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May. 21st, 2007 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
learnedaxTim 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.
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.
