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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 3549176" data-attributes="member: 2477">Why do you keep bringing up the "tactics" strawman? I'm not talking great forethought, I'm saying "it's Sylar, freeze time!" or maybe "It's Sylar, turn invisible!", heck maybe "It's Sylar, read his mind!"Basically, I wanted immediate action that made sense. Instead, people stared while others acted.First off, it's bad form to explain to someone what they are thinking, especially when you are wrong.Secondly, Peter's training was worthless.Thirdly, I didn't say training, certainly not Montage level training.The people have been through a lot in a short time period. Peter has seen people die, Bennet just shot a very old friend moments before, and Eve's lose should have mattered some little bit. Nikki's husband just murdered a guy, she knocked out Candace, and her alterego has murdered many. In that time, they have not advanced at all, Peter is still the same guy he was (with more powers), and Nikki still needs convincing every 3 minutes that she's strong.You can't judge how someone will act, true. That doesn't mean everyone does nothing. That means it's unpredictable. The scene took probably 10 minutes, with long stretchs of posturing and threatening. When they DO decide to act, they don't follow though, but instead hit once and move back.You are inserting scene's, things that are not shown on the show, and calling your scene's logical extensions of what was shown. Then you decide that my inserted scene's are illogical. This is where opinion comes in.We don't know that he doesn't know about Sylar's powers. We don't know that he does. It is perfectly logical to me that he would raise the subject of Sylar at some point, especially given his reaction when he learns Sylar is there. He is not Scully. He's not a disbeliever. He can read minds and knows powers exist. If we're assuming that Parkman didn't know, it is easier to just assume he is dumb, and things a gun solves everything.Or, the easier way, his attack was a simple plot device to demonstrate Sylar's power and remove him from the action. It also leaves his presence in season 2 in doubt. There doesn't need to be a reason in world for his actions, it probably just served some purpose to the writers job being easier. I think that diminishes the overall story of the show, though in the Parkman case not a whole lot.You can assume whatever you want, we can't assume anything.I don't remember any blood. It's not shown if Parkman's bullets were on scene. You can decide if Parkman was stupid at the initial scene, or at the followup, whichever makes you happy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Ah, so now you're assuming she wasn't heading to a hospital?Do you think she was going to dump him in a sewer?The simple fact is, she WAS moving him. She WAS going somewhere with him. She let him rest on a shoulder rather than carry him.</blockquote>

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