Dude, it’s got commercials like every 20 seconds! How in the hell can you enjoy something that gets interrupted as much as that show?

I got an idea, plug your 360 into your router and get the free months gold membership and go frag some asses in Gears of War or Call of Duty 2!

Now that’s entertainment!

heroes is numero uno in the cross household.  we will cry when the season ends next week.

this comment on top of mine says something about a 360… you don’t have a 360, do you??

Don’t forget that George Takei was playing with swords way back when as Hikaru Sulu… I’ve also read that this is a skill that he actually has - sword fighting - rather than “just good enough to look good” which seems to be so popular.

Just like there are actors and actresses (is saying “actresses” still PC?) who can play the piano very well, or who know martial arts of one variety or another.

My question is “why doesn’t Peter absorb all of the abilities that Sylar now has?” Because there are still a few powers that Peter has that Sylar doesn’t - invisibility, healing, flight…

I LURVED that comeback between BotB and HRG:

(BotB has just snuck up behind Matt, put a gun to his head and says “What am I thinking now?”

HRG, who has just snuck up behind him: “Your very last thought.” BANG!)

Swoon

We never miss an episode.

Yes indeedy I got a 360! Just recently discovered XBOX Live, want to talk about some fun!

Sorry guys, I can’t watch network TV; no matter what’s on! Guess I am spoiled to all the commercial less HD channels these days!

Discovery HD Theater #1 in our homestead!

heroes is numero uno in the cross household.  we will cry when the season ends next week.

Don’t be too sad, jo-jo.

After all, there’s still “Heroes; Origins” during
the hiatus to give us our fix!

My question is “why doesn’t Peter absorb all of the abilities that Sylar now has?” Because there are still a few powers that Peter has that Sylar doesn’t - invisibility, healing, flight…

Drum, in the present, I don’t believe Sylar has flight. (He hasn’t killed Nathan, yet.)

But, a similar question from me;
When battling Sylar, why doesn’t Peter absorb Sylar’s ability to do telekenetic neurosurgery, and remove Sylar’s juicy bits of grey matter?

chico choko:  sorry, i meant to ask jim whether he had a 360 ;)

When battling Sylar, why doesn’t Peter absorb Sylar’s ability to do telekenetic neurosurgery, and remove Sylar’s juicy bits of grey matter?

Which was kind of my point.

Sylar has viciousness and a clear willingness to kill for personal gain, while Peter is basically a decent sort who finds it difficult to harm others without serious provocation (he started out the series as a nurse, remember?).

But once Peter gets it in his head that he can cut loose on Sylar (and gets in a place where either others would not be hurt or where that additional cost would be required), he will kick the living shit out of Sylar in seconds…

My prediction: Peter and Sylar will be fighting it out and Hiro will surprise him with a sword through the chest.

jo-jo: I *had* a 360.  Microsoft has it now for repair.  Big shocker there, right?  Who ever heard of an xbox needed warranty service? :) Anyway, my gamertag thing is down below on the left...I meant to email you and ask for yours and/or john’s.

Re: Peter vs. Sylar: I hope at some point Peter wakes up to the fact that he can have all Sylar’s power and seems to be able to learn how to use it in a matter of seconds.

Don’t forget that George Takei was playing with swords way back when as Hikaru Sulu… I’ve also read that this is a skill that he actually has - sword fighting - rather than “just good enough to look good” which seems to be so popular.

From what I understand, Takei has been training with swords since he was a kid.  I’ll never forget him prancing around the Enterprise shirtless waving a sword around.  It was so...weird.  :)

And just in case Andrew Sullvan someday reads this and decides I’m being a homophobe, thats not a gay slur, he was actually prancing around.  Like, leaping in the manner of a prancing horse.

real fucking creative there with the gamertag, buddy. ;)

(ok, i tease, mine’s my name.  i’ll add you and send an invite for when you get yours back.  i only add people i know.  i suppose you qualify ;)

My roommate hypothesized that Sylar probably doesn’t NEED to slice open their heads and kill the person to get their power. It’s just quicker and more… well, Sylar-ish to do so. Even if he knew he could do it nonlethally he’d probably still kill people to do it.

Rann: I dunno.  I can see why that might be true, but...he’s a watchmaker and he seems to intuit how a think works from looking at it.  Maybe he really needs to see the brain to get it?

Maybe it’s just a bonus that it’s a cruel and painful way to do it.

Maybe he really needs to see the brain to get it?

That was explained in one of the early Sylar episodes - when he first learned how to take the powers from others. He could “see” where the “problem” was and how to “fix” it. (Sorry, those are imprecise terms, but I don’t know any others that might fit...)

Of course, that does nothing to explain how he actually gains that power, but the early episodes mention that the brain is missing from the victims, so maybe he eats ‘em…

I don’t understand why they let Ted be captured, though, since Peter could have made all three of them disappear from view, and only Ted was in any danger of stray bullets…

Great fricking show HRG, .. damm hes a bad ass..

Rann: I dunno.  I can see why that might be true, but...he’s a watchmaker and he seems to intuit how a think works from looking at it.  Maybe he really needs to see the brain to get it?

That was my original belief of what Sylar’s power was.  His watch making.  He’s able to understand how things work and fix them.  Like he did with Pappa Suresh’s watch.  He could just tell it wasn’t right.  He can basically do the same thing with the human brain.  Pick out the difference in the brain, which causes the power, and then alter his own mind to do the power.

and then alter his own mind to do the power.

The obvious, yet unanswered, question: How?

I mean, it’s obvious he doesn’t take out his own brain and alter it…

One question. What is Jack Bauer’s sister in law doing married to Petrelli?

Wonder if that means Jack is gonna be the one to kill Sylar?

sindri - That alwats throws me.  When she was on the floor screaming about her son, I was all “Wrong family, lady, and who kicked you out of your wheelchair?  That’s just mean.”

Pretty good agent she must have, to get recurring gigs on two top-rated shows on opposing networks on in the same timeslot.

Well, she’s not going to be in that wheelchair very much longer. Someone’s gonna notice her foot twitching, or she’s going to get uncomfortable sitting and shift her weight by pushing with her feet. It’s almost instinctive, and she’s only been in that chair for six months - not long enough to unlearn life-long habits.