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.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
Heroes 1: We Could Be Heroes
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Kalshane - May 14, 2010 6:56:32 pm PDT #5014 of 5028
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
-t - May 14, 2010 7:57:30 pm PDT #5015 of 5028
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't really remember what they have to wrap up.
victor infante - May 15, 2010 5:16:52 am PDT #5016 of 5028
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
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.
-t - May 15, 2010 3:20:13 pm PDT #5017 of 5028
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Now that you've jogged my memory, I agree, the ending we got is not bad as an ending.
BTW, there's discussion in Lightbulbs about closing this thread now that the show is cancelled. In case anyone in this thread wasn't aware.
Una - May 16, 2010 9:12:32 am PDT #5018 of 5028
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
I feel bad about NOT feeling bad about this show being put out of its our misery. Weird. I have a suspicion this confusion has something to with being Catholic....
kat perez - May 16, 2010 9:24:49 am PDT #5019 of 5028
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Since my tagline is still a quote from this show, I felt the need to post one last time. I hardly watched at all this last season. Not nearly enough Nekkid Peter to make up for the stupid. But once upon an S1, this show kicked tremendous amounts of ass. Sad that it never recovered from Los Gemelos Aburridos, badly done time travel, and Sylar lust.
Theodosia - May 16, 2010 9:31:32 am PDT #5020 of 5028
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I watched up to the last, and was glad to see several storylines, like Hiro's, fixed enough that I can imagine they went on to have a chance at happy lives.
Laga - May 16, 2010 10:49:25 am PDT #5021 of 5028
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I was a faithful watcher but I'm not sad it's over. Like many above I felt the show never lived up to its true potential. I felt the shadow of the X-Men over almost every episode.
Last week I saw Christine Rose as a Klingon on TNG and she was so Mama Petrelli it became a comedy. I think I'll miss her crazy the most.
Vortex - May 16, 2010 10:50:52 am PDT #5022 of 5028
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I would totally watch the Mama Petrelli show.
Theodosia - May 16, 2010 12:24:42 pm PDT #5023 of 5028
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
There were times when it felt like she'd wandered over from some other, better written show.