I have a friend who stopped watching Heroes midway through last season. I described the last couple of episodes to him and he thought for sure I was bullshitting him, that there’s no way that the storyline was like this with superpowered carnies and Claire in a lesbian relationship and Noah divorced or whatever and with some different hot chick and Hiro talking in pop culture metaphors and the whole thing with Lydia the tattoo chick but somehow Samuel needs to use some kind of ink dauber but he can still use a similar power even though he’s earth-magneto and uh…it makes me tired even thinking about how much of a mess this all is.
this show has turned very ridiculous
I mostly stopped watching because it has got downright painful to watch and I didn’t want to just be exclusively posting stuff about how much it sucked. I think that trailer the other week which more or less said “tune in and see if Sylar gets away with sexually assaulting Claire!” was the last straw.
I would like to thank Annie for all the wonderful reviews she posted each week which were always a joy to read even when the show itself was less than stellar.
Season finale was last night. I thought it ended on a high note.
I’m still having trouble buying Sylar as a good guy, now. But the transition was more plausible, this time. Sticking him and Peter in a (subjective) five year Enemy Mine scenario makes much more sense than (Darth) Angela’s “Sylar, I am your mother,” BS.
I thought the finale was ok. I have a question about their introduction to the next season, though. I have trouble keeping all the timelines straight, but haven’t they already done the coming out to the public thing before, with all the specials being hunted down and sent to Gitmo? What happened to that timeline? Do the characters still remember it?
I think they were still secretive about it with the public. At the end of season 1, Nathan was about to reveal himself, but got shot.
Old Charlie: make up or family member?
That was K Callan playing old Charlie. An amazing likeness.
I like the idea of Sylar being a good guy. It gets so tiring watching him be a nearly invincible bad guy who is pure chaotic evil. There’s no drama when it’s just “Kill kill kill.”
I liked that episode a lot more than probably the others this season with one major exception: random deus ex Tracey.
I just had a conversation with my daughter’s boyfriend the other day, he is about Claire’s age. I’d say that the writer’s are nailing the idealism and naiveté of (some) youth quite well.
Sylar will be evil again, and soon. I was expecting Hiro to perish from the teleport, as they seem to want to write him out. Why doesn’t Peter absorb Sylar’s abilities? Of course, then the question becomes which abilities does he absorb?
Yeah Sylar is one persecuted minority incident away from going back to psycho mode, which is probably where next season is going. They changed Peters power because his old one was too powerful for a good guy to have, Sylar would just be a new Peter.
Yeah, I knew that. I was just playing comic book geek. Didn’t he absorb Sylar’s powers, and his ‘hunger’ at some point, though?
Yeah, that was one of those story lines that didn’t go anywhere and everyone pretends that it didn’t happen.
He lost those in the great depower.
Now, when he grabs Sylar, he can pick which of his abilities to absorb, as he did when he impersonated President Worf.
So pick the power to take powers! Or have sylar “fix” his absorbtion power!
man i was really hoping noah was gone. his storyline is old
There’s going to be a next season?
I can’t help thinking that this season only having 12 episodes is a sign that the network doesn’t have much faith in the show.
So are we really Heroes-free until next fall?
This season had 18 episodes. Five shy of the normal 23 episodes for a season.
I don’t mind, since it got rid of a lot of unnecessary padding. Heroes is one of those shows that would benefit from BBC-style 12 episodes seasons.
I found the ending kind of dramatically flat.
And I really question the wisdom of handing Samuel (and Doyle?) over to an organization that (I presume) collects and imprisons ‘special’, given that Samuel draws his strenght from other specials. Looks like a set up for an eventual Big Bust-Out.
I know, I know, these are the “Heroes”, the “Good Guys,” but sometimes you need to be pragmatic. Noah or his girlfriend should have quietly taken Samuel out for good.