Sylar: Peter, don’t, you’re in no condition to go to Pine Hurst. … What you took from me, my ability, I’ve lived with it. The need for power will consume you and will control you.
Peter: Get out of my way.
Sylar: No! I’m your brother Peter, and you’ve gotta listen to me, you need help.
Peter: I don’t need anything from you.
Sylar: I’m not going to let you leave Peter, I’ve been down that path and it’s too dangerous.
Peter: You’re too weak to stop me.
Okay, I don’t think this was exactly intentionally written this way, but this is what we call dramatic irony. For you see, Sylar has just broken out of a holding cell, where he is staying because he can’t get it together. He has not successfully completed rehab (if that’s what you’d call it) and certainly is in no way ready to be a) a caring and compassionate brother or b) telling someone “you need help” or c) “I’ve been down that path”, in which “been” implies that they have finished with that path.
This either shows how delusional Sylar is, or what I’m really feeling, which is that the writers are so eager to reform Sylar’s character that they’ve jumped ahead of themselves. Oh man, there is just so much to say on the subject of Sylar as a character, but that is going to be a very long post that I am going to wait on. This series needs him to fill the ‘big bad’ role, but after season 1, well there is just a lot to say, let’s put it that way.
And I know there’s a .01% of this coming true, but if Angela Petrelli is just bull shitting Sylar because she picked up on his mommy issues and need for approval then she will shoot to the top of my favorites list. I mean, I would really, really love it if she turned out to be such a brazen and manipulative sob.
