Peter Petrelli!‏

So I will start with the stuff I liked (believe me, it's not much): My favorite part of the whole episode was at the beginning when Sylar was painting and he exclaimed "Peter Petrelli!" and slashed the canvas in half. That scene (and the rest of the stuff with Sylar) is essentially why I have enjoyed Zachary Quinto's performance this season. He's really not a great actor, but he seems to know it, so he plays his scenes with enough campy-ness and eeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil that I never really take him seriously. I wish the show itself could take a cue from him. I think that if the show is going to consistently work, it doesn't necessarily have to be light-hearted, but it has to stop being so self-important and dour. Also, I'm going to try exclaiming "Peter Petrelli!" myself whenever I get frustrated with something. It seems like a very cathartic thing to say. I liked when Claire jumped out of the window. It at least showed some smarts. (Unlike the idiocy show by nearly all of the characters tonight, especially, I think, Peter Petrelli! and Parkman.) I like that Mr. Bennet has a first name, but I wish it could have been revealed better and that it wasn't such a stupid name. The reveal was completely distracting - why can't he have a name like Bill or Steve? Noah makes me think of the Ark and that seems a little to obviously allegorical to me. An episode of Heroes is bad if the only bad thing I can say about Mohinder is that he exists. I was expecting some sort of cliffhanger. Was Nathan sacrificing himself (if that's what he did) supposed to be shocking? That's a seed that was planted in the middle of the season when he was running toward Peter in Peter's vision. And you knew that since he was being called a "bee-lan" (villain) by Hiro last week, he would have to be redeemed somehow. What I am especially annoyed by in Nathan's case is the future storyline from a few weeks ago. Are we supposed to believe that an awkward Japanese (almost) stranger calling him a bad guy would change Nathan's outlook on life so drastically? I've always liked Nathan because he's got more than one dimension and because Adrian Pasdar is the best actor on the show. I don't disagree that Nathan might have sacrificed himself to save Peter, but according to the future of a few weeks before, he didn't. Seeing Simone again was pointless and a waste of time. I like Greg Grunberg but Parkman is really annoying. (At least) four bullets in the chest and we're supposed to think he has a chance? The episode also featured some of the corniest dialogue all season. My forehead was red because I kept smacking it: - When Molly was setting up next season's big bad, she reminded me of Haley Joel Osment from The Sixth Sense: "Because when I think about him (voice lowers to a whisper) he sees me." - Peter Petrelli!: "Is this a dream? Am I time-traveling? Are you doing this?" Simone's Daddy: "It doesn't really matter what it is, now does it?" It only matters that the writers are too lazy to come up with a good explanation and for some reason they wanted to bring back Shaft and show that he was part of the original Legion of Superheroes. - Regardless of how he got there, all that "All You Need is Love" talk between Shaft and Peter Petrelli! was also quite painful to watch. (As was Nathan's "You saved the cheerleader so we could save the world." Ugh.) - Another dialogue highpoint: Niki to D.L.: "What happened to them?" Did she expect him to say anything? "Oh, I don't know honey, I guess Nathan exploded into a million pieces in the sky and now that the radiation from the explosion is in our atmosphere, I'm guessing a lot more than .07% of the world's population is going to die. It doesn't really matter though, because I'm slowly dying anyway so I won't have to deal with the radiological fallout. I might be wrong though; I'm no Isaac Mendez. You'll have to ask Sylar, who, as evidenced by the snail trail of blood has vanished to the sewers to steal the powers of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Why couldn't Peter Petrelli! fly himself away? If Nathan is dead, it's a shame that the Petrelli name will be carried on by such a moron. I used to really like Hiro, but the ‘fish out of water' storyline grew tired half a season ago, and the end of the episode did nothing for me. Are we supposed to be shocked that that stupid symbol has been around for centuries? We already knew that! Are we supposed to think that Hiro went back to when it all began? The solar eclipse was obviously supposed to make us recall the beginning of the series. Is it like ‘It's A Wonderful Life' ("Every time a bell rings; an angel gets its wings.")? "Every time the sun goes bye; humans will evolve – some fly." I will not miss the show this summer. Finales are supposed to make you not want the show to end. When the high point of the episode was Sylar and his destruction of artwork, that's not a good thing. Peter Petrelli!