Totally agree about Claire. I love the break in monotony - it's just...swinging on the other side of the crazy tree this time and that's what made me notice and dislike it.
Sylar likes promises because it's his little mental/conversational safeguard that he can refer back to and say "Hey, but you said thus..." (he forgets that the other person can just chose not to remember the promise which is sadly what probably happens most of the time for him. However, with a decent person, they will admit that they made a promise and he can work with that to negotiate a bit). It's like having a proof of a lie, almost. It's as close to a contract or "getting it in writing" as he's ever going to get. Plus, he's almost surprisingly loyal and honest when it comes to making/keeping his end of the deal...if he respects the person and wants whatever it is he wants badly enough. Case in point: the Petrelli scandal of S3. He let Luke down gently, he didn't have any deals with Micah or Claire. Matt never promised anything and Sam said...well, way to much bullshit for Sylar in any state of mind to (bother or want to) wade through. Bennet's a pathological liar as is Angela. Nathan's not worth bothering with and has no real power that Sylar wants, Danko wasn't going to let him out alive or free, etc. Strangely enough...Sylar is most often betrayed first and that's after he's kept up his end of a bargain. (Even more interesting for MBU: Peter's seen evidence of that).
In a nutshell, in S3, Sylar's saved Peter's ass and held true to his (heavily implied) word and was betrayed by the Petrelli parents before he really made a move against them. Bennet technically blew the whistle (to save his own skin), Sylar came after Angela in Duel and Arthur in Our Father after going rogue for Sue Lander's lie detection. Even in the IABD verse, I think Sylar was honoring some sort of invisible pact he (mostly) imagined. I'd have to really think if there's any other times Sylar's done it noteably/at all; let alone if Peter knows about it. He stayed true to Danko (at least, he wasn't going to kill Danko on his way out or so it seemed to me) but Peter wouldn't know about that, neither would Nathan, really.
Considering the stuff Sylar's capable of, Peter got off pretty lightly physically at Mercy. I think Sylar held back there. Emotionally of course, Peter got nuked.
I think Peter would have picked up that 'role behavior' is a HUGE deal for Sylar. It's how Sylar defines his life, far as Peter can see. When his role is being Peter's brother, he has these ideas of what he's supposed to do, like come save Peter from harm, tossing him out the window to protect him, etc. It's ... well, Sylar's idea of what a brother should do is kind of weird to Peter, but he can work with it. Peter wonders if the IABD Gabriel was some sort of Noah's-father-role behavior.
It's a similar concept as the promise/agreement/pact thing.
Sylar likes promises because it's his little mental/conversational safeguard that he can refer back to and say "Hey, but you said thus..." (he forgets that the other person can just chose not to remember the promise which is sadly what probably happens most of the time for him. However, with a decent person, they will admit that they made a promise and he can work with that to negotiate a bit). It's like having a proof of a lie, almost. It's as close to a contract or "getting it in writing" as he's ever going to get. Plus, he's almost surprisingly loyal and honest when it comes to making/keeping his end of the deal...if he respects the person and wants whatever it is he wants badly enough. Case in point: the Petrelli scandal of S3. He let Luke down gently, he didn't have any deals with Micah or Claire. Matt never promised anything and Sam said...well, way to much bullshit for Sylar in any state of mind to (bother or want to) wade through. Bennet's a pathological liar as is Angela. Nathan's not worth bothering with and has no real power that Sylar wants, Danko wasn't going to let him out alive or free, etc. Strangely enough...Sylar is most often betrayed first and that's after he's kept up his end of a bargain. (Even more interesting for MBU: Peter's seen evidence of that).
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My mind's a little scrambled at the moment.
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Considering the stuff Sylar's capable of, Peter got off pretty lightly physically at Mercy. I think Sylar held back there. Emotionally of course, Peter got nuked.
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It's a similar concept as the promise/agreement/pact thing.
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