Heroes Report on the finale

Maybe I just built the final episode of "Heroes" to be more than it could hope to be. Maybe the finale was simply not as good as it could have been.

Either way you slice it, Monday night's season finale of "Heroes" was a major disappointment to me.

I'm sorry, there were positives, and we'll get to that later, but I just didn't buy the ending.

And it shocked me, since the writing up until this point has been flawless. It felt as if the writers were suddenly frightened to pull the trigger on any major developments to round out the year.

And no part was more disappointing than the climax. the entire climax -- not a single part of it was right. For one, once again there was NO REAL FIGHT between Peter and Sylar!!! How can you have two characters that powerful and not show them off??? Instead, We have Hiro running his sword through Sylar, and I mean literally, running right up to him from 15 feet away and stabbing him. I would have been alright with Hiro killing Sylar, if Hiro teleported directly next to him and stabbing him without warning. With the time Hiro gave Sylar to react, Hiro should have had no chance. I mean, Damn, a minute before Sylar was able to turn his head and stop speeding bullets! SPEEDING BULLETS!

But my biggest problem with the ending was Nathan's sacrifice. And I know, that was one development I predicted and said I wanted to see -- and I did want to see it, if it was the last resort. Follow me on this. If Peter was shot in the head, he would "die" and stop blowing up. Why wouldn't they just be able to pull the bullet out of his head afterwards? Wouldn't he have been fine? Just like he was with the glass, and Claire was with the sharp piece of wood? Wouldn't that have been a perfectly foreshadowed shocking ending?

The whole climax just seemed so forced. And the aftermath was equally as confusing to me. Do you realize how many loose ends there are that all the characters forgot about? Let's list them, shall we?

1) Mr. Bennett (or should we call him Noah -- what an unfitting name that is) is suddenly unconcerned with Molly falling into the wrong hands. She's just as dangerous now as she was last week!
2) If Peter is alive, he can still blowup again! Ted Sprague didn't run out of explosion, why should Peter?
3) Nobody followed up on Sylar? Plug him in the head? Stab him a time or two more? Everyone forgot about his dead body? Nobody noticed it is GONE?
4)The police and E.M.T.s that showed up did not hassle everyone on the scene, wondering why there are so many people with weapons and injured? Seriously?

And by the way, Where is the Haitian?

The ending was way too fast and way too convenient. I felt like that was the first act of a two act ending, with the biggest battle around the corner. But no, it's just done for the next 4 months. Still, there were some good parts...

The Good:

1) Candice's fight with Nikki: It was the perfect way to round out Nikki's character arc, making her physically fight what she thought was Jessica. And while I'm still not sure of whether or not this whole time Nikki has been just insecurely insane (I'm thinking she was), it seems after the fight she has come to be at peace and is not bothered by Jessica anymore. I'm also hoping we don't have to spend much time on this whole group of characters in Season Two.

Oh, and the fact that Candice is still alive makes me hopeful for next year. Although her bosses are all dead, Candice's power is too damn cool to not be in this show.

2) Claire jumping out the window: Honestly, I cannot get enough of this tiny little blond girl throwing her body around like a maniac. Just like when she walked out of her house as a charred corpse and when she intentionally smashed her car, Claire still has no visible way to die.

3) Ando's brain: When Sylar was about to kill Ando he asks him, "What would I want with your brain?!?" Don't try and tell me that wasn't foreshadowing. Next year, Ando is going to somehow have a pretty badass power of his own. In fact, he may already have it and he's been keeping it concealed for some reason...

4) Sylar's missing body: At first this seemed like an incredibly cheesy "guess-the-badguy-got-away!" moment. But suddenly it makes sense. Sylar did not crawl away. His body was dragged away by somebody -- somebody that wants to know how his powers work and replicate them. Hell I want to find out how his powers work! At least I hope that this is what happened, because if Sylar is still alive then that is some really cheesy storytelling.

And could the person who dragged Sylar away be that even-worse guy Molly spoke of?

5) Nobody learned of the "heroes": The writers managed to have this whole big climax (if you can call it that) without the general public learning about the people with special powers. That means that the plots from here on out won't have to be bogged down by all that humans vs. special people junk that's been done to death by other comics and shows.


That's about it from me, but I will leave you with this, one theory I read on a message board a few weeks ago, regarding Nathan's powers... If when he's flying he is going as fast as he looks like he is going, then his power would also have to have some sort of force field to protect him. If he has this force field, then may he possibly be able to survive Peter's explosion?