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GreenKnight37:
I was a disappointed with the season finale, but you know, the more I thought about it, the more I believe it was an appropriate ending.

I would have loved to see an all out fight between Peter and Sylar, using every power in the book they could throw at each other.  This would be more like the possible future episode we've already seen.

But that style of fight wouldn't fit Peters character.

Future Peter is dark, gritty, and literally has said he enjoys a good fight.
Present day Peter is how his mother views him, weak and unsure of himself.

It made sense for Sylar to dominate the fight and for Peter to not do much of anything.  He's not truly assumed his "hero" role just yet.  He's still doubting himself.  With that in mind, a boring fight scene is actually pretty darn realistic.  Him keeping the other characters out of the fight in an attempt to keep them safe is also realistic.  There was a lot of lead up to the huge fight, but really, it wouldn't fit the characters if it was a huge brawl. 

The actual ending aside, I did like how the introduced the concept of someone even worse then Sylar.  I'm looking forward to that next season.  I don't like how everyone mysterious overlooked Sylar crawling into the sewer...I'm all for him being alive in some form, but it seemed to be a cop out that they all conveniently missed him escaping. 

As for season 2...I'm really thinking that George Takei (Hiro's dad) is one of the samurais we saw.  His father obviously has powers, and if the time travel gift runs in the family, that would add a neat twist.  I'm fully expecting the father or Hiro himself to be the famous Takezo Kensei we've heard so much about.  I could be wrong...but we'll find out nex season!

jbox:
The ending with Sylar's blood was LAME! LAME! LAME! Sylar has been spending the last week seeing the future over and over again, a much better ending would have been *not* showing us a stupid blood trail but zooming into the building behind us and showing a decapitated Candice instead...  :hissy:

As for the fight scene, it would have been more realistic to happen all at once - with both men shooting and Niki swinging the pole all together and having Sylar only just hold it together, throw them all off and then turn grinning back to Peter only to find Hiro instead sliding a sword into him before he can recover from the last fight. And c'mon, who seriously wasn't expecting Hiro to interact with the ancient hero stories they kept bringing up over and over again. It's *his* show after all.  8)

Lastly, the fundamental problem is that good storytelling and open-ended shows are mutually contradictory. You just can't have the kind of clever cryptic clues that made the early B5 episodes worth watching two or three times to glean all the meat from, unless you have a plan that tells you where the show is going. Otherwise you just get B5 Season 5 over and over again. :(

billf:

--- Quote from: DaveMMR on May 22, 2007, 09:11:17 pm ---As for Lost:  I actually never watched the show until this year, and even now not religiously.  I caught up via a special, narrated clip show at the beginning of the season.  I might enjoy it more if they didn't stretch it out so long.  According to Entertainment Weekly, it's going to be on until 2010.  ::)

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Lost is going to run until 2010 but with 16 episodes per season  These last three seasons will air uninterrupted from February to May.  So, after the season finale tonight, there will be 48 episodes left.

shardian:

--- Quote from: billf on May 23, 2007, 10:04:58 am ---
--- Quote from: DaveMMR on May 22, 2007, 09:11:17 pm ---As for Lost:  I actually never watched the show until this year, and even now not religiously.  I caught up via a special, narrated clip show at the beginning of the season.  I might enjoy it more if they didn't stretch it out so long.  According to Entertainment Weekly, it's going to be on until 2010.  ::)

--- End quote ---

Lost is going to run until 2010 but with 16 episodes per season  These last three seasons will air uninterrupted from February to May.  So, after the season finale tonight, there will be 48 episodes left.

--- End quote ---

I think they are making yet another mistake doing only one 16 episode season per year. I think they should stagger it to a season in the fall, then a late spring/summer season, and the final season in the following February.
I just love their logic though: "Hey, how can we reinvigorate a show that people are leaving because things are taking too long to develop? How about taking two seasons worth of episodes and stretching it over three seasons? BRILLIANT!"  :angry:

billf:

--- Quote from: shardian on May 23, 2007, 10:26:47 am ---
--- Quote from: billf on May 23, 2007, 10:04:58 am ---
--- Quote from: DaveMMR on May 22, 2007, 09:11:17 pm ---As for Lost:  I actually never watched the show until this year, and even now not religiously.  I caught up via a special, narrated clip show at the beginning of the season.  I might enjoy it more if they didn't stretch it out so long.  According to Entertainment Weekly, it's going to be on until 2010.  ::)

--- End quote ---

Lost is going to run until 2010 but with 16 episodes per season  These last three seasons will air uninterrupted from February to May.  So, after the season finale tonight, there will be 48 episodes left.

--- End quote ---

I think they are making yet another mistake doing only one 16 episode season per year. I think they should stagger it to a season in the fall, then a late spring/summer season, and the final season in the following February.
I just love their logic though: "Hey, how can we reinvigorate a show that people are leaving because things are taking too long to develop? How about taking two seasons worth of episodes and stretching it over three seasons? BRILLIANT!"  :angry:

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I like Lost and will watch it until the series is over, but I do tend to agree with your comments.  I really think they focused in on the fact that they many viewers didn't return after the hiatus and then figured fine, we'll do the same thing '24' is doing - new episodes every week without interuptions.

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