{"id":374,"date":"2007-05-21T21:02:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T03:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/21\/heroes-finale-letdown\/"},"modified":"2007-05-21T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T03:02:43","slug":"heroes-finale-letdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/21\/heroes-finale-letdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Finale Letdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ugh, after a pretty strong season of Heroes, the last several episodes have been disappointing me and the season finale continued that trend.  More spoilers ahead, please be warned!  <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ads\"><object type=\"text\/html\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" data=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/gads.php\"><\/object><\/div>\n<p>First, let me say that if you're going to make a television show that deals with super-powers, time travelling, and global conspiracies - you know damn well that a large portion of your audience will be uber-geeks with craniums the size of basketballs that have no other life but to obsess about the details of the fiction you're writing.  You better make damn sure that your overall story and events fit together into a sensible package.<\/p>\n<p>And since I'll now proceed to tear apart some of the plot holes and sloppy writing from tonight's episode, let the pondering of my hat size begin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did Hiro's time travelling change anything?  Time travelling to the future showed New York was destroyed by an explosion.  How?  Presumably Peter lost control of his powers and blew up...  if Hiro would have not travelled into the future, then New York would have still be destroyed.  Hiro escaped back to the past armed with a sword and a comic book depicting how Sylar was to be killed.  So how did Hiro's actions after that point prevent the explosion?  Yes Hiro stabbed Sylar with a sword, but that had nothing to do with the explosion.  If nothing that Hiro did caused any change to whether the bomb went off or not, and the bomb <em>did not<\/em> go off (as evidenced by tonight's episode), then why did it occur in the future that Hiro travelled to?<\/li>\n<li>The only thing that could make sense here is that when Hiro called Nathan a villain it made him reconsider his actions and this resulted in his self-sacrificing act.  But Nathan did not seem to be struggling with his decision throughout the whole episode (every scene seemed to show Nathan strengthening his resolve, even when Peter read his thoughts).  Nope, he just swooped down on Judgment Day, said \"The name's Machina.  Deus Ex Machina.\" and then proceeded to save the day.  But what changed his mind?  Did he get a phone call from Ando in Tokyo?<\/li>\n<li>Peter had already absorbed Sylar's powers (when Peter tackled Sylar off of the high school roof).  In fact, I'm pretty sure I remember Peter using his telekinetic abilities to stop swords and bullets ... So why did Peter suddenly lose control this time?  Must have been that new super-hearing power of Sylar's that pushed Peter over the edge.  Maybe he could hear Avril Lavigne's \"<a href=\"http:\/\/wiw.org\/~jess\/archives\/2007\/03\/02\/punker-than-avril\/\">Girlfriend<\/a>\" on an iPod somewhere in Long Island...\n<\/li>\n<li>Micah:  \"Mom!  Dad needs you!\" - wtf kid - if your super-strong Mom could get the bullet out of your Dad's gut she would have done it about ten minutes ago...  Just a writer's excuse to get Niki into and quickly out of the fight... too bad, that was one thing I was interested to see.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But you know, these inconsistencies wouldn't be so hard to bear if I actually cared about the characters the way I did earlier in the year.  I guess about 2-3 weeks ago, when it was evident that the overall time-travel story was just something thrown in by the writers for shiggles, when it was clear that it had no effect on the outcome of the main story arc, that I began to lose investment in the characters.  I mean, you can only listen to Peter or Niki or Hiro whine \"I'm not strong enough\" a bunch of times before that gets tired.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, don't get me wrong.  I'll still be tuning in next season to see what \"Generations\" is all about - I am a comic book\/sci-fi geek after all.  I still want to know if Peter, Nathan and Matt are alive or dead.  I still want to know what Mama and Papa Petrelli's powers are.  But I don't know if there's anything that will completely wipe out the bad taste that the last few hours of Season 1 left in my mouth.  I was seeking answers to mysteries and I just didn't get any because there were no answers to give.<\/p>\n<p>Let's see what Wednesday's \"Lost\" brings...<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads\"><object type=\"text\/html\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" data=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/gads.php\"><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugh, after a pretty strong season of Heroes, the last several episodes have been disappointing me and the season finale continued that trend. More spoilers ahead, please be warned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-heroes","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}