I think I’m still in the minority, but I thought House of M was great.
Please get rid of the Mohinder voiceovers next year. I really don’t think it adds anything to the show.
You guys are nuts. We didn’t get to see the last two episodes until tonight (had both Tivoed), but we loved them both. Great finale.
Mohinder’s voiceovers are 1000% better than the generic announcer guy’s voiceovers that they used to have.
Peter didn’t fly away because he was a wee bit busy trying to not explode. He was obviously concentrating on that task pretty heavily.
Sylar, by the same token, was overwhelmed. He’s always taken people on one at a time; he’s never had to fight several at once before. Scratch that–he did have to take on two people at once before, and he got beaten. Even though only one of those people had powers. Having people come at him from every angle was obviously too much for him, and Hiro just walked in and stabbed him. I was actually pretty pleased that they made it as sudden as they did. It could have easily devolved into melodrama there, but didn’t.
I don’t know if Sylar is dead or not, but I don’t think he got away. It looks a lot like he was dragged away.
Linderman did not heal Molly because he didn’t think he was supposed to. He was following his large collection of Isaac’s paintings like a road map, trying to bring his crazy plan to fruition. It’s most likely the reason why he tried to recruit Mohinder in the first place.
While I like Claude, he is not a major character. He’s a bit part, at best. And why would Claude show up in the final episode, anyway? He made it very clear that he wanted nothing to do with any of the heroic shit.
Random observation: Molly did some forshadowing for what I presume is next season’s villain, someone who is “much worse” than Sylar. Someone that she is afraid to look for because he can see her looking at him. Does this remind anyone else of the scene with Peter and Charles, which takes place a few minutes after that revelation? Peter is dreaming about the past–postcognition, which is probably a power that he picked up from someone before he even knew that he had powers. But Charles saw him, and was even able to talk to him. That sounds eerily like Molly’s description of the big bad’s power.
Yeah, some people made that connection between Molly’s big-bad and Chuck’s dream.
Some people were expecting Claude because they figured things were going to go down exactly like Peter’s mid-season vision, with all the heroes there including Claude as he goes nuclear. It’s worth pointing out that even if Peter went nuclear after all, things had already changed. This showdown happened at night, Hiro’s season-opening jump to the explosion had it happening mid-day, as did Peter’s dream if I’m remembering it correctly. I don’t know why people were expecting strict adherence to exactly how things went down in the dream sequence, especially since the whole point was to keep that from happening.
Meanwhile, I’m cooking up a theory that Peter’s powers and ability to control them depends on his connection with the person he got them from. He mentions as much when he survives the crash off the rooftop and says he thought back to his memories of Claire, or whatever, but it also fits almost perfectly. The two powers he uses most often and without problems are invisibility and healing; he spent a lot of time working with Claude specifically, and his memories of and relationship with Claire are going to be pretty strong because of his whole mission to save her, as well as the fact she turns out to be family.
Other powers, like reading minds, making nuclear explosions, those seem to come and go to some degree without his control.
This almost fits, Nathan/flight is the catch. If my relationship theory is correct he should also have no problem with flight, which he almost never uses. This could be explained away as simply something he never really had occasion to use, and the one time he did to save Claude he didn’t have any problem (and in the final showdown/meltdown, we can still fall back on all his powers being overwhelmed as he fought for control), but ultimately I may still just be reading too much into it all.
Yeah I never expected the dream to come true literally. IIRC Claire was wearing her cheerleader outfit, Parkman was dressed as a beat cop, etc, none of that would have made much sense in real life.
The reason I felt Claude should be there is he seems hugely important. Maybe they only meant him to have a bit part, but the stuff he did with Peter plus his backstory with the company, the fact that he was hiding an as-yet-unrevealed Hero (I mean, it is probably a Hero we already know, but we don’t know which), etc make him seem pretty important to me. I’ll be pretty upset if he never appears again because he was just a “bit” character.
Is it just me, or is Rich Burlew taking a poke at the Heroes finale in his latest strip?
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0456.html
You’re not the only one, first thing I thought of when I read it.
C.
I can see how you’d make the connection, but I can also see how it could be completely unrelated. Hard to say.
I think you’re close, but it’s more emotional. I believe Claude said as much, so he can’t fly easily becuace he can’t access Nathan’s emotions easily. (head vs. heart)
Eh, you could argue he didn’t have much of an emotional tie to Claude though. It doesn’t quite fit either way. He has a strong connection to Claude just through time spent with him, time spent specifically dealing with his powers, so he’s got a strong bond there, but I wouldn’t call it emotional.
Speaking of emotional, how did Peter grow his bangs back so quickly.
Also, wtf happend to Hatian dude.
I thought he got arrested and deported back to Haiti?
That was in the future timeline.
Obviously, that’s his mother’s power.
But TK was Sylar’s original power (as near as we can tell). It’s his default power and the one that he seems to have honed the most.
No, figuring things out or eating brains is Sylar’s original power, and while TK was the first power he stole, I can’t really see what point you’re trying to make either way.
Damn, just checked it out, you’re right! Damn you for quoting me, now i can’t stealth edit it :[
@mouselock: TK was stolen from the guy in “Six Months Ago” after Sylar was REJECTED! from Papa Saresh cool people list.
Reading too much, or not reading the effects budget enough.
