I don't get the whole "Peter needs Sylar's power" ummmm.. Peter's power is to absorb powers from anyone, anytime, even when he doesn't know it. So doesn't that mean his power is already "better" than Sylar's?
Sylar's power is to understand the inner workings of anything he encounters, but it also comes with "the hunger" (their words, not mine) to take what he just learned the inner workings of.
Okay. I will grant you this: Peter is carrying the Idiot Ball for most of the episode.
However, he does at least have the excuse of spending most of the episode in a very confusing alternate future after watching himself die, learning that his niece is a stone-cold sadist who wants him dead and that the one friend he has left is his arch-enemy/long-lost brother. Given the sheer ammount of shock he went through in such a short ammount of time, I'm willing to cut the guy a little slack for not using Hiro's power. Which - you might recall - requires quite a bit of time, focus and concentration to use properly... and doesn't work around The Haitian (who was around him for most of the episode) anyway.
Mohinderance, however, has violated pretty much every rule of common sense along with the scientific method by creating a formula that does the exact opposite of what he's trying to accomplish in one afternoon (despite having been spending four months working with a virus that does what he's trying to accomplish naturally), injecting it into himself in order to test it and not thinking for a moment that - you know - injecting yourself with an untested serum taken from a woman whose power is poisoning people in seconds might be a bad idea...
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Date: 2008-10-07 05:45 am (UTC)Peter's power is to absorb powers from anyone, anytime, even when he doesn't know it. So doesn't that mean his power is already "better" than Sylar's?
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Date: 2008-10-07 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-07 05:06 pm (UTC)...which means Stan Lee and Ditko's estate should be joining Cronenberg in their lawsuit against Tim Kring.
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Date: 2008-10-08 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-07 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-08 12:53 am (UTC)Okay. I will grant you this: Peter is carrying the Idiot Ball for most of the episode.
However, he does at least have the excuse of spending most of the episode in a very confusing alternate future after watching himself die, learning that his niece is a stone-cold sadist who wants him dead and that the one friend he has left is his arch-enemy/long-lost brother. Given the sheer ammount of shock he went through in such a short ammount of time, I'm willing to cut the guy a little slack for not using Hiro's power. Which - you might recall - requires quite a bit of time, focus and concentration to use properly... and doesn't work around The Haitian (who was around him for most of the episode) anyway.
Mohinderance, however, has violated pretty much every rule of common sense along with the scientific method by creating a formula that does the exact opposite of what he's trying to accomplish in one afternoon (despite having been spending four months working with a virus that does what he's trying to accomplish naturally), injecting it into himself in order to test it and not thinking for a moment that - you know - injecting yourself with an untested serum taken from a woman whose power is poisoning people in seconds might be a bad idea...