Heroes Season 1(#22)---5/14/07-'Landslide'

[el-remmen]

I missed it. Spoiler it for me?

Mr. Claremont. A reference to long-time X-men writer from the 80s.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I think we know how Ando's supposed to die - Isaac's comic shows him lying on the ground, twisted and broken as if by Sylar's TK.

As for Ted not unleashing radioactive hell... I think people are overlooking the simplest explanation.
Ted has no clue what Sylar looks like. He doesn't know Sylar just flipped over the van. As far as he's concerned, he'd just been in a car crash, he's badly hurt, and given his recent behavior might actually be concentrating on not using his powers because he's afraid he'll hurt a lot of random people. Then someone cuts his head open. The end.

Even if Peter told him off-screen what Sylar looks like, and that he can use TK, it's gotta be pretty hard to connect the dots when injured and hanging upside down by your shackles. (Wait... Do those spinning guys have really bushy eyebrows...? Oh my God, they must be...! Aaaah!)

Spot on. Having been in a bad car accident I can safely say that if Sylar had walked up to me right after I doubt I would have been able to put up any kind of fight. That scene was just fine. These guys aren't experienced super heroes.

 

[Fast Learner]

The interesting thing was the statement that the strength power was Nikki's in the first place but she just didn't know how to activate it.

Is that what they actually said? What I remember was "Nikki was the strong one all along," which in that scene doesn't necessarily mean the power at all. It was definitely strength of character that was required in that situation.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Nathan accused of vote tampering would certainly be another kind of bomb going off.

I wondered about that when Candice told Mica to make it a sweeping victory. Nathan goes from several points behind to a sweeping victory - that should raise enough alarms to at least check the veracity of the election returns.

Ted did not start glowing as an automatic response to the wreck, let alone his head being broken open. He started glowing in the past when he was just irritated or stubbed a toe.

I get the feeling Sylar may wipe out - or at least try to - vast portions of New York out of spite, or just because he can. Boom.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Is that what they actually said? What I remember was "Nikki was the strong one all along," which in that scene doesn't necessarily mean the power at all. It was definitely strength of character that was required in that situation.

Yes, but there is still the whole Jessica thing that has not been explained. Because of that statement I suspect that we will see Nikki instead of Jessica kicking some butt to get to Micah next week.

Since there are still alot of questions about Nikki/Jessica that are unanswered, plus the fact that she is an attractive blond, I also think she will be brought back next season.

 

[Tolen Mar]

Did anyone else notice how Sylar dissapeared after telling the FBI agent about 'his duty'?

Has he had invisibility for a while now and I missed it? Or does this mean that Claude has been gone now for a while because Sylar got to him?

I know they didn't show him fade out, but that's what I got from that scene when he said something, and she turned around and he wasn't there.

Further what does that mean for the big showdown if he can go invisible too?

Disclaimer: Of course I could be completely wrong, Claude has had his part and is done now, and Sylar just slipped away into the croud. It just didnt seem that way to me.

 

[DonTadow]

I'm thinking Mr. Nakamura has a similar power; for all we know he kept them in a bubble of slow time so he could teach Hiro what he needed in an afternoon.

I got the idea that the two were not in "real time". Look at the scene, and you notice how the coloration is off from the rest of the show. It feels like they are either in a time bubble or slow time (ala dragonballz). Yeah I was thinking of Goku training Gohan the whole time. during that scenes.

Also, really liked the Candace stuff, the one thing I like about this show is the depth they put into the characters. I really felt bad for candace and can understand why she's so mean. She's probably a very unattractive overweight woman and because of her selfesteem and the way people treat her she takes on that form.

Question? does New York really have such a sophisticated networked voting system. The ones in Detroit are terrible and it takes somewhere near 24 hours or more to tally up all the votes.

 

[DonTadow]

I wondered about that when Candice told Mica to make it a sweeping victory. Nathan goes from several points behind to a sweeping victory - that should raise enough alarms to at least check the veracity of the election returns.

Ted did not start glowing as an automatic response to the wreck, let alone his head being broken open. He started glowing in the past when he was just irritated or stubbed a toe.

I get the feeling Sylar may wipe out - or at least try to - vast portions of New York out of spite, or just because he can. Boom.

No, sylar's not completely crazy, he has a plan. Remember, he has Isaac's dreams and he paints himself as president. He knows how to do it.
step 1: blow up new york
step 2: kill candace and Nathan Patrelli and asume their power
step 3: run for president and win.

 

[mmu1]

Question? does New York really have such a sophisticated networked voting system. The ones in Detroit are terrible and it takes somewhere near 24 hours or more to tally up all the votes.

IIRC the city's making a switch to electronic voting machines - by this fall, the lever-operated ones are going to be illegal - but I don't know what system was chosen. (while they have to go electronic, the touch-screen version is only one of the possible solutions, I think another one that was being looked at was one that used paper ballots and optical scanners)

The last election still used the old ones, though.

 

[Dire Bare]

No, sylar's not completely crazy, he has a plan. Remember, he has Isaac's dreams and he paints himself as president. He knows how to do it.
step 1: blow up new york
step 2: kill candace and Nathan Patrelli and asume their power
step 3: run for president and win.

Sylar IS a complete nutcase . . . but that doesn't make him irrational of course. Sylar is a very frighteningly efficient crazy serial killer with ambitions of mass murder. However, I don't think he has a plan like you outline.

One, he isn't aware of Candace. Two, while he is aware of Nathan, Nathan isn't running for president yet. I really don't think Sylar has a detailed plan to become president. Rather, he trusts in his new precog powers that he WILL become president, and he merely needs to take advantage of the opportunities as they are presented to him.

In the "Dark Future" Nathan himself becomes President as Linderman planned and sets up the registration and oppression of heroes (or metahumans). Sylar himself says that Nathan had turned against metahumans well before being replaced by Sylar. At some point Sylar first gets Candace (probably DL at the same time, maybe Molly), then at that point realizes his path to presidency is to eat and replace Nathan.