Clarification on the Big Heroes Death…..Just in Case You Were Confused (As We Were)

Were you as confused as I was by the news that Adrian Pasdar was the actor who had been let go from Heroes?  We all saw Nathan die at the end of the last season and a lot of people, myself included, thought that he was definitely dead when Nylar got shot and Sylar regained possession of his body.  Apparently we were wrong.

The confusion over this was rampant (and a lot of people called out Heroes for the un-classy way in which Pasdar was fired – he apparently read about it in a script instead of being told face-to-face), so an executive producer (Adam Armus) has given an interview to SciFi Wire:

"We all know that Nathan Petrelli last year was killed, and his mind was put into Sylar's body and shape-shifted into Nathan," said Armus. "We made some commitments last year, and we've committed that there is going to be an epic battle between two characters and who's going to win and who's going to lose. That's something we've been planning all this year. So we know that someone has to lose."

"This whole Sylar-in-one-body-and-his-mind-in-another with Matt Parkman, all that's going to come to a head, because ultimately Sylar is going to win. He's ultimately going to get out of Matt Parkman's head and get back into his body," said Armus.

"Once Nathan and Sylar come back together, there is a battle for the life of that body. Who is going to be in control? And whoever loses is the one that dies," said Armus. "It's the knock-down-drag-out 'Who's going to win this body?', and it's going to be between Peter and Nathan/Sylar. And Peter's going to be fighting for his brother." And obviously not winning.

So it appears that Nathan will be returning (although for how many episodes we don't yet know) and he and Sylar will have to battle for control over Sylar's body.

This whole "teasing a death for Heroes" thing hasn't gone off very well.  A lot of people resigned themselves to Nathan's death and I think most people always suspected Sylar would eventually regain control over his own body.  I really miss Pasdar – I always thought he was a great actor and I liked his character – but I'm kind of sad about how this whole thing played out.

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