Heroes 4x18, I Think?
I actually forgot what time it was on (well, more like I forgot the screwy TV time zone I live in), so I missed the first half. I didn't really want to make this post, because I'm just going to rant, so... everyone please feel free to skip this. Argh. One more episode. One more.
Okay, so, confession, I liked Sylar briefly in Volume Three. Granted, I think that was mostly just a product of how screwy all the characterization got in that volume, and, well, apparently I will love anyone from that particular bloodline, particularly if they are being 'shippy with someone else from that bloodline. ANYway, I did not love the retconning of his past with Elle and Noah or whatever, but... yeah, okay, I liked Future!Gabriel, and I liked the uneasy alliance between him and Peter at Pinehearst and with Angela.
And yes, I can see that they were trying to recapture that idea here.
But... no. Just, no. If there was any chance for Sylar to be redeemed, ever--and I'm not saying there was--that chance vanished when he killed Elle.
Also, I really might be the biggest Nathan fan in the world, or I at least rate in maybe the top ten, but I am sick of how the show keeps referencing the fact that Sylar killed Nathan, as if Nathan was the only person he ever killed, or at least, the only important person he ever killed. No, show. No. He's killed, by his own admission, hundreds of people. That seems like a bit of a high estimate, but by my count, he's killed at least dozens. Elle, Isaac, Ted, Charlie, Molly's parents, tried to kill Molly (a child), etc, etc. Lots and lots and lots of people. So making it seem like the only obstacle to his redemption is this one person? That's bullshit.
And, my god, I have never been so offended by something a damn fictional character has said as I was by Sylar trying to apologize to Peter for killing Nathan. No, Sylar. No, show. You don't apologize for that. You don't have that right when what you did was deliberate and completely your conscious choice.
And you know... none of this would bother me if it was intentionally meant to be awful and ridiculous. But the fact is, it's not. The meta feel of the show is that it's backing Sylar up a hundred percent here, and that's just screwed up.
As is the fact that they've apparently decided to gloss over Peter's grief by making years pass for him in a single episode, but that's a whole 'nother issue.
And damn it, has there ever been a really satisfying emotional payoff on this show since season one? Any at all? By which I mean one that wasn't ruined literally seconds later.
Okay, so, confession, I liked Sylar briefly in Volume Three. Granted, I think that was mostly just a product of how screwy all the characterization got in that volume, and, well, apparently I will love anyone from that particular bloodline, particularly if they are being 'shippy with someone else from that bloodline. ANYway, I did not love the retconning of his past with Elle and Noah or whatever, but... yeah, okay, I liked Future!Gabriel, and I liked the uneasy alliance between him and Peter at Pinehearst and with Angela.
And yes, I can see that they were trying to recapture that idea here.
But... no. Just, no. If there was any chance for Sylar to be redeemed, ever--and I'm not saying there was--that chance vanished when he killed Elle.
Also, I really might be the biggest Nathan fan in the world, or I at least rate in maybe the top ten, but I am sick of how the show keeps referencing the fact that Sylar killed Nathan, as if Nathan was the only person he ever killed, or at least, the only important person he ever killed. No, show. No. He's killed, by his own admission, hundreds of people. That seems like a bit of a high estimate, but by my count, he's killed at least dozens. Elle, Isaac, Ted, Charlie, Molly's parents, tried to kill Molly (a child), etc, etc. Lots and lots and lots of people. So making it seem like the only obstacle to his redemption is this one person? That's bullshit.
And, my god, I have never been so offended by something a damn fictional character has said as I was by Sylar trying to apologize to Peter for killing Nathan. No, Sylar. No, show. You don't apologize for that. You don't have that right when what you did was deliberate and completely your conscious choice.
And you know... none of this would bother me if it was intentionally meant to be awful and ridiculous. But the fact is, it's not. The meta feel of the show is that it's backing Sylar up a hundred percent here, and that's just screwed up.
As is the fact that they've apparently decided to gloss over Peter's grief by making years pass for him in a single episode, but that's a whole 'nother issue.
And damn it, has there ever been a really satisfying emotional payoff on this show since season one? Any at all? By which I mean one that wasn't ruined literally seconds later.