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Post by Lola m on Nov 29, 2006 8:42:36 GMT -5
So. The eclipse definitely wasn't the trigger--Peter could already fly, the Haitian had his mental mojo working, Charlie was remembering stuff, and Eden was employing her powers of persuasion. Hm. And Jessica was already dead but manifesting in Nikki. I have the timing right, don't I? That's what I'm thinking.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Nov 29, 2006 8:43:40 GMT -5
Coda
Brian Davis. He's not Sylar.
Gabe is Sylar!!!! #yikes# So he does steal powers after all. classic supervillian psychosis. I can't believe I didn't see it coming.
Can you make it go away?
You're broken.
So that's how Eden owes him.
Eden's assignment.
Just her name off the list? Think that'll do it?
New life, new identity, new purpose.
He can feel them? Then why couldn't he "feel" Claire?
Hiro's back!!
And it's raining today.
The power is bigger than me.
Pets Hiro.
Finding our way back to being human.
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Post by Lola m on Nov 29, 2006 8:44:42 GMT -5
Bears from Around the World. How sweet! Very sweet! And makes me wonder how long he's been traveling around the world, and for whom. Also, another instance of him doing anything to protect Claire. Having neighborgirl's first assignment to make sure Claire isn't on Prof Suresh's list of special people.
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Post by Lola m on Nov 29, 2006 8:45:59 GMT -5
If he's everything she wants, why does she sleep with the other cop? A question for the ages, that. When we have "everything", why do we want something else? Or maybe when he starts hearing her thoughts, he begins learning just how not "everything" he is to her, and that makes their marriage even more rocky?
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Nov 29, 2006 8:46:30 GMT -5
Wow, this episode was just chock full of information, wasn't it?
Occurred to me after I watche that Sylar was just going after the Heroes that had attracted attention. Jackie had been in the paper for Claire's feat, and Isaac had the comic. Charlie was maybe in the local paper? Maybe.
No Mohinder or Isaac. I guess they can't fit everybody in, and Mohinder's life was probably pretty boring at this point.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Nov 29, 2006 8:49:08 GMT -5
Meanwhile, I did all that research about Greek letters and whatnot... and he named himself after a damn watch? Not fair. #rofl1#
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Nov 29, 2006 8:52:05 GMT -5
He definitely absorbed the telekinetic power. I don't get the whole watchmaker angle either, except that it showed how strongly he resented following in his father's footsteps. I think "mimicked", not "absorbed". And let's not forget the religious overtones of "watchmaker" to begin with. William Paley used the watchmaker as the analogy for a designer of life in "Natural Theology" in 1802. The Argument From Design - if you happened upon a stone while walking, you'd assume it was just a stone - and it might always have been there. No designer needed. But if you happened across a watch, the complexity of the watch would immediately preclude you thinking it "just happened" or had always been there - you'd immediately assume a designer must have made it. I won't go into why this is a bad argument here, 'cause, not the place. However, the "watchmaker" is God. (And the "blind watchmaker" is natural selection - a la Richard Dawkins.) Ooh! Good point.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Nov 29, 2006 8:52:41 GMT -5
Ayup. Plus, maybe our first guess about Sylar being a power-sucker was the right one. Maybe. Okay. I can't take it anymore. The science is abominable. Beyond "suspend your disbelief" into "what, you couldn't afford a SINGLE science consultant?" Mutations do NOT exist primarily to "cause cancer or disease or" did he really say "eliminate a species"? Mutations simply are. They happen, at random, and are the raw material of selection. They either help an organism survive and reproduce in a given environment, or they don't. Or they hinder. They don't exist for any reason, and no geneticist would talk the way Suresh does. Not even a fringe scientist. And they should just stop talking about the "science". Really. Just stop. It's literally gibberish. At least the X-men know where to get fuzzy with the details. Brainshare! Not that that was unexpected.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Nov 29, 2006 8:57:58 GMT -5
His SIL made a point of saying he had great empathy; maybe both abilities are aspects of a powerful empathy - he can get inside others' heads and let them get inside his. But he doesn't control - he understands, and allows himself to be influenced by THEM, rather than forcing them to do things, as our Pusher does. That brings a thought to my brain... Our "pusher" (force your will to bend to mine) Eden is a woman. Our "empath" (react to the understanding of the Other) Peter is a man. Me, I like the role-reversal from the traditional models there. Interesting! When they first introduced Peter, I liked that he was a nurse, because it counters that notion that nursing is a female profession.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Nov 29, 2006 9:02:59 GMT -5
As for who dies, I think it could be DL. If the bullet doesn't get him, maybe Jessica will somehow get him in another way.
I'd lean towards minor character, but then again, Charlie was introduced and killed in like 20 minutes and they didn't make a big deal about it.
Sylar made me think of Voldemort. Voldemort killed (at least some of his victims) to make the Horcruxes. Sylar here is killing (at least some of his victims) to absorb other's powers.
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Post by Rachael on Nov 29, 2006 10:23:13 GMT -5
Ayup. Plus, maybe our first guess about Sylar being a power-sucker was the right one. Maybe. Okay. I can't take it anymore. The science is abominable. Beyond "suspend your disbelief" into "what, you couldn't afford a SINGLE science consultant?" Mutations do NOT exist primarily to "cause cancer or disease or" did he really say "eliminate a species"? Mutations simply are. They happen, at random, and are the raw material of selection. They either help an organism survive and reproduce in a given environment, or they don't. Or they hinder. They don't exist for any reason, and no geneticist would talk the way Suresh does. Not even a fringe scientist. And they should just stop talking about the "science". Really. Just stop. It's literally gibberish. At least the X-men know where to get fuzzy with the details. Brainshare! Not that that was unexpected. Yeah, no.
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Post by Matthew on Nov 29, 2006 10:57:26 GMT -5
Brainshare! Not that that was unexpected. Yeah, no. Heh! Was watching the X-files with Christian the other night, and Scully had just said something that went way beyond "scientifically dubious" and into "a hamster is our science advisor for this show" and Chris remarked how much more he enjoyed the show after he stopped caring about making ANY scientific sense out of what Scully said.
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Post by Rachael on Nov 29, 2006 11:06:07 GMT -5
Yeah, no. Heh! Was watching the X-files with Christian the other night, and Scully had just said something that went way beyond "scientifically dubious" and into "a hamster is our science advisor for this show" and Chris remarked how much more he enjoyed the show after he stopped caring about making ANY scientific sense out of what Scully said. It's harder when they keep presenting the speaker as an "expert". Suresh doesn't seem to even speak the language of biology, much less know any genetics.
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Post by Sara on Nov 29, 2006 11:06:13 GMT -5
Yeah, no. Heh! Was watching the X-files with Christian the other night, and Scully had just said something that went way beyond "scientifically dubious" and into "a hamster is our science advisor for this show" and Chris remarked how much more he enjoyed the show after he stopped caring about making ANY scientific sense out of what Scully said. Which is one of the benefits of being an English major watching a sci fi show—I almost never know when the stuff they're saying is absolute baloney. Proving sometimes ignorance really is bliss.
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Post by Matthew on Nov 29, 2006 11:08:48 GMT -5
Heh! Was watching the X-files with Christian the other night, and Scully had just said something that went way beyond "scientifically dubious" and into "a hamster is our science advisor for this show" and Chris remarked how much more he enjoyed the show after he stopped caring about making ANY scientific sense out of what Scully said. It's harder when they keep presenting the speaker as an "expert". Suresh doesn't seem to even speak the language of biology, much less know any genetics. Oh, believe me, I did my share of wincing and screaming, too.
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