Heroes Finale
Dec. 4th, 2007 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteAll things considered - given Chapter Two's unfixable plotholes and the ongoing questionable treatment of women and minorities and the need to wrap up some things NOW - that was pretty good.
Maybe it was going in with such a low expectation set. Or maybe it was just that for once, all the pieces came together. But "Powerless" was surprisingly powerful. Some of that came from a good script by Jeph Loeb (IMHO one of the better super-hero comic writers around, when he's on his game). A lot of that came from the acting. With one exception - not Ali, for the first time, but Milo - the acting was superb. Zachary Quinto was outright brilliant as Sylar returned in all his schemeing and demented glory. Yes, he got his powers back, but he didn't need them to be creepy, did he?
There were lots of great moments for the first time in a while: "FLYING MAN!" Noah trying not to cry when he says goodbye. Anything involving Nathan - part of me hopes he's not dead, but most of wants to see someone get shot and die just once. Niki being a hero without her powers - never thought I would care about her, and I am annoyed that her heroism is rewarded with a cheap death. Her I want to see come back. Elle confronting Sylar, and setting up her possible redemption. The shout-outs to Popeye and The Great Escape (coincidentally on the same night the classic spoof of that film aired on the daily Simpsons rerun). Clare standing up (a little) to West's puppy dog eyes. And Angela showing that she hasn't changed a bit.
I still think that the Virus Plot was a dud, that the show has grown too unwilling to make real changes (like a standard superhero comic?), and that there were a plethora of pacing and storytelling and plot problems these last eleven weeks. We also still don't know what the Company did all those years ago besides making viruses and being sneaky. I suspect that we might learn that in the next arc, but I thought that about this arc too.
The big question going forward: what is the Company afraid of? Why are they so scared of letting anyone go public with super-powers? Yes, they are also covering their butts, but there's more to it than that. I was a little disappointed that we didn't get to see Nathan fly for MSNBC. But I think that in the master plan, at some point, someone does goes public, someone does get to play hero for the world to see, and the world really does change in ways that will be familiar to comic book fans and yet totally unexpected.
Which is probably why I have stuck it out. Under all the dross, all the poor decisions by Kring, under the poor treatment of Niki and Monica and Simone and DL and Isaac and Alejandro and Ando, under the mess that was Chapter Two, there is still a very interesting world waiting to get free.
I think. Only time, the end of the writers' strike, and perhaps the more judicious use of Jeph Loeb as a writer will tell.
Maybe it was going in with such a low expectation set. Or maybe it was just that for once, all the pieces came together. But "Powerless" was surprisingly powerful. Some of that came from a good script by Jeph Loeb (IMHO one of the better super-hero comic writers around, when he's on his game). A lot of that came from the acting. With one exception - not Ali, for the first time, but Milo - the acting was superb. Zachary Quinto was outright brilliant as Sylar returned in all his schemeing and demented glory. Yes, he got his powers back, but he didn't need them to be creepy, did he?
There were lots of great moments for the first time in a while: "FLYING MAN!" Noah trying not to cry when he says goodbye. Anything involving Nathan - part of me hopes he's not dead, but most of wants to see someone get shot and die just once. Niki being a hero without her powers - never thought I would care about her, and I am annoyed that her heroism is rewarded with a cheap death. Her I want to see come back. Elle confronting Sylar, and setting up her possible redemption. The shout-outs to Popeye and The Great Escape (coincidentally on the same night the classic spoof of that film aired on the daily Simpsons rerun). Clare standing up (a little) to West's puppy dog eyes. And Angela showing that she hasn't changed a bit.
I still think that the Virus Plot was a dud, that the show has grown too unwilling to make real changes (like a standard superhero comic?), and that there were a plethora of pacing and storytelling and plot problems these last eleven weeks. We also still don't know what the Company did all those years ago besides making viruses and being sneaky. I suspect that we might learn that in the next arc, but I thought that about this arc too.
The big question going forward: what is the Company afraid of? Why are they so scared of letting anyone go public with super-powers? Yes, they are also covering their butts, but there's more to it than that. I was a little disappointed that we didn't get to see Nathan fly for MSNBC. But I think that in the master plan, at some point, someone does goes public, someone does get to play hero for the world to see, and the world really does change in ways that will be familiar to comic book fans and yet totally unexpected.
Which is probably why I have stuck it out. Under all the dross, all the poor decisions by Kring, under the poor treatment of Niki and Monica and Simone and DL and Isaac and Alejandro and Ando, under the mess that was Chapter Two, there is still a very interesting world waiting to get free.
I think. Only time, the end of the writers' strike, and perhaps the more judicious use of Jeph Loeb as a writer will tell.
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Date: Dec. 4th, 2007 03:48 pm (UTC)I liked the throw away humor.
And I especially liked the fact that Hiro is a Sick Mo'fo.