1661

Hail to the King baby…

1662

Sooo, Sylar can stop bullets, but not punches?

1663

Hrm. I dunno, has there ever been a scene when Sylar used TK without using his hands? Like how Peter bends Invisible Man’s staff just by staring at it. It’s possible he couldn’t react in time, and I was also under the impression that Peter was channelling Niki’s super strength when he threw those punches. For all we know that strength overpowers his TK, even if he can use it without his hands.

1664

I more got the impression that Sylar was overwhelmed (whether mentally or physically) by the presence of so many powered around him. He was having to hold off at least 2, and couldn’t deal with a 3rd coming at him. In fact, I’ve been assuming that using more than one power at a time is a lot more difficult than just using one, and trying to add yet another might be beyond his ability. So the way to beat him is to overwhelm him. Same for Peter–I assume that, because he was overwhelmed by the absorption process, he lost control of the “Ted” ability since it was the most volatile, and that also prevented him from being able to fly, since he apparently can’t use more than one power at a time (or it is very difficult to do so).

That being said, though, I was disappointed in the finale. It just didn’t live up to the hype.

For example:

Why didn’t Linderman just heal Molly, if she was his “hero locator”?
Was it really necessary to have at least 2 Heroes shot, and neither of them apparently die?
Why couldn’t Nathan just drop Peter from a great height (which he may well have done, since we didn’t see any of that)?
Why did they have to let Sylar crawl off? Let’s have some dramatic closure, for goodness sake!
Where the heck are all the New Yorkers? Yeah, it gets quiet even in Manhattan in the middle of the night, but there were no cars, no walkers, nothing, in several different street shots.
Why all the big buildup to getting everyone to NYC, when in fact most of them ended up doing nothing.
Why couldn’t they at least get Eccleston to tape a voice comment–after all, you could also just pretend he’s staying invisible, and have him chime in at some point. Surely he could have done that from anywhere in the world.

And finally, the Hiro stabbing was way way too easy, even if Sylar was distracted and overwhelmed. And with very cheap CGI they could have shown Hiro “phasing” in and out repeatedly and getting step by step closer to Sylar while doing so, as his way of beating Sylar’s abilities. Pop in, take a step, pop out before Sylar can react, etc etc. Would have rocked as an effect, and would have felt a lot more RIGHT as Hiro finally coming into his own with his abilities.

Oops, wasn’t “finally” because I have one other note: I really really really wanted to see Mommy Dearest Petrelli get whacked in some seriously painful and poetic way. Big disappointment there…

1665

Obviously a lot of these decisions were made for dramatic effect. Otherwise, Sylar would simply have object-melted Hiro’s sword the first time around, etc.

  • Alan
1666

But that showed the bomb going off destroying New York…right? And in the new world, the bomb didn’t destroy the city so didn’t history change?

1667

She still hasn’t established herself as definitely evil, just (at worst) creepy and pessimistic.

1668

walTer: Why would the physical location of Peter’s detonation have anything to do with him surviving it?

1669

If sylar and peter are presumably still alive, what makes you think that this couldn’t still happen? Maybe not on the same day as in ‘five years past,’ but it could still potentially happen.

1670

Hey maybe Eccleston was the one who pulled Sylar into the sewer?

1671

Ok well correct me if I am wrong but in 5 Years Later, New York was destroyed. And Peter was alive.

In our world, it didn’t happen.

History was changed…so it seems to me that it is possible that Peter IS dead? That’s all.

Using the future episode to “prove” Peter is alive is silly- that future did NOT happen.

As for the city blowing up on a different day, I doubt we will see the blowup New York story again–

1672

No, the point is that in 5 Years Later, Peter blew up and survived, thus proving he could live through the explosion. That’s the important bit.

Why couldn’t Nathan just drop Peter from a great height (which he may well have done, since we didn’t see any of that)?

Maybe because he had no idea WHEN Peter would blow up?

1673

Cause it was a way to “convert Suresh to their cause.”

1674

That’s a huge part of my problem with the finale. Nothing has really changed except maybe Nathan is dead. Peter is still an emotional timebomb (literally) and Sylar is still alive. The finale offered absolutely no closure to the threads that built up during the season, which makes me fear this may quickly become another “Lost”.

1675

and linderman. and ted.

Peter is still an emotional timebomb (literally) and Sylar is still alive. The finale offered absolutely no closure to the threads that built up during the season, which makes me fear this may quickly become another “Lost”.

and hrg is now one of the good guys. hiro now has the will to kill people if he wants to. claire knows her real mom & dad, and she knows her dad knows she is a metahuman/cape/mask/super/mutant/homo superior.

comparing this show’s plot pacing and resolution to lost is ridiculous. no contest.

if this was lost the final episode would be us hearing about a mysterious guy named linderman who’s behind everything and the last scene would be pete jumping off a building to figure out if he has powers or not.

1676

Amen!

1677

If anything, I think the pace is a bit too fast. I liked the earlier, slower episodes with lots of character development and supporting characters, like Claire’s mother and brother, her friend Zach etc. I don’t like it that the show’s all about the supers and only the supers. I want to see more stuff about ordinary people, their reactions to the existence of supers and the way society is slowly changing as more and more people become aware of the supers. I mean, come on, Claire’s house goes up in flames, she walks out as a skeleton and heals in front of the whole neighborhood and the whole world goes on business as usual?

I also think that the link between the webcomics and the show itself has been somewhat iffy. The link has been stronger recently I admit, but some of the events in the comics seem like they happened in some parallel dimension, like Parkman embarking on a high-speed chase against orders while using his mind-readng to navigate through the crowd.

Another nitpick: that Indian dreamwalker boy in Chennai seems to be omniscient. That’s awesomely powerful. Unfortunately no one realizes this and he’s just used as a plot device to let Mohinder know about his sister and then never heard from again. Lame.

1678

I think that episode with InvisibleMan, Peter was using some kind of the BulletTime power from Hiro and not TK from Sylar. I don’t think that Peter can “absorb” Sylar powers because Sylar got his powers a bit different from the rest.

Agree on Niki’s strength.

1679

Nope, after Peter blocked that staff blow, Claude specifically asks, “Telekinesis? Who did you get that from?”

1680

This is OBVIOUSLY an homage to big “events” in modern comic books.

Marvel’s Civil War, DC’s Identity Crisis … Has there been a recent big comic event that’s ended anywhere near the level it was hyped at?