I am so 100% in agreement of the "oh my god, NYC is gone again" thing. Lame lame lame lame lame.
As far as Peter Petrelli, I still like the character, but agree that there's no way to write him in a satisfying way at his current power level. They've tried workarounds (the amnesia is a lame coverup, I liked last season's lack of control and awareness better), but in the end they need to significantly decrease his level of power or write him out of the series.
Speaking of writing people out of the series, not having Sylar stay dead in the season 1 finale was a total copout.
I also still like it enough to keep watching, but it's not really firing on all cylinders right now.
Sylar, like Mr. Bennet, turned out to be a lot cooler (and more popular) than planned, so I am not surprised both have stuck around. And frankly, I think Sylar's too cool a baddie not to keep around.
Plus, it's a comic book, cool bad guys are never really gone.
Linderman was a far cooler villain, as is Adam Monroe (to a lesser extent). Frankly, I'm tired of Sylar -- it's not that he's intelligent, it's just that everyone around him is either too dense to notice that he's a predator or too monolingual and platonically pussywhipped to do anything about it.
At least they showed that Sylar got away in the finale. Peter and Nathan blew up in the finale, and now they're back, and the only ill effects are that Nathan sees Two-Face in the mirror on occasion and Peter forgot who he was. That seems like more of a copout to me.
I agree that Nathan seems a bit like a copout, but I think they've got a reveal in line with the scarred reflection thing. It might still be a copout after the reveal, but I'll let it slide if they keep his character interesting. He actually has one of the least spectacular powers in the bunch, and I think it's forcing the writers to give him better characterisation.
Peter's amnesia seems more like a copout than his survival, to me -- with Claire's healing ability, I'd have been a little surprised if he didn't survive the explosion. I didn't expect to see him so soon, though. I figured it would take him a long time to regenrate, thus saving the writers from some of the hoops they've had to jump through by bringing him back so soon.
As far as Peter Petrelli, I still like the character, but agree that there's no way to write him in a satisfying way at his current power level. They've tried workarounds (the amnesia is a lame coverup, I liked last season's lack of control and awareness better), but in the end they need to significantly decrease his level of power or write him out of the series.
Speaking of writing people out of the series, not having Sylar stay dead in the season 1 finale was a total copout.
I also still like it enough to keep watching, but it's not really firing on all cylinders right now.
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Plus, it's a comic book, cool bad guys are never really gone.
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Peter's amnesia seems more like a copout than his survival, to me -- with Claire's healing ability, I'd have been a little surprised if he didn't survive the explosion. I didn't expect to see him so soon, though. I figured it would take him a long time to regenrate, thus saving the writers from some of the hoops they've had to jump through by bringing him back so soon.
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