Ed_Laprade said:
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is something that totally blew my Suspension of Disbelief. For those of you who keep asking What Would You Do in this situation, I'd be stomping on Sylar's throat two seconds after he went down. And yelling for someone to find a big rock to bash his head in. HOW many people has this guy killed? Yeah, I'd probably get arrested if I didn't bug out, but I'd make damn sure he was dead before I did.
LOL
NO you wouldn't.
Everyone says this, but in that situation, with that kinda supernatural crap going on, you wouldn't know what to do. Now, your d and d character might do something, but real people don't act on initiative order. Reread your statement. This sounds like "what my character would do".
There's one of two mindsets, either
A. you know this guy is dangerous, which means you don't want to get too close because you dont know what to do
B. you don't know what this guy is or can do, and you're trying to be careful considering you already have injured loved ones
Where was that again? If we're going to assume stuff that's not in the show, I'll assume Bennet told him all about Sylar during one of their times togethor. After all, that's how he became aware of Bennet...
He saw Sylar go down, he can be reasonably sure he hit. Perhaps then, he thought Sylar had a vest. SO, by all means, time to shoot him again in the same way. As I said, he retired a failed tactic.
Parkman didn't know about sylars party and we can only assume he still doesn't know the extent. After all, Parkman and HG was not planning on attacking sylar, so why would they be discussing strategy for stopping him. What's more likely. You shoot someone, and they get up.
a. you think, man he must have some type of telekinetic forcefield that has repelled my shots.
b. I missed.
c. I must not have gotten a good shot or he's wearing something
Of course if you watch the show, and go into "what would my character do mode" then yeah you choose a because you know about Sylar and his powers and what he could do. but in the show you choose B or c.
I think that's my fundamental problem with the repetition of the season. The characters never learned/ advanced. They were still as badly organized at the end as they were at the start. There was no plan of attack, there was no coordination, they didn't share information. Bennet and Mohinder at the least should have a good idea of what powers he's got. Parkman's policy of "try the failed tactic again" seemed a bit pointless.
They are not a superteam group. They barely know how to control their powers let alone work out a team plan with them. We know the writers are stupid. We gather that from the five year episode that it takes real time to master powers and to learn how to control them in an environment.
Not true.
Nikki has used her powers in a tactical situation coutless times. Parkman has as well, one example of which is when he was fighting Jessica. Peter has also used his powers in his two previous encounters with Sylar.
You also can't explain away everyone's ineptitude by saying they are all non-combat characters and at the same time say it is reasonable for him to dismiss the one truly experienced combat character in the group to fight Sylar alone. Is that what a non-combat character, as you describe, would do?
Actually Jessica has, not Nicki and Parkman was a beat cop who couldn't even pass the detective exam. We're not talking about the S.W.A.T. team here, we're talking about traffic violations and putting down yellow tape.
