Sylar Rebooted

Not going to write a full write up of Episode 3 "One of Us, One of Them" quite yet. Maybe this weekend if I can get to it before the new episode.

Instead, I'm going to talk about something I find interesting, albeit flawed, that the writers seem to have done with Sylar. It appears that Sylar has actually been "rebooted". The Shanti Virus seems to have wiped out all the abilities Sylar acquired save two, his original ability of Intuitive Aptitude and his most powerful ability, Telekinesis.

I have mixed feelings about this. First, I'm happy they toned down Sylar a little bit. This is the list of powers he has lost (there may be more, but these are documented)

• Ability to Freeze things
  
• Ability to Melt things
• Perfect Memory
• Acute Hearing
• Precognition
• Radiation

When you add these to the list of powers he has gained since then, Sylar was starting to become a little bit too powerful. I was particularly concerned about him having perfect memory, radiation, and precognition. Radiation and precognition is obviously pretty powerful. Perfect memory however may be the biggest lost. This might seriously be one of the more underestimated abilities.

Now his abilities only include

• Telekinesis
• Rapid Healing and invulnerability
  
• Turning things to Gold
• Clairsentience
• Sound Manipulation

So I'm happy about the toning down of his powers. Hopefully he doesn't gain too many more as I think Telekinesis by itself is pretty powerful. You add this to the Invulnerability and Sound Manipulation, and the fact that he is now infinitely rich, and well Sylar is pretty dangerous.

So what do you think of this "reboot"?