gmonkey42

I'm not going to attempt to tackle the 400+ comments on

gqmf_heroes tonight - more than 200 of which were posted before the episode aired on the west coast :(

I just have to say: Nathan's slo-mo fall? Narm. I LOL'd. And then Sylar just gets up and walks away? That was dumb. Epic fail, Peter. I know they can't show it on TV but I really wanted him to look up and flip Peter the bird as he looked up but he just waved. How come Nathan had to dramatically fall off a building and wreck someone's car when all he had to do was give up and let Sylar take over? It's not like Sylar's body getting hurt could affect the fake Nathan personality. Whatever. Adrian Pasdar is awesome but I'm glad they killed Nathan (also a reason to avoid the

gqmf_heroes thread), it had to be done.

So Peter can turn the power-blocking ability on and off? Can Rene do that too? I guess he can; Sylar can use people's own abilities better than they can but Peter certainly can't. I had assumed it couldn't be turned off and I thought that might be a cool way for the writers to handle the Sylar-is-way-too-powerful corner they've painted themselves into: Sylar could steal Rene's ability only to discover he can't turn it off and it knocks out all his other abilities. And eventually he figures out how to turn it off or get rid of it but it would level the playing field for a few episodes. Anyway. On a similar note, I'm glad to see Sylar's doing better without his abilities now, he held his own against Peter for a while. Before, it's seemed like he relied on his telekinesis way too much and was pretty helpless without it. Then again, although he got a few good punches in, getting beaten up by Peter is still pretty shameful. Come on, Sylar, take a karate class or something!

Did anyone else see a parallel between what Peter did to Sylar and what Sylar did to Isaac? Oh, right, I forgot, torturing and attempting to murder someone - knowing that it's possible you'll gain nothing from it except experiencing revenge - doesn't count if you're one of the good guys. I realize this is Heroes we're talking about and it would be a mistake to take any aspect of it seriously but we see this narrative over and over: the bad guy does something and it proves how evil and inhuman he is, then the good guy does exactly the same thing and it proves how brave he is, to be willing to cross that line for the sake of his good cause. Peter's ends don't justify his means any more than Sylar's do!

In conclusion, evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.