Questions you would really like to see answered by the writers for Heroes

[game_byrd]

An idea I've been toying with recently, is finding a/the principle writer or creative force for Heroes and asking them some questions about the plot. The show's over; it's not being revived; the graphic novels are shuttered; so why not satisfy a few fan's curiosity

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[dancingdragon3]

My questions are related to powers -

1- How did Angela and Sylar communicate on Level 5 in season 3, when they were both unconscious? Was it Angela's power or one of Sylar's as she insinuates?

2- What about when Peter sees Sylar in his dream while he's in prison in season 1. Was that really Sylar's consciousness in the dream?

3- When Sylar says he can feel Claire's emotions through her hand in season 3, is that supposed to be part of his psychometry or something else he's picked up?

[means2bhuman]

#3 - Sylar has a low-powered or buried empathy that works only if he's experienced whatever's happened to the other special. He gained Elle's ability ("Its Coming") and Lydia's ("Let It Bleed") this way. I'd say in Claire's case in that scene: he's never dealt with a victim who had their head open where he got their ability that way and had them...live to talk to him about it. His empathy would, I imagine, come from his own experiences on Level 5 in S1, being "experimented on" which I think includes having his skull sawed off and re-healed. This is canon as Arthur tells him he's always had and it just never knew how to access it. I consider it fairly substantiated and trustworthy. Psychometry might work, too.

[dancingdragon3]

Sylar has a low-powered or buried empathy that works only if he's experienced whatever's happened to the other special.

Hmmm, that's a lot more specific than what Arthur said to Sylar at Pinehearst. I never got that Sylar had to have had a similar experience to gain someone's power. I thought they just had to use it on him for him to connect with it. What were you thinking about as far as Elle, Lydia, and the shape shifter goes for shared experiences? I suppose Lydia would be having someone lie and use you?

Honestly, I have no idea what Arthur was talking about, he was so vague that I thought he was just making it up. Or maybe that's the writers leaving it open to interpretation, as they seem to do so much. I thought Arthur was referring to a part of Sylar's actual psyche rather than a power. That his feelings were a new way to access his original power.