Yeah. Both Peter and Sylar are very good at carrying themselves off as healthy, well adjusted people so much of the time. (I know Sylar's a killer, but if you engaged him in conversation in a coffee shop, I think he'd be charming and fine, like he was with Charley in Odessa in season 1.)
I can not help but look at all the crap that's rained down in BOTH men's lives and see them both as deeply damaged, right down to the cracked foundations. In season 4, we have people-person Peter, the empath, living in a stripped out apartment, being a moody loner workaholic who has no friends, won't talk to family and even his work relationships are disintegrating. Then in case that's not enough, his brother dies/is found to be dead and his mother has perpetrated some manner of atrocity with his memory/soul.
Is the poor guy gonna still be all there? Realistically, he's got to be in tatters. I see his wordless attack on Emma's cello as indicative of losing it; as well as his heedless plunge into Sylar's mind despite all the good reasons why he shouldn't. He's broken up inside - pieces of glass in a plastic trash bag, poking through at every jostle, slowing shredding the bag into uselessness.
Sylar's not the only one who needs a connection, desperately.
I can not help but look at all the crap that's rained down in BOTH men's lives and see them both as deeply damaged, right down to the cracked foundations. In season 4, we have people-person Peter, the empath, living in a stripped out apartment, being a moody loner workaholic who has no friends, won't talk to family and even his work relationships are disintegrating. Then in case that's not enough, his brother dies/is found to be dead and his mother has perpetrated some manner of atrocity with his memory/soul.
Is the poor guy gonna still be all there? Realistically, he's got to be in tatters. I see his wordless attack on Emma's cello as indicative of losing it; as well as his heedless plunge into Sylar's mind despite all the good reasons why he shouldn't. He's broken up inside - pieces of glass in a plastic trash bag, poking through at every jostle, slowing shredding the bag into uselessness.
Sylar's not the only one who needs a connection, desperately.
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