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I was just sort of "whelmed" by the finale, neither over- nor under-.

I think that Heroes was very "TV 2.0" (yes, I'm saying that tongue-in-cheek), in that it was heavily guided by viewer feedback. At the beginning of the last episode, for instance, when Niki says "why didn't you phase through the bullet?" when she hadn't said that in the same scene in the previous episode, it felt to me like that question came straight off of a message board somewhere. Likewise, on the Wikipedia article the series creators say that each season was supposed to follow a completely different set of characters, but that everyone loved many of the first season characters so much that they decided to continue them into the second season (and everyone loved Hiro so much that he was in EVERY SINGLE FUCKING EPISODE WHETHER HE ACTUALLY DID ANYTHING OR NOT).

If I met the series creators, the first thing I'd ask them is how much was planned out, and how much just sort of happened. Was the Mrs. Petrelli who was arrested for shoplifting in the first episode intended to be the final mastermind behind everything? Was George Takei really intended to be Obi Wan Kenobi at the end, or just a fun cameo? Was Simone supposed to die, even though she appeared in Peter's "blowing up" flash forwards? Was any thought given to the fact that Peter ends up blowing up at night instead of in the middle of the day, as all his flash-forwards and Hiro's witnessing indicate?

The show also lost a lot of momentum when it came back from hiatus and I don't think it really ever got it back, and I'm a little worried about the "American Idol"-style sub-show that they're going to do next season where viewers vote for a new character. For all my griping, though, I have to say that so far this is the third best TV series I've ever seen, after Avatar and Firefly, and I look forward to seeing what they do with the second season.

I really liked "Five Years Gone" specifically because it made me very uncomfortable and gave a clear indication of what was at stake.

I, too, am wondering what "pull a Lost" means; I "Lost" interest in Lost halfway through the second season. Please explain!

EDIT: Oh, apparently "pull a Lost" means "fail to resolve any mysteries / plots, and instead add a bazillion more mysteries / plots", which makes sense and is exactly why I stopped watching Lost. I guess Heroes is doing this to some extent: the introduction of " the eye of Sauron" ("when I see him, he sees me!"), Hiro III: Hiro in Time, Sylar not dying. On the other hand they DID tie up a lot of loose ends too: NY saved from the explosion, Niki and Jessica seeming to make a truce, the Company in shambles, Linderman dead. I feel like they're certainly not pulling a Lost to nearly the extent of Lost itself, and that they're just pulling a little more Lost than is necessary to provide a teaser for the second season and maintain interest over the summer break.

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