Is there any way that this DOESN’T kill the, “Pete is Sylar” theory?
I just finished watching episode 2, and Prof. S mentions that he found a recording of his father talking with Sylar. His father believed that Sylar was “patient zero.” That means Sylar discovered his powers first, even before Hiro, and it might even mean that Sylar’s discovery of his own powers somehow lead to the others discovering their own abilities.
Considering that Pete is in the dark about his abilities along with us at the very beginning of the show, when Sylar’s powers are obviously well in bloom (in ep. 3 the FBI broad mentions that he’s killed in half a dozen states already), I don’t think there is anyway Pete can be Sylar and it make sense given how the story’s been laid out so far.
Oh, also, when time first froze on the subway car, I figured it either had to be Hiro, Sylar, or a new character. Seems a tad late in the season to be intro’ing someone with a power that strong, so I scratched that one off the list. And while Sylar was a possibility, I thought Hiro was the higher one just cause he’s done the most with time so far. I didn’t understand why the freeze wasn’t instantaneous like the previous times, and the blue coloring, however. But now that I know it’s caused by a future Hiro with stronger abilities and a bad-ass katana, it makes sense now.
Ninja edit: Serp raises a difficult point. I’m interested to see what they do with the time problems in the next episode. Until they fail, I’m willing to give the writers the benefit of the doubt, largely because despite that the writing has had a few issues for me, out and out laziness hasn’t been one of them.
If I were penning the script, I’d probably do something like: large jumps through time can’t be done often because the space/time cont. wasn’t designed to be pierced so often in such a fashion (the bigger the jump, the more pressure applied to the cont.) and/or it could put a huge strain on Hiro’s mind. At this point Hiro is just too broken, and is really only limited by his naieve personality and lack of English, which doesn’t seem to be a big problem for Mirai no Hiro. It’s the Superman connundrum. How the hell do you hurt a guy with such a broken weakness? There are ways around that.
We’ll see what they come up with.
–Alexander
