I've seen a few posts relating to Sylar's role as a watchmaker. This ties in with Moore's Watchmen, for example.
I think there's another more significant reason for Sylar being written as a watchmaker (possibly the same source as Moore's reason for using the watchmaker). The 'Watchmaker analogy' is a counter-argument against evolution, stating that the world (and people in it) are so complex that their very existance proves that a higher power exists, just as the existance of a watch proves there must have been a watchmaker.
'The Blind Watchmaker' by Richard Dawkins is the name of a book which refutes that theory and provides further support of the theory of evolution - clearly a major topic in Heroes. The fact that Sylar is not only a watchmaker, but also wears glasses (not quite blind) ties in with this, and the fact that he stops wearing glasses perhaps indicating his desire to control the evolution process.
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Dude, good catch. I didn't even for a moment consider the watchmaker theory with regards to evolution, a strong theme in the show.
QUOTE (ObdewllaX @ Nov 29 2006, 10:04 PM) 
I've seen a few posts relating to Sylar's role as a watchmaker. This ties in with Moore's Watchmen, for example.
I think there's another more significant reason for Sylar being written as a watchmaker (possibly the same source as Moore's reason for using the watchmaker). The 'Watchmaker analogy' is a counter-argument against evolution, stating that the world (and people in it) are so complex that their very existance proves that a higher power exists, just as the existance of a watch proves there must have been a watchmaker.
'The Blind Watchmaker' by Richard Dawkins is the name of a book which refutes that theory and provides further support of the theory of evolution - clearly a major topic in Heroes. The fact that Sylar is not only a watchmaker, but also wears glasses (not quite blind) ties in with this, and the fact that he stops wearing glasses perhaps indicating his desire to control the evolution process.
I think there's another more significant reason for Sylar being written as a watchmaker (possibly the same source as Moore's reason for using the watchmaker). The 'Watchmaker analogy' is a counter-argument against evolution, stating that the world (and people in it) are so complex that their very existance proves that a higher power exists, just as the existance of a watch proves there must have been a watchmaker.
'The Blind Watchmaker' by Richard Dawkins is the name of a book which refutes that theory and provides further support of the theory of evolution - clearly a major topic in Heroes. The fact that Sylar is not only a watchmaker, but also wears glasses (not quite blind) ties in with this, and the fact that he stops wearing glasses perhaps indicating his desire to control the evolution process.
Wow, great find, and great first post!
QUOTE (Shirtless Sylar @ Nov 30 2006, 03:35 AM)
Wow, great find, and great first post!
I just wanna know something; if his ability is to fix things (why wasn't it picked up by Suresh?) then how come it takes him a day to study a brain and replicate the "broken" bits in his own brain, and it still takes him 7 years to fix a damn watch?
QUOTE (ObdewllaX @ Nov 30 2006, 03:04 AM)
I've seen a few posts relating to Sylar's role as a watchmaker. This ties in with Moore's Watchmen, for example.
I think there's another more significant reason for Sylar being written as a watchmaker (possibly the same source as Moore's reason for using the watchmaker). The 'Watchmaker analogy' is a counter-argument against evolution, stating that the world (and people in it) are so complex that their very existance proves that a higher power exists, just as the existance of a watch proves there must have been a watchmaker.
'The Blind Watchmaker' by Richard Dawkins is the name of a book which refutes that theory and provides further support of the theory of evolution - clearly a major topic in Heroes. The fact that Sylar is not only a watchmaker, but also wears glasses (not quite blind) ties in with this, and the fact that he stops wearing glasses perhaps indicating his desire to control the evolution process.
I think there's another more significant reason for Sylar being written as a watchmaker (possibly the same source as Moore's reason for using the watchmaker). The 'Watchmaker analogy' is a counter-argument against evolution, stating that the world (and people in it) are so complex that their very existance proves that a higher power exists, just as the existance of a watch proves there must have been a watchmaker.
'The Blind Watchmaker' by Richard Dawkins is the name of a book which refutes that theory and provides further support of the theory of evolution - clearly a major topic in Heroes. The fact that Sylar is not only a watchmaker, but also wears glasses (not quite blind) ties in with this, and the fact that he stops wearing glasses perhaps indicating his desire to control the evolution process.
what are your thoughts on nature... everything in nature is codependent. eg. giant redwoods can only survive due to fire.. or the way desert cacti absorb water vapour from coastal winds and then provide life for a whole host of birds, animals and insects.
... and then consider human beings... they do not fit into nature.
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'The Blind Watchmaker' by Richard Dawkins
Very intriguing connection...
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The Clocks Of Steadfast
18-year-old Prez Rickard, so-called because the day he was born, his mom said he'd someday be president, gained fame by fixing the clocks in his home town of Steadfast, so they all kept the same time. This caught the attention of the incredibly corrupt Boss Smiley, who had been looking for a malleable young man to back in politics, ever since the legal age for voting, running for Congress, and being president was lowered to 18. Boss enlisted the aid of his cousin, advertising genius Misery Marko, who had earlier put Boss's face all over everything in the world (by the way, Boss looked just like that little, round, yellow toon that's been grossing out sweetness haters for decades, Smiley Face); and by the time the first issue (September, 1973) was done, Prez had fulfilled his mother's prophecy.
http://www.toonopedia.com/prez.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prez_(DC_Comics)
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