Quote:I believe the parasite is only the chosen/accepted explanation for David's personalities.

 

How do they really know?

 

It could just be another side of him.  And wouldn't that be one heck of a revelation...

 

There's also a lot left to explore with his origin, where more of that may get sorted out (or complicated even further.)

If I'm to understand from what very little I have read (so I could be way off base) and seen on the show his powers come from the legion of personalities he has. Each of them has a different power so David's power would only be limited by the number of personalities he has. Man, that makes my head hurt to think about. 

 

I believe that's why the parasite grew to be powerful (again?).

 

He fought Prof X, who was very young with his own powers (but still powerful in his own way), and lost which made him weak. He found David and either A- wanted to.... infect him for revenge on Prof X, or B- wanted to infect him because he knew how powerful David could be which would in turn make the parasite very powerful and, C- he could go after Prof X, who I'm sure he wants a piece of and what better way than to do it in Prof X's own son's body. 

 

But who the hell knows. It was an awesome episode. This episode type is the kind of payoff missing from TWD. This show makes your brain hurt (hello episode five!) with all the information but they throw you a bone every week and then they give you a side of beef, like with this episode. TWD clods along like a dinosaur in the age of tasmanian devils. Of course, in it's first couple of seasons TWD was pretty awesome. I sometimes think they should have just left that alone at season one, but that's a whole other subject entirely.

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