Heroes Finale

December 5th, 2007 - 23:44 | 7 comments

Spoilers ahead…

Not bad. In all the commotion I didn’t predict Nathan saving the day, and Claire + Peter + Matt continued to be very watchable. And Shaft was in it! The Petrelli/Sylar fight was a bit of an anti-climax, mind - he couldn’t do better than punch him? I didn’t know how it was all going to get resolved, though, and I liked the hints of a larger supervillain.

It’s a weird show. There’s a decent story there, but for me it gets smudged by silly plot points. I’ve no problem with suspending disbelief for things like massive discrepancies in voting numbers, or using the human genome project to track people - it’s the inconsistent smaller details I don’t like. It’s been the same all season, but to take just the two finale episodes - why would Sylar just allow himself to be stabbed? “You shoot me, she dies”? How come Peter happens not to be able to control this particular power? Why does Hiro run away from archers? Didn’t the explosion originally happen during the day? Why would Nicky/Jessica get involved in the fight? Why didn’t Claire attempt to shoot Peter in the back of the head? Why doesn’t he just fly off, rather than taking out the entire city? I can forgive the pseudo-evolutionary babble and the occasional dodgy actor, but it’s the little things that get me - it would only take a moment to fix them, and it’s so frustrating!

I don’t know. Maybe all shows have similar problems and it’s just that Heroes never properly clicked with me. Still, it’s kept me interested for six months, which is pretty good going. Hopefully season two will improve. I hope Parkman isn’t dead, I liked him. Sylar too.

You know what’s back soon? Torchwood

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7 Responses to “Heroes Finale”

1 Paul Dec 6th, 2007 at 12:14 pm

I’m sure there’s a lot of US discussion about all this.. but as its new to us my thoughts..

Sylar can only react so quickly even being sylar… plus he’s a bad guy concentrating elsewhere - when have they ever been able to see something coming? Haven’t seen Sylar or Peter use multiple powers at once.. which would explain why Peter couldn’t fly off. Also i think we’ve seen enough emotional links to the powers that anger could cause the uncontrolled nuclear power.

Hiro runs towards kensei (who i think is his dad, but could be him i suppose) and away from the archers aiming towards him… seems natural?

Definitely right about the explosion in the day element - but that was Peter’s dream of the future and the characters there were as he/we knew them then, not how they are now, and anyway we’ve proven the future can be changed Claire was unwilling to shoot her uncle.. that doesn’t seem to require much suspension of belief… but sure, she should have been moving to the back of his head if a single shot to a fleshy part didn’t distract Peter enough to stop exploding.. (no reason to stop him regenerating if a normal bullet which he could then heal did the job right? time might be an issue though!)

Torchwood woo!
2 Andrew Dec 6th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

Yeah, but he had time to see Hiro and say ‘you’. He’s reacted quickly plenty of other times. It’s silly - all it needed was for him to be taken by surprise.

Good point about not being able to use multiple powers at once. Trying to think if Sylar ever has…

Hiro could have just teleported away. I thought Kensei was his Dad too.

The explosion happened in the day when Hiro visited the future, too. But yeah, the future can be changed.
3 Ben Dec 6th, 2007 at 4:58 pm

The “can’t use two powers at the same time” thing is a decent explanation. I also had the idea that maybe he can’t absorb powers properly from his brother for some genetic reason that Mohinder Suresh could no doubt explain with 30 seconds of earnest babble (have we seen him fly since the early episodes? Even when Claude pushed him off the roof, he saved himself using Claire’s power). What got me is that Ted’s meltdown was averted by knocking him out, why couldn’t they do the same to Peter? Why go so far as to kill him?

It all felt a little rushed (maybe they shifted the original finale once it became a success), especially Nathan’s 30 second saving-of-the-day, and it’s a shame that the fight between Peter and Sylar in the ‘five years in the future’ episode looked so much better (despite Suresh blocking our view most of the time).
4 Skuds Dec 7th, 2007 at 1:29 am

In our house we don’t care about any of that - we just want to know what power Mrs. Petrelli has (in addition to her power to look like Cherie Blair in a few years time)
5 Andrew Dec 7th, 2007 at 1:32 am

Me too! Shame she didn’t turn up in the final battle and start blasting people, or whatever - Peter/Claire could have taken her out, it would have been cool.
6 Andrew Dec 7th, 2007 at 1:38 am

Ben - yeah, the future fight was so much more exciting! Good point about Ted, although I’m not sure quite what Claire did to make him explode only a little bit (but not die himself, weirdly).
7 Rullsenberg Dec 18th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

Belatedly popping by for a Heroes natter fix. Pretty well agreeing with your views, though I think I have been more forgiving of its inconsistencies. This may well be because the boy struggled to watch two eps and increasingly got agitated by its narrative structure (he found it too slow and annoying that people were in a river in Egypt asking questions about power). After another week of two of rising anxiety, he left me to it and since then let me watch the eps on my own. Nevertheless I may well force him to watch the series eps back-to-back as they may give more momentuum.

I think the ep set 5 years on was probably one of the best of ther series (for me anyway) and it was always gonna be pretty hard for the current ‘reality’ to match up.

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