Heroes Finale

23/05/2007

I’ve been meaning to have a quick personal go at the Heroes finale that aired this last Monday. For the sake of everyone who hasn’t seen it, mass spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned!

The Good!

- It actually wrapped up! I know this seems to be an odd comment for a season finale of a show. However a lot of shows leave so many loose ends at the end in addition to presenting the hooks for the next season that you are left in a huge turmoil of frustration. Heroes wrapped up a lot of points nicely and settled the main storyline of the first season. And did it ever introduce a bunch more spoilers to get me pumped for next season.

- Hiro is bad-ass. Ando is likewise totally bad-ass, but kinda silly.

The Bad :(

- Ok, Sylar vs Peter vs Heroes. The fight in the future setting was already about a bijillion times cooler. First of all, Sylar, for being so smart in previous battles just totally sucked. The best he can do is watch Hiro run like 10 meters towards him with a sword and stab him? Please! This fight had epic potential written all over it and could have been amazing, yet it was mostly irrelevant. No one died, nothing really cool happened, there wasn’t an oh my god my jaw just dropped moment.

- Only one hero dies, period, it might be the right one in terms of a redemption plotline, but he hasn’t really done anything bad yet either. So not sure. Speaking of, why did he have to do that anyway. Peter can certainly use any of his other powers on his own, why not flight also, why not Hiro’s teleportation while we’re at it.

- There were also about a million and one ways that they could have stopped Peter from exploding, and yet they went with perhaps the most cliche one. Knock him out, shoot him, have him teleport somewhere, have him fly on his own, etc.

The Interesting Comments

- So Sylar is not dead, again.

- That samurai in the past, is it the one Hiro admires? Is it his father? Is it his grandfather? Why does the samurai army use the yet unexplained symbol that appears as a tattoo on Nicki’s shoulder? What is that symbol?

- Who was the guy in the past that saw Peter? Why does he know so much? Who is the previous group of Heroes that’s discussed as starting with a good goal, but then shattering?

- Where do we go from here, I can’t foresee a storyline in the past, it would just seem to odd, especially considering how many characters are left in the present.

- Do all those plot twists in the future not matter at all? Why were they so elaborate then if the future is completely changed?

I almost think I want to sit down and have a conversation with someone who watches the show and discuss so many more points! But maybe soon, we shall see :)

There is 1 comment in this article:

  1. 23/05/2007Mujibar say:

    The black guy that sees Peter when he travels to the past is Simone’s dad. You knew that, right? One of the earlier episodes starts off with Peter telling him that he can fly, and he asks Peter to show him.

    I was disappointed that Sylar didn’t die. I think we needed that storyline to end so that we could get some fresh stuff next season. Perhaps Sylar’s role will change significantly? I guess time will tell.

    It wasn’t the army that was holding that symbol; it was the lone rider. I think he must be related to Hiro somehow. It would just make sense.

    I think the general consensus on why Peter didn’t just fly himself up into the atmosphere is that he was too focused on controlling Ted’s power to be able to use any of his other powers. I guess it makes sense.

    One weird thing I noticed is that when Nathan lands right in front of his brother and Claire, he says, “There is another way.” How did he know what Claire said? He was way in the sky when Claire said it. Does Nathan have super hearing now?

    I would say the finale somewhat disappointed me, but now that I think about it, it did exactly what a season finale is supposed to do: keep you coming back for more. The grand finale we were all hoping for (and expecting) would be more appropriate for a series finale, but these guys are in it for the long run. The show has a long way to go, and we’ve only scraped the surface. Season one set up the premise of the show. Season two should be awesome!

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