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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 3506721" data-attributes="member: 8461">Sylar's ice powers have been hinted at for a long time now. When we first saw the Walker family slaughtered in one of the first few episodes, the father was frozen. We also see him use the ice powers on his way to kill Zane Taylor (the guy with the melting power).This episode showed quite a bit about Sylar. With a mother like that, who desperately NEEDED him to be special, it's easy to see why he went off the deep end like that. And then, with her losing it and rejecting him before she's accidentally killed...that'd drive even a sane person off the deep end.That said, a lot of how they characterized Sylar in this episode felt...off. The part about him being worried about killing the people of New York felt hard to swallow (the justification for him feeling that way is there, but it's thin), especially after seeing the Evil President Sylar plotting genocide in last episode's alternate future. More than that though, seeing him begging his mother to tell him that he doesn't have to be special...it just feels too late. This is the sort of crisis he should have been having after he killed the first time, not after leaving potentially dozens of dead bodies in his wake without a backwards glance.In short, the entire thing with his mother felt like a reason for why he'd then go insane and become a villain...only he's already done that.I didn't quite get the part where he faced Hiro. Telling Hiro to kill him, and then calling him a coward when he couldn't makes sense...except that Sylar was holding the sword, and then froze it in half. This episode was a good one, but it felt like it was good in spite of itself.  :\</blockquote>

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