I've been taking the last week catching up with "Heroes", NBC's show about normal people whose genetic mutations give them abilities, ie super powers. I had caught the show off and on this season and liked it, but this was my chance to really watch the storyline. "Heroes" is an exceptionally well-written show. I watched this show carefully to see where it's obvious the writers made something up that doesn't jibe with what happened before ("24" is a prime offender) and suprisingly, "Heroes" 1st season was well thought out, especially with so many intersecting characters. In fact, after watching the first 22 episodes, what faults I did find were of the nitpicking variety, so I won't even bring them up. The one thing that really bothered me, though, was the ending of the season finale, episode 23. Everything was great up to the end of the climax, after Sylar was defeated and Nathan flew Peter to the upper reaches of the atmosphere to explode and save New York City from ruin. Then, with allies Parkman and D.L. lying in the street with bullets in them and her Dad suffering at least a broken arm, Claire- who earlier in the season brought Peter back from the dead and saved Ted Sprague from blowing up- inexplicably doesn't do anything to heal any of these people!!! It especially irked me to see her walk off in the "sunset" with her father limping and with his arm in a sling. What kind of daughter are you anyway, Claire???
Ah, but all things considered, I look forward to Season 2 and finding out 1) what happened to the Haitian; 2) what power does Nathan and Peter's mother have; and 3) who is the person worse than Sylar who can see Molly when she tries to find him? And I hope that the current characters don't instantly band together like some "Fantastic Four" organization, What made the series so good in season 1 wasn't the characters' super powers per se, but their process of discovery of their powers. If "Heroes" can keep that, it will continue to be a winner.
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If Claire had the power to heal people you would have a point about her leaving them injured (and weren't there ambulances taking Matt and presumably D.L.?), but... er... she doesn't. She can only (some only!) heal herself.(Peter came back from the dead because having absorbed her power to regenerate, Claire could reboot him by pulling the glass from his head; and she saved Sprague from blowing everyone in the vicinity to kingdom come because she was the only one who could get close enough to give him the drug to subdue him.) Now Linderman could have healed them, but after D.L.'s impromptu brain surgery that wasn't an option...
I appreciate your point and thank you for it. I actually started thinking the same thing after I posted this article. My impression was due to Peter telling Claire she had saved his life and Ted looking none the worse for wear after he almost blew up.
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