Season02.Ep4 - "Kindness of Strangers"

[DarkJedi]

Speaking of which...I'd like to know where that 12th person is..You know the photo? As far as I see there, is only 11 people in the picture...Perhaps the 12th person is the one taking the picture..

[spammityspam]

Maybe the twelfth person is the one killing everybody? Who knows.

I really like the Wonder Twins more than I did the first few shows. In Episode Three I started liking Maya more since she stopped crying the whole time and did something, but now that we've seen more of them interacting normally, I like them a whole lot. Sylar, as always, is amazing. The Gabriel Grey thing is (I think) just him thinking that he'd lost all his powers and was back to being just a man. I was almost sad for him when he stared at his watch and didn't call himself Sylar. If you notice, though, when he started getting excited again and killed Mr. Car Thief, the ticking noise was back -- that always used to accompany him in Sylar Mode in the first season. I still think the cockroach is just stylistic, but I'm really glad to see Sylar back in action. I love him so.

I think Claire's little story is cute. Yeah, it's kind of stagnant, but I think she's in the setup for something bigger. I think West will end up being duped into betraying her somehow, especially with the "I'd never hurt you" line in there. I don't think he's doing anything on purpose, though.

I'm not completely into Peter's story right now. Peter's great, but his complete lack of chemistry with Spunky Irish Girlfriend is grating, especially since she just seems to be fine with him being a freakshow and making out with him after they've known each other, like, four hours. I dunno, I just don't like her. Her and her cliche Irish accent. What, do all Irish people live in pubs and not have houses? So far the only parts of Ireland we've seen are scary docks and the pub. We might get a shot of green countryside and a sheep, and then we'll know we're REALLY in Ireland.

I'm liking Hiro's story, though obviously the cap on the sword would've come off way too easily, and the pommel would've failed looooong before if it was really hollow. The hokeyness of his and Yaeko's Cicero romance is intentional, I think, and it's cool. She's a prissy little princess, but that's in character for the daughter of a skilled craftsman from a small village -- she'd have been as close as the village had to a real princess, and would've been prissy.

I'm glad that Matt got a firmer tie to the story, too. Obviously he dropped the ball on forcing Molly to find Sauron, but I'd buy that with the daddy issues he's obviously got. (On a side note, is it just me or is he and Mohinder raising a child together the gayest thing ever? They should hook up.)

[TrixieB]

I'm glad that Matt got a firmer tie to the story, too. Obviously he dropped the ball on forcing Molly to find Sauron, but I'd buy that with the daddy issues he's obviously got. (On a side note, is it just me or is he and Mohinder raising a child together the gayest thing ever? They should hook up.)

I was thinking during last night's show that there must be tons of slash fan fiction out there for these two!! I'd write some, but I want Mohinder for myself.

[spammityspam]

There's actually a crapload of Mohinder/Sylar slash, and some of it's not bad. Unfortunately, most of it is cutesy. They call each other Momo and Sy-Sy and are raising Molly together, all problems/evil having been erased, I guess, by magic.

Somewhere, as we speak, a traumatic novel-length love triangle fic is being set up with Mohinder on the rebound with Matt, but Sylar desperately driving Claire's stolen Nissan back to his one true love... I may vomit.

[neglet]

Originally Posted by DarkJedi

Speaking of which...I'd like to know where that 12th person is..You know the photo? As far as I see there, is only 11 people in the picture...Perhaps the 12th person is the one taking the picture..

The 12th person could be Claude ... and he doesn't take good pictures.

And Trix, you have to share Mohinder. We can take turns--he's young, he can manage it.

[KingVoyeur]

Mohinder's cute and all, but I think I'll go with the newly buff Peter. Yum!

On a serious note, I'm still questioning the whole purpose of the cockroach. As I said over in another thread, the bug appeared in Monhinder's NY apartment in the very first episode of the first season, when Sylar wasn't anywhere near. I haven't watched any more eps from the first season (I'm trying to catch up a friend who doesn't watch the show, but he's always busy, so it's taking a while), but I wonder if the bug shows up in any more scenes without Sylar?

Also, I didn't even catch that the car the Wonder Twins and Sylar are driving is Claire's. Wonder where that's gonna lead?

[spammityspam]

I think the bug in the apartment was just the Ghost of Sylar Past. Sylar had been messing with Mohinder's dad and it was Sylar's fault he was dead, so his ick factor was hanging around in a sort of half-life state. Plus it's some good foreshadowing for Mohinder to eventually kick his ass, if he stops whining long enough. Mohinder, you are so very very pretty, but GOD you can whine.

[Al-Dog]

Last season I had thought that Sylars powers were the reason he was serial killer, but apparently he’s just as sick without them.

Cool.

[spammityspam]

I think the powers were the reason he was a crazy serial killer, but his obsession with being special was the reason for the powers. He's trying to protect the Wonder Twins now, so he's going to be just as crazy in defense of them as he was in defense of himself. I think he thinks Mohinder can get his powers back, whereupon he'll eat their brains and be invincible.

[NoBody]

Originally Posted by KingVoyeur

Mohinder's cute and all, but I think I'll go with the newly buff Peter. Yum!

On a serious note, I'm still questioning the whole purpose of the cockroach. As I said over in another thread, the bug appeared in Monhinder's NY apartment in the very first episode of the first season, when Sylar wasn't anywhere near. I haven't watched any more eps from the first season (I'm trying to catch up a friend who doesn't watch the show, but he's always busy, so it's taking a while), but I wonder if the bug shows up in any more scenes without Sylar?

Also, I didn't even catch that the car the Wonder Twins and Sylar are driving is Claire's. Wonder where that's gonna lead?

Just stumbled on this post so I registered myself to answer it
The cockroach is related to the speech Mohinder had in the first episode, when teaching in class, saying that if the world must come to an end or something like that, the cockroaches will be the only species surviving. So I think it just means that something is still living and in this case, that should be Sylar's dark being.

D.