Sylar = Peter Petrelli (THE DREAMER)

Cool! B)

But, does last night's failure to fly prove that he simply hasn't learned how to control/trigger the ability ... or that it's retention is only short term? :unsure:
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The retention is limited. Every other character would be obsolete if he could just permanently accumulate all their powers at once.

Although it looks like Sylar does have just that sort of permanent accumulative ability, but he has to eat their brains or something to make it work.

The retention is limited. Every other character would be obsolete if he could just permanently accumulate all their powers at once.

Although it looks like Sylar does have just that sort of permanent accumulative ability, but he has to eat their brains or something to make it work.
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EXACTLY what I said... last week... geesh... I'm a week ahead of time... maybe I'm Hiro? I doubt it...

I think Peter is Sylar... or an evil version of Peter from the future is Sylar... Very demented... maybe he grabs their brains, put them on ice and eats a portion of it every once in a while... depending upon the situation, is/are the brain(s) he eats. That's very disgusting... Maybe he killed Hiro and took his power to come back in time and kill other heroes before they become heroes... and get more powerful at the same time... I should write these shows... But anyhow... this is only conjecture going on characters we know and events that have happened so far.

The retention is limited. Every other character would be obsolete if he could just permanently accumulate all their powers at once.

Although it looks like Sylar does have just that sort of permanent accumulative ability, but he has to eat their brains or something to make it work.
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How does it look like Sylar has that ability? What did I miss? Has he used any of their powers??

How does it look like Sylar has that ability? What did I miss? Has he used any of their powers??
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Like I said in the other post... mind control and flying... also some kind of freezing power in episode 2... we'll see...

He hasn't really done any mind control yet (I still consider what he did with the FBI agent telekinesis), but I have a feeling that it'll be coming up in either next week's episode or the one after that. There was something that happened in the preview that just caught my attention to that.

Do you remember in the rpeview, where we saw Peter and Mohinder panicing in a dark room? And the preview then said that Peter would recieve a mysterious message? And then someone started speaking to Peter? From my impression I think someone was controlling Mohinder (who seemed to be the only other person who was in the room moments before) and might be possibly speaking through him.

That, or Sylar himself might have popped up. I just re-watched it, and even though my "possessed Mohinder" theory is still in mind, I now have another one. From what I saw, it seemed as if Mohinder, as well as others in the room I think, are frozen in time. That seems to support the whole "Peter from the future" idea, but we'll see.

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The retention is limited. Every other character would be obsolete if he could just permanently accumulate all their powers at once.

Although it looks like Sylar does have just that sort of permanent accumulative ability, but he has to eat their brains or something to make it work.
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I think I agree with you on the retention part for Peter ... but, not for Sylar.

My theory is that Peter is either: Sylar - or - has the same abilities as Sylar.

We know Peter can retain more than one ability at a time ... even if it's just for a short duration (a day or so?), and we are led to believe by the heads sawed open and brains removed (as well as Claire's injury) that the brain harbors the source/power plant of the abilities. I believe Peter absorbs the energy from proximity to peoples brains - not just the person themself. That's why I don't think Sylar consumes the brains. He freezes them for preservation, and takes them with him. Perhaps that is why the medical book, which Eden browsed past in Sylar's apartment, was on a page showing brains(?)

... if he was eating them ... it probably would have been a cookbook. I think he's storing the brains. That way he'll have access to replenishing his powers whenever needed.

The reason I also believe it's possible (though admittedly unlikely) Sylar may even be Peter - is due to Niki's power/ability. Knowing that Peter could absorb powers, I wondered what woiuld happen if Peter had crossed paths with Niki (before we were introduced to either of them), or someone with a similar power, and absorbed her condition. Sylar could be Peter's alter-ego running amok. Unfortunately it's difficult for me to explain why Sylar has so many abilities while Peter has so few ... unless he's simply not as tuned into them as his alter-ego - who has also been testing/honing his abilities with Prof Suresh. :unsure:

This all fits so well... how creepy would it be if you guys were right?

Time travel is a mind-boggling thing for me, but I'm going to try to see if you guys can help me make sense of this:

If Sylar is Peter's alter-ego from the future, how was he contacting Professor Suresh and having him help hone his abilities in the present? I can almost make sense of it, but not quite... and I'm having a really difficult time articulating what I mean, so I'll forgive you if you don't understand me!

If this all is the case, too, what happens to Sylar if they destroy Peter to save the future? How can a future self survive if your past self is killed? See, this is the thing that really throws me off with time travel.

And just to add to another thing on the list of powers we've seen Sylar have (sorry if someone mentioned this already and I missed it), we know he has tissue regeneration down, because he got gunned down, but then got back up again. That was a creepy scene.

Part One:
IF it's Peter from the future... then he would have had to have gotten the power from Hiro to travel back in time at some point to get help developing the power.

Part Two:
The "easy" answer is that if Peter was killed, future Peter would die too. The "hard" answer is that... future Peter is now from an alternate timeline where he lived and absolutely nothing would happen... but I digress...

Part Three:
I don't think it's all telekinesis as suggested, because that would suck.

Okay, moving this to this thread like OptimusGeorge suggested...

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Aha, there's a possible twist to telekinesis that might explain that. See, I've discussed this with my friends, and we've all come to agree that both freezing and even heating can be an aspect of an extremely well controlled case of telekinesis.

Let me see how to explain this...cause it deals with biology and chemistry....

Okay. In your molecules, temperature is controlled by the speed at which the atoms within a molecule move. The faster these atoms move, the higher the temperature the molecule has. The slower these atoms move, the lower the temperature the molecule has.

This is where telekinesis comes in. You see, telekinesis allows you to control the movement of objects. You can make objects fly across the room, as well as even lift yourself off the floor and even possibly fly. Now, if you could really focus this telekinesis, like really REALLY focus it, what's to stop you from controlling things on a molecular level? Think about it, concentrate hard enough, and you can slow down the movement of the atoms within the molecules of your body. This would successfully lower the temperature of the molecules in your body, which would then lead to a decrease in temperature of your body as a whole!

You get it?

Explain the whole getting-shot-and-not-dying with telekinesis...