That was very funny to me!

It was a great line, because it was handled so well and it felt directed especially at the audience. They always danced around the brain thing, left it open ended and sort of alllmmoostt hinted that mayybbbee he could eat them.

I mean, when she asked him if he was going to eat it..you know at LEAST half of us were sitting there going "Yeah, what is the deal Sylar, why aren't you eating it?" And really how sick is that

Exactly! Everyone was wondering, now we know! But it was delivered beautifully!

so what exactly did Sylar do - it looked like he reached into the brain - said something like ahh there it is - then stood up and took the knife out and his wound healed up. I guess he just needs to see that part of the brain

was such a great line. So he just needs to inspect the brain to see what's wrong and his body can do the changes to himself? I'm still confused about why he gets rid of the brains. Does he just take them with him and inspect them later?

To me it appeared he found "something" in her brain that made her special and then removed it and put it in his wound so that he could absorb her power.

he was searching through the brain for the mendulla Oblongata to understand how it's fight or flight neurogical system operates and tells the adrenal glands to release the trait for powers. Thus allowing him to use his own power which is mental based to reconfigure his own brain to do the same, thus allowing his brain to tell the adrenal glands to produce the same trait for powers

That was a great "shout out" to all the fans.

That was so funny and the whole sceen was awesome. I mean sylar showed us he is a true villain of the show. I love how he was stalking claire coming in and out of frame loved it

yeah from the first time we knew sylar stole abilities with a scalping, these forums were alive with all sorts of speculation. But now i want to know why if adrenaline and the adrenal glands are related to the powers, why is he digging around in the brain? I doubt they will ever explain this one medically.

When I heard Claire say "Are you gonna eat it?" I was like "Come on, come on..." and when I heard Sylar say "Claire, that's disgusting." I was like "HA HA!".

Rock: Even if adrenaline is related to powers, it may not be the only relation, you know? My theory is that adrenaline activates ability, but it sources reside in the brain. Adrenaline helps activate that region of the brain where the power is "stored".

Mohinder had researched the brain part for a while and discovered stuff, but there where still holes here and there. Adrenaline simply solve those holes, or at least some of them!


Back on the subject, I also liked this statement from Sylar! I mean, I always knew that his power was used the way he used it on Claire, but I did knew many were thinking that he ated the brains (which would come from the fact that the brain "disappeared", and that he was also from Molly's statements at the end of season 1: "he eats your brain". So when I heard this "disgusting" statement of him, I really had a good laugh, thinking about all those who think he ates brains! This was obviously directed at those fans!

Exactly. I laughed during that scene.

We all wondered. There were numerous threads/discussions. And now we know. No, he doesn't eat brains. It seems that he just looks at them, studies what he needs, and then it becomes a part of him.

Good to know.

To me it was a huge nod of acknowledgment to the fans. I wonder if the creators of Heroes often come on this discussion bored and read our theories. So now the answer is known, he doesn't eat brains, but what does he do with them?

Not to sound weird... But if you go back and listen to the way Claire says "are you gonna eat it?"


It sounds pretty.. sexy/naughty/dirty.

Just go back and take a listen.

*chuckles*

I believe that she was trying to sound spaced-out, considering that he was picking at her brain while she was conscious. But Hayen did sound a little sultry/curious in the way that she delivered that line.

Still. Perv.

I love it too because...he said it was disgusting as he was talking to a girl whos brain he was poking at. Ohhhh Sylar




You have an awesome username, Sir.

Yep.

As I understand it, yes (though I'm not sure about "often").

While I had always hoped he actually ate the brains how they delivered the news that he didn't totally makes up for it.

Wouldn't Claire have suffered brain damage?

she can heal, silly

the line was great, and when he said that, i was kinda hoping, he would start digging in (cuz his face was so close to her brain, and he could just..y'know...take a bite)

What better way to debunk the brain-eating theory?

I know what you mean. Then the way he leaned back over her face all close and stuff when he said "claire, that's disgusting. The whole thing seemed...intimate or something. Maybe it was weird because
1. I don't think we've seen Sylar actually talk to a person sincerely, and he seemed to be ok with explaining a little.
2. no one has ever been alive while he worked. He probably liked that.

Yeah. That entire scene was extremely uncomfortably intimate. I loved it.

anyone else noticed the rape analogy?

I thought that was one of the best scenes, very intense, disturbing, perfect
and they managed to throw a funny in there

Not only can she heal, remember that Sylar's a watchmaker, and has an obsession with "fixing" things that are broken.

I'm thinking that's why she didn't feel pain after he left. Besides taking her ability to heal, he made an "adjustment" or two to her power to correct what he felt was a shortcoming.

OMG, this was like the funniest line. I was giggling about at school today even though I watched that part of the premiere last night.

I was really expecting him to eat Claire's brain XD

That WAS a great line. I was going O_O OMG.

And then he leaned in and I was like... OMG

And then he said, "That's disgusting." and I was like


Hmm... now that you think about it, it does seem intimate. LoL. I mean... the way he said, "I want your brain." It might as well have been, "I want your body." At least, this is what my friend told me.

But seriously, in general, that was a great scene.

Yes, I noticed the rape analogy. Especially when Mrs. Bennet asks her: "Did he?"... and seems relieved when Claire says no, that's not what Sylar was after.

Still, Claire was violated in a very intimate way. The entire scene did seem... inappropriate... in an acceptable TV sort of way. He picked at her brain. That's so much worse than listening to her phone calls or reading her diary. Not as bad as rape, but only because Claire could heal and lived. Otherwise, she would have been dead...

I do approve of Claire's emotional state after Sylar 'violates' her, though. That's one good thing the writers did.

^^I agree that she was violated, but in a way it seems like worse to me than being raped. I mean he like sliced off the top of her head, and then spoke to her while he was doing whatever to her brain. Your brain is like completely private, where you have all your secrets, and thoughts, and aspirations. To have someone (that's like not a brain surgeon) just stealing stuff out of it or whatever Sylar does is just, violating. There's like no other word to describe it.. :\



Haha I thought the same thing. That camera shot I like whispered to my sister: "I knew it! He does eat brains!"

Then of course he didn't XD

You know back at season 1

Ando said: "You wont take my brain..."

Sylar rolls his eyes: "Oh please what would I want with your brain!"

LOL

I wasn't wondering.

I knew it.

Y'all should check out the big old debate we had in the Sylar subforum.

Yep. And now the group of us that were right are understandably gloating just a bit.

Yeah, she asked why she couldn't feel it and he replyed with a hushed something or other about cancelled or severed nerve endings or a tweak of some kind. kinda like the branch stuck in her brain caused her not to heal, maybe he left something in an important part of where her ability resides. where he poked her brain seemed about the same place as the branch had penetrated right?

How do you know that? They've never shown the process before.

In the latest GN, Sylar doesn't get Bianca's power because he killed her and tried for Gael, who didn't have a power. Since he didn't get her power, she must have been dead for too long, even though it was only minutes.

That means that he can't get a power from a dead brain, which means the people from whom he's taken powers may very well have been alive while he did it. The ones who had their brains removed obviously died from that, but perhaps there's a small time window for that to happen - freshly dead.

I like that interpretation, myself. He "fixed" her so he couldn't feel pain. Since she can't feel pain now, he "stole" that as well.

I know you said it before, but what made this lines so incredibly amusing was Zack's perfect delivery. Brilliant actor. If you'd have seen only this short moment of him as Sylar, you could absolutely like the character. It's such a switch from evil to... well... normal.
Anyway, I found the whole scene unnecessarily disgusting. I had my eyes closed through most of it. Thankfully it was so dark. Oh, and I don't think you'd have a quiet discussion with your murderer while the top of you head is sawed off. The pain would be too much to bear. You'd pass out.

oh, and another thing I found funny was that there was no blood at all in Claires hair when she had the top of her head reattached though wounds to the scalp - however small - bleed like HELL! (I've seen it. I know what I'm talking about) If Sylar did his little surgery while Claire was standing, all the hair form the level of the cut downwards would be drenched in blood, as well as her shirt and her face.

Sylar's monologue in this episode was epic. It showed how powerful he is. In Season Two, I felt that he was a bit weaker and not as scary, but now...Sylar is back!

This line had my sister and I rolling on the ground laughing.

Claire heals - she would have bled, but not to the extent you'd see in a normal person (in fact, I'm pretty sure that's how most of Sylar's victims die, bleeding to death, akin to what I posted just before). What we *should* have seen is her scalp beginning to grow back while he was probing her grey matter. But that then would have been at odds with the way he placed her skullcap back on her head.

Two ideas:

1) Claire's scalp didn't heal for reasons we already know. Sylar was doing stuff with her brain, keeping her healing ability from "kicking in" like the stick of wood did in S1.

2) Her healing ability was kinda busy with keeping her alife and conscious before it had the "resources" to also grow back the tissue.

It doesn't get more intimate than sticking your fingers in someone's brain.

I too am curious about the whole 'can't feel pain anymore' thing. Maybe that's just an advancement of her ability. Other people's abilities grow and get stronger, why not Claire's? Besides, Sylar told her there was so much about her ability she didn't understand, maybe that was one thing. I think with his tinkering, he just progressed her on a little further.

Speaking of Sylar saying she didn't understand her ability. I liked that little bit. Even though he will kill over and over again, I think he felt genuine sympathy for Claire not understanding her own ability.

And I've just realised, she's his niece now.

First, yeah, she may heal, but not fast enough to prevent her blood from soaking at least her hair. no way around that. Maybe the movie blood they use is so sticky that Hayden didn't want it stuck in her blond mane.
Second, that's exactly the kind of contradictions I was talking about in another thread. The writers themselves don't know EXACTLY how and in which way the powers work. That's always problematic with complex stories like this one.

I'm sure it is. Claire must have had a reduced perception pf pain even before, remember her putting her hand into boiling water or in a flame, just to test out what might happen. She once told West something like that, AFAIR.