That was K Callan who played Martha Kent on Lois & Clark. She was made up to look like an older Jayma Mays/Charlie, but it was still great casting.
Heroes: "Brave New World" - 2/8/10 - Season (Series?) Finale
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This one was actually actually quite nice. Not perfect, but lots better than the rest of the season and most of the last two. Every character had something more or less meaningful to do and most of the remaining plot threads were tied up reasonably well.
But even though I really enjoyed this episode, I still hope the show won't be renewed. Or if it is, I might not tune back in. I think this ep. serves as a very decent series finale and I highly doubt the writers would be able to keep this quality up throughout the next season if they don't hire a completely new creative team.
But even though I really enjoyed this episode, I still hope the show won't be renewed. Or if it is, I might not tune back in. I think this ep. serves as a very decent series finale and I highly doubt the writers would be able to keep this quality up throughout the next season if they don't hire a completely new creative team.
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I want to know how he forced her to activate her ability. Her power wasn't "if you play the cello, they will come." Samuel showed her that she had to think about the person she wanted to come to her at the very least.
I assume he needed HRG in order to fulfill his plan of 'creating a villain for everybody to rally around.' Although, that begs the question how he knew HRG wasn't just going to shoot him in the head with the sniper rifle...
I enjoyed the episode. Knepper's performance brought it up to excellent, but Sylar being a good guy brought it back down to above average.
I'm kind of disappointed the final fight was just some dirt moving between Samuel and Peter, but oh well.
I'm kind of disappointed the final fight was just some dirt moving between Samuel and Peter, but oh well.
The best episode of the season, which is not saying much, but I have to grade it an Excellent.
If there is a season 5, they'd better not revert Sylar back to evil again. This time keep him good for once!
If there is a season 5, they'd better not revert Sylar back to evil again. This time keep him good for once!
Pretty sure that meant Emma. She was, after all, the key to luring so many people to Samuel's intended slaughter of innocent civilians in Central Park. Well.... with a little help from Doyle, of course.
^ It seemed like Claire was to get to someone else, which I guess would be Noah as Snaploud posted. Not that the show has any sense of direction anyway. 18 episodes of Samuel talking about family and his great plan, and it's resolved with a ten second fight with Peter? And suddenly Samuel loses his powers because the carnies all left? Even though the carnies weren't around when he destroyed the mansion, the police station or the small town?
The sad thing is, while Tobolowsky says isn't dissing the show, everything he points out about how it's put together reveals exactly why it's so crappy, such as how his character was explained to him.
The sad thing is, while Tobolowsky says isn't dissing the show, everything he points out about how it's put together reveals exactly why it's so crappy, such as how his character was explained to him.
I know she got him on a technicality since he didn't die, but what the hell Claire? What part of dying wish don't you understand?
I think that's just what'll happen. She'll probably even cause a death or two (maybe they'll even stick!) But it'll be okay, because in the end everyone will forgive her, even the dead one's relatives, and her and her Dad will make up again. And then Hiro will really reveal to the world what they can all do, in the setup for Volume 7: "Coming of Age"
It'll be about bringing Nathan back to life and Sylar going on a search for his long lost son, while Hiro freezes time for three years in an attempt to grow that soul patch, much to Ando's dismay. Hero-Sylar will also almost fight Villain-Peter in a subway somewhere around episode 16, but a passing train will obscure most of it.
"HEROES: It's more than a burp and less than a crap" Stephen Tobolowsky
Distinctly average, which is a step up from the norm lately. And I think it works just fine as a series finale.
It might be interesting to see where the "specials are outed" scenario goes but that's the kind of story that is both complicated and nuanced and needs to be handled by very skilled writers, so errrr...if there's an S5, like an idiot I will feel compelled to watch it, and I just don't see what this bunch of writers are going to come up with that's worth watching.
And I'm really starting to feel that with Nathan's presumably final death, this show lost something vital. Not sure it's worth going on with the story now.
If there is an S5, we all know Sylar will go squirrely again in three...two...
You have to do a lot of filling in the blanks, and the writers really didn't give us the help they should have, and dramatized it fully so that it would make emotional sense as well as logical sense, but it does make at least logical sense...
1. Either because he's got Nathan in his noggin; has learned to be good from mind-linking with Nathan and Matt; or somehow Gabriel is now resurgent; spending three years alone in the Twilight Zone has caused Sylar to see the error of his ways (and we really are owed a more precise explanation of which of the three hypotheses I've put forward is responsible.)
2. Due to spending five years trapped alone with Sylar (which boggles the mind to fully comprehend), Peter has now bonded with the guy to such an extent that he fully accepts his goodness. Also, remember, Peter has direct access to Sylar's mind.
3. Matt also has direct access to Sylar's mind. Like Peter, he doesn't need to trust Sylar - he can know for certain whether he is good.
Of course, what Peter and Matt know is: he's good for now. They're still being lunkheaded to blindly trust that he'll continue to be good the minute they turn their backs. History has shown otherwise.
And THAT is the reason why they better do an S5. And why, like an idiot, I will watch it.
It might be interesting to see where the "specials are outed" scenario goes but that's the kind of story that is both complicated and nuanced and needs to be handled by very skilled writers, so errrr...if there's an S5, like an idiot I will feel compelled to watch it, and I just don't see what this bunch of writers are going to come up with that's worth watching.
And I'm really starting to feel that with Nathan's presumably final death, this show lost something vital. Not sure it's worth going on with the story now.
If there is an S5, we all know Sylar will go squirrely again in three...two...
You have to do a lot of filling in the blanks, and the writers really didn't give us the help they should have, and dramatized it fully so that it would make emotional sense as well as logical sense, but it does make at least logical sense...
1. Either because he's got Nathan in his noggin; has learned to be good from mind-linking with Nathan and Matt; or somehow Gabriel is now resurgent; spending three years alone in the Twilight Zone has caused Sylar to see the error of his ways (and we really are owed a more precise explanation of which of the three hypotheses I've put forward is responsible.)
2. Due to spending five years trapped alone with Sylar (which boggles the mind to fully comprehend), Peter has now bonded with the guy to such an extent that he fully accepts his goodness. Also, remember, Peter has direct access to Sylar's mind.
3. Matt also has direct access to Sylar's mind. Like Peter, he doesn't need to trust Sylar - he can know for certain whether he is good.
Of course, what Peter and Matt know is: he's good for now. They're still being lunkheaded to blindly trust that he'll continue to be good the minute they turn their backs. History has shown otherwise.
And THAT is the reason why they better do an S5. And why, like an idiot, I will watch it.
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He wasn't held hostage by Sylar - in fact, Peter was holding both of them hostage. It was only when he was able to forgive Sylar for murdering Nathan that Peter's own subconscious freed both of them. Peter's a sick little puppy, definitely (torturing himself for not forgiving his brother's killer quickly enough?!?), but stockholm syndrome isn't to blame - he has a pre-existing tendency towards self-defeating stupidity bordering on masochism.
Yeah they sure blew that one.
I want that guy to write the show! I can accept that it's an incoherent mess. But it doesn't have to be boring. Make it surreal, insane, comic, horrifying, chaotic.
I really do think that was a subtle (for Heroes) homage to Doctor Who because Hiro met Charlie again in a hospital right before her death, they talked about her having a family despite missing a life with him, and most importantly because Charlie's granddaughter was named Sally. I thought it was delightful and wouldn't have had them resolve it any other way.
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