Heroes Season 1(#19)---4/23/07-'.07%'

[Steel_Wind]

The Meaning of Sylar's Painting...

Wild Theory: The problem with Linderman is that he places too much faith in the paintings. They can mislead. Just as Isaac painted an invisible Peter Petrelli - Isaac paints what appears visually to be true. An empty scene that is actually Peter. The painting is true - but appearances can be deceiving...

Linderman sees Nathan as President because that is what the painting shows to the artist who painted it (Isaac, probably). And that is what the artist saw. But the artist has not seen the truth - just what appears to be true.

The real truth of the future is the painting shown to us by Sylar himself. Sylar didn't paint Nathan as a monster president - because Sylar knows the truth:

Sylar painted HIMSELF as President. Sylar is the monster. Sylar is President. The eyebrows and hair are the clues.

In the future, Sylar absorbs Candace's power - and it is Sylar who is President. Using the power of the government to hunt those who might be able to stop him - cherry picking from the captives from time to time - all while appearing to be Nathan.

 

[LightPhoenix]

My "theories", based on the concept of Occam's Razor, are:

1) Linderman is NOT Nathan and Peter's father, but simply a friend and colleage with their father. Also Petrelli Sr also DOES NOT have any powers . . . but does fit into Linderman's plans . . .

Like any theories on this show, I could be way off base. Anything can happen. It's quite possible it will be revealed that Mom and/or Dad Petrelli do have powers. But let's not try to overly complicate things with zany theories!

Since I know some people don't read the online comic, my reply is in spoilers.

Spoiler

Linderman and Pa Patrelli were war buddies in Vietnam. Patrelli apparently learned about powers there, due to Linderman healing him, and a little girl who could apparently make plants grow. He does not exhibit any powers.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Isaac's death scene...man, I thought that was powerful. He's the guy who's lost everything, but he was still able to accept his death since he knew that he'd given the other heroes what they'd need to defeat Sylar and stop the bomb. At the very end, his curse became his blessing. I like that they're not afraid to kill people in this show, but when they do it it's always very poignant and meaningful. Also, Sylar's rendition of Isaac's painting was very twisted, excellently portraying his warped view of the world. Loved it!

I look forward to the day Candice gets her ass kicked. EVIL woman!

I completely agree with both points.

Isaac's death was by far the best part of the episode. Also the one part I was truly surprised by, since I thought for sure Sylar's "this is usually when people scream" from every trailer would be from the Sylar/Peter fight, which was cool but way too short. I suppose that will be in the finale.

 

[drothgery]

All that said, Mohinder should have capped him in the head when he had the chance.

He should have shot him, cut off the head, burned the body, and scattered the ashes. And he should have done it the first time he had the opportunity. He knew how much of a psycho Sylar was, and how hard he was to kill.

 

[Phoenix8008]

The Meaning of Sylar's Painting...

Wild Theory: The problem with Linderman is that he places too much faith in the paintings. They can mislead. Just as Isaac painted an invisible Peter Petrelli - Isaac paints what appears visually to be true. An empty scene that is actually Peter. The painting is true - but appearances can be deceiving...

Linderman sees Nathan as President because that is what the painting shows to the artist who painted it (Isaac, probably). And that is what the artist saw. But the artist has not seen the truth - just what appears to be true.

The real truth of the future is the painting shown to us by Sylar himself. Sylar didn't paint Nathan as a monster president - because Sylar knows the truth:

Sylar painted HIMSELF as President. Sylar is the monster. Sylar is President. The eyebrows and hair are the clues.

In the future, Sylar absorbs Candace's power - and it is Sylar who is President. Using the power of the government to hunt those who might be able to stop him - cherry picking from the captives from time to time - all while appearing to be Nathan.

That is just about the scariest possibly true theory I have heard yet! Wow, that would really be nasty, especially with how it looked like he was flirting with Claire in the future.

 

[Taelorn76]

The Meaning of Sylar's Painting...

Wild Theory: The problem with Linderman is that he places too much faith in the paintings. They can mislead. Just as Isaac painted an invisible Peter Petrelli - Isaac paints what appears visually to be true. An empty scene that is actually Peter. The painting is true - but appearances can be deceiving...

Linderman sees Nathan as President because that is what the painting shows to the artist who painted it (Isaac, probably). And that is what the artist saw. But the artist has not seen the truth - just what appears to be true.

The real truth of the future is the painting shown to us by Sylar himself. Sylar didn't paint Nathan as a monster president - because Sylar knows the truth:

Sylar painted HIMSELF as President. Sylar is the monster. Sylar is President. The eyebrows and hair are the clues.

In the future, Sylar absorbs Candace's power - and it is Sylar who is President. Using the power of the government to hunt those who might be able to stop him - cherry picking from the captives from time to time - all while appearing to be Nathan.

That is truely disturbing, yet delightfully good, that would be a really good twist.

 

[Dire Bare]

Oh good lord. Only on a D&D message board would we fault Mohinder for not taking out Sylar!

Is Mohinder's apartment a 10' x 10' room by any chance?

• There's a good chance Mrs Bennett and Claire's brother are gone. I am curious to see if we'll discover their fates!
• I'm not so sure Sylar has Eden's voice. Or if he does, he has a weaker version of it for some reason. When he talks all funny, he's not always issuing commands and people don't simply obey him, although they are usually (rightfully) terrified of him!
• Yeah, Sylar's bizarro painting was very creepy
• LightPhoenix gave good reasons why Mohinder would grab Peter and run. I'll add one. Mohinder is a nice guy, a hero (not a Hero), who felt it more important to worry about Peter than picking up the bookcase and checking in on scary Sylar.
• Peter got the dreams from Simone's father! That's right! I'd totally forgotten that!
• Parkman DID "hear" his buddy cop thinking about what a loser Parkman was and that he didn't even know that he'd slept with her. And I don't think they knew about the baby until way after that incident, but I suppose it could be the other cops kid maybe.
• Why would Sylar just seeing Mohinder's list give him Parkman's powers Papastebu? Or am I misuderstanding you?

 

[Victim]

I'm not so sure Sylar has Eden's voice. Or if he does, he has a weaker version of it for some reason. When he talks all funny, he's not always issuing commands and people don't simply obey him, although they are usually (rightfully) terrified of him!

It's like he copied the weird sound effect of Eden's voice without getting the mind control part (because that area of her brain was trashed?).

 

[Dire Bare]

He should have shot him, cut off the head, burned the body, and scattered the ashes. And he should have done it the first time he had the opportunity. He knew how much of a psycho Sylar was, and how hard he was to kill.

While he knew Sylar was a psycho serial killer who could absorb powers, he didn't necessarily have time to double check the list for missing/dead heros and figure out WHO Sylar killed. Not that the list gives you the powers anyways, just the names of the potential heroes.

Mohinder knew Sylar was dangerous, but had no freaking clue HOW dangerous! He wanted Sylar stopped, he wanted revenge for the death of his father, and he wanted Sylar's DNA for his research. He was a bit emotional.

Yes, the smart thing to do would have been to take out Sylar as soon as he figured things out, but how often in real life do we do the "smart thing"? And often, it's only the "smart thing" with 20/20 hindsight.

I'll bet Mohinder is thinking along similar lines to us . . . I bet he's thinking, "STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! I should have shot him the second I realized who he was! I'll never forgive myself! Arrrgghhhhhh!"

 

[Dire Bare]

It's like he copied the weird sound effect of Eden's voice without getting the mind control part (because that area of her brain was trashed?).

Yeah, and didn't he use his wierd voice BEFORE Eden was killed? Or was that just in Peter's dream vision of Sylar in the cell with him?

Hmmmmm . . .