OK, so I saw the season finale and wow, just wow. What a pile of shit!
Really, the evil mastermind can be defeated if everyone just walks away?
He doesn't try to raise a bunch of walls to keep people from leaving?
How about locking the individuals away in cells and making them stay?
No, they puss out again and the whole season has built up to...drum roll please...a talking to.
That's right, they talked the bad guys down. Sylar was so damn cool being able to fight off like one damn guy. Oh wait, it should have ended with him fighting the entire carnival and not being able to let any of them die, so he goes all berserk and beats the shit out of all of them while protecting all of their lives at the same time. How's that for an ending? And I just came up with that...while I was writing it...and I'm on the john. OK, that last part is a lie, but my point still stands.
And don't get me started on the Peter v. Samuel confrontation. They pushed dirt. I don't care how you slice it...they pushed dirt.
So, what did they stop, like 1000 people being violently killed by Samuel. Oh, wait, in the time they did that more people died of hunger and disease in Haiti (probably). So, why don't they just grab the guy who can make shit grow, convince him that Samuel is a douchy guy and have him grow cabbages for Haiti. Why cabbages you ask? Why not carrots and apple orchards and a bunch of other stuff that is really good for you? Because free food should not taste good, it should just nourish you so you don't die, otherwise you're OK with getting handouts, but that's a different matter.
Why didn't they make it more epic, like Samuel was going to cause an Earthquake and hit Manhattan with a tidal wave 600 feet tall so it will kill millions of people across the eastern seaboard. You know, some really epic shit like in season one where they were going to nuke New York. You see, that was really messed up and so had to be avoided. 1000 people dying at a carnival. You can write that off as the ferris wheel spinning out of its holding and crushing them all to death. You can't write off 6 million people, but 1000, well there's lots of example throughout history where a few people in an isolated area can just be written away by the media.
All in all, the bit with Claire revealing that she has powers was awesome and it does set up a neat next season, but the rest was a pile of crap. I'm still waiting for the main characters to go all X-Men on us and they haven't. I blame all of the bad ratings and the declining popularity on the writers and their inability to move forward with a perfect setup each season.
Season 1 ended well. Then you had a rival team of supers in season 2. So what happens, they go rob a bank. Really a bank? Not a nuke silo or a toxic gas storage facility? They want cash? OK, why not. They also have an immortal guy who wants to kill off humanity with a virus. Great idea, but wait, he gets frozen in time and buried alive. Yeah, that's a good use of evil Wolverine with a great accent and the ability to deliver awesome one liners.
Season 3 started off all right. You had an evil corporation, headed up by a guy who can steal powers from the good guys. You even had a pair of twins with the power of life and death. Awesome, oh wait, the life brother gets clubbed to death. The death sister gives up her power (which she could not control, which basically writes plots by itself) and then the evil guy with the power over death gets his powers frozen and then shot in the head. Does his regeneration kick in when everyone walks away? I would think not otherwise he would have shown up again. And surely they weren't stupid enough to just walk away without checking. Oh and for good measure, why don't we make it so the main good guy who was the ying to Sylar's Yang can't have more than one power at once. Yeah, that's some good writing.
And then we got the disaster that was Season 4. Carnies...the bad guys are carnies...think about it. Oh, and the main bad guy is a walking Irish stereotype. He should have just had a rant about potatoes at some point just to complete the insult. Plus he attacks civilian population and has a family of outcasts. Why didn't we just call Samuel Ira and complete the idea. He could have worked for a snobby British family and had then shit all over him in his childhood. While we're stealing random things from history and mixing them with racist stereotypes, let's just to town on it.
Overall, I used to be a huge fan of this series and it has become a very sad thing over the years.
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