Heroes Season 1(#9)---11/20/06-'Homecoming'

[Felon]

Whereas you can not determine sylar's motives from teh show you can certainly rule some things out, such as the peter/nathan/sylar thing. There's too much evidence to back up that this is just some wild speculation. There's not a shred of evidene that backs it up other than the wierd notion that if someone has the same hair color they must be the same person.

Well, actually, I don't think their hair color is all that similar....

If Sylar doesn't have a secret identity, if at the start of next week's episodes they show that he's the same guy in the image I posted, I'll be a little disappinted that they jerked the viewers around with carefully-screened shots revealing a single eye, but I'll get over it. If it turns out one of the wild theories is right, I'll be ecstatic. Small loss wagered against a big reward, that's the way I see it.

However, several more elaborate reasons for the speculation has been cited than hair color. You're just incorrect on that count.

I just think the director wanted to hide sylar until this and the next episode.

Glad to see you've developed your own theory, although I have to say it doesn't make much sense as to why someone would go slapping a dorky baseball cap onto their menacing killer villain just to string the viewer along and reveal that Sylar is actually...an ordinary-looking nobody.

If your argument is that if they havn't said otherwise then its a valid speculation then we can make wild assumptions as to the city that blew up is hollywood and not newyork, nickie is clair and big bird will show up with the power to manifest snuffleupagis.

Hey, go nuts. It's perfectly harmless.

 

[Felon]

Considering it's a principle plot point that Claire has been thinking she's a freak, their conversation makes perfect sense.

I see this thread is chock-full of diehard contrarians.

You can have awful dialogue in a conversation that "makes sense" (whatever that means). In the old days, we would have said that "the only thing you'll regret is denying who you really are" was like a line out of a cheesy after-school special. But I guess they don't have after-school specials on TV anymore.

 

[Felon]

I think Sylar is the guy who introduces himself as Sylar in the preveiws for the next episode. He is NOT Peter, and he is NOT Nathan, nor any other character.

Missed the previews, so I"ll look forward to seeing how that plays out.

 

[DonTadow]

Glad to see you've developed your own theory, although I have to say it doesn't make much sense as to why someone would go slapping a dorky baseball cap onto their menacing killer villain just to string the viewer along and reveal that Sylar is actually...an ordinary-looking nobody.



Hey, go nuts. It's perfectly harmless.

Technically my theory is correct. The director obviously wanted to wait to reveal him in this and next episode because... well he revealed him in this and next episode

Theory wise i think it was what someone else mentioned, i bet he's in some scenes as background and we would have noticed.

 

[Taelorn76]

If Sylar doesn't have a secret identity, if at the start of next week's episodes they show that he's the same guy in the image I posted, I'll be a little disappinted that they jerked the viewers around with carefully-screened shots revealing a single eye, but I'll get over it. If it turns out one of the wild theories is right, I'll be ecstatic. Small loss wagered against a big reward, that's the way I see it.

The writers and director are treating this series like a comic book. And to me that scene of Sylar's eye was straight out of a comic.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Glad to see you've developed your own theory, although I have to say it doesn't make much sense as to why someone would go slapping a dorky baseball cap onto their menacing killer villain just to string the viewer along and reveal that Sylar is actually...an ordinary-looking nobody.

It might be just to keep us off-balance and inject some horror/suspense into the story. We have no idea what Sylar can and can't do, how he looks like, what motives he has and so on.
That makes him pretty creepy.
We might see more into him than he actually is, and that might have been the point of the author. In the end, he might just be an ordinary guy with the telekinesis superpower with an unusual appetite.

 

[Dracomeander]

Glad to see you've developed your own theory, although I have to say it doesn't make much sense as to why someone would go slapping a dorky baseball cap onto their menacing killer villain just to string the viewer along and reveal that Sylar is actually...an ordinary-looking nobody. .

The writers and director are treating this series like a comic book. And to me that scene of Sylar's eye was straight out of a comic.

Actually, they are treating it more as what it would be like if comic book superpowers started showing up in real life.

In real life, some of the most terrifying serial killers were dorky-looking ordinary nobodies.

 

[WayneLigon]

I see this thread is chock-full of diehard contrarians.

You can have awful dialogue in a conversation that "makes sense" (whatever that means). In the old days, we would have said that "the only thing you'll regret is denying who you really are" was like a line out of a cheesy after-school special. But I guess they don't have after-school specials on TV anymore.

No, I just don't see the dialogue as awful or stilted or anything else. I thought it was rather good. Since I've heard kids that age talk like that, I find it perfectly natural and beleivable.

 

[Felon]

No, I just don't see the dialogue as awful or stilted or anything else.

OK, we get it; you feel the urge to contradict what I said and you've done that. You can now run along and find somebody else to bother, thanks. :/

 

[Felon]

Actually, they are treating it more as what it would be like if comic book superpowers started showing up in real life.

In real life, some of the most terrifying serial killers were dorky-looking ordinary nobodies.

Well, let's examine your thinking. Did they pick ordinary-looking schlubs to play the male leads, or did they cast really handsome men? With the exception of Hiro (the Screech of this group), wouldn't you say they went way more towards the hunk route? And would you call Nikki "ordinary-looking"?

Technically my theory is correct. The director obviously wanted to wait to reveal him in this and next episode because... well he revealed him in this and next episode

Theory wise i think it was what someone else mentioned, i bet he's in some scenes as background and we would have noticed.

We shall see. Like I said, I didn't catch the preview, but I gotta wonder if they're gonna a throw us a curve ball after concealing his face for so long, and then just having someone step forward and say "yep, Sylar, that's me, nice to meet ya".