Sylar - How does he keep getting away

Just a quick post, but I deep thinking, how does Sylar keep getting away?

In season one, he got away even after he was shot by Noah Bennet. The man was shot, yet was still able to get away from the Haitian who tried to run him down. This is the same Haitian who looked pretty athletic chasing down Peter a few weeks ago and someone who could use his powers to make sure Sylar couldn't use any of his to get away.

Then Sylar miraculously escapes Kirby Plaza after being run through with a sword by Hiro. In this case, I could accept the fact that he was probably dragged away by someone interested in saving him, so I'll give a pass here.

But just this past week, how did he manage to get away again? He was hit by a lightning bold delivered by Elle and was thrown through a glass door. I've known someone who has gone through a glass door. You don't just get up and run. Yet somehow Sylar not only is able to get up, but he is able to run away before Elle can get within distance to throw another bolt at him.

Maybe this is one of Sylar's hidden powers. Maybe he has the ability to make miraculous get aways.

Quick thoughts before Final Episode

So what do you think is going to happen in the final episode. Here are things I think might happen.

1. They will "stop" the virus. But we will see a preview yet another, more serious threat on the horizon. It will turn out that the Shanti Virus will be stopped, much like Sylar was stopped, but that there really is another threat, like Peter being the real bomb.
   
2. Peter will team up with Hiro to stop Adam. I actually think Peter knows Adam is bad, even before he talks with Hiro
   
3. Elle will die, but she will die in order to save the world and maker her dad "trust her" again. This was hinted at when she and her Dad talked in the car.
   
4. Who is the second hero who will die? Don't have a real good guess here. Want to say it will be Niki, but would they really kill her off this early when I think there is so much they can do to develop this character. The only other person I can see is Maya, but I think they need her for what will be the next chapter of this story.

That's all I got for now. What do you think is going to happen?

See you after the final episode!

Truth and Consequences

Yes, my post are slowing down. Mainly due to the fact that I'm a little disheartened by the writer's strike, and the eventual abrupt end to my favorite show, but also because this is getting a little hard when it seems like I'm talking to myself. So if you have comments, please share :)

An OK episode. Most of the action happened at the end. Not a full recap, just the interesting parts.

Show starts out with Peter again seeing himself in the future, deserted, New York City. It appears to be one of his dream sequences again. They are going to have to explain this sooner rather than later, and I hope it's sooner since I hate things that drag out for extended periods of time without explanation. He teams up with Adam to find Victoria Pratt and "save the world". Peter finds and talks to her. In the end, he reads her mind to discover where the virus is, and she ends up being killed by Adam Monroe. Adam leaves his calling card, and they head off to Texas to go find it.

Bob returns Noah's "ashes" to the Bennet Family. Of course, these aren't real since we know that Noah was in fact saved by Mohinder and locked up by the Company. Claire wishes to forget and considers asking the Haitian to wipe her memory (which of course she could always recover as we know from Peter). She scatters the ashes and notices Elle watching her. She threatens to tell the world about her abilities. I'm not exactly sure how this gives her an advantage over the company, but for some reason Claire thinks it does.

Elle has a testy exchange with her father who chastises her and tells her that she has to regain his trust. I don't think this exchange bodes well for one of these two characters. Heroes hints that two heroes are going to die next week. My money is on Elle being one of those.

Sylar teaches Maya to "control" her power in an attempt to get rid of Alejandro. She succeeds and sends Alejandro away, believing she is doing the right thing for him. Alejandro, ever the good brother, refuses to leave and confronts Sylar. During the confrontation Alejandro is killed. This storyline is really starting to bore me as it has little relevance to the rest of the plot. I'm sure it will turn around in the 2nd half of the season, but for now, it is dragging on. It also really bothers me the trust Maya puts in a stranger over her brother, who clearly loves her. Come on now, is that at all realistic?

Hiro goes back to discover why Adam Monroe was locked up, and discovers that Adam attempted to release the virus that would cause total devastation. He travels to Odessa to find him, bringing along the Kensei sword. He freezes time, only to find an unfrozen Peter Petrelli. Despite being told that Adam murdered Kaito, Peter refuses to let Hiro have Adam. The show ends with Hiro charging Peter with the sword, Peter ready to fire an electric bolt at Hiro.

Fight or Flight

Rather than do a recap of the episode, which you can get in a lot of different places, I thought I would just give my random thoughts on the episodes. If I think something deserves a more in depth analysis, I will do it sometime in the week.

Kristen Bell's new character, Elle, seems interesting. Her electrical power is similar to Peter's new found power which probably means Peter has encountered her. Many have guessed that Peter's power was a different form of the power he acquired from Ted, but that doesn't quite make sense in light of Elle. Peter's power much more closely resembles her. This can only be explained if he somehow met her before. Perhaps sometime in the four months missing in his life.

Maury Parkman being evil, even after being seemingly innocent, did not come as a shock. He is clearly a "bad guy", but I'm not so sure he is the bad guy. His body type just doesn't match that of Kaito's killer. It has been suggested by some, that he perhaps caused it to be an "illusion" to Kaito, but I don't think so. It just doesn't quite fit.

I still stand by my previous post. Takezo is about to go bad. Something is going to happen when they attack Whitebeard's army. I believe I caught a glimpse of Takezo hitting a man from behind, most likely Hiro, in the preview. If I can get a screen capture of it, I will post it up.

Why is Mohinder showing up at Monica's door? She doesn't seem to be in any danger, so it seems odd that the Company would just send him there to do anything about her. Perhaps if he was in the same capacity as HRG was before he left, but he isn't. So it seems unlikely that the company would just send Mohinder to bring Monica in.