Static Zombie

Tim Kring is my master now.

SPOILERS

Mohinder's mutant power is magical medicine. He stumbles across the shot DL and tends to him briefly. Suddenly DL is well enough to walk under his own power. say what?

three words to save the next season- All New Cast

MAJOR disappointment for me. Do they not have the budget necessary for a full-on Sylar/Peter smackdown?? I'm going to start sending them five bucks out of every paycheck to put in a SMACKDOWN fund. There were tons of inconsistencies too (not the least of which was that saving the cheerleader was supposed to play some role in saving the world, I assumed because it would keep Sylar from getting her regenerative powers, and yet, she wasn't necessary at all, and Sylar could regenerate without her!). All in all, major letdown. I think Hiro summed up my reaction best with his last line: #@!$!

I like it, and several times through the show found myself saying "cool", "damned cool", or "sweet" out loud. I agree it ultimately felt a little anti-climactic. I'm not discouraged (yet), though, because clearly this is meant to be a season finale, not a series finale (thus Jason Voorheez, er, I mean Sylar slipping away after he'd been killed). Maybe eventually we'll get the smackdown we all want (the beatdown was fun, realizing Peter had Niki/Jessica's strength).

I disagree... I loved the finale. I do think they're taking the long view of the story. Killing off Sylar during Act 1 is a bad idea... you want him as the recurrant villain. Ideally in Season 2 he'll be off licking his wounds and begin establishing a power base (Legion of Doom!) and only operate from the shadows like an ever-present threat, letting some other villain or a puppet villain take the mainstage for an act. THEN come back in season 3+ as an overt threat.

As for the "save the cheerleader, save the world" thing, I don't think we've seen the true meaning of that yet. We saw Nathan's imperfect view of that: saving the cheerleader meant she was around to convince him to do the right thing and get all blowed up.

Next season (Volume 2: Generations) I think we get serious insight into the backstory of the world, seeing the ancestors of all the heroes we now know, while advancing the "now" plot to a lesser degree.

Remember at the very beginning of the pilot they gave us the note "bear with us, this story is going to take awhile to tell" spiele, and I think they meant it.

I'm with Steve... Tim Kring is the master.

I'm with ya, Meg. Boo hiss. Major disappointment. I will say this, though... it was nice to see things mostly wrapped up (as opposed to cliff hung until next season), but that whole Act Four... man, what a let down.

End of Act Three, that aerial shot of Peter and Syler, cut to black, commercial. I was GIDDY with excitement. This was it!

And then... and then... just a big wet noodle of a fight. The only beat that really kicked ass for me was Parkman's death, which, sadly, is probably not a death. But Parkamn’s bullets get stopped, but Niki can just run up? Hiro talking before acting? Giving Syler *plenty* of time to react..? Syler *not* reacting..? Really?

As much as I wanted the characters to converge (they've been semi-converging the last few episodes and I've been loving it) and discover each other, there was just something downright lame-TV about seeing them all run up to the fight to essentially just watch it.

And then Claire showing up, taking the gun, having to kill Peter. Potential great moment… but it just didn’t work. They missed that pitch. Ditto Nathan's moment. Could have been great… was just kinda so-so. And neither was helped by Peter staying in limbo-destructo mode so that dialogue could be said. No tension at all - you *knew* he wasn't gonna blow up until the writers played out ALL of their beats.

Not that that's an inherently bad idea. But the endgame writing did not rise to the occasion for me. My throat remained unlumped.

Ah well. I’ll still be there next year. And, of course, there’s always the Lost finale.

Tim Kring is your master? Really? Did we watch the same episode?

I already deleted it, but can someone look back at the shot of Sylar's whitened eyes as he was lying on the ground, and tell us if the visions we saw in them were things we'd already seen, or glimpses of the future (next season?) we haven't? I meant to go back and look at that but forgot. It was a strange moment, and I'm hoping it reveals something interesting and wasn't just a directorial artifice.

I'm with Peter. Lame, for all of the reasons he mentioned. Lots and lots of plothammering, where people did things not because they made sense or because it was in character for them, but because they needed to be in a particular place at that point.

And there's just no excuse for not doing a massive, 5-minute knock-down drag-out fight between Sylar and Peter. It's what the season has been heading toward, and I can only think they didn't do it because they resist doing anything they find too comic book-y.

I just can't believe that a show that seemed so good three episodes ago could end the season so badly.

Yes! I totally forgot about the woman who could make people see her how she wanted (Candice, apparently) but at the time I said the same thing to Kim - that when knocked out Candice should have been a fat woman. I'm still not sure why they didn't, except maybe that would have confused the audience (who had never seen her real self). That was totally lame, though. Good post.

I just want to voice my almost complete disappointment as well and agreement on all the points.

One question that has been plaguing me is:
Is Jessica gone for good?

Did any of you actually watch the full show you idiots?

1. If the cheerleader died, Sylar would have regenerated when Hiro stabbed him.

There's tons of others, but I'm not even going to bother.

nah...i think you're the idiot phzi.