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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4594174" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>Once again, the Heroes writers crammed too much into the final episode of their arc. Last year it was at least excusable, what with the strike, but this time out it just wasn't. It was a very poor episode.</p><p></p><p>Five things particularly annoyed me:</p><p></p><p>- Daphne goes and gets the formula to power-up Ando, and picks up one dose. Because obviously they only need one dose - it's not like there's anyone else they know who could benefit from getting his powers back.</p><p></p><p>(Besides, this show needs some 'normal' characters in principle roles to act as contrasts to the heroes. HRG, Ando and Mohinder, in particular, should never be given powers. That 2 out of 3 now have is a very bad thing.)</p><p></p><p>- Matt gives the techno-babble explanation about Daphne being able to run backwards through time. The problem with this is that, back in the first season, Matt was introduced as being a nice guy, but not very smart. He has failed the exams to become detective on several occasions, and he can't read. He was the wrong person to give that explanation - it should have come from Ando. (This, unfortunately, gives Matt nothing to do in that scene but take up space, but that's better than breaking his character like this.)</p><p></p><p>- Besides, if Daphne runs fast enough, she can travel <em>backwards</em> through time. How exactly is she supposed to get back? Gosh, if only they knew a time-traveller, and had some means to restore his powers...</p><p></p><p>- And then there's poor Hiro. I can forgive them leaving him de-powered, although it makes me not want to watch any more. What is particularly annoying, though, is that he's faced with his father, one of the few people who actually would understand the truth, and his father is giving him an opportunity to explain who he is and why he's trying to steal the formula... so he doesn't.</p><p></p><p>Of course, if Hiro did destroy the formula in the past, that would have compelled a Reset Button ending, which would have been absolutely disasterous. And yet, I think it would probably have been the best possible ending this time out. I for one wish I could wake up and find this volume was just a dream.</p><p></p><p>- Finally, there's the end of the Sylar arc, for the moment at least. Leaving aside the annoyance that he <em>still</em> isn't dead, when he should have died at the end of the first season, there's the problem that Claire snuck up on him. The problem here? Sylar has had super-hearing for quite some time. The writers conveniently forgot this (for the second time this season). They might even have gotten away with it, had the plague in season 2 acted as a reset for Sylar's ability, but it didn't - he retained the telekinesis he picked up as his first supplemental power.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I'm afraid that's it for me. The "mutant registration" storyline has been done before, and Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan are better actors than (almost) anyone on Heroes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 4594174, member: 22424"] Once again, the Heroes writers crammed too much into the final episode of their arc. Last year it was at least excusable, what with the strike, but this time out it just wasn't. It was a very poor episode. Five things particularly annoyed me: - Daphne goes and gets the formula to power-up Ando, and picks up one dose. Because obviously they only need one dose - it's not like there's anyone else they know who could benefit from getting his powers back. (Besides, this show needs some 'normal' characters in principle roles to act as contrasts to the heroes. HRG, Ando and Mohinder, in particular, should never be given powers. That 2 out of 3 now have is a very bad thing.) - Matt gives the techno-babble explanation about Daphne being able to run backwards through time. The problem with this is that, back in the first season, Matt was introduced as being a nice guy, but not very smart. He has failed the exams to become detective on several occasions, and he can't read. He was the wrong person to give that explanation - it should have come from Ando. (This, unfortunately, gives Matt nothing to do in that scene but take up space, but that's better than breaking his character like this.) - Besides, if Daphne runs fast enough, she can travel [i]backwards[/i] through time. How exactly is she supposed to get back? Gosh, if only they knew a time-traveller, and had some means to restore his powers... - And then there's poor Hiro. I can forgive them leaving him de-powered, although it makes me not want to watch any more. What is particularly annoying, though, is that he's faced with his father, one of the few people who actually would understand the truth, and his father is giving him an opportunity to explain who he is and why he's trying to steal the formula... so he doesn't. Of course, if Hiro did destroy the formula in the past, that would have compelled a Reset Button ending, which would have been absolutely disasterous. And yet, I think it would probably have been the best possible ending this time out. I for one wish I could wake up and find this volume was just a dream. - Finally, there's the end of the Sylar arc, for the moment at least. Leaving aside the annoyance that he [i]still[/i] isn't dead, when he should have died at the end of the first season, there's the problem that Claire snuck up on him. The problem here? Sylar has had super-hearing for quite some time. The writers conveniently forgot this (for the second time this season). They might even have gotten away with it, had the plague in season 2 acted as a reset for Sylar's ability, but it didn't - he retained the telekinesis he picked up as his first supplemental power. Anyway, I'm afraid that's it for me. The "mutant registration" storyline has been done before, and Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan are better actors than (almost) anyone on Heroes. [/QUOTE]
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