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[nolly]

Somewhat spoilery for 1x19 ".07%"

Mohinder is an IDIOT. I was willing to give him some slack for the first time he didn't kill Sylar immediately, but this time...no. Why did he run off with Peter's corpse, leaving Sylar out cold on the floor, instead of taking a moment to, say, slit his throat?

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[colleency.livejournal.com]

Cause he's an idiot.

[catrambo.livejournal.com]

Apparently he couldn't hear me screaming "Kill him, kill HIM" while watching.

[marphod.livejournal.com]

Its not the *character* that's the problem.

Its the WRITERS.

When characters have to deal with high dramatic tension or unsolvable problems, kudos to the writers, for making us empathize with them.

And when the writers go an blow it, by greating an unambiguous moral solution to a problem, and the character fails to take it, it isn't the character's fault. its the stupid dualism of 'moral characters cannot take actions that might have the slightest conflight between ethics and mores'. Its not realistic, it doesn't make for good dramatic tension; it is simply the writers taking the easy way out by making a character make their life harder in the long run.

Supposedly, its dramatic. Reallistically, its just bad writing.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

But it's not like this character has never done anything morally questionable.
They just wrote him dumb, in this case.
I mean, if they want to keep Sylar around, which I'm sure they do, it's not unplausible for him to heal, or to otherwise not die. But Mohinder should have at least tried.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

From another thread somewhere else, apparently Sylar was supposed to go out the window, but because of budget they couldn't do that, so it was reduced to that idiocy.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

He couldn't hear me either. :D

Even the first time was inexcusable. Uh, Mohinder? You ARE aware, are you not, that you can obtain DNA samples from corpses? And that if you BLOW SYLAR'S HEAD OFF with your pistol you can still then get samples of his spinal fluid, right? The only reason for Mohinder not to kill Sylar (in character) was a desire to torture him and/or gloat over capturing him.

In reality, of course, it was the pudgy hand of the writer. I'm generally pleased with HEROES, but this plot idiocy is inexcusable.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

I find it reasonably plausible that Mohinder would want to torture Sylar. It's the ignoring the opportunity altogether that's bothering me about this one.

[jwildstr.livejournal.com]

Presumably because he's necessary later in the season.

At some level, I could kinda understand running away. After all, Mohinder thought he was harmless before...Why stick around and find out. But then again, it looks like he took the time to destroy the computer (or was that Peter and the whole mess in the apartment).

[nolly.livejournal.com]

There are lots of ways to not actually kill Sylar, though -- it's the ignoring the opportunity that bugs me. The computer was destroyed during the fight, IIRC -- I think someone landed on it, or something like that.

I think I need to re-watch this ep, or at least that segment.

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

Because "we all have our parts to play in the events to come", and without Sylar alive to be the bad guy for "the bomb", Nathan doesn't become president and so on and on. I think that Monday's episode is going to fill in more of those blanks. And I think that Mohinder may be working for someone, towards their ends, which require that Sylar remain alive. But that's just idle speculation.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

The question is not "Why didn't Mohinder succeed in killing Sylar, beyond all hope of resurrection?" The question is "Why didn't he even try?"

[ashi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that about sums it up for me too.