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“Heroes” Season Finale Airs Tonight, heroes finale

Posted on April 28, 2009

heroes season finale – In our relenteless campaign to get “Chuck” renewed, it might look like we’ve overlooked the season finale of “Heroes” this evening.

It’s not that we’ve overlooked it, but with “Heroes” gettting an early verbal commitment to a new season, we’ve concentrated our efforts more on helping boost the profile for “Chuck.”

However, we don’t want to overlook that “Heroes” will air the finale of its fourth volume and third season tonight at 9 p.m. EST on NBC.  And while many fans may have given up the series for dead months ago, the fourth installment of the series has been a rebound of sorts and, with the exception of the flashback on Angela Petrelli episode, has been enjoyable and fun to watch over the past several episodes.  (Pretty much from the point that Bryan Fuller returned to the writing staff with “Cold Snap” onward.)

And while the series has found its footing again, SciFi Wire says there are still five things that the season finale must do in order to leave fans satisfied and eager for next season (and given that “Heroes” finales have always been disappointing, this may be a tall order).

Here’s what SciFi Wire says “Heroes” needs to do:

The show needs to give Claire Bennet a happy ending.

Right now, rumors abound regarding which characters may die in the finale. But there are some characters whose deaths would probably alienate the audience beyond the point of recovery, and Claire’s would be one of those. From the first season, viewers have just wanted to see Claire come to accept her abilities and be happy with them. Let’s see a season finale where Claire finds herself in the warm embrace of her supportive adopted family.

The show needs to reduce Hiro’s power levels.

Not everyone agrees. SF writer Paul Levinson, author of The Plot to Save Socrates, who routinely blogs about television and other media at Infinite Regress, says, “The time travel and teleportation of Hiro and now Ando, could use more emphasis—it has always been the single most exciting part of the show for me.” As exciting as Hiro’s powers are, however, making him the ultimate master of space and time was something of a mistake. It is difficult to create an equal challenge for a too-powerful hero without going overboard. Powering him down in the middle of the season worked well to show us that Hiro is a hero even without his abilities. So let’s leave him with some time-manipulation abilities but kill the time travel. Otherwise, we might end up with another digression like the second-season visit to feudal Japan, which most viewers felt weakened the show.

Heroes season finale: Can you hear the fizzle?

What in the world ever happened to Heroes? Where did its TV magic and cultural mojo go?

As  I watched a screener of Monday night’s season finale, I couldn’t help but think back two years ago at this time when Heroes was the absolute buzz of the TV world. It seemed like I was writing a different trend story every week with Heroes at the center of it. Heroes as the new model for network drama with all its digital platforms. Heroes driving all the other networks to embrace serialized storytelling. Heroes finale viewing parties being set up on campuses from College Park to UCLA. Hiro (Masi Oka) as a template for the new global TV hero.

Not much of that this year, is there. Can you hear the fizzle?

Out of respect for long-time viewers, I will not offer up spoilers on Monday night’s finale. Believe me, it’s not worth it. The plot turns are not that exciting.

But I do need to say this. As much as I loathe the way the producers of 24 have cheapened their once-great show this season by having Tony Almeida go from bad agent to good and back again whenever they can’t think of a legitimate way to shock the viewer, so does creator Tim Kring overwork the concept of shape shifting in the finale. Ten minutes into the finale, you want to scream, “Enough already with the shifting. Write one scene that requires real TV storytelling talent – not a comic book trick done over and over and over again. You are better than this. I know, because I remember back to a time when this series soared.”

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