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catalyst2 ([personal profile] catalyst2) wrote2007-10-26 07:49 pm
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Did I miss something?

I was completely confused by something in this week's episode of Heroes.


How did Sylar get from the middle of a rainforest covered isolated island at the end of S2e03 Kindred to collapsed in the middle of a dry dusty road in Mexico at the start of S2e04 The Kindness of Strangers? Did I miss something or do we just not know yet?

[identity profile] sanguinepen.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
The girl who was with Sylar in the rain forest was Candice. It was all an illusion. He was actually in Mexico being looked after by some unnamed person. He killed Candice, tried to take her power - couldn't and escaped.

[identity profile] catalyst2.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
But wasn't Candice already dead before he escaped so the illlusion should have disappeared then?

[identity profile] sanguinepen.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You watched it a lot more carefully then I did then. I think I was just basking in the Sylar glow.

[identity profile] catalyst2.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
You like those dangerous but fairly gorgeous guys don't you! :-)

[identity profile] sanguinepen.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I started writing fanfic for him this past week. He's with Eden stalking the Bennets through Disneyland. [livejournal.com profile] thewatchmaker

Trust me, it does worry a person to enjoy writing fic for serial killers so much.

[identity profile] catalyst2.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The two instalments there sound good - it gets his "voice" well.

[identity profile] sanguinepen.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks sweetie :).

[identity profile] quarterturn.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
We don't know yet. I was wondering the same thing myself, although I tend to let large gaps like that go when Zach Quinto is on my screen looking delicious in a tank top. :D

[identity profile] catalyst2.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Strange how so many people were distracted by exactly the same thing! ;-)

I did wonder if he took Candice's power and, rather than use it, he could only continue it. When he passed out, he lost comtrol of the image. Perhaps he was in Mexico all along, just a few kilometres from the road where he was found?

[identity profile] electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't get the sudden Sylar love I've been seeing lately. I've always thought he was icky. Qunito's serial killer portrayal is very disturbing enough to completely repel me, which is a credit to the actor.

[identity profile] catalyst2.livejournal.com 2007-10-27 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
I tend to agree with you there - while Dexter has a great deal of charm and tries very hard to understand what it is to be human, Sylar seems to positively revel in the killing. There seems to me to be nothing redeeming about him. I can't comment on his physical attractiveness really - the straight male thing makes that a bit hard for me - but I can't see many of those things that people seem to see as attractive (like, say, Dean Winchester's grin) in Sylar either.

Also agree with the actor's skills - Sylar would have to be one of the creepier serial killers I have seen in a long time.

[identity profile] electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com 2007-10-27 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
I agree. Sylar has just always looked skeevy to me.

Hey, you've referred to the Winchester brothers (and Captain Jack Harkness too I think) as hot. Don't give me that hetero male nonsense! ;)

[identity profile] catalyst2.livejournal.com 2007-10-27 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Just occasionally, I think I can see the attractiveness in very attractive males - Baltar, Helo and Lee Adama spring to mind - but most of the time I just don't see anything. I guess it's not something I automatically look for but, once prompted, can see it.

That's my defence, any way, and I'm sticking to it! ;-)

[identity profile] electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com 2007-10-27 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Ok, if that's the story you're sticking to. :P