It's a fair point. I just assumed that Candice told him once he'd come round from surgery - in between the yelling on the bed and glaring at the Happy Cup.
"Where am I?" "In a jungle in the middle of Central America." "Why? Is it the only place safe from the fallout?" "No, it's just our money source is off chasing your geneticist in Cairo, so... budget cuts."
This is really just an outgrowth of all the other questions I have about how he ended up there, since if I knew whether he managed to pull himself into the sewers on his own before the Company came after him, I'd know the answer to this question. Some mystery is good, but...man, sometimes I think that they just decided it would be exotic!!! and dazzling!!! to have him wake up in the middle of a CGI jungle and they didn't really think it through.
"No, it's just our money source is off chasing your geneticist in Cairo, so... budget cuts."
I wonder if he would even blink if someone referred to Mohinder as "your geneticist" while speaking to him?... ;0)
I'd always assumed that Sylar pulled himself into the sewer, meaning that he was conscious and able to realize that the city wasn't destroyed. If there's one thing Sylar has managed to do time and time again, it's survive. After the incident with his "death" at Primatech, I didn't really question Sylar's ability to regain consciousness at Kirby Plaza. I don't recall exactly what Candice told him about how he was, uh, "rescued," but it's possible she was speaking in general terms or that she didn't know the specifics.
I was actually pathetic enough to spend my lunch hour reading transcripts of the episodes online to see if I could answer this on my own. Candice tells him that she dragged him off Kirby Plaza, which he repeats in a questioning voice (though I'm not sure if he was just disoriented from waking up on a beach or had other memories), and then she tells him that he got stabbed with a samurai sword and needed 8 surgeries
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Sorry, fanwanking a bit more in your LJ... You have all the cool discussions here. ;)
The way I see it, there's at least two possible reasons why he doesn't remember anything between Kirby Plaza and his beach party with Candice. He could have ended up in a coma after he was stabbed, either because of his injuries or because the Company decided that keeping him chemically comatose was easier than having to deal with him while they patched him up. Or he could have been awake for at least part of it, and known what they were doing to him. Then, before they shipped him off to the Jungle Shack of Braaains, they had the Haitian wipe his memory as a safety precaution so that, if he DID escape, he wouldn't remember being injected with the Virus, and wouldn't immediately come after them for revenge
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The Haitian is a whole additional can of worms. Because I realized at some point this fall that I was assuming that they'd used the Haitian to mindwipe him. But I'm guessing that the Haitian had been back in Haiti for a while at the point that we first saw him. Which means that there ought to have been at least a few days where they didn't have him around to mind-wipe Sylar. So...do they have another method for mindwiping people? Or did they keep Sylar in a coma for a while? And if so, how in hell did he manage to stay all buff like that? And...heck, how did the Haitian get the virus in the first place? Was he deliberately injected by someone? Or if he picked it up accidentally, why hasn't anyone else in the Company's facility turned up with the virus?
I can go on like this ALL WEEK. ;0) I have no idea why I'm all questioning right now. I wonder if the impending end to the writers' strike is just making me nervous about whether the next season will be good.
This is what I thought, too. There was enough time in between those scenes for him to ask Candice for a brief update.
why does he tell them he's going home to New York? Maybe he just had no idea what else to do and decided that if he had to live a sad pathetic powerless life, he might as well do it in the ruins of the only place he ever called home Exactly. I really wish the story had continued along that point for awhile (ie., he didn't realize the twins had powers like five minutes later)... but that's a rant for another post.
This is what I thought, too. There was enough time in between those scenes for him to ask Candice for a brief update.
I realized after I posted that this is really just another form of my questions about what really happened to him after the fight in Kirby Plaza. Some of them are simple: did he actually manage to drag himself into the sewer on his own? What did Mohinder and Bennet think had happened to his body, since surely they wouldn't go off without checking to make sure the guy who can cheat death was really dead? Some of them, like how he got the memory gap, are more complex. I just wish they would give us a partial answer, so I can stop thinking about it...
I really wish the story had continued along that point for awhile (ie., he didn't realize the twins had powers like five minutes later)I know that the writers would probably say, "Look, we have a limited amount of time to fit all these story elements in." But in thinking about it...I might have had a different opinion of this road trip if the Twins HAD traveled with
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Another possible fanwank - there were some newspapers and magazines in the Love Shack to keep Candice and any medical personnel entertained. While I doubt that Candice went for the intellectual reading material, a complete absence of any mention of the destruction of NYC would be a huge clue that nothing happened (even if she had nothing but back issues of Cosmo). He probably wondered why nothing happened, but chalked it up to yet another example of the world being against him. He might also have taken the time to read any reports that were left conveniently lying around (this is a fanwank, remember?) that mentioned Mohinder.
Or we could just accept that the writers tend to be annoyingly sloppy and decide it gives us lots of wiggle room for writing fic.
there were some newspapers and magazines in the Love Shack
Oh, man. Just when I think Sylar's storyline this season couldn't be any creepier, I'm now grappling with the image of him lying there unconscious while Candice fondles his hair... ;0)
Or we could just accept that the writers tend to be annoyingly sloppy and decide it gives us lots of wiggle room for writing fic.
I just have my moments when the questions get overwhelming and I want answers NOW. Mainly because I don't want to contemplate the writers being sloppy, because that opens up the possiblity that Volume 3 will just be a big sloppy contradictory mess. I shall try reciting this as my mantra...
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"Where am I?"
"In a jungle in the middle of Central America."
"Why? Is it the only place safe from the fallout?"
"No, it's just our money source is off chasing your geneticist in Cairo, so... budget cuts."
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"No, it's just our money source is off chasing your geneticist in Cairo, so... budget cuts."
I wonder if he would even blink if someone referred to Mohinder as "your geneticist" while speaking to him?... ;0)
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The way I see it, there's at least two possible reasons why he doesn't remember anything between Kirby Plaza and his beach party with Candice. He could have ended up in a coma after he was stabbed, either because of his injuries or because the Company decided that keeping him chemically comatose was easier than having to deal with him while they patched him up. Or he could have been awake for at least part of it, and known what they were doing to him. Then, before they shipped him off to the Jungle Shack of Braaains, they had the Haitian wipe his memory as a safety precaution so that, if he DID escape, he wouldn't remember being injected with the Virus, and wouldn't immediately come after them for revenge ( ... )
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The Haitian is a whole additional can of worms. Because I realized at some point this fall that I was assuming that they'd used the Haitian to mindwipe him. But I'm guessing that the Haitian had been back in Haiti for a while at the point that we first saw him. Which means that there ought to have been at least a few days where they didn't have him around to mind-wipe Sylar. So...do they have another method for mindwiping people? Or did they keep Sylar in a coma for a while? And if so, how in hell did he manage to stay all buff like that? And...heck, how did the Haitian get the virus in the first place? Was he deliberately injected by someone? Or if he picked it up accidentally, why hasn't anyone else in the Company's facility turned up with the virus?
I can go on like this ALL WEEK. ;0) I have no idea why I'm all questioning right now. I wonder if the impending end to the writers' strike is just making me nervous about whether the next season will be good.
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why does he tell them he's going home to New York? Maybe he just had no idea what else to do and decided that if he had to live a sad pathetic powerless life, he might as well do it in the ruins of the only place he ever called home
Exactly. I really wish the story had continued along that point for awhile (ie., he didn't realize the twins had powers like five minutes later)... but that's a rant for another post.
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I realized after I posted that this is really just another form of my questions about what really happened to him after the fight in Kirby Plaza. Some of them are simple: did he actually manage to drag himself into the sewer on his own? What did Mohinder and Bennet think had happened to his body, since surely they wouldn't go off without checking to make sure the guy who can cheat death was really dead? Some of them, like how he got the memory gap, are more complex. I just wish they would give us a partial answer, so I can stop thinking about it...
I really wish the story had continued along that point for awhile (ie., he didn't realize the twins had powers like five minutes later)I know that the writers would probably say, "Look, we have a limited amount of time to fit all these story elements in." But in thinking about it...I might have had a different opinion of this road trip if the Twins HAD traveled with ( ... )
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Or we could just accept that the writers tend to be annoyingly sloppy and decide it gives us lots of wiggle room for writing fic.
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Oh, man. Just when I think Sylar's storyline this season couldn't be any creepier, I'm now grappling with the image of him lying there unconscious while Candice fondles his hair... ;0)
Or we could just accept that the writers tend to be annoyingly sloppy and decide it gives us lots of wiggle room for writing fic.
I just have my moments when the questions get overwhelming and I want answers NOW. Mainly because I don't want to contemplate the writers being sloppy, because that opens up the possiblity that Volume 3 will just be a big sloppy contradictory mess. I shall try reciting this as my mantra...
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