Sylar's been imprisoned by people who know how to deal with and contain people with superpowers
I've lost track, but does Mohinder know that? I know he had a conversation with HRG, but it's not like he has any particular reason to trust what HRG says...
Sylar is a super villian, and in the conventions of genre fiction, he must die.
Tricky point, that. *Which* genre conventions? By TV Action Drama conventions, yeah, he probably has to die. But by Superhero Comics conventions, it is almost mandatory that he *not* die; it is certainly the case that no heroic character can kill him. As I've ranted about before, The Batman is not allowed to kill the Joker, no matter how high his body count goes.
And even in TV Action Drama, it is frequently the case that though the villain has to die, he gets killed in some convenient fashion *after* the hero has nobly decided not to kill him. This bugs the hell out of me, as I see it as a storytelling cheat, but it's no less common for that.
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Date: 2007-03-13 04:18 pm (UTC)I've lost track, but does Mohinder know that? I know he had a conversation with HRG, but it's not like he has any particular reason to trust what HRG says...
Sylar is a super villian, and in the conventions of genre fiction, he must die.
Tricky point, that. *Which* genre conventions? By TV Action Drama conventions, yeah, he probably has to die. But by Superhero Comics conventions, it is almost mandatory that he *not* die; it is certainly the case that no heroic character can kill him. As I've ranted about before, The Batman is not allowed to kill the Joker, no matter how high his body count goes.
And even in TV Action Drama, it is frequently the case that though the villain has to die, he gets killed in some convenient fashion *after* the hero has nobly decided not to kill him. This bugs the hell out of me, as I see it as a storytelling cheat, but it's no less common for that.
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