Heroes finale

[ivyfic]

You know, that might have been more shocking had I not already seen dozens of fic in which the exact same thing happened. So I'd like to take a moment to point out a few plot holes:
1 - Shooting Peter wouldn't actually kill him. Seems like the best plan to me.
2 - Peter can fly. On his own, without Nathan's help.
Also:
3 - Fallout
4 - EMP. There should be planes falling from the sky.

Yes, yes, I know it wouldn't be so beautifully tragic if they paid attention to these things, but I like my shows to work for their angst.

The final minute was certainly unexpected, but I'm not all that interested in this apparent new direction. We'll see when the new season starts up if I want to follow it.

At least we finally know what Peter's power is, thanks to Mr. Deveaux. He has the power of heart. (Yes, that sound you hear is the sound of me rolling my eyes.)

Comments

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

1 - Shooting Peter wouldn't actually kill him. Seems like the best plan to me.

We've never seen either him or Claire with damage to their weak point (brain stem) equivalent to a short range, large caliber, handgun round. He seems to believe it would be final, or at least debilitating long enough for them to do something.

2 - Peter can fly. On his own, without Nathan's help.
He seemed pretty focused on holding in the TedPower. He also didn't HiroJump away. He didn't even seem capable of, say, picking up the gun himself, or cutting his head off with Hiro's sword, or anything. The body language seemed pretty clear to me: He was devoting all his energy to holding in the glowy.


Also:
3 - Fallout
His wife's death aside (which might not even be his fault), Ted's power seemed to be reasonably "clean". Note the controlled EMP during their escape. Indeed, consider that the original FutureNYC seemed reasonably habitable, and the damage looked mostly like direct blast rather than radioactive contamination.



4 - EMP. There should be planes falling from the sky.
See #3. Ted and facsimiles thereof seem NOT to be simply "Human Nuclear Bombs", but rather difficult to control fountains of vast energy, expressible in different ways, for whom "Human Bomb" is the easiest metaphor -- after multiple weeks with him, Matt didn't seem to be losing hair or teeth or intestinal lining. If he really was simply a big ole pile of sustained near-criticality, then everyone in that plaza is going to be dying in one of the most horrible ways possible in a matter of weeks.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Is it so much to ask that when my show requires giant leaps of logic to justify itself those leaps of logic actually be discussed in the show?

For example--this base of the skull thing makes sense, but there was nothing in the show to state explicitly that's what they mean, and if there was I'd call bullshit cause how would they know without testing it on Claire or Peter? At the time Peter said something about that spot in his skull Claire should shoot for, the only thing I could think he was referring to was his recent death experience. Both Peter and Claire have "died" from having something lodged in their brain, but in both cases, removing that item revived them. So, based on what we've seen in the show, if Claire shot Peter in the head, he'd "die" until they dug the bullet out. Or at least he'd lose conciousness, and as we've seen before when Claude punched out Peter, losing conciousness stops Peter from using his abilities.

So in conclusion, I call bull on point number 1.

I'll concede you point number 2, though I could have imagined a more dramatic portrayal of Peter losing control than him standing there looking like a slightly worried glowy Jesus.

3 and 4 I again call the utter lack of any attempt at rationalisation in the show. Isaac's visions show a mushroom cloud, so until they say otherwise, there should be fallout. As for Matt not dying--Ted can turn his abilities off and on, so that still makes perfect sense. He killed his wife before he learned to control it. But yes, at the very least Matt should not be having any more children.