There are SO many options they could have explored now that he's if not "reformed" then at least "reforming." Peter has clearly demonstrated that heroes with powers can get in just as much trouble as villains. Watching Peter try to help Sylar, or Gabriel if you want him to switch to his "nice" name, readjust to the real world would have been glorious. Plus, if Sylar could fix Peter's powers...and I believe he could...then they would be super fun as partners against evil. It would be like the greatest super-powered buddy cop movie ever.   See 1 other reply

I found this season to be extremely disappointing. The writing was boring, the antagonist while a good actor very unimaginative, and the season as a whole anti-climatic. I see heroes sliding downhill honestly, for they are not getting better as the seasons progress. this show peaked early!   See 4 other replies

The first season was great because it used the concept of a villain that half the characters weren't even aware of to eventually bring everyone together as a side effect of their own struggles. This season followed the same pattern, only Samuel is a better villain than Sylar. Sylar was a power mad maniac. This has been done many times before. They imbued him with a tortured soul; but again, used quite a lot.Now character's like Samuel have existed in various forms of storytelling many times before, but they are less often used. I think this is because it is difficult to write a villain who is a good man who is just mistaken or lost. Simple evil (like Sylar season one) is...well simple. Complex evil like Samuel (or his obvious counterpart if not inspiration Magneto from X-men) is a little more difficult to pull off. Usually it just ends up a little incomprehensible.In this case ever main character had a path to tread which had to do with them finding redemption for their mistakes. Most of them (and most notably Sylar) did. This was counter-balanced by Samuel and his stated search for redemption, which he never found. This was bolstered for me, by the fact that I hated him at one point; then later, desperately hoped he would redeem himself.   See 4 other replies

Compared the immediately previous season, this season was a lot more plausible in terms of story line--they tried to keep it somewhat more realistic than the previous seasons, whereas in season three, they went all "Heroes=comic books on tv", when in fact that wasn't what the spirit of the show was supposed to be at all, and didn't work with the foundation that Season 1 laid.   See 21 other replies

As Worf says Sylar had accepted that he wanted to change. I think if anything his time in the mental prison was more of a way for hi to learn to trust himself to hold to those changes. He went to Parkman to get rid of his powrs because he didn't trust himself and thought not having powers would help him to hold to his attempt to change. In the course of time trapped in his own mind he was able to change in a way that he had more confidence that he could be one of the goodguys..and even do so with the powers.   See 21 other replies