Heroes Season [Volume] 1(#23)---5/21/07-'How to stop an Exploding Man' Season Ending.

[TwistedBishop]

In regards to the "shooting Peter was the best plan" theory, why do people think he would have survived that?

The two previous cases of the regeneration power being halted were a stick and a piece of glass at a certain point in the brain. If you shoot someone in the head, I'm pretty sure the bullet doesn't lodge neatly in a spot to be extracted later. Most likely Peter's brains would have been blown out and he'd never be able to regenerate back to life.

Both characters seemed to understand this, given how seriously they were taking the situation.

 

[Hand of Evil]

In regards to the "shooting Peter was the best plan" theory, why do people think he would have survived that?

I think he thought he would not, he was willing to die to stop from blowing up. The best plan was Peter dead, IF he could not control his power.

 

[Taelorn76]

I think it is a normal human reaction to assume someone is dead when they get run through with a sword, fall unmoving to the ground, and then a friggen nuclear bomb goes off in the air distracting you and everyone for thousands of miles. I know I wouldn't have been bothered to check the body in those few minutes, and despite your claims to the contrary I doubt you would either. It sure seemed like a normal human reaction to just let the body lay where it was until the medical guys came there to do whatever it is they do with corpses.

What bothered me was not that they went and double checked the body or whether some one took an extra shot just to make sure. What bothers me is that no one made mention that his body was missing. They was a decent amount of time between the bomb going off and the paramedics arriving for some one to notice that his body was missing. Thats my point.

 

[DonTadow]

Since everyone is insistent on comparing it to D&D, I will add my own comparison. Sylar escaping felt like railroading of the worst kind to me. The DM didn't want his pet NPC villan to die yet and created the most unlikely of senarios to pull it off.

As I mentioned previously, I would have been much happier if they added the three second cut scene of someone going to check on the body and seeing it has suddenly disappeared.

We're comparing the way you're looking at it is a d and d way and not a realistic way. Sylar has had this power most of the season. He can fake his death somehow. We the viewer have seen him do that but none of the heroes have. In d and d terms we the players know that this guy has... regeneration (figuratively) but none of the pcs does. Even HG doesnot really know of the power. I agree, an additional scene would have been nice but was not needed. I don't mind a cliffhanger at the end of the season.

Even still ,it might not have been sylar whom did it, it might have been someone else, future sylar( possiblity) or even a hero or another team moving it.

 

[Taelorn76]

We actually don't know if someone checked on the body. I'm sure that someone did, they didn't need to rehash this thing. Sylar was dead. Somehow he has a power that can evade that. WE (the omniscient audience know this) but no one else does. Noah could know but with what was going on why was he thinking about that. Sylar was stabbed straight through with a sword. Its a cliffhanger, how did sylar get away....

Peter has faced sylar twice, this time being the actual fight, the last time being an unexpectd confrontation.

That is true someone may have checked on the body but it was not shown. I just remembered that Sylar was able to fake his death to facilitate his escape from Mr Bennett's facility.

 

[Randolpho]

Even still ,it might not have been sylar whom did it, it might have been someone else, future sylar( possiblity) or even a hero or another team moving it.

Gasp! What if Sylar from 5 years in the future beat Peter then turned around and took Hiro's power?

<Bob and George>I hate time travel!</Bob and George>

 

[papastebu]

When Ando entered Isaac's loft, he stumbled over something on the floor. Looking down, he saw a lot of blood with no obvious source.

Later, Hiro entered the same apartment and stumbled over something on the floor. When Hiro looked down, he saw a lot of blood with no obvious source.

We know Isaac was killed in that place, but the blood from that would have been dry a LONG time ago.

Did anyone else notice, in the episode where Sylar attempted Pete's and Mohinder's lives, how he was sort of bubbling into existence, just as Pete turned to face him?
I think that, just as with everybody else's powers he's absorbed/eaten, whatever, that he has a grasp on them immediately that the original owners might never achieve. He sees not only how to make them happen, but myriads of applications, as well. He is all about making things go together that don't otherwise work---he has other people's DNA inside him, and he's still healthy, at least physically, but he was just a different KIND of insane before---and having them function as part of a working whole.
This is the difference between his and Peter's powers, even though the upshot is similar. Peter is all about passion and reaction, while Sylar is all about cold logic and precision.
My point in all this is just this: Sylar uses Zane's power on himself, and waits until the time is right, then reconstitutes himself. The stuff that both Hiro and Ando slipped in wasn't Isaac's blood, but Sylar's melted body. Just an idea.

 

[DonTadow]

Did anyone else notice, in the episode where Sylar attempted Pete's and Mohinder's lives, how he was sort of bubbling into existence, just as Pete turned to face him?
I think that, just as with everybody else's powers he's absorbed/eaten, whatever, that he has a grasp on them immediately that the original owners might never achieve. He sees not only how to make them happen, but myriads of applications, as well. He is all about making things go together that don't otherwise work---he has other people's DNA inside him, and he's still healthy, at least physically, but he was just a different KIND of insane before---and having them function as part of a working whole.
This is the difference between his and Peter's powers, even though the upshot is similar. Peter is all about passion and reaction, while Sylar is all about cold logic and precision.
My point in all this is just this: Sylar uses Zane's power on himself, and waits until the time is right, then reconstitutes himself. The stuff that both Hiro and Ando slipped in wasn't Isaac's blood, but Sylar's melted body. Just an idea.

That's the best conclusion i've heard for sylar escaping and it makes sense. There wouldn't be any blood there after so long a death, not in that form. And it would be like the heroes producers to forshadow how sylar gets away before it happens.

 

[Crothian]

Clear to you. But I would still contend that if you were there, in that situation, and you were one of those people and not yourself with your personal knowledge and experience, you might do exactly what they did.

That's because that is the way it was written. This ending had nothing to do with what was realistic or not. It was only done to serve what the writers wanted to have happen to set up next season. It's a TV show, not real life. None of those characters has free will they do what the script calls for.

 

[Grog]

I think he thought he would not, he was willing to die to stop from blowing up. The best plan was Peter dead, IF he could not control his power.

Actually, the best plan would have been to sedate him, since they knew from previous experience that that would work.