Sylar And His Awakening Of Sorts

Heroes the TV series has always been intriguing. Series 1 took the world by storm with its super storyline - ordinary folks with superpowers that change their destinies forever, and the course of mankind along with them. It had all the basics of good TV - good guys, bad guys, beyond-belief elements, underdogs, a bigger-than-oneself spin, wishful thinking, effects galore, catchphrase "save the cheerleader, save the world" and cliffhangers. Season 2 was more of the same but since we had already sunk our teeth canine deep into the plot, we expected more from season 2, maybe too much. Now in season 3, it's all a little too complex and convoluted. In one episode, timelines can jump 3 times. One really has to keep track.

Anyway, the reason for this post is Sylar and what this character is portraying in the midpoint episodes of the season. There was a marathon rerun on Star World on Sunday and I managed to catch more than a few episode to rekindle the couch potato spirit in me. The man in question, Sylar, said and did some 'enlightening' things:
- he found his mommy and daddy,
- he discovered his purpose,
- he found that being human (powerless) was actually liberating (this happened during the eclipse),
- he discovered his mommy and daddy weren't his mommy and daddy from the guy who wanted to kill him off no less
- he killed off people who'd been lying to him including the woman he thought he fell in love with,
- he rekindled his dark side and committed to it. Note scene when Peter Petrelli was going to put a bullet through his daddy head and Sylar said "You're not a killer Peter, I am." He then released the bullet he held telepathically in mid-air straight into Father Petrelli's frontal lobe.
- he advised the folks he was going to kill off that he was going to bring the worst out in them because they'll too turn into monsters in doing what they need to do

Poor guy. Nonetheless, the enlightening bit is about being ourselves with what we have, and releasing that sometimes our circumstances make us forget who we are. People are generally good. But our conditions and circumstances change us. Sylar became so comfortable with being a psychopathic killer seeking the truth he didn't care anymore about walking around in a blood stained shirt with similarly stained hands. (The red was a nice red by the way) He was then just seeking the truth about himself and his past. As people kept on lying to him, the more pissed he got and got rid of them. He stopped short of doing in Angela Petrelli, the fake mommy.

Could we bring ourselves to be who we really are? Is it too scary to admit who we are? Are our conditions keeping us acceptable to local constraints (job, family, TV, need for money etc). Some of us might be asking who we are really. I remember thinking as a kid what was my reason for being. Most of us don't know. We simply accepted life and grew up where we placed. Voila, you are here now. But why ah?

I guess we need to watch more TV to figure out.