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The Heroes season finale was last night. As D'Arcy stated, in some ways it was anti-climatic.

**Spoiler warning**

First of all, I, like D'Arcy, expected a knockdown battle at the end. Instead, we had the infamous "Star Trek" ending, popularized by ST:TNG, where something would happen in the first ten minutes of the episode and Picard and crew would talk about it, usually in the briefing room, for 50 minutes, then Data or Wesley would save the day using tech, all in the last five minutes.

Heroes wasn't quite that bad, but with ten minutes left, I was wondering how they were going to do the "battle of the century" in that amount of time.

Unfortunately the plot holes were many. Sylar just stood there as Peter boiled. Hiro appears, says "Sylar I'm going to kill you", then approached Sylar from fifteen feet away. And Sylar did nothing! Very atypical.

Finally, Nathan flies Peter up into the air, even though Peter could fly himself!

So many of these things insult our intelligence and break rules set down earlier by the show.

Heroes has been an intelligent show and easily the best show this year. I can't remember the last time I cared about a show. But the finale seemed rushed (writing wise), and could have easily been two hours long. After the future episode a couple of weeks ago, I expected so much more. I find myself dissatisfied.

posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:05 PM

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# re: Heroes Finale 5/22/2007 3:30 PM D'Arcy from Winnipeg
Amen brother, preach it!!!

I didn't even THINK about the fact that Peter could fly!

D

# re: Heroes Finale 5/22/2007 4:47 PM Scott Miller
Well maybe Peter was concentrating too much on *not* blowing up that he couldn't fly. Or he can only channel one power at once.
Still, somewhat fishy.

# re: Heroes Finale 5/26/2007 7:50 PM aa
one peter can only use one power at a time and two hiro slow down time to get close to sylar.

# re: Heroes Finale 5/26/2007 10:28 PM Jesse
why not just shoot peter as planned and let him regenerate?

# re: Heroes Finale 5/27/2007 9:38 AM Scott Miller
I watched the Heroes finale again and it was much more straightforward than I had previously thought. The main beef I had in my original post was the five minute wrap-up.
1. Peter does say, "Nathan, I can't do anything" meaning that he couldn't fly and all his concentration was trying to keep from blowing up.
2. Hiro doesn't slow down time before he stabs Sylar. This point still bothers me, because Sylar wasn't distracted at the time; he totally focuses on Hiro and Sylar says, "You!...".
3. Another interesting plot hole. Nikki and D.L. don't know Sylar or Peter. And it doesn't appear that anyone clues them in. Suresh is too busy helping Parkman. Yet Nikki grabs the parking meter and hits Sylar. If she just came into the situation and doesn't know either one of them, I would think that Peter would seem to be the aggressor.

# re: Heroes Finale 5/28/2007 3:20 AM Josue
mmm just saw the finale today and in your point number 3 actually sylar is killing peter and then grabs the parking meter and hits peter I think so If I Saw that I would think sylar was the bad guy and totally hit him so niki did good =) yeey

# re: Heroes Finale 7/18/2007 5:02 AM Reb
Know I am a bit late in my response here, but we only had the finale in the UK last night - what a disappointment! Great episode, terrible last ten mins. I felt Peter not flying away was acceptable because he was too busy concentrating on not exploding. But Hiro not freezing time to kill Sylar was ridiculous - Sylar could easily have stopped that! My main gripe though was the fact that Clare didn't just shoot Peter as planned - why didn't she do it?! She knows full well he can regenerate, so that would make much more sense than Nathan flying off with him (although I'm not entirely convinced Nathan is dead - he could've dropped Peter the second before he was due to explode and made a quick getaway!)

but really - why not shoot Peter?!?! Very lame ending - me and my boyfriend were both extremely disappointed and felt quite let down by it.

# re: Heroes Finale 8/30/2007 8:27 PM Zehra
hmmmmm, just watched the finale and am feeling pretty satisfied with it....i hate those cliffhanger finales, they leave such an incomplete feeling, this is quite clean cut, but yeah, it was an anti climax, really quite a quiet ending....somehow i don't think peter and nathan are dead...

# re: Heroes Finale 12/6/2007 5:05 AM Angel
Peter and Nathan are NOT Dead, Hiro is in ancient china and Ando goes back to new york when hiros father is killed by IMMORTAL Takezo Kenzei a.k.a Adam Monroe. and the Haitian is still alive peter has no memory and is trapped in ireland (thank u the new company) Peter can also Definatley time travel now, sylar is good and peter and Nathan Vs. Matt and Hiro Ha!!!!! *SPOILER*

# re: Heroes Finale 12/12/2007 2:11 PM Crabby
ur so lucky i alredy watched it online, cus i would be hunting you down and "sylar"ing you right now.

but you forgot to mention that nathan get assassinated and niki gets blown up =] oh and adam monroe gets buried alive =]

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