Knightfall
World of Kulan DM
I admit that I've liked this season so far. I think the direction that their taking Sylar is needed. He can't just be an unredeemable monster.
The best bad guys are the ones that have a past and something they care about. Otherwise they are just mindless killing machines.
Take the Terminator. In the first movie it was a heartless killing machine designed to inspire fear in the protagonists and the audience. But in the second movie, with some reprograming, the Terminator becomes an antihero.
Sylar needs to go through something similar but more profound. He needs to have an epiphany. He needs to learn that he won't survive if he makes enemies of everyone.
Perhaps he helps save the world in order to save himself. And perhaps it gives him purpose. Maybe his "addiction" becomes his personal torture as he tries to resist the temptation by isolating himself. He goes through intense withdrawl pains, or something.
He needs some humanizing or we'll all end up hating him for being a stereotypically evil bad guy. If he's going to remain unredeemably evil then he needs to die. Perhaps he encounters someone who he can't kill (i.e. skin can't be pierced) and becomes obsessed with defeating them, which leads to his destruction by his own hand.
just my thoughts.
KF72
The best bad guys are the ones that have a past and something they care about. Otherwise they are just mindless killing machines.
Take the Terminator. In the first movie it was a heartless killing machine designed to inspire fear in the protagonists and the audience. But in the second movie, with some reprograming, the Terminator becomes an antihero.
Sylar needs to go through something similar but more profound. He needs to have an epiphany. He needs to learn that he won't survive if he makes enemies of everyone.
Perhaps he helps save the world in order to save himself. And perhaps it gives him purpose. Maybe his "addiction" becomes his personal torture as he tries to resist the temptation by isolating himself. He goes through intense withdrawl pains, or something.
He needs some humanizing or we'll all end up hating him for being a stereotypically evil bad guy. If he's going to remain unredeemably evil then he needs to die. Perhaps he encounters someone who he can't kill (i.e. skin can't be pierced) and becomes obsessed with defeating them, which leads to his destruction by his own hand.
just my thoughts.
KF72