Heroes Season [Volume] 1(#23)---5/21/07-'How to stop an Exploding Man' Season Ending.

[F5]

An observation relating to the Peter-is-dumb-and-should-have-fought-better argument:

I think that was one of the points of the 5 Years Gone story: we get to see a competent, kick-ass Peter Petrelli go to town with Future-Hiro. I think that was their way of saying "yeah, we know what this guy is capable of, he's just not there yet". We see future peter use several powers at once (he moves a beer mug with TK while invisible, for example). He makes decisive tactical choices in mid-combat, actually has a plan of action, and wears badass black clothes. This was all done to contrast his current persona, as a way for the writers to say "we're not stupid, we're writing him this way on purpose...".

I also think that Peter is not dead, though Nathan probably is. And I think we still see Future Peter come about. Instead of being guilty about blowing up NY City, he's guilty about blowing up his brother. It still gives him the edge his character needs to get his act together, but without, y'know...blowing up NY City.

In an unrelated tangent, I was talking about 5 Years Gone, and I referred to Matt's future self as "Dark Parkman". That had such a great ring to it, I pledged to use it whenever possible. Dark Parkman...kind of like Dark Phoenix, only with a beer-belly.

Eh. It made me laugh, anyway...

 

[Daxz]

What if Sylar's mysterious power is to be able to "shapechange" into a roach?

 

[Hand of Evil]

On the Peter note, I think they could have established Peter overloading as he re-aborbed everyone's powers and being unable to access them, all those of Sylar and the group, all it would have taken was Noah (or someone else) saying something.

 

[Vocenoctum]

I was really disappointed. Yes, I know this show is more about character development than big fight scenes, but even so, they were building up to this single, climactic fight scene for the entire season and it was just lame. Sylar does some telekinesis, Niki hits him once with a parking meter, Peter punches him a few times, Sylar gets the upper hand again, then Hiro stabs him. That's it. The whole thing lasted, what, sixty seconds?

It's what D&D combat would look like from the outside probably. Or one of the old turnbased RPG combat games like FF.
Sylar wins init, uses Force Choke. Peter loses an action, Parkman shoots, Sylar uses a Swift Action to rebuff, Nikki hits, it's Sylars turn now...

And a lot of the dialogue was lame, too. Did they really need to hit us over the head with "all you need is love?" It's fine to have that as a theme, but did they really need to be so damned obvious about it?

That's how the show is really, or at least the latter half of the season. Frankly the entire show was repetitive. Nikki's strength, Peter & Hiro's confidence...

For those that say we're missing the fact these are real people that can't see everything, the problem is twofold;
1) the same development occured over and over, yet they never gained the competence they needed. Sylar was defeated by his own incompetence, not by any ability of theirs.
2) None of this was Fight or Flight reflexes. They walked up, smacked him, then stood there debating. Peter was being choked and his reflex was to whine about maybe losing. Parkman gets shot and everyone stands around to wait their turns.

 

[Vocenoctum]

What if Sylar's mysterious power is to be able to "shapechange" into a roach?

I still think the roachs are not a power of Sylar's, but of someone else. The roach woke him up in captivity, the roachs dragged him off to the sewers.

I think he'll be back for second season without any of his powers. I think (and hope) they could build him into a good villain that way, if he can't just TK folks around and slice open heads.

 

[Dire Bare]

Nobody else has mentioned it yet, so I'll point out that the next (last?) online comic is out: part two of The Death of Hana Gittelman.

Personally, I sort of expected this ending, but I find it very intriguing nonetheless. It also gives a tiny bit of insight as to what happened to Micha, Nikki, and D. L. after the season finale. Great stuff!

Yeah, ah . . . they went home . . .

Heh, just teasing . . . but it was interesting to see that Micah's new online friend is Wireless.

Not a surprising end to the storyling, but a fun and interesting one!

 

[Hand of Evil]

I still think the roachs are not a power of Sylar's, but of someone else. The roach woke him up in captivity, the roachs dragged him off to the sewers.

I think he'll be back for second season without any of his powers. I think (and hope) they could build him into a good villain that way, if he can't just TK folks around and slice open heads.

OR the roaches were the next big bad's tools.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I liked this episode, even if it might have lacked the spectactular explosions and combat scenes one might have excpected.

The Heroes aren't Superheroes yet. (I am totally loving the idea of adapting a d20 Modern game set in the Heroes world. Only new FX rules for superpowers are needed)

But to the actual show:
- I really liked the meeting of Molly & Micah. Somehow the few words they exchanged made them feel "real",and it looked as if they could become good friends. (Hope they stay in the show)

- I wonder if Sylar maybe just lost all his acquired powers. Would be "fun" if he had to rely on his hands and a knife again to get his superpowers (because how long will it take him to get another Hero with telekinesis or his inborn laser). Unfortunately that would mean losing all the cool powers he already displayed but didn't use often (melting, for example)

- When did Hiro drop off Ando? I still remember the first episodes where the police called Ando and he reported they hadn't seen him in weeks, which is suprising, since in all other timelines we saw, Ando was always with Hiro. Maybe Hiro dropped Ando off at the time they originally flew into the US, so that Ando could avoid trouble at work (I somehow doubt it's easy to take two or three weeks off on such a short notice in a Japenese company)

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

- When did Hiro drop off Ando? I still remember the first episodes where the police called Ando and he reported they hadn't seen him in weeks, which is suprising, since in all other timelines we saw, Ando was always with Hiro. Maybe Hiro dropped Ando off at the time they originally flew into the US, so that Ando could avoid trouble at work (I somehow doubt it's easy to take two or three weeks off on such a short notice in a Japenese company)

Though, because Hiro's dad owns the company, Ando is unlikely to get in much trouble.

 

[Mistwell]

I loved this episode, and found it to be a very satisfactory ending to this first season. Indeed, it's hard for me to even believe this has been just one single season, as so much has been answered in the season relative to other shows that pose a lot of questions.