Heroes Finale Thoughts (SPOILERS BELOW)

Well that was that. In an amazing case of déjà vu, Heroes closed their second “volume” with the same lackluster effort that concluded “volume” one. My biggest complaint with last spring’s finale was the fact that the showdown between Sylar and our heroes was rushed. Last night was exactly the same except substitute Adam/Kensei for Sylar. The scene between Adam and Hiro was all too brief and the fight we’ve been waiting for happened mostly off screen. Same goes for Peter versus everyone. Meanwhile the biggest problem of the fall continued to rear its ugly head as we got way too much of the newbies. Seriously the most depressing thing about the episode was when Sylar had Mohinder bring “ol’ death eyes” back to life. There were also some glaring plot holes like Peter suddenly not caring about “the love of his life” Caitlin. Now I could care less if we ever see that Irish lass again, but once the virus was thwarted, Pete didn’t seem to care that she was still stuck in New York a year in the future even though he’d whined about that for the last 3 weeks. Of course that’s not to say there wasn’t some good to the episode. First off, I think we saw the last of the crappy flying special effects as West flew off on Claire and her daddy took a bullet. I also liked the stuff with Elle who has become the most developed and intriguing newbie. More importantly, the producers are trying to get the show back on track by returning a bit of the status quo. Sylar’s back and ready to make trouble, HRG is back on the dark side and will have a new secret to hide from Claire (ie. killing Nathan), and the Heroes have finally reunited. Next year’s volume title, “Villains” is titillating and I hopefully we’ll have a little less than the 53 shades of grey we had to swim through in this volume.