Re: Heroes 3x25 "An Invisible Thread" Discuss and Grade (SEASON FINALE
Wow, if anyone was wondering whether Heroes was back, that episode had to have laid their fears to rest.
I have watched the show since the beginning and this episode did very little to allay my fears about the status of the show. In fact, if Kring remains as showrunner and Fuller as a consulting producer I see next season being more of the same and I have to say that doesn't exactly excite me at the prospect.
These last few episodes while slightly improved still aren't up to season one standards, Lost standards or standards of a solid drama period. I certainly don't see Fuller as a miracle worker the way many seem to.
What a difference is makes for these characters to be written by good writers who can figure out intelligent and surprising moves for them to make.
I didn't see a whole lot of that in evidence:
Hiro was told he needed to stop using his power. Okay, I understand how he might ignore that advice. Afterall, we are talking about Hiro but you'd think he'd save his possible final act of using his ability for a more critical moment than preventing Danko from injecting Noah.
Second case--Nathan. Knowing full well how powerful Sylar is how did he expect to stop him? No, he goes off by himself. Same thing for Claire. Did she not learn anything from her encounter with the Puppeteer. She didn't even have a gun or weapon in mind to plug him in the back of the head.
Noah going along with Angela's plan. I can understand her being emotionally dazed but Noah should have seen to it that Faux Nathan was killed off and used something like a plane crash as a cover story once he served his role in talking the President into reopening the Company and shutting down the government project. And another lapse in logic is the fact that three episodes or so ago in Mexico Nathan told Claire there was nothing he could do and the President wouldn't see him.
Sylar and Claire...wow, off the ole creep-o-meter. What are the writers going to do when Nathan's personality starts reverting? I'm all for sick & creepy, but they're gonna have to be very careful how they handle that on prime-time network TV.
I'm not sure if this will be something the writers will ever address again and I'm hoping they don't. I found it less creepy and more dumb than anything.
S4 is going to be one hell of a season. I just hope they don't make us wait till January!
I had the exact opposite reaction. This certainly didn't make me wish that tomorrow is September like finales in the past have --ie TNG's "The Best of BOth Worlds", DS9's "Call to Arms", VOY's "Scorpion", Lost's "There's No Place Like Home" or even ENT's "The Expanse".
This show needed a real game changer and for me this wasn't it.
At long last, this show had the guts to really kill someone important. Of course they can't give up Pasdar, and we might not actually lose Nathan in the end
Frankly, I thought it really undercut the death. And why can't they give up Pasdar? I don't see him as an integral component of the series.
To kill Mohinder would not have had a tenth of the dramatic punch.
That's not saying a whole lot. While Nathan's death no doubt carried more weight than Suresh's, the characters have all pretty much been plot devices lacking any real depth that most fans could invest in or care about. Throw in the fact that he has been so inconsistent and unsympathetic that his death really failed dramatically to carry the punch one would expect.
Above all, this show needs guts. It's too easy and complacent, we need to have the sense that yes, anything can happen. There are no fan favorites, there are no sacred cows.
The show does need guts. It needs to be original, fresh and willing to up the stakes, be unpredictable and do mindblowing things. But none of what I saw last night really demonstrated any of those things. The show still is having serious lapses in logic, a problem for me feeling much of anything for these characters outside of Angela and a problem simply measuring up to my standards when it comes to entertainment.
I see a lot of your enthusiasm is coming from what you
think they might do creatively next season with this storyline but judging from the show's track record of setting up potentially interesting story directions and then completely botching them I have very little faith. I expect it will be more of the same. Although you might be proven right.
Oh and if the show really wanted to be bold they should have killed off two or three main characters permanently--no twins, no look-alikes, no possibility of resurrections. Let Sylar go on a rampage.
Frankly at this stage I don't have much faith in the writers doing characters so they should adopt the ENT approach and focus on doing big interesting plot arcs where you don't have to be that invested in the characters to enjoy the stories.
