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

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

The heart thing was cheesetacular, and if they don't bring back Nathan this show is DEAD TO ME. DEAD I SAY.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

At least we finally know what Peter's power is, thanks to Mr. Deveaux. He has the power of heart.

HEART!

Yeah, uh WTF? Plot holes like whoa.

[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.

[dotfic.livejournal.com]

1. My thought exactly.
2. I hadn't even thought of that! (Or 3 and 4).

I did enjoy it. I have...issues...with it (all you need is love is as good a message as any but omg, they kept saying it...and saying it...and saying it...) But there were moments that made me happy.

It's a show I watch as kind of a diversion, it doesn't own my soul. The question is how long can I stick with a show that doesn't own my soul. It's been a full 22 episodes and Heroes isn't quite there. But I like a lot of the characters and will check out season 3 just to see what happens to my favorite characters.

[tirtzah.livejournal.com]

1. Shooting Peter at point blank range in the back of the skull (as they discussed a few episodes ago) could probably kill him if it destroyed enough of his brain, which is the source of the powers. No brain, no regeneration.

2. This bugged me a bit but I think the idea is Peter was overloading and losing control of all the powers he'd accumulated and he couldn't manage to fly away on his own. (Would have liked to have seen him try though.)

3. + 4. Science and this show are like unmixy things. I gave up on them ever getting anything right in the pilot when Mohinder asserted that human beings only use 10% of their brain. Completely false. A myth that continues to be propagated by superhero shows (see also: The 4400).

I totally called the Nathan flying off with Peter thing in the car on the way to a Heroes viewing party. I refuse to believe that either character is dead until I see a corpse (yeah, I know vaporized, still won't buy it). I can't see them really killing off two of their best actors. o_O