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Which one? We don’t know if the dead cheerleader painting was Jackie or Claire.
People have said the dead cheerleader painting is Jackie. But I meant the disputed shot on the stairs, which never appears to happen. Peter gets their first, and there's no shot of just Claire and the looming shadow.
Have we seen for sure that Sylar absorbs powers? I know he is a telekinetic with some other powers besides, but a power absorber? Are we sure?
We do not know for sure that Sylar absorbs powers. But the brain thing, combined with the fact that Claire wasn't able to regenerate when her brain was impeded, makes it pretty damn likely that Sylar's getting powers by eating brains. Or doing something with the brains at least: the point is, the powers are in the brains. In that 90% we don't use, remember?
I would think that situation would be true for any injury of Claire's where the agent causing injury was still piercing her body. Just, what with the board being in her brain and all, normal life functions were also at a standstill til it was pulled out.
That's a good point, Matt. I do think the powers reside in the brains anyway because of Mohinder's urban-legend comment in the pilot: if this new evolution is unlocking hidden potential, it's doing it in that mythical 90%.
Also, raise your hand if you thought the promo sounded like about fifty different
Lost
promos. (All the answers will be revealed next week? Really? We'll see, Promo Guy. You're the one who was calling Mr. Bennet the FACE OF EVIL until you decided he wasn't, so now you're calling Sylar the FACE OF EVIL, which is a much safer bet. You also told us that the Heroes were going to have to band together to save the cheerleader when, in fact, Peter did it all by himself because, remember how Hiro delivered the message directly TO PETER? Yes, Promo Guy, let us watch the show and stop making shit up.)
combined with the fact that Claire wasn't able to regenerate when her brain was impeded,
I don't think that it was in her brain, wasn't it in her neck? and even if it was in her brain, she couldn't regenerate while it was in there, but the second it was removed, she regenerated. she doesn't heal around injuries, they heal when impediment is removed
Oh! Duh.
It's not just that she didn't heal around her brain. It's just she was fucking
autopsied.
If her healing powers were active, that shouldn't have been able to happen, you know? That's why the fact that her brain was impeded is important.
If her healing powers were active, that shouldn't have been able to happen, you know? That's why the fact that her brain was impeded is important.
I don't think that the brain is particularly relevant in her powers. her healing powers weren't active because she couldn't heal around the wooden stake. When her brother hit her with the stapler, she didn't heal until she removed the staple. If she is incapable of removing the object, or putting the parts in the right place, she won't heal. Like when her arms and legs don't heal until she twists them back into place. If her brain was the key to her powers, then breaching it would have killed her permanently.
I guess it depends on how an autopsy works. Because what I'm saying is that when the lady makes the incision down her chest, it should heal, unless, like you said, she pulls the skin apart immediately.
Still not sure why they had to slit her first to do an autopsy. Shouldn't they check out the huge stick in her head first?
Autopsies generally check everything, right? Even if there is an "obvious" cause of death.
