I guess I’m a victim of my own high hopes – I thought it was very poorly written.
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[li]Future Peter is shown fleeing on foot from somebody - he can teleport, is nearly (or, as it turns out, totally?) invulnerable, can stop time, has super strength, and can fly. How does it make sense for him to run, other than going back to the “Peter has a very low IQ” explanation?[/li][li]Future Claire confronts Future Peter with a handgun, despite knowing that he can stop time, avoid bullets, pull the gun out of her hand with telekinesis, and, in any case, survive being shot quite easily.[/li][li]Future Peter decides that the only way to stop his future from happening is to go back in time to the exact moment of Nathan’s revelation and *shoot *him. As opposed to, say, going back an hour or two before that and telling him it’s a bad idea.[/li][li]Future Peter stashes his gun on a shelf, despite the fact that he could easily have teleported it into the Pacific Ocean.[/li][li]Present Peter watches his brother die over a period of time that is so long it requires a montage. As opposed to, say, teleporting to California, grabbing Claire, teleporting back, and healing him with her blood.[/li][li]Future Peter, despite seeing and *acknowledging *repeated instances of his meddling screwing up everything, continues to meddle.[/li][li]The doomsday formula is on two pieces of paper, each kept by a guardian, so that it will never fall into the wrong hands. As opposed to, say, ***burned ***.[/li][li]Sylar, despite having super hearing, cannot tell that Claire is in a linen closet right next to him and, despite having telekinesis with fine enough control to neatly remove the top of someone’s cranium and powerful enough to pick up and throw full-grown human beings, cannot seem to open said linen closet door to take a peek.[/li][li]The African Guy is dismayed to see Parkman, because it means “the future will not be as [he] painted it,” when the future he painted shows the earth shattering.[/li][/ul]
It seems to me like they write this show and shoot it from the first draft, without even re-reading it. No one has any ability to consider the ramifications of any character’s powers (particularly Peter and Hiro’s). And the “two pieces of the formula” MacGuffin is very very weak writing.
I thought last season started weakly and got better about halfway through the abbreviated run. But last season’s weaknesses were more tonal than logical and, at least mostly, addressed by later episodes. I fail to see how they can write themselves out of this kind of sloppiness.
