Finally caught up on the season and "meh."
WTF was up with none of the Carnies blinking an eye when Edgar came back, considering he was accused of Joseph's murder? At least he apparently hadn't forgotten and sided against Samuel.
Did love old Charlie in the hospital. (And agree with the awesome casting there.) Props to Ando for calling Hiro on his motivation, and props to Hiro for actually telling Charlie what he planned to do instead of just going off and doing it without regard to her own wishes.
Also, I have to think Charlie made out pretty well, considering her encyclopedic memory probably gave her a very good idea of what was going to happen and make plans accordingly.
Not thrilled about Claire outing everyone, or "good" Sylar, as we've heard this tune before and it wasn't very compelling back then.
That said, if they play up his ability to assume other identities (personality-wise, not necessarily the shape-shifting power) and couple that with clever uses of his powers, it could make for some very interesting television. But I don't trust the writers to be able to manage that.
Apparently now that Nathan is actually dead (maybe), the Matt doing something bad-assed to neutralize Sylar only to have it undone in the following episode is the new "Nathan dies".
Glad the Carnie storyline is finally over.
Rumours of a 13 episode finish-up season. Though I've heard at least one cast member has made other commitments already.
Official cancellation
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Yeah last season was a mess and a half
Well, with this news, Lost ending, Law and Order cancelled and Flashforward cancelled my tv viewing will be a bit less crowded next year...
They had two different stories on NPR about the cancellation of Law & Order. . .
It's too bad they didn't get a chance to wrap things up, but I'm suprisingly undisappointed by the actual cancellation, which pretty much says it all about how the show was doing in the end.
I don't really remember what they have to wrap up.
regarding ...
It's too bad they didn't get a chance to wrap things up
... and ...
I don't really remember what they have to wrap up.
Here's the thing. I actually think Claire outing everybody was a pretty good note to end on. The status quo changes, the future's a blank slate, Claire takes initiative on something, Sylar's at a steady good-guy point and Nathan's still dead. Not perfect, but at the very least, our main characters are settled.
Given only 13 episodes, where would they go from here? Given the show's track record, I'd say they'd have giant, hero-hunting robots herding the heroes into concentration camps, or possibly some other X-Men ripoff, and while the characters meandered around avoiding each other and emo-ifying their hair.
Nah. Killing it now was a mercy. So much potential, but it never seemed to know what it wanted to be, and they seemed adverse to -- to borrow a concept from Charlie Anders -- just letting it be pulp.
