I’ve been thinking alot about how Season #1 of HEROES is going to end. My below predictions can be complete crap, but I stand by them as complete crap. Probable spoilers ahead, so STOP reading and don’t blame me.
Prediction #1: I’m beginning to think that Sylar is going to end up killing Ted soon, stealing his radioactivity powers. Peter–when he uses a new power–seems incredibly, instinctually adept right out of the box.
Prediction #2: Sylar, on the other hand, does not, and seems to at times struggles to learn how to use his stolen powers. Peter gains the gift plus understanding–Sylar seems to just gain the gift. Sylar also, you’ll note–never uses two powers at once that we’ve seen. Peter seems to easily do this. Sylar will be unable to handle Ted’s power, which he himself can only barely handle.
Prediction #3: “Save the cheerleader, save the world,” i.e., meet the cheerleader, gain the power (Peter) to save the world.
Prediction #4: Claire’s regeneration will be the tipping point in the season finale battle with Sylar, where I predict Sylar will be about to go Hiroshima, and Hiro will be forced to stop time to prevent it. Exploding Sylar will be in Manhatten–but someone has to get him out, and Hiro we’ve seen has to go with the teleported person. He’d die. Nathan can fly Sylar out–but would die. Peter can fly out Sylar–and survive, thanks to Claire.
Prediction #5: Early on in the season, Peter struggled to control his abilities. I think Claude training him later was a red herring. Sylar, when he first met Peter in Texas, had already killed Charlie, the waitress with the super intellegience, and the ability to immediately grasp and understand… anything. Peter in turn began to very, very rapidly acclimate to his powers after Sylar left him for dead. Coincidence? I think not. Sylar’s stolen ability to de-atomize matter is going to be a huge factor as well, I think–they’ve played up that one trivial power quite heavily. When Peter flies Sylar up into the sky to contain the blast, he’ll use that on him.
Prediction #6: A cliff-hanger of a burning, half-atomized Peter Petrelli falling to Earth from low orbit…
Update 3/10/07: Added prediction #5.
