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“Heroes” Season Finale Thoughts

Posted by Michael LaPenna

July 11, 2007 |

Ok, Gram, now that you’ve presumably watched the first season of Heroes (I did give you at least 36 hours…plenty of time) we can finally talk about the season finale and what lies ahead.  I don’t know about you, but I found the finale to be a little lacking (I’m sorry, that’s verging on blasphemy, I know).  Now, before you get all huffy, I  understand why it went down how it did- Peter wasn’t in full control of his powers.  But I was really expecting a super hero showdown between Peter and Sylar, and what I got was Nikki slapping the crap out of Sylar with a huge metal pole- which was awesome.  But I wanted to see something like was hinted at in the episode “Five Years Gone”.  Glowing hands, sounds of explosions…That would’ve been a butt-kickin’  battle of, well, superhero proportions.

But oh well, I still love the show and it’s the only thing besides “How I Met Your Mother” that makes getting up on a Monday worthwhile (though I’m passing the summer with “Kyle XY” which is a really good show!).  I’ve never wanted fall to come so quickly.  I really have to give props to the actors on the show who, while not in every episode, are really outdoing themselves with all the travel they’ve been doing and the fact that “Heroes” is coming back with 24 hour long episodes, plus six other “Heroes: Origins” episodes that will feature a new cast, one of whom will become a character on the main show.

I don’t know about you, but I’m dying to know who comes back.  In the finale, Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg) had been shot in the chest four times and his future looked grim at best.  Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) flew Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) into the sky where a nuclear explosion may or may not have destroyed both of them (though Milo has made it pretty clear in interviews that he’s coming back, though Pasdar has been very cagey about it). Sylar had slithered away down an impossibly small drain hole, which makes you wonder what other crazy powers he’s got in his utility belt. And lastly, DL (Leonard Roberts) had also been shot and he’s been suspiciously absent from some of the cast promo tours. 

Ugh…such a long wait until fall.  But I’ve got some other goodies that we can talk about next time, Gram.


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  1. Joe on July 11, 2007 7:26 pm

    I enjoyed the finale well enough. It went good, agreed it could have been better though. Still for a show like this, it is all about setting up Season 2, which I think they did pretty well.

  2. Network Notables for July 13 : Content Quake on July 13, 2007 11:36 am

    [...] Our Heroes blog is under way, and gives thoughts on the Season 1 finale. [...]

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