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It’s that bi-annual tradition of looking through the top twenty search results that lead people here, noticing that they’re all wildly misleading, and in the spirit of giving people what they want, or at least what other people once wanted, trying to address those curiosities. In descending order of wantedness! “That wonderful ability – the power of persuasion – and all this time you were the girl next-door.”
There is no preceding “ah”, but you are spelling Sylar right so I’ll let you off. The line precedes an extraordinary moment in that episode, but… this is going to be another Can I Just Say? Can I just say that Sylar already has the power of persuasion: he was about to make an FBI agent shoot herself in the head in his first proper scene, until he was himself shot. It’s not inconceivable that someone with mind-control could still admire the functionally very similar ability of vocal persuasion, but his lust for it in that scene is hard to understand. Ditto for his obsession with obtaining Claire’s power, when he’s already demonstrated many times that he’s impervious to physical harm just like her.
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Thomas Lawrence: "Can I just say that Sylar already has the power of persuasion: he was about to make an FBI agent shoot herself in the head in his first proper scene, until he was himself shot."
What we saw was that Sylar forced the FBI lady to put the gun to her head. How he did that - whether by simple telkenetic forcing of the gun to her head, much as one might grab someones arm to push something they were holding somewhere, or by mind control, is up for grabs. However, the implication from his interaction with Eden is that he merely telekinetically pressed the gun against her head, and he lacks any mind control ability. "...his lust for it in that scene is hard to understand. Ditto for his obsession with obtaining Claire’s power, when he’s already demonstrated many times that he’s impervious to physical harm just like her." He's demonstrated he's impervious to bullets, or at least only temporarily stalled by them. He's also demonstrated that a fall off a roof does injure him somewhat - he was limping when Eden and the Haitian first brought him in after his tussle (and fall off the roof) with Peter. Hence, he clearly isn't utterly impervious to harm. My bet is he mostly just uses telekinesis to deflect harm from him, although he isn't so finessed at it that bullets miss him completely, or that a large fall won't involve some degree of pain. It's also possible his resitance to harm is the result of some other power entirely which he has, in which case his interest in Claire is to extend, supplement or improve that. Another possibility is it's just one of those writer errors/continuity inconsistencies/canonicity problems which inevitably plague any endeavour of this variety which goes on for any length of time. I get the feeling that episodes are not written very far in advance of their air dates, so stuff like ths may be prone to changes and rethinks mid-season. An unfortunate artefact of the way television is produced in America. I remain hopeful that all continuity issues regarding Sylar's powers will somehow be resolved, though, perhaps in the manner I outline above. I'm pretty damn certain he's no powers of mind control whatever, though, and that we've never been led to draw that inference.
Thomas Lawrence: Stone-skin would work, sure. Whatever it is, it's clearly not perfect (cf. the limping) and thus he still has something to gain from gaining Claire's power. Maybe the process he uses to attain new powers requires surgery (cf. anatomy books in his apartment, brain removal) that's painful to undergo/requires a long healing time? I've further been assuming that the need to "save the cheerleader" is to prevent Sylar getting her power, so it must be of some critical use to him.
I do love how he uses the telekinesis, and in general the way in which he wanders around as if quite unconcerned about what anyone (save HRG and the Haitian, it seems) might do to him. The way he put up a scarily convincing pretense of being a paper factory worker, but dropped it just as fast once he grew bored of it, totally screamed "I'm a mad serial killer". It was great. His only other truly confirmed power, as I see it, is freezing people (cryokinesis, I guess), which we saw done to the corpse of one of the people at the scene where Matt "Psychic Cop" Parkman was introduced and found that girl Molly. Graham: Telekinesis was what I thought it was too, by the way. I just want you to know that I'm really smart, and had that all figured out before reading the comments.
However, Eden shot herself to stop Sylar from getting her power. He didn't use any control over her to turn the gun towards her. As for the bullets, I was kind of working under the assumption that Sylar could pass through things, at least in some limited capacity. We've seem him disappear from places almost in an instant, with no apparent exit, and the houses that Psychic Cop visited all had people fused into the walls, if I recall. The problem is, it doesn't explain why he didn't just walk out of his holding cell at first, before they started drugging him. Which means that my idea is totally meritless and stupid. Good times. Graham: None of my HTML tags worked. That's just mean.
Rob: I was under the impression that he could fly, after that chase with FBI Girl From Carnivale, until he fell off the roof with Peter.
More interestingly.. I'm convinced that Mr. Bennet (I loved that "Why do you guys always call him Mr. Bennet?" line in the last episode) has powers of his own. At first I thought it was X-ray vision, with the way he fiddles with his glasses. But then he would have dealt with Claire a lot easier. Now I'm more sure he can clone himself or appear in more than one place, since he was clearly locked in a sealed room and then miraculously arrived in time to save the day. So why didn't Sylar steal his power. He has the ability to see how people work internally, so he would know about it. Which must mean that Bennet doesn't have a power, or the writers are a little confused on the issue.. Thomas Lawrence: I think the Haitian just let him out of the sealed room, personally.
I'm pretty sure Mr. Bennett is sans superpower. Dramatic licence has him turning up on time, nothing more. Amirul B Ruslan: Just out of pure wonderment, though, where is this search site?
Who is John Galt?: Really Slyer should not be able to catch bullets.... it's not a problem with his telekinesis power, it is his reaction time.
Unless he has an unknown power that lets him slow down time or lets him move at a high rate of speeds like the flash. Then he should not be able to stop bullets or anything traveling faster than thae speed of sound. That always makes me wonder when he caght Dr.Sureshes bullet in one episode. maby he created a sheild with his telekinesis. A high rate of speed would explain his dissapearing ability. he moves fatser than the eye can follow. fat tony: THis web site is shit and this is all bull shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jazmeister: "[...]I remain hopeful that all continuity issues regarding Sylar's powers will somehow be resolved[...]"
This is a great idea for a post. One of my search strings is "Mouth Shitting". I want to play TF2. Why the hell don't I then? Right, bye then. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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