The Black Faced Watch

I'm new to the site here, glad to be involved. Perhaps it's obvious or maybe it just hasn't been noticed yet, or maybe I'm seeing things, but when you look at the Sylar watch, the hands are pointing at seven minutes until midnight.
Who knows what midnight this could be referring to, but he's definetly got some goal in mind and his watch his set to it.

I realize that Hiro's power is very important in the series. I think he is perhaps the most powerful of all the characters we've met. I just hope that they don't use it too much as a plot point. If they start using time travel all over the place to make plot twists, I just know some of those plot twists are going to be uninteresting and some are going be missing some basic concept, some catch 22 that constantly appears in fiction that's based on time travel.

Anyway, perhaps the watch symbolizes something to Sylar so he holds on to it, but maybe it has something to do with his power.

This will probably be my only (re)post ever, so apologies to the length.

Let me first say that I am not ruling out the fact that Mohinder may have powers. I support that.

I believe the dreamwalker kid, kind of existing in all places at once, is the power behind the poor theory that Mohinder has a 'retrocognitive' force, especially considering that Mohinder got to witness a discussion between his parents that he never actually witnessed and his father's murder which he didn't witness either; the dreamwalker brought him along (Mainly to see the time of death of his father and establish 'dreamwalker' as a writer's device)

I don't believe that Mohinder was exhibiting a special power in the father death scene. I'd put my money on the fact that the whole attention to the watch's time at his father's death is a device from the show's writers to foreshadow the fact that Mohinder is going to link up with Hiro, and try to go back in time to save his father from being murdered.

Therefore, the exact time and location of his father's death, needs to foreshadowed so as to not be jolting to the average viewer and heighten anticipation of conflict / time alteration. (My theory currently being that Mohinder's father possibly knows some weakness or important information relating to Syler, or some other powerful threat).

P.S. Here's my big hope for the show. Mr. Big bad glasses, Claire's dad, I hope he ends up being a good guy. Let me explain....
The real world can't be as nice as comic books. The real world can't have a Prof. Xavier, and what-not. What if an even greater threat looms after the first big story arc finishes, and Hiro goes back in time and sets Claire's dad down the road of being a supposed bad guy, therefore thrusting certain key players into the mix who wouldn't have joined willingly.
What if he'd like to be the good guy, but for the sake of the world he has to force people to become super-human? People who were never going to willingly flip on their super hero switch by themselves. What if, for the sake of the world, he has to knowingly sacrifice that orphaned experiment, the experiment who turned out to be his beloved Claire? What if he had to kill Claire's parents, to save the world?
I hope the show goes that far in complexity.
Thank God I'm in the videogame industry, or this show would be driving me nuts!
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Good thing this is a tv show and not the real world, eh?

He's a serial killer so it's probaby a ritual like the brains.

I realize that Hiro's power is very important in the series. I think he is perhaps the most powerful of all the characters we've met. I just hope that they don't use it too much as a plot point. If they start using time travel all over the place to make plot twists, I just know some of those plot twists are going to be uninteresting and some are going be missing some basic concept, some catch 22 that constantly appears in fiction that's based on time travel.

Anyway, perhaps the watch symbolizes something to Sylar so he holds on to it, but maybe it has something to do with his power.
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Catch 22's happen all the time in time travel fiction. For instance, the grand question, if I go to the store and buy a pocket watch, then at some point end up in the past and sell the pocket watch to the same dealer, where did the watch come from? In Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Ted stole his dad's keys. Throughout the whole movie, his dad is looking for them. At the end, we find them and confirm what already happened, even if the event is perpetrated by someone from the future. I find it perfectly understandable that if someone from the future came back in time to effect the past, then that effect is a natural part of the same timeline. The only confusing part then becomes motive: if someone in the past went back in time to stop/create an event, then that event would have had the desired result already. How would the future agent know or care to go back in time to do it, if it already happened? Ouch....my brain is leaking through my nose.

Was this the watch?



If so, it's a rolex.
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The watch was discussed more in depth via another thread. It is definitely not a Rolex. More likely a Gruen or Hamilton or standard no-name military issue.

The watch was discussed more in depth via another thread. It is definitely not a Rolex. More likely a Gruen or Hamilton or standard no-name military issue.
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Looks like a Timex Expedition to me. Hard to tell though. I would say that is not likely though, because a Timex is supposed to "take a likin' and keep on tickin'", and this watch is clealy no longer tickin'. :P

Have any of you noticed that they're drawing a lot of attention to Sylar's watch? I don't think this is just to identify him as the person who killed Chandra. First of all, the watch is cracked. It looks like it isn't running. In episode 8, right before they show Sylar pull the cup towards him, they play a loud ticking sound, like a watch. I think they're trying to foreshadow that it means something.

What do you guys think about it?
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I was rewatching episode 9 "Homecomming" and when we see Sylar standing infront of the trophy shrine for jacky (i think thats her name) you see his watchl, and it ticks over. What i dont understand is tho, why does it not move in some of the other scenes? Just posting my thoughts .

BTW to actualy see the watch move a second you have to watch it a few times but i swear it does lol.

For a sound effect, it's pretty ominous. Remember the crocodile from Peter Pan & Captain Hook? That ever-present danger as time is running out. Got the same vibe here.

I wounder if there is a croc involved here at all.... cause we got peter who can fly, although his name aint pan...