Originally posted by: crazyrabbits
Seriously, stop trying to "fanwank" the bad writing to suit your own personal tastes. The final sequence lasted all of a couple minutes. Who, aside from Parkman (who seemed to be busy getting to the battle scene) even knew about Niki? Damn it, I get so fucking sick of people who explain away the bad writing. I don't want this show to start sucking like the last few years of Star Trek.
Hell, it seems that you don't even understand Candice's dialogue either. That was my point, that it makes no sense in the context of the story. Of course there should have been people around the area. it's a hell of a lot more accurate than a city where not one person is on the street. In fact, the whole city is empty throughout most of the episode, and it's never explained why. When Claire jumps out the window, the street is empty. When Peter meets Nathan in the parking garage, it's empty. When Peter collapses in the street, it's empty. It would have been a lot more frightening to see Sylar picking off random innocents as he is battling with the heroes.
For Christ's sake. I didn't even think it was that bad.
Seriously, stop trying to "fanwank" the bad writing to suit your own personal tastes. The final sequence lasted all of a couple minutes. Who, aside from Parkman (who seemed to be busy getting to the battle scene) even knew about Niki? Damn it, I get so fucking sick of people who explain away the bad writing. I don't want this show to start sucking like the last few years of Star Trek.
Hell, it seems that you don't even understand Candice's dialogue either. That was my point, that it makes no sense in the context of the story. Of course there should have been people around the area. it's a hell of a lot more accurate than a city where not one person is on the street. In fact, the whole city is empty throughout most of the episode, and it's never explained why. When Claire jumps out the window, the street is empty. When Peter meets Nathan in the parking garage, it's empty. When Peter collapses in the street, it's empty. It would have been a lot more frightening to see Sylar picking off random innocents as he is battling with the heroes.
For Christ's sake. I didn't even think it was that bad.
Yeah, because this one episode is as bad as most of Voyager, Enterprise, and the last few seasons of TNG. Yeah, right.
I'm not "fanwanking" anything. I enjoy the show very much. Despite the possible bad writing of the finale (which I think is up for debate), it's the best show on tv now. I use to make it a point to watch 24 before anything else. Now, I watch Heroes and 24 can wait. I haven't even watched that finale yet and I probably won't until tomorrow night.
I doubt Sylar would've "picked off" random innocents. He freaked out when he thought he was the bomb. He even called Mohinder and said he needed to get away because there was no point to all the innocents dieing. Sylar hasn't been after anybody that doesn't have some kind of power. Even Ando was only attacked because he was trying to kill Sylar. Other than that, Sylar hasn't gone after anyone without power. Otherwise, he could've easily picked off a ton of innocent people while he was roaming the streets. That's not his style and it's not what he wants.
Aside from the one time Parkman ran into Sylar in that basement (or whatever it was), when did he encounter him? As far as I know, he didn't. And since he's a cop, his first reaction is going to be to just shoot him. So yeah, he shots 3 bullets into the air and then a fourth and they get fired back at him. It's obvious he didn't know what he was getting into, but he wasn't going to let that stop him from trying.
Does every little thing need to be explained? Do we need a scene in the building stairwell with Parkman explaining to everyone who Niki is and what's going on so she can do her thing when they encounter Sylar? That kind of thing ruined Star Wars EU. I'm pretty sure we can live on the assumption that they filled her in. Now, if they end up filling her in during season 2, then it'll be really bad writing.
Stop trying to read so damn much into it. If anything, by your standards, the show was ruined before the finale aired. Sylar is so damn powerful now that the only thing he can't do is regenerate, turn invisible, and fly. Not much need for any of those things when you're a walking A-bomb. If the writers wrote themselves into a corner and Sylar isn't dead, than it's just going to get even worse from here. I was just reading some other forums and the theory is that Sylar is dead, but the unknown evil that Molly didn't want to find, is what dragged him off. We won't really know though until next season at the soonest.
I think the worst thing they can do is explain every single little detail. Leave some things open to interpretation. Let the fans go wild.