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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Oct 7, 2008 16:28:57 GMT -5
Technically Peter already had Sylar's power, and has since the first season when they fought at Claire's school—what he learned from Sylar was how to access it. That still doesn't mean learning to use Sylar's ability was what future!Peter wanted present!Peter to do, although if he did I gotta also figure that either future!Peter didn't realize the "must examine brains" psychosis was an intrinsic part of Sylar's gift or, being Peter, naively thought he'd be able to overcome that compulsion fairly easily. Peter clearly thought Sylar was just a nutjob who liked taking brains out and poking about in them...so he thought the danger was minimal or tolerable...oopsie. I gotta say, I'm intrigued with the way they're trying to rehabilitate Sylar. I did, briefly, feel I understood why Peter needs Sylar's ability - I thought it was so that he could figure out how the past leads to the future he's seen, how the "parts" work together, and so he could see which one or ones are the best to try and change for the greater good. That does make sense...
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Post by artemis on Oct 7, 2008 16:49:54 GMT -5
Technically Peter already had Sylar's power, and has since the first season when they fought at Claire's school—what he learned from Sylar was how to access it. well, that was part of what confused me so much. peter was already able to throw people against walls and do other things that i had thought were because of absorbing sylar's powers in S1. so how come all of a sudden he goes back there and seemingly acquires it for the first time (by which i mean, that's what the show seemed to be indicating to me) and all of a sudden feels a desperate need to kill people? huh? i still don't get what the show was trying to get at here.
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Post by artemis on Oct 7, 2008 16:52:44 GMT -5
Triplets: Tracy, Nikki, and Barbara. No Jessica? you're right! tracy's storyline so disinterests me that i had forgotten that the show hadn't mentioned jessica. i'd thought jessica was nikki's twin, but maybe i'm misremembering and she was actually "just" nikki's sibling?
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Post by artemis on Oct 7, 2008 17:00:09 GMT -5
I did, briefly, feel I understood why Peter needs Sylar's ability - I thought it was so that he could figure out how the past leads to the future he's seen, how the "parts" work together, and so he could see which one or ones are the best to try and change for the greater good. but hadn't peter already absorbed sylar's ability? it seems to me like maybe (and i'm not sure about this) they were saying that peter somehow hadn't unlocked the ability to see the patterns. but i've never really gotten a strong sense that sylar actually does see the patterns; it seemed like it was his watchfixing father who was the one that was good at it, and that it frustrated sylar that he wasn't able to see patterns as clearly as his father had. but, as i've said, this episode really confused me, and it's also made me feel less certain of the previous episodes' stories that i'd thought i had a grasp on, so it's possible i'm totally wrong about everything. ;D
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Oct 7, 2008 17:09:50 GMT -5
Triplets: Tracy, Nikki, and Barbara. No Jessica? you're right! tracy's storyline so disinterests me that i had forgotten that the show hadn't mentioned jessica. i'd thought jessica was nikki's twin, but maybe i'm misremembering and she was actually "just" nikki's sibling? Well, I'm not entirely sure, but now I'm thinking maybe Jessica was Nikki's dad's BioDaughter and Nikki was adopted. But maybe Jessica is going the way of Hiro's sister.
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Post by artemis on Oct 13, 2008 19:45:13 GMT -5
Well, I'm not entirely sure, but now I'm thinking maybe Jessica was Nikki's dad's BioDaughter and Nikki was adopted. But maybe Jessica is going the way of Hiro's sister. i was curious, and just looked it up on heroeswiki. according to that, nikki was jessica's older sister; it says that nikki was born in 1974 and jessica was born in 1976. it says the info on jessica's birth is from her gravestone, but i'm not sure whether they got nikki's birth year from a specific episode. so, if they are correct, nikki and jessica weren't twins after all. it would be interesting if jessica was adopted, though, wouldn't it? i still wonder what happened to hiro's sister!
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