it is finally over
The title of this post can apply both to my semester and to the Heroes season, and both endings are welcome and well overdue. I spent about 18 of the last 24 hours (or rather, the 24 hours between 2:00 Sunday afternoon and 2:00 today) finishing up my pre-practicum binder, the crowning achievement of my nine full days of observations in schools this semester. That's a pretty hefty chunk of work for a "class" that doesn't give me any credits or a grade, but since how I do on it pretty much decides my future in the program I wanted to make sure to do a reasonably competent job. (And the plus side of no credits is, the whole thing was free! Hmm. How far I have sunk to see doing work without paying for the privilege as a silver lining.)
Leah, don't read the next paragraph until you watch the show. Unless you want to save yourself an hour of mediocre television.
As for Heroes, it was a pretty lame conclusion, typical of the way the show has, all along, set up cliff-hangers at the end of episodes and then dispelled them anticlimactically in the first three minutes of the next show. Silar was super easy to kill at the end, and Peter flew away so he would blow up a piece of the sky rather than the city. Yay. And why did he have to take Nathan with him? Could he not have just flown—or time traveled, for that matter—on his own, or did his imminent nuclear meltdown interfere with his other powers? In any case, it couldn't have been more of a deus ex machina if the writers themselves had snatched Peter from the scene with giant pens. Why did Nathan change his mind all of a sudden? What happened to witchy Mrs. Petrelli?! The world may never know, or care. They had a teaser for next season at the end of the episode. Maybe we'll have thrown away our tv by the time it airs, so I'll be spared another 16 hours of this silly show.