Comments on: Episode Review: Chapter 21, The Hard Part

By: Dez!

Dez! — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:54:15 +0000

Jay – Great point about keeping a bit of Molly’s blood with a little of the disease with the aim of infecting Sylar!!

By: RightHandLeft

RightHandLeft — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:57:34 +0000

My favorite part of this episode was the revelation of Sylar as watch-maker. Mix that with Sylar becoming a nuclear bomb and all I could think was Albert Einstein’s comment, upon seeing the first nuclear explosion: “I should have been a watch-maker.”

Plus, it was beautiful seeing the inner workings of Sylar. After proclaiming that he killed others and took their powers because they were unworthy, due to not making use of their powers and instead denying them, we get to see Sylar, with his mom, honestly wanting to have a simple life. He wants to be JUST LIKE THE PEOPLE HE KILLS. He just wanted to give up, have a normal job and work on his watches.

But his mother’s push that he be “someone special”, and the way Sylar CAVES under the pressure… It just shows how little control he has over his own life, especially in light of his work for The Company before escaping HRG. Then, as he displays his powers to his mother, to prove that he is special, *again* he loses control…

It makes you wonder if Sylar is a psychopathic murderer because he NEEDS that feeling of control…

By: dave_boo

dave_boo — Tue, 15 May 2007 07:14:53 +0000

Interesting episode. But does Mr. Linderman turn out to actually be the father of the Pertrelli brothers?

By: Mathsorcerer

Mathsorcerer — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:21:02 +0000

Rodrigo, leaving Molly sick with a disease that will result in her death so that the OWI can infect Sylar with it to kill him is the kind of evil plot that *I* would come up with. *laugh* I don’t know if this is what the OWI had planned (if so, then Mohinder just ruined it), but there are no lengths to which they will not go to attain their goals.

By: Rodrigo from Holy Spirit State in Brazil

Rodrigo from Holy Spirit State in Brazil — Fri, 11 May 2007 03:38:06 +0000

I agree with JAY said: I think they want to give the disease to Syler. Molly’s disease, because find him isn’t useful if nobody can stop him, maybe Peter. The 20th episode was amazing when we could watch the fight: Syler vs Peter (only the beginning). There are a lof of questions that we must been waiting for answers(2nd, and 3rd Season)

By: Mojo Joe

Mojo Joe — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:54:58 +0000

Also in regards to Sylar it’s fair to say that overbearing mothers are the root of all evil.

By: Mojo Joe

Mojo Joe — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:32:43 +0000

This episode was great to me because it gave me a new theory. It seemed to me that Linderman and Mrs Pertrelli sounded eerily similar in what they want Nathan to go through. But after seeing the future we already know that Sylar becomes Nathan through illusion (which may be what he paints in his mother’s blood).

I’m beginning to think that Linderman (and others) want Sylar as the President because he becomes the leader they “need” despite the tragedy that comes before.

Also we’ve learned of Linderman’s ties to HRG’s company. This would explain why Sylar was left to live when he had already been captured.

By: Pip

Pip — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:44:10 +0000

Hmmm, disagree, nothing wrong with the episode in general, but it WAS a filler. All to do with budgets to be honest, big season finale means scrape some cash from elsewhere, thus the ideas of flashback and “Character Developement” plots were formed…..
See stargate, smallville, Lost , Buffy and nearly any other Sci fi series for examples that were claimed to be “Character Developement” yet opened the way for a big finish.
Not a problem in my opinion, there’s a budget and they have to stick with it. But don’t go making up indepth rubbish as to why its a “slow” episode, the reason is money and nothing else.
At least in the simpsons they had a flashback episode nearly every season, but made a point of telling you that they had run out of cash for celebs and voice actors rather than the usual excuses.

By: kori

kori — Wed, 09 May 2007 23:48:40 +0000

Telelocation you say? Nice name, I like it, you suspect their is another aspect to this ability like for instance the Hatian having an active aspect (the ability to erase memory selectively) and a passive aspect (the creation of an ability negation field of some sort). Maybe, I wonder if we will ever find out what Shanti’s ability was.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:20:29 +0000

With regard to Molly I think the reason that she’s the only one that can stop Syler is two fold, 1st she can find him, and 2nd, the disease that she has inhibits her power, I think they want to give the disease to Syler.