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

[hafrogman]

Here's my question. . .

Everyone seems to be working on the assumption that they can change Isaac's *kaboom* picture and not nuke New York, but have we ever actually seen one of his pictures be wrong?

Cheerleader in a pool of blood? Check. (just not Claire)
Claire running into the amphitheatre? Check.
Peter in a pool of blood? Check.

Heck, in this week's graphic novel they even show how the act of painting the picture caused the event in question.

The only one I can think of is the panel showing Hiro and Ando on a rooftop, but that one could still come to pass.

 

[Taelorn76]

The cops that arrested him said something like " He looks like that guy the New York Senator described. "

Maybe it's just me but I thought the officer said that he looked like the guy in a trench coat that the janitor described.

I disn't hear anything about a trench coat, but it could have been Janitor

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Where's Hiro when you really need him? He's needed to tell Dad that locking Syler up is a Bad Idea (tm)! He'll just escape and eat more brains. Preferably those of the secondary characters who captured him so they can't do it again. (That's the way these things always work, as comics savvy Hiro knows.)

Syler is NOT Peter. He is NOT Nathan. Live with it.

How come it took Syler so long to cut open the Bad Cheerleader's skull? (Assuming he actually did and killed her.) It only took him a few seconds to deal with Charlie.

On a different note, next week's TV Guide tells us that George Takei will be in the season cliffhanger (Jan. 29)... playing Hiro's dad! Yay!

 

[JEL]

Here's my question. . .

Everyone seems to be working on the assumption that they can change Isaac's *kaboom* picture and not nuke New York, but have we ever actually seen one of his pictures be wrong?

Cheerleader in a pool of blood? Check. (just not Claire)
Claire running into the amphitheatre? Check.
Peter in a pool of blood? Check.

Heck, in this week's graphic novel they even show how the act of painting the picture caused the event in question.

The only one I can think of is the panel showing Hiro and Ando on a rooftop, but that one could still come to pass.

The picture of Claire running up the ampitheatre shows her alone. Peter was with her when it happened, so obviously he was able to change the outcome to some extent.

 

[hafrogman]

The picture of Claire running up the ampitheatre shows her alone. Peter was with her when it happened, so obviously he was able to change the outcome to some extent.

She tripped and fell, as in the picture. Then a second later Peter was there to help her, heck he could have been the shadowy figure shown in the painting. I'd have to check back on the timing . . .

 

[JEL]

Perhaps they're still using the comic book as a guide...? Though that only makes sense if the comic is vague and leaves out many important things, like Charlie getting killed.

The comic ended with them heading to Las Vegas. They've been playing it by ear since then.

 

[dravot]

How come it took Syler so long to cut open the Bad Cheerleader's skull? (Assuming he actually did and killed her.) It only took him a few seconds to deal with Charlie.

Dramatic effect.

 

[Pseudonym]

How come it took Syler so long to cut open the Bad Cheerleader's skull? (Assuming he actually did and killed her.) It only took him a few seconds to deal with Charlie.

I think that Sylar had some idea of the cheerleader's power of healing, so he did it slowly to see if she would heal herself. He did seem to be taking a rather analytical approach to things before it became clear he had the wrong one.

 

[dravot]

The cops that arrested him said something like " He looks like that guy the New York Senator described. "

Maybe it's just me but I thought the officer said that he looked like the guy in a trench coat that the janitor described.

I just watched that part, the cop says "That's the guy. The one in the overcoat that the janitor saw."

 

[Felon]

In the opening "last week on Heroes" this week there's a shockingly clear look at Sylar's face, much clearer than they actually showed in the episode last week. I can't do a screen capture or anything, but though it's shadowed, the features are very clear, to where you can see he's unshaven, just what his nose, mouth, and eyes look like, etc. He is most definitely not being played by the actors who play Peter or Nathan or anyone else on the show.

So what?

It's pretty dumb to think that they'd actually have the actor come in and play the parts of a character whose face isn't intended to be seen, especially if you understand how often body doubles are used in any given scene. It's much more common than most folks notice.

Heck, if you can catch Dawson's Creek in syndication, tune in some time. I used to have a morbid fascination with watching that show because almost every scene followed a formula that revolved totally around the use of stand-ins. You'd get one scene with the characters together, and then the entirety of the rest of the scene would be shot from over one of their shoulders, and you'd never see more than one face at a time.

But at any rate, I've never heard of a whodunnit where the director actually has the actor portrarying the mystery killer come in and play the part in all the scenes that take place before they're revealed. That shot we get of Sylar's eye might be the actual actor's face, since it's an intentional glimpse, but that's about it.

That's on top of the fact that there's no plot reason whatsoever to believe Sylar is any of them. Pure speculation with no story hints to back it up.

OK, I alread addressed this remark, so I'll just ask you: what "plot reason" have we been provided for Sylar at all?

I think everybody who has a theory has pretty freely admitted that it's speculative, and they've pointed out what they see as "story hints".