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It's too bad they didn't get a chance to wrap things up

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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.

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.

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....

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.

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.

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.

I would totally watch the Mama Petrelli show.

There were times when it felt like she'd wandered over from some other, better written show.

In case you missed it, in an unprecedented unanimous vote, this thread will close in about a week (June 1).

I gave up on Heroes midway through this last season. Then I realized that I actually had given up with only two episodes to go, so I figured I might as well watch them. I won't say that I want those two hours of my life back, but if it had been renewed, I wasn't going to stick with it.

I just sat and made sure I had read all the webcomics, because I am a completist like that. Nothing interesting there, if anyone is wondering.