I concur. Seriously, this really doesn't fit stylistically with the rest of the comics. Plus it's kind of pointless and stupid (IMAO).
One possibility for Nathan's reflection (which I only glimpsed--I haven't seen most of the episode): maybe he has a touch of the "dream vision"/precognition thing that Peter used to have (remember those sketches of him flying?). (He may still have that ability, but if so we haven't seen it, probably because it's not as sexy as his other abilities.) Anyway, it could be that sort of thing. I'm still wondering how Nathan even survived in the first place: if he was at ground zero when Peter went up, he'd be lucky to end up with a hideously scarred face (as opposed to, say, being disintegrated).
On a vaguely-related note: who did Candace believe that she was working for, if anyone, when she talked to Sylar about how her employers would fix everything? (I don't think that the Company still wants him for anything other than lab rat, although maybe that's what she had in mind.)
The mechanics (and, dare I say, logic) of Peter's abilities are not well-explored in general, but whatever he might have absorbed from Sylar does present a particularly tricky case.
I don't necessarily assume that Nikki's power is unitary.
Hey, here's a funky idea: Peter got the ability to mindwipe from the Haitian, and then _did it on himself_, either intentionally or unintentionally.
(Side note: I realize that given the scope and extent of Peter's powers, you pretty much have to cripple him somehow in order to allow for any kind of dramatic tension; otherwise the show pretty much devolves into Peter (And Maybe Hiro) Kick Ass For Great Justice. But I get tired of their methods for doing so...and of the general lack of imagination that Peter brings to his abilities, even when he remembers that he has them. It would be far more interesting if his limitations were consciously self-imposed or, say, driven by a need to replenish his energies somehow, as opposed to being not-terribly-bright and emotionally about 16.)
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I concur. Seriously, this really doesn't fit stylistically with the rest of the comics. Plus it's kind of pointless and stupid (IMAO).
One possibility for Nathan's reflection (which I only glimpsed--I haven't seen most of the episode): maybe he has a touch of the "dream vision"/precognition thing that Peter used to have (remember those sketches of him flying?). (He may still have that ability, but if so we haven't seen it, probably because it's not as sexy as his other abilities.) Anyway, it could be that sort of thing. I'm still wondering how Nathan even survived in the first place: if he was at ground zero when Peter went up, he'd be lucky to end up with a hideously scarred face (as opposed to, say, being disintegrated).
On a vaguely-related note: who did Candace believe that she was working for, if anyone, when she talked to Sylar about how her employers would fix everything? (I don't think that the Company still wants him for anything other than lab rat, although maybe that's what she had in mind.)
The mechanics (and, dare I say, logic) of Peter's abilities are not well-explored in general, but whatever he might have absorbed from Sylar does present a particularly tricky case.
I don't necessarily assume that Nikki's power is unitary.
Hey, here's a funky idea: Peter got the ability to mindwipe from the Haitian, and then _did it on himself_, either intentionally or unintentionally.
(Side note: I realize that given the scope and extent of Peter's powers, you pretty much have to cripple him somehow in order to allow for any kind of dramatic tension; otherwise the show pretty much devolves into Peter (And Maybe Hiro) Kick Ass For Great Justice. But I get tired of their methods for doing so...and of the general lack of imagination that Peter brings to his abilities, even when he remembers that he has them. It would be far more interesting if his limitations were consciously self-imposed or, say, driven by a need to replenish his energies somehow, as opposed to being not-terribly-bright and emotionally about 16.)