Heroes Season Finale, and Why Being "The Computer Guy" Sucks

- After seeing the season finale of Heroes a second time, I can safely say that the finale was a pretty big letdown. It didn't help that I was thinking the episode was two hours long (and it turns out, I wasn't the only one that thought so).

(Warning: Spoilers to follow.)

To see the big confrontation between Peter and Sylar consist of nothing more than a couple punches was downright disappointing. Couldn't they have had one long, extended, fight? And, assuming Sylar was able to crawl down the manhole, how the heck did he survive the stab by Hiro?

"Save the cheerleader, save the world" happened alright, but not necessarily the way I expected it to. I (and probably many others) believed that Claire's survival ensured that Sylar could not become immortal, but one can argue that it was Claire that finally convinced Nathan that what he was doing--allowing NYC to get destroyed for his own benefit--was wrong.

Speaking of the Petrelli family, something tells me neither Peter nor Nathan is dead. I'm thinking that Peter did not actually explode; he just radiated an immense amount of energy. I'm also thinking that Nathan had escaped before Peter went off. It would surprise me if they were both dead after this episode. By the way, I wonder if Nathan and Peter's mom is under the influence of a darker individual. I wouldn't be as surprised, though, if either Officer Parkman or D.L. were dead at the end of the finale.

I wonder who this guy that's "worse than the Boogeyman" is. Maybe it's the Haitian! Most likely, though, he will be a new character.

All in all, the finale seemed rushed, and somewhat disappointing. I think they spent entirely too much time on the Petrelli family back story that it just didn't leave enough for the resolution. If anything, the producers should have split this last episode into two. The first one could have ended with Claire's jumping out of the window, and the second could have built up towards the final battle. If only the producers were given a full two-hours for the finale!

Don't get me wrong; I love the show as a whole, and I'm definitely going to watch next season's episodes. The season, as a whole, was quite excellent, and it really picked up speed in the later episodes, especially starting with "Five Years Gone." The finale, though, left quite a bit to be desired.

- One non-Heroes topic: check out this list of the 10 Reasons It Doesn't Pay To Be "The Computer Guy." One major reason seems to be left out: the fact that, if you fix someone's computer, and something goes wrong later (even if it's completely unrelated to whatever you fixed before), you conveniently become the scapegoat. Reasons #3 and #4 sorta touch upon this, but I feel that this should have its own entry on the list.

Reason #8 is another favorite of mine; I hate having to give product recommendations! And I'm not talking about comparisons that actually require me to do research--the Intel Core 2 Duo E4320 v the E6600, e.g. I'm talking about those horrible apples and oranges comparisons, like "Should I get the 4GB iPod Nano or a Creative blah blah 60GB player?"

Also, I LOLed at reasons #5 and #7.