Heroes finale saves no one

**Spoiler Alert**

I admit, when Heroes creator Tim Kring promised us all back in early November that he knew the show was broken and that it was being fixed, I had high hopes.

But if last night’s episode was any indication of where things are, this show has seriously lost its way. And I have to say, it probably dates back to the finale of season 1 now that I think about it.

That episode promised a conclusion to all kinds of story threads, but instead it proved to try and do too much in a short amount of time, resulting in a highly disappointing finish.

And it seems the show is still stuck in that mode of overachieving.

The finale last night had so many stories going, some of which were entirely pointless, that it failed to put the focus on the scenes that mattered. Instead, the two deaths last night seemed almost laughable.

I’ll get to the deaths in a minute, but I want to address the one major flaw going on right now in this show.

Peter Petrelli has become such a useless character at this point and it absolutely should have been the other way around. He and Sylar are the best things Heroes has going for it and they’ve butchered them into pointless characters.

The most powerful hero among them is Peter, and yet he has no common sense to realize what he’s doing. He knew what kind of guy Hiro was, and yet he totally ignores him, instead trusting a stranger named Adam who just killed Victoria Pratt. I don’t buy that he’d just blindly follow Adam. Not the Peter from season one.

But he did and it really killed what could have been great.

Oh, and a comment I just saw that was absolutely hilarious on another blog:

Peter can read minds, so why the heck didn’t he know what Adam was up to? Serious plot hole alert! That’s the problem here, too many people, too many powers for anything to fit together correctly.

The final “showdown” that the network hyped beforehand was so very pathetic. Peter did nothing but catch the vial of the virus before it hit the ground. Adam faced Hiro, sword in hand, but stood there while Hiro reached for him to zoom them away.

Maybe he was sacrificing himself to let that virus drop, but in a room three floors underground? Would it really even do anything? And I thought it was supposed to be released in New York?

Heroes tries to drive everything to these major “showdowns” and ends up just flubbing everything up. Adam gets locked away in a coffin underground in some kind of move that we never even see Hiro do?

I appreciate the fact that living eternally locked in a box 20 feet underground is a sick punishment for trying to kill everyone, but it just felt rushed and unimportant. Adam should have had a better fate, or even died. And you know he’ll be back anyways.

Maybe Adam wasn’t cool enough, I mean, he can live forever, but what can he actually DO against Hiro and Peter? He is no match for them at all. It made that ending of the story a yawner.

What would have made it better? Perhaps Hiro stopping time, stealing the sword back, starting time and then whacking Adam’s head off. Awesome. Wow.

So let’s talk about the deaths. Nicki is dead, finally (allegedly). That entire storyline was useless. She runs into the fire and lets a beam get in her way because she has no powers left. I still am left wondering why. What’s the point in killing these people in stories that don’t matter?

Where does Micah and Copycat fit in? We sat through episode after episode for that?

And the second death: Nathan. As I stated above, things happen way too fast here. Suddenly Claire and Nathan have the same idea to go public. I don’t get it, but for Nathan it happens in a matter of five minutes at the end. Matt mind-controls everyone to get Nathan on the air, Peter hugs him, happy once more (apparently completely forgetting about the girl he was trying so hard to save all season long), and then before Nathan can say “I can fly”, he’s blown away.

I don’t know, it just all happened too fast for me. It seemed too quick and unimportant to matter. And how did mother know about their plans? From the hidden camera in the room with the virus?

If she knew where it was, and everyone apparently does (Odessa, Texas), couldn’t they have perhaps MOVED the virus somewhere else before Adam got there?

These are the kinds of stories you get when you have too much going on. Nothing fits together, everything seems to be missing importance.

And to finish off this stinking long recap (sorry about rambling), let’s talk about Suresh and Sylar and the return of his powers. Okay, so Suresh knows what Sylar is capable of doing, yet decides it’s more important to save himself and the little Google Maps girl instead of perhaps not letting loose the most vicious killer the world has ever known?

The entire way he gets his powers back is kind of lame. The Maya story proved meaningless, since he didn’t even steal her powers. I was SOOOO happy she got shot, but then they tested the blood on her and she was back! Crap!

Kristen Bell shows up, hits Sylar with lightning a few times, and he runs off with a bag of blood and gets his powers back. The real villain in the story finally returns, which was okay. I like the idea of Sylar’s struggle to regain his abilities, but it could have been done better.

If the company injected him with the virus to rid him of his powers, why wasn’t he locked up like everyone else has been? Why someplace in South American under the watch of one woman?

Ugh, I really am bummed to be writing this blog. I loved this show and still have hope for it, but it’s seriously got problems. I may write something on how to fix it in a few weeks, but right now, I’m just in mourning.

And I wont even go off on how disappointing the writing has been for Kristen Bell. She could have so much better.

Okay, to make myself feel better, I’ll try to come up with some good stuff from last night.

- Micah changing the street lights and using a cell phone to track Copycat was kind of cool.

- Peter obliterating the virus was sweet.

- The mind control battle between Peter and Parkman was intense and awesome.

- The nod to Popeye at the end was also a nice touch. Sylar tries to see if his powers are back and ends up pulling an empty can of spinach through the air into his waiting hand. Insert Popeye theme music here.

So what did you all think? Jina watched with me last night and laughed at a few parts during it, so I know she agrees with most of what I’ve said here.

Disappointed?