Sylar's gone wonky

[evilgrins]

Comments

[laurelindorinan]

I believe he says that all he needs is some DNA, not to actually touch the person, which is why he requested the evidence from his mother's murder (after he snuggled her bloody sweater he started shifting into her) and broke into Nathan's office and thumbed the travel toothbrush.

[kragar00]

I thought this as well, with his finding Nathan's travel toothbrush... And he said he switches DNA and it's scrambling him up....

That said, I'm confused by his ability to change his clothing when he shapeshifts.... I wouldn't think the power gave him that ability (and I think it was just in this last episode that it started happening -he was still dressed like Mrs. Bennet after he resumed his normal form, following the Noah mind job)....

I must have missed him getting the evidence from his mother's murder... I wasn't sure how he was copying her... I just assumed that having half of her chromosomes naturally was enough for him to mimic her (and probably his father too)... but this makes more sense...

[the_hyde_inside]

I thought it was revealed this season that both the watchmaker and the snowglobe collector weren't his biological parents.

[kragar00]

You are completely correct... That point slipped my tiny, little -- Oooh! Look! Easter candy...

[coendou]

My thought was that shapeshifting is controlled by a different part of the brain than the regenerative ability - so now if the regeneration spot gets hit, the shapeshifting spot can move things around to fix it, and vice versa. So now you'd have to get him in both spots at once to kill him.

[kragar00]

I'm wondering if he's grown a second sweet spot, since he's grown a new tooth... You may have to take out 2 or more spots simultaneously...

Or maybe Danko just missed...

[evilgrins]

Danko being the ruthless killer he is...seems unlikely he'd miss. Probabl;y been thinking of planting something there since he and Sylar started conspiring together.

[evilgrins]

Not so much. All their powers are localized in one section of the brain, doesn't matter which power it is.

[mr_rbbr_spatula]

On the first note-- the answer is 'lazy writers'. I don't think that's a sin Bryan Fuller would commit. It's a mistake made by a writer who perhaps doesn't invest enough thought into sci-fi plots and doesn't breathe in the same skin as his characters.

[iidrum]

Sylar said the sweet spot in his head was 'microscopic.' It think it'd be pretty easy to miss something like that with a knife (as opposed to, say, a shotgun).