The End of Heroes
Well last night was the finale of my favorite show of the season, Heroes. Although I have to sadly admit, the last few shows for me were not exactly spectacular. The finale didn’t answer all the questions and introduced new ones. Let me just address the ending.
After a less than compelling fight scene between the evil Syler and Peter, Hiro, the time shifting Japanese guy shows up with his samurai sword. Once before Hiro tried to kill Syler but since Syler has kinetic powers he simply stopped Hiro in his tracks. Well this time for some reason, Hiro is able to run 20 feet towards Syler without him doing anything and shishkabobs Syler on his sword. Ok Syler is dead or so you would think.
All along it was shown that Peter Petrelli was going to blow up NYC. They get to the final moments before he blows up, but his brother flys in (his super power) and he grabs Peter and flies him far into the sky so he can detonate there. This made no sense. Peter is the super hero of super heroes. While all the other characters in the show only have one super power (except Syler) Peter has the ability to absorb and acquire the super power of any mutant he is around. He absorbed his brother’s flying power way back early in the show. So Peter’s brother, Nathan, who up to this point has been portrayed as a corrupt politician, turns into a good guy and offers up his own life to “save the world” by flying Peter out of there. Now even though Peter blew up, he will somehow survive because he also absorbed a miraculous self healing power. What didn’t make sense was since Peter had the ability to fly already, why didn’t he just do it himself without involving his brother? Dumb.
During the last moments they show a bloody trail leading from where Syler was to an open sewer grate so he obviously isn’t really dead. The little girl whose ability is to be able to know where any mutant on the planet is by just thinking about them says that there is one person she dare not think about, who is worse than Syler. She says if she thinks about this person he knows where SHE is. Obviously a seed for the next season. They also threw in a scene where a dying black guy that was being taken care of by Peter when he was still a hospice nurse is actually tied into everything that is going on although it is never really clear exactly how or why he knows all of this.
There are various other things that didn’t get tied together but I suppose a lot of that was intentional as the gaps can get filled in next year. I’ll tell you though, the f’ing commercial breaks were ridiculous. I bet there were close to 10 of them. Cut the viewers a damn break. It totally f’s with the flow of the show and it results in not enough time for actual content. The whole ending sequence felt rushed.
One of the things they showed during the numerous commercial breaks were clips for the new Fantastic 4 movie. This one is about the Silver Surfer. I don’t quite get it, my scarce knowledge of the Silver Surfer is he is a good guy but the movie seems to be focused on him being a villain. Eh, either way I will want to see it.
The finale of Dancing with the Stars is tonight, thank God. A 2 hour show that doesn’t start till 9. I could not see a minute of it and be just fine but I will hang in there because I know Ali enjoys it so much. Of the three left I think that Lelai is the most deserving because I think she had zero dance experience before the show. I think Apollo had some conventional dancing ability and Joey was in a boy band for cripes sake. Not taking that into account I think Joey is the best dancer but Apollo has the better partner. She is so cute and so good for only being 18 it is crazy. Who will win? I don’t really know or really care.
I taped up the flap on Nicki’s doggy door. With the flap out of the way she now is quite ok with going back and forth through it. Now we just have to convince her that the flap is not some sort of immovable object.