Heroes

I haven't posted much beyond stories, story ideas from myself and others, and an occasional essay or two, but I have to post about last night's Heroes finale. After so much buildup, I have to say that, although I enjoyed the show, I was a bit disappointed by how it turned out. I'm glad that Nathan realized that there had to be another way for things to turn out, other than standing by while his brother goes nuclear and takes out half of New York City (thanks to the bug Claire kept putting in his ear about how family is supposed to be). But I have to admit that I was expecting a cataclysm that would directly affect all the characters, as well as all the city itself, since that's where the story played itself out.

Also, having Nathan whisk Peter out into space before he blows up leaves a question that will have to wait until next season, if ever, to be answered: do the Petrellis survive? Apparently there will be a mini-season showing just how certain characters came to be mutants, in particular but that's examining the past. What happens now?

• Now that Linderman and Thompson have apparently been removed from the picture, is The Company finished? Are the surviving mutants safe now?


• Last night's episode had an inexplicable cameo by Charles DeVeaux, who was supposed to be dead. Had Peter traveled back in time to find out something he needed to know about himself, or is Charles really dead?


• If he's not, then what about the other characters who have been killed off? I was especially disappointed by how quickly Charlie, the waitress at the Burnt Toast Diner in Midland, was dispatched. Will she be back? What about Isaac Mendez? Matt Parkman? Eden McCain? Ted Sprague? Simone DeVeaux? And, most of all, Sylar? There was a scene last night where some kind of insect was seen crawling up out of a manhole where Sylar's blood had run into the sewer after Hiro had run him through with a sword. Anyone who saw the end of Species II knows this could have simply transferred Sylar's capabilities to... someone or something else. Maybe this was the boogeyman worse than Sylar that little human GPS Molly Shannon alluded to last night?
  

I guess we'll have to wait until September for these answers, since the summer series fills in blanks about the past, rather than advancing the story, but I can't help feeling a little let down...

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