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[learnedax]

Tim Kring, what the hell is wrong with you? Why couldn't you write a season closer that was at least a little bit not disappointing?

I watch very little television, but this show was interesting enough to keep me actively paying attention and avidly watching it throughout the season. Sometimes it teetered on the brink of mediocrity, but as it went on I warmed to it and its geekish style, and the impressive array of good actors that kept popping up didn't hurt either. Maybe my vast fondness for Chris Eccleston had something to do with it. In any case, while there were a number of ongoing bits that I found tiresome, most especially Sylar's plot and Mohinder's bland pseudo-genetic pseudo-philosophy, by and large I was really expecting that if they made a decent conclusion of the season I would be a solid fan. Too bad about that, then.

Part of the problem is clearly that the writers were entirely too concerned with setting up threads to use next season, and barely interested in paying attention to the main current plot, but also there was just a huge amount of wasted, misdirected, or plain weakly-written material in that hour of television, leading up to an inane and immensely weak pulled-from-a-hat final showdown. I was still on the fence, but seeing the huge neon hint that Sylar will be returning again finished the job of turning me off this show. It could have gone somewhere really good, but I think it's past that now.

Also, of course, I'm gravely disappointed that Kring didn't do the one thing which could at any point have redeemed the episode for me, namely have Chris Eccleston pop up and smack some sense into whoever was nearby.

Comments

[laurion]

Definitely feel that they were very busy setting up the second season. Part of this is that here was no guarantee of a second season until much of the way through the first one. This means that unlike most first season shows, it was actually better early on.

I felt there should have been, and could have been, a much cooler, drawn out showdown between our two power chameleons, and should have ended with Sylar's actual death. They'd already hinted at a different bad guy for next season (Molly's comments), so they didn't need to keep Sylar around, but canonical rule of comic books is that you don't completely eliminate someone unless you _really_ need to.

At least we finally got Bennett's name, and it continues the biblical trend that keeps cropping up in the names (eden, peter, gabriel, matt, angela, isaac, etc...).

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

canonical rule of comic books is that you don't completely eliminate someone unless you _really_ need to.

That wasn't canonical until at least mid-80's. Before then, standard practice was to let the Bad Guy die, and then when you wanted to bring him back, handwave how he survived. Which would have been perfectly easy for them to do in this story; I can think of two different methods to bring him back from an apparently-permanent death without even raising a sweat.

[laurion]

Yes, ok, there's that trend as well.

But being born in '77, and not being too deeply into comics, I absorbed mid-80's formulas.