Heroes Season 1(#21)---5/07/07-'The Hard Part'

[buzzard]

Personally I think I'm starting to feel strung along at this point. The last two episodes really haven't done a great deal for me, and unless the last two actually look better, I won't bother with next season. The plethora of stupid errors on people's parts is getting very tiresome. Sylar should dead so many times by now that it's getting to be a cliche.

I'm of the opinion that the plot holes keep getting bigger as the show progresses. Maybe something will come a long to close them up, but I'm losing hope.

 

[drothgery]

I agree -- Peter and Sylar are the iconic hero and villain of the series. They really need to be part of the entire series.

Err... that's the exact opposite of what I meant. Peter and Sylar are uber-characters who really don't need anyone else except as sources to leech new powers from. If I were writing the show, this season would end with Peter sacrificing himself to take out Sylar.

 

[Wycen]

I do think this was an attempt to give us a reason to sympathize with Sylar, but it is too late in the season, even if I felt it would ever have worked. I just watched and said, "That wound doesn't look terminal, but hey moron, call an ambulance, or use one of your super powers, then maybe your mom wont die."

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Err... that's the exact opposite of what I meant. Peter and Sylar are uber-characters who really don't need anyone else except as sources to leech new powers from. If I were writing the show, this season would end with Peter sacrificing himself to take out Sylar.

I have to agree with you. I'm concerned if they remain on the show, it will just keep coming back to them.

UH-OH It's Sylar! Quick, call Peter Petrelli! It will get pretty old after a couple of times.

And with Peter around, we don't need any other heroes except for him to meet them and absorb their power.

 

[Randolpho]

I have to agree with you. I'm concerned if they remain on the show, it will just keep coming back to them.

UH-OH It's Sylar! Quick, call Peter Petrelli! It will get pretty old after a couple of times.

And with Peter around, we don't need any other heroes except for him to meet them and absorb their power.

Yeah, I guess I can see the problems.

Maybe Peter's power needs to start having a negative effect on other people, causing him to withdraw from society. Maybe start wearing gloves.... shock of white in his hair......

Ok, I'm done.

 

[Victim]

I have to agree with you. I'm concerned if they remain on the show, it will just keep coming back to them.

UH-OH It's Sylar! Quick, call Peter Petrelli! It will get pretty old after a couple of times.

And with Peter around, we don't need any other heroes except for him to meet them and absorb their power.

Well, characters with lots of learned power tricks - like Ted's car starting and EMP coming off his irradiate/explodiate power - might be mostly resistant to effective copying. Peter gets the gross power, but not any of the applications they've worked out. He'd have incredible broadness of ability, but not that much depth.

That being said, most characters don't seem to have that kind of power depth. There's not much to learn with Regeneration or invisibility. Matt's telepathy still seemed pretty weak even in the future.

 

[drothgery]

Yeah, I guess I can see the problems.

Maybe Peter's power needs to start having a negative effect on other people, causing him to withdraw from society. Maybe start wearing gloves.... shock of white in his hair......

Ok, I'm done.

If Peter's power worked like Rogue's (limitted duration power absorbtion, for the most part), then he wouldn't be such an uber-guy. He'd be able to take one bad guy out of a fight pretty reliably, but that's counterable just giving Team Evil more people.

 

[Krug]

Hmmm felt mostly blah about this episode. It felt like stalling, with Sylar getting his motive for causing the killings as forced as the fight between him and his mom.

I'll tune in for the last two, but I hope they don't try to hard to mash things together, or spend time killing all the 'hero' characters.

PS: Ok Hiro no more of those happy shouts!

 

[Vocenoctum]

Personally I think I'm starting to feel strung along at this point. The last two episodes really haven't done a great deal for me, and unless the last two actually look better, I won't bother with next season. The plethora of stupid errors on people's parts is getting very tiresome. Sylar should dead so many times by now that it's getting to be a cliche.

What I'm getting tired of is the reshooting of past scenes. It's happened a few times where the dialogue was slightly different than the scene they were recapping.

This last episode, during the recap, Thompson gives Suresh a card and blah blah blah, but I don't remember that scene ever happening. The recap scenes with Petrelli/Nathan and Claire/Nathan also seemed different.

Maybe someone is modifying time!

 

[James Heard]

Happy shouts are teh awesome.

Despite Peter being iconic, I think that if they handled it correctly it would alright to off Peter now. We've done the flash-forward, and we all know that Peter is the only sure way of beating Sylar...If Peter dies heroically now though, then you can push the rest of the cast forward into real heroism by his example rather than having him around to fix things.

Alternately, a good plot twist would be to have Hiro sacrifice himself to save Ando, and eventually figure out a way for Ando to do the knocking off of Sylar. Then you could make an even more powerful message, with all these superheroic powerful figures around it would be Ando just trying to make something meaningful out of his friend's death that ultimately saved everyone.

I think some of the heroes need to die soon though, and ideally it shouldn't be some minor characters that don't resonate with the fanbase. Kick everyone in the guts and have people turning off the tv going "Wow, I didn't see that coming."