Arnwyn said:
My (current) theory is that Sylar is the supervillain and has all 9 (I think it's 9) of the powers that each individual character has - and all 9 main characters have to gang up on him to defeat him at the show's climax.
My theory is something like that. I think that Syler is, perhaps like Peter, a power mimic. He was the first person Dr Saresh tracked down and apparently 'activated'. Syler can activate power in other people, just be getting near them perhaps, or he can sense the power or power potential. Notice how his own Big Board had many, many more locations. Perhaps there is something in that, that does connect all these people - the lines on the Big Board might be 'The Connection' or maybe it's the order in which they were activated - older activations of course understand their powers better, and have stronger powers.
It might be that Syler can accelerate or enhance powers, too. If that is Syler in the bar, Matt's in his presence when all of a sudden his powers started ramping up. Or it could be that alcohol just looses those mental inhibitions as well.
Syler has, I think, one other power: he can permanently adopt other people's powers by eating their brains.
My theory on the climax is that they'll need to all be within Peter's mimic radius, to loan him enough power to defeat Syler. Hopefully.
And things are coming together. Right now, we have Hiro coming to Las Vegas and on to NYC. Niki is probably going to Vegas. Peter and Isaac already have a connection through Isaac's girlfriend. Mohinder knows about Syler and has alerted the cops about him, which means Matt and the FBI woman probably will be speaking to Mohinder very soon. It's all gelling
