After reading through my flist, I have decided that there are only three ways for fandom to cope with last night's  "character development" for Sylar:

1. Killing Tim Kring.
2. Crack (literal).
3. Crack (metaphorical).

After some analysis, I've determined that the least harmful of these three choices is probably the final one.  (I am, however, open to hearing arguments to the contrary.)  And so, I present to you my outline for a vitally important fic that I would like to write!  It is titled...

( Cut so as not to spoil anyone who hasn't yet seen last night's episode. And to preserve you from my insanity. )
All I'm saying is, if you're going to let 14-year-old fanfic writers write Sylar's storyline, then you should just fucking go full-out balls-to-the-wall with it, Kring.

Any additional plot suggestions for The Incredible Sparkly Adventures are welcomed! 

I saw the first episode of Heroes season 3 yesterday at Comic Con, and...I’m cautiously optimistic. There was promise and there was also heart-sinking unpleasantness. I’ll explain why below the cut, but I will say one non-spoilery thing: smooth, calculating, unstoppable S1 Sylar is back. And right at this moment, that’s all I needed.


So...I don’t know. There’s an awful lot of “WTF???” in this episode, particularly with Mohinder, and there wasn’t enough gut-grabbing awesomeness for me to forget about season 2. However, Sylar’s intensely creepy scenes rocked, and the other spoilery character awesomeness made me actually bounce up and down in my seat. In the end, “cautious optimisim” is the best description of how I feel. It certainly looks like it’s improving, but I’m going to have to see several episodes of increasing coolness before I’ll be completely back on board. 

So I was just going to check my flist quickly before I settled in to write a bit, but in Neil Gaiman's latest post, he'd added some widgets for his Last.fm account. And I've never bothered to pay attention to that site before, but the fact that one of his most frequently-listened-to songs right now was by Brenda Kahn made me check it out. And I ended up signing up for an account. And...man, talk about something that could completely suck away hours of my life.

I've been testing it, playing really obscure bands in Winamp to see if it can identify them. Jetenderpaul, a Kansas City band that hasn't made a record since 2002? Check. Jale, a Canadian group that I think broke up before the turn of the century? Check. The ultimate test: Gone Daddy Finch, a Toledo band that we loved in college 15 years ago? CHECK. I'm freakin' impressed. (And in a weird moment, one of the top listeners for GDF is a guy who lived in my dorm who used to write and perform his own songs. I need to get a tape deck that will connect to a computer to allow me to make MP3s of the stuff he did. The politically active part of my flist would enjoy "New World Order Limosine" in particular - but I digress.)

My flist is so filled with Moonlight posts right now that I feel like I need to post SOMETHING related to Heroes fandom. So...here is something. 


 

I can't tell if the flu has turned into a cold or if my spring allergies have started up early, but I can't stop sneezing. I have some things I need to write, but after dinner I got so tired I curled up on the couch and my brain, it is barely functioning. I think I'm going to curl up in bed with the laptop and hope that I wake up enough that I can get a bit more done before I go to bed, because I won't have any free time at work tomorrow.

I'm trying to decide if I want to go...um...experience this.



Also? This may be my most favorite piece of Sylar fanart, ever. I love that it manages to be somewhere between Disney and anime, and yet isn't entirely unthreatening. I would actually read the Heroes graphic novels if they looked like this.


Tick Tock by =saitenyo on deviantART 

So a few weeks ago, I'm driving home from work and not really paying that much attention to the Current because they're playing a hiphop song and I just don't like hiphop. But as I'm exiting onto 94, I suddenly went, "Wait a minute? Did this guy just mention Sylar?"

I figured I'd just misheard it and didn't really think much about it afterwards.

Then last night about midnight, the Current played the song again. And once again, I wasn't really paying close attention, but the name "Sylar" jumped out at me. So I googled the song to find lyrics, and it turns out I am not an obsessive freak who's hearing his name for no reason:

you're a cute lil styler with a half-eaten writer
cut off your fitted cap, take your power like Sylar

If you'd like to hear for yourself because you are also an obsessed freak, the artist is Cadence Weapon and the song ("In Search Of The Youth Crew") is currently playing on his MySpace page. 

So resol37 tagged me to do this meme:

List ten fictional characters you would have sex with (in no particular order) and tag five people to do the same.

Don't blame me if you need brain bleach or a bunk after seeing this. (OK, technically, I suppose that since I'm the one who bared my soul, and searched for all these pictures, and put them in my PhotoBucket account, and inserted them in this post, I'm the one to blame. But I've decided that I am actually totally blameless in this. Besides, my bunk is soundproofed, so I can't hear anyone's complaining.) 



Oh, man. I swear, everyone on my flist is either traveling right now or has already been tagged (or, I suspect, isn't interested in memes). But I will tag aelora , nothingtosay , barhaven , invderlava , sinemoras , and ghagiel . (Yes, I realize that is 6 people. See my previous sentence re: travel/already tagged/not interested. I figure picking a sixth person increases the chance that someone will do it by 20%.) 
 

So. I was writing a comment on one of barhaven 's posts and I realized something that I don't recall ever discussing before (if I have discussed it and forgotten about it, or if other people have, can you point it out to me just so I'll know?).

barhaven and I both wrote alternate takes on Sylar's storyline this season, but I realized that there's one plot point that neither one of us addressed, and the show didn't either. From Sylar's P.O.V., his last memory is passing out on the concrete of Kirby Plaza after flinging Hiro through the air and laughing as Peter stood there, about to explode. Then he woke up on the beach with Candice. So as far as Sylar knows, based on the visions he painted of the future, and based on seeing Peter glowing and losing it, New York should be destroyed. Correct?

The fact that he survived wouldn't be a tip-off that New York was all right, since he has that same nuclear ability and could have inferred (or seen in his vision) that Peter's use of the ability wouldn't physically harm him. Even when Candice says that she dragged him off Kirby Plaza, he'd never seen her before, and for all he knows, she was flown in from outside the city and was wearing a radiation suit when she did it.

So when the Twins and their redshirt pick him up...why does he tell them he's going home to New York? Maybe he just had no idea what else to do and decided that if he had to live a sad pathetic powerless life, he might as well do it in the ruins of the only place he ever called home. But shouldn't he, at this point, think that New York is a smoking crater? So shouldn't he be a little surprised when no one in the car asks him why he's going back to a smoking crater?

And when Maya shows him the book and he perks up, my read of that has always been that he realized Mohinder's continuing research might help him get his powers back. But Mohinder was right there at ground zero at the moment that Sylar thinks Peter exploded. Even though Sylar was concentrated on Peter, he was on his toes enough to stop Parkman's bullets. So surely he would have noticed five people bursting out of a door near Parkman's moaning form, and he's spent enough time with Mohinder that it would be easy to identify him in that group even without superhearing.  So shouldn't Sylar think that Mohinder is dead and his research was incinerated?

I'm probably way overthinking this, especially since it took me 5 months to realize the potential inconsistency. But now that I've thought of it, I can't get my brain to stop wondering about it. 

Today was so incredibly busy that I just now have a chance to say...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, irvys_sefie ! And as we all know, nothing says "Happy Birthday" like pictures of Sylar. 

 

ESP told me I needed to take this quiz, and actually, both of them predicted I would be "Blue".  Note that the results of this quiz mesh perfectly with the myriad of Heroes quizzes I've taken that say I am Sylar...

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.