Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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sumi - Apr 21, 2009 4:38:24 am PDT #4540 of 5028
Art Crawl!!!

I think that the shapeshifting combining with the invulnerability mean that the back of the head is no longer the place to kill Sylar.

I think now you have to chop his head off.

Of course, he may be able to regenerate and then you would have TWO Sylars.


le nubian - Apr 21, 2009 5:07:06 am PDT #4541 of 5028
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

sumi,

I think that the shapeshifting combining with the invulnerability mean that the back of the head is no longer the place to kill Sylar.

ooh. nice job putting things together.

if you cut off said head, froze it in liquid nitrogen, smashed it into pieces, and submerged all the pieces in lye, then mixed the solution with bleach, flushed parts of the solution in 5 different toilets across the world - I bet that Sylar doesn't come back.


le nubian - Apr 21, 2009 5:13:55 am PDT #4542 of 5028
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

btw, I want Sylar dead.


victor infante - Apr 21, 2009 5:20:28 am PDT #4543 of 5028
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

Yeah, Lea and I were talking about how this would be a great arc to put him down on. He's getting to be the big bad, with a plan bigger than "going boom," and he's had his moments of self-discovery. Time to put a fork in him. Let him go out with style, so long as he goes out.


Vortex - Apr 21, 2009 5:21:54 am PDT #4544 of 5028
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Is Sylar suddenly completely unkillable, or does Danko just have bad aim? Hm.

well, now, that's the question, isn't it?

I think that the shapeshifting combining with the invulnerability mean that the back of the head is no longer the place to kill Sylar.

I think so too. Sylar says that shifting rewrites his DNA, so maybe that is some of it.


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 21, 2009 5:27:57 am PDT #4545 of 5028
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Doesn't that mean that he shouldn't have access to all his other powers while he's shapechanged into someone else's form?


Vortex - Apr 21, 2009 5:29:02 am PDT #4546 of 5028
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Doesn't that mean that he shouldn't have access to all his other powers while he's shapechanged into someone else's form?

Maybe it should, but he does, since we saw him write "I am Sylar" on his arm, then heal when he was Taub.


victor infante - Apr 21, 2009 5:35:54 am PDT #4547 of 5028
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

Doesn't that mean that he shouldn't have access to all his other powers while he's shapechanged into someone else's form?

Maybe, maybe not. It depends on the rewriting, but to say he shouldn't have access to all his powers is a bit of an assumption. He's obviously got a couple of his powers, still, such as the healing and psychometry, but perhaps he doesn't have access to other abilities he's picked up. Who can say? We have no context to answer that question.

(It's a bit like the "why didn't the dead shapechanger revert to his real form?" question. We only make that assumption because the only shapechangers we've ever seen are fictional, and they tend to do that. But I don't see any reason why that would have to be the case.)


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 21, 2009 5:55:51 am PDT #4548 of 5028
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Actually it makes sense to me that they wouldn't transform back. Whatever mechanism powered the shape changing in the first place is presumably shut down upon death, so there's nothing to "make" the body resume its previous appearance.


victor infante - Apr 21, 2009 6:00:09 am PDT #4549 of 5028
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

Actually it makes sense to me that they wouldn't transform back. Whatever mechanism powered the shape changing in the first place is presumably shut down upon death, so there's nothing to "make" the body resume its previous appearance.

Yeah, that's always kinda where I've been at.