/QUOTE] In so doing, don’t forget that this is how we’ve seen Claire’s power work, already. When she was charred down to almost visible bone showing through by Radioactive Ted, her hairdo came back, intact. … and damn me for forgetting to catch that on the Sci-Fi rerun marathon, to see how well her clothes survived that. I know that her clothes always end up damaged while her injuries heal, but was she starkers after walking out of the burning Bennet home? ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/108 "2007-05-21T22:47:05Z")
[QUOTE=Geobabe] Yah. I was like, "Oh, bitter fat chick. How original. :rolleyes: " It was like in the movie version of _The Grinch_, where they gave him some childhood-trauma backstory that just made me want to vomit. Just let Candice be a bitch because she’s just not a nice person. Sometimes it’s better that way. [/QUOTE] It would be pretty genius if it turned out she was lying about that. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/109 "2007-05-21T23:26:13Z")
When Sylar went to him mom all angsty-like and wondering why he would kill all those people, I kept thinking about that X-Files episode with Peter Boyle. “Son, you’re a homicidal maniac. That’s why!” ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/110 "2007-05-21T23:31:26Z")
[QUOTE=Lightray] In so doing, don’t forget that this is how we’ve seen Claire’s power work, already. When she was charred down to almost visible bone showing through by Radioactive Ted, her hairdo came back, intact. … and damn me for forgetting to catch that on the Sci-Fi rerun marathon, to see how well her clothes survived that. I know that her clothes always end up damaged while her injuries heal, but was she starkers after walking out of the burning Bennet home? [/QUOTE] [Looks like she regenerated her tanktop and her hair](http://www.randomtuesday.com/pictures/heroes/117/zombie_claire.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/111 "2007-05-21T23:42:22Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] It would be pretty genius if it turned out she was lying about that. [/QUOTE] Heyyyyy…yeah, that would be cool if she was just yanking everybody’s chain with the sob story. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/112 "2007-05-22T00:20:02Z")
Hrm. If Claire can regenerate her clothing, too, I wonder if Mr. Linderman could’ve healed somebody’s clothes… “No, no my dear. That outfit is just too last season.” _heal_ “There. Much better.” Maybe it’s just me, but he seemed like that type of guy. Also, I think we’re to have inferred that Candice was healed by Mr. Linderman in some way, hence her telling Micah that “Mr. Linderman is going to heal the whole world.” She’s not necessarily fat (although her chowing down on junk food might be another hint), but might’ve been disfigured in some other way that she’s using her powers to compensate for. The heroes have a strong tendency to get powers in line with their personality (e.g., Peter’s empathy, Sylar’s see-how-it-ticks, Micah’s technopathy, etc. – and Candice’s illusions) ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/113 "2007-05-22T00:51:46Z")
[QUOTE=Lightray] In so doing, don’t forget that this is how we’ve seen Claire’s power work, already. When she was charred down to almost visible bone showing through by Radioactive Ted, her hairdo came back, intact. [/quote] Um, yeah, it wasn’t really the _hair_ part of the “hair meets testicles” equation i was interested in solving… As far as the tank top goes, it doesn’t appear that she “regenerated” it. The clip shows no change in the appearance or condition of the top. I think the creators were going for “charred to the point of being burned into her skin.” We’ve also seen her in damaged clothing a number of times in the series (her cheerleader uniform was burned and torn in the pilot, for example). So I’m going with no, she doesn’t regenerate clothes. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/114 "2007-05-22T00:54:35Z")
Just confirmiing the not-naked. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091/115 "2007-05-22T01:01:34Z")
Bah. Killjoys. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-5-14-07-landslide-spoilers/404091.md?page=5)