All tease, No Happy Ending

I've just watched the season finale of Heroes (I heart broadband) and I've got to get some stuff off my chest.

Engaging secret text.

(highlight with your mouse and scroll down to read but it will contain spoilers for Australians)

Did you find the season finale disappointing?

The setup was there. All the elements were in place. They had an awesome idea with the Brothers Petrelli going boom in the sky but....

It was missing something.

Despite the concept of stopping a nuclear explosion in down town New York the tension and stakes didn't seem high enough, even if you forget the giant plot holes.


Using only information already alluded to in previous episodes, this is how I would of finished the season.

The Heroes run to Kirby Plaza.

Matt hears Sylar's voice just before he's shot.

Pete and Sylar square off and have a start a multi power fight. Peter starts to lose until Hiro pops up and engages Sylar.

All is going well until the Haitian appears (remember him?) and negates all the Hero powers except for the radioactivity. He wants the bomb to go off.

Sylar lights up red.

HRG tells Pete to absorb the red energy with his blue energy. They go at it all swirly coloured.

Nikki beats the crap out of the Haitian and all other powers are restored.

Sylar goes invisible.

Pete and Hiro get bashed around. Hiro is on the ground.

Matt hears Sylar say "Even if you could see me, my powers are faster". He links the thought into Molly the Locater, who points to vacant spot and says "He's there"

Hiro busts a samurai move and has his sword out and through Sylar's chest in a blink of an eye. Slowly he pulls back and then whips the sword around and cuts off the top of Sylar's head and kills him in a nice synchronicity with how Sylar killed the other Heroes previously.

But Pete has absorbed too much red power!

He can't control it. Hiro tries to phase the both of them away but the radiation deforms Hiro's power and poof, Hiro disappears..

Nathan swoops down but can't get close. His flesh is burning.

Clare sandwiches herself between Peter and Nathan, protecting him from the radiation.

They have a nice family moment. Something about the future not being set and family standing together.

And Nathan flies the three of them up into the atmosphere and.....

BOOM. PRETTY NUCLEAR FIREWORKS.

Music swells.

Camera cranes up to see the relived but shell shocked remaining Heroes.

HRG cries in despair!

Sylar's blood drips ominously into the sewer.

Black screen.

Hiro wakes up in 16th Century Japan.

Now somebody give me $5 million and I'll make that episode.

Comments

[Al]

I was a little disapointed with the finale too Phil. I just thought that the sum of all the episodes leading up to the finale were much greater than the end. But isn't that usually the case? Isn't the journey more important than the destination? I would say that—finale aside—the first season of Heroes was great.

I'm just glad that the episode didn't end with Peter (or Sylar looking like Peter) about to explode when the screen fades to black and the dreaded "To Be Continued..." message appears dooming us to an entire summer of speculation.

At least there was closure, neat and convenient as it was, there was an end.

So now we speculate what will be the center of the story next year. I say Pete's mother finds Sylar and uses him to do very bad things. Also there is the unresolved issue of whomever the little girl can sense and that person can see here too. I think it's Mama Patrelli, but who knows...

I've gone on too long. Once again, welcome back Phil.

[Phil]

You're right Al. The episodes Company Man and Five Years Gone were as good as Joss Whedon or the first season of Lost.

Wanna hear a conspiracy theory? S1 Lost finished with a hatch. S1 Heroes finishes with a manhole cover. Are they linked? Dum dum DA!

[Michael]

I hardly ever watch TV, but Heroes was one show to which I wanted to get the story. I did catch a bunch of episodes, but stopped watching when I got sick of the whole play-6-new-episodes-take-off-for-a-month-or-so-and-then-start-up-again-throwing-in-some-repeats-to-annoy-you-resolving-almost-nothing-in-the-meantime deal. I totally liked (both future and present) Hiro, and was curious to see how the relationship with the two brothers would be resolved. Maybe I'll get it on DVD.

[Al]

Michael, do yourself a favour and check it out! Heroes first season was amazing. It was like watching an hour-long feature film every week (or at least every week it was on) The production value alone set it apart from other such shows. It had a real feature film feel to it. Whereas a show such as Smallville might only afford one or two special effects per episode, Heroes seemed to break the bank and never held back (especially in the finale). It's also the kind of show that builds on the previous episodes (like 24) so if you miss an episode here or there, you may not be as interested in the story or the characters than if you watched it faithfully. I suspect watching it on DVD will be even better. I downloaded the first 5 episodes and watched them in succession and immediately got hooked. I didn't mind the lapses in between episodes because in the fall, they played 11 straight weeks of new episodes back-to-back, they had to make up for that in the winter and spring.

Once again, I'm rambling...sorry.

[Eve]

How did you do the secret text? (I'm impressed.)

[Sarah]

I liked the ending, but I have to say, yours sounds much more interesting! I don't think it's the end for Peter Petrelli, he can regenerate.

I don't know about season 2. I think it might be a huge flashback while they work out the companion show Heroes: Origins.

[steph]

well thanks for fucking ruining it for me! You know I have no impulse control and would just HAVE to highlight that text!!!!

Lolz, nah, I stopped watching a few weeks ago, I knew it would all go to shit ;)

[Amber]

Gah, Phil! Are you taking a break from blogging? Is it getting old for you? Are you looking at other options for Things To Do With Your Spare Time?

You're missed :(.

Hope all is well and you rejoin our ranks, soon!

[mez]

Phil, God told me to tell you that for every day you don't blog he's going to kill a puppy. THINK ABOUT THE PUPPIES!!!

[mez]

oohhhhhhhhhhh kay, I was kidding. I never spoke to God, but that doesn't mean that the puppy thing can't still be arranged. hm.

[Amber]

LMAO! @ Mez.

Yeah, Phil! What Mez said.

[Amber]

Do you not love us anymore? *Snifflez*