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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 3523434" data-attributes="member: 18182">Point 1: Ted didn't mean to blow up the van to escape the feds, he lost control of his powers.  He learns to control them AFTER he escapes the feds.Point 2: Ted IS disoriented!  Dude, after a car crash like that, Ted is lucky (or rather, unlucky) to still be conscious.Point 3: Ted is seriously hurt, scared and then Sylar starts cutting into him . . . but there is a part of Ted that just wants to die to atone for the people he's killed (especially his wife) and the people he might kill if he explodes like Peter told him he might.Point 4: You try rationally thinking, "Hey, that guy's taking my head off (and it REALLY hurts), I should shoot him with my radioactive power without exploding and endangering New York!" . . . even if you haven't just been in an incredibly nasty car wreck.Point 5: Sylar is awful quick with his head laser.  He's had lots of practice and he's learned the hard way he has to make it good and quick so his victim DOESN'T use their powers against him . . . like Peter did!Final Point: Ted had to die to move the plot forward.  We all knew it was going to happen.Having said all that, I too was sad to see Ted go (I liked the character) and had hoped he'd go down kicking rather than just screaming.  Oh well, to see how efficiently and coldly Sylar pulled that all off was kinda cool in its own right.</blockquote>