Heroes thoughts
May. 23rd, 2007 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexxkayDamnit! They didn't even make a *pretence* of killing Sylar. Long ago, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rickthefightguy explained a principle of theatrical story to me: "You have to make the bad guy *soooo* bad, that when he gets blown away with a shotgun -- the audience cheers." The flip-side of this is that, having made the bad guy that bad -- you *don't* let him frickin' get away! Yeah, yeah, you might want to bring him back later. But it's not like that would be at all hard to bring him back, even if you did 'definitively' kill him. I can think of two methods without raising a sweat, and I'm sure there are others as well.
I had already suspected, and am now certain, that Charles Devaux's power was prophetic dreaming. Peter was exhibiting prophetic dreams right from episode one, well before he met Isaac. And the dreams are, while prophetic, very symbolic, while Isaac's visions of the future are quite literal. Peter's dreams featured him at Devaux's bedside suspiciously often, as well. So I think that his experience in the finale was actually a *shared* dream between him and Devaux.
kestrell is convinced that Peter and Claire have too much sexual tension / romantic sparkage to possibly be *actually* related. My thoughts: Nathan is the child of Angela Petrelli and Linderman (points - gets to feel guilty about "killing his own dad"); Peter is the child of Mr. Petrelli and someone unknown, *not* Angela (points - gets to angst about all his 'brotherly love', when Nathan actually is no blood relation).
Claire's escape out the window was *super-cool*! Slightly undercut by my nagging memory that the campaign headquarters seemed to be clearly on the ground floor for the first half of the season...
I was totally surprised to see D.L. survive, after he had a classic 'black guy sidekick' death scene last episode. Not displeased, but surprised. Great to see the two cute kids get together. I hope to see more of Wonder-Twins Molly and Micah.
Matt's a nice guy, but he is Too Stupid To Live. I suppose he will, though. Peter can easily survive from having Claire's power. Nathan can survive by reminding Peter that he can fly his-own-damn-self, and then flying away before the blast. At this point, it doesn't look like they killed anyone except Linderman (and it would be trivial to bring him back too, if they felt like it).
Overall, I found the finale rather disappointing, but I'm still definitely buying it on DVD and sticking around for next season.
rickthefightguy explained a principle of theatrical story to me: "You have to make the bad guy *soooo* bad, that when he gets blown away with a shotgun -- the audience cheers." The flip-side of this is that, having made the bad guy that bad -- you *don't* let him frickin' get away! Yeah, yeah, you might want to bring him back later. But it's not like that would be at all hard to bring him back, even if you did 'definitively' kill him. I can think of two methods without raising a sweat, and I'm sure there are others as well.I had already suspected, and am now certain, that Charles Devaux's power was prophetic dreaming. Peter was exhibiting prophetic dreams right from episode one, well before he met Isaac. And the dreams are, while prophetic, very symbolic, while Isaac's visions of the future are quite literal. Peter's dreams featured him at Devaux's bedside suspiciously often, as well. So I think that his experience in the finale was actually a *shared* dream between him and Devaux.
kestrell is convinced that Peter and Claire have too much sexual tension / romantic sparkage to possibly be *actually* related. My thoughts: Nathan is the child of Angela Petrelli and Linderman (points - gets to feel guilty about "killing his own dad"); Peter is the child of Mr. Petrelli and someone unknown, *not* Angela (points - gets to angst about all his 'brotherly love', when Nathan actually is no blood relation).Claire's escape out the window was *super-cool*! Slightly undercut by my nagging memory that the campaign headquarters seemed to be clearly on the ground floor for the first half of the season...
I was totally surprised to see D.L. survive, after he had a classic 'black guy sidekick' death scene last episode. Not displeased, but surprised. Great to see the two cute kids get together. I hope to see more of Wonder-Twins Molly and Micah.
Matt's a nice guy, but he is Too Stupid To Live. I suppose he will, though. Peter can easily survive from having Claire's power. Nathan can survive by reminding Peter that he can fly his-own-damn-self, and then flying away before the blast. At this point, it doesn't look like they killed anyone except Linderman (and it would be trivial to bring him back too, if they felt like it).
Overall, I found the finale rather disappointing, but I'm still definitely buying it on DVD and sticking around for next season.