And now The Hard Part!

Another very good episode, if not quite as exciting as the previous one.

Think my favourite moments were perhaps Hiro & Ando interacting with Sylar, there's a lot of good stuff there. And of course Peter and Claire, they connect well too and it comes across on screen.

They've set it up so well; there are many, many ways to get them out of the season that even if we can guess some of them, we have no idea which one they'll use.

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by Maffrew
Seems fairly obvious that it's Peter in the comic, not Sylar, so it would appear that Hiro is going to have to kill Peter!

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My guesses for next week.

1) Sylar is going for Kandyse next to get the power to alter reality. Thats what will cause the fire which Micah is trapped in.

2) Sylar is going to morph into Peter or alter Hiro's perception so that Hiro thinks Peter is Sylar therefore Hiro will end up slashing Peter across the face causing "the scar"

3) Sylar will explode..but he'll look like Pete when doing it.

That all sounds plausible

That would also explain why we've got a couple of episodes left. Peter is already gearing up to blow, so presumably Claire will put a bullet in him, stopping him from exploding, and then there's time for plenty of other stuff to happen.

My rough thoughts were that Peter would indeed get the scar from Hiro's blade, hurting him enough to stop the explosion. There's a question of why that wouldn't heal when everything else does? Something to do with the blade?

How excellent was the finale, How to Stop an Exploding Man?

Full of excellent touches. Micah seems to have gained a friend in Molly. Nikki has, if not gotten rid of Jessica, come to terms with her power. Part of what made it good was that all the danger was believable. There were no characters that were 'untouchable' really (well, beyond Claire lol).

I'd guessed Nathan would be back to help save the day, but I hadn't guessed how, and it seemed so obvious once it happened. It's been done like that in various comics before, don't know why I didn't see it. I'm sure people will surface somewhere in Volume 2.

Sylar's body dragged off? Or did he crawl away himself? Was it the man who can see Molly? So many questions. And how much fun is Hiro in the 1600s going to be?!

the final episode of season one was going great - until the final battle left me utterly underwhelmed...
i dunno - maybe i was expecting a massive, apocolyptic battle with everyone pitching in on whatever side they chose, with peter & sylar chucking nuclear blasts at each other - or maybe ive just been reading to many x-men comics.
suddenly realising that sylar had craweled off - that raised my hopes again, and the revalation that hiro is his own hero - well, that was done well - but the battle still spoilt it for me.
hopw cute were molly & micah, though **aww**

I've seen some very very low scored, mainly disappointed/underwhelmed reviews online, and I think it's mainly because people were expecting just what you've said: A big, physical battle with lots of action.

But despite the fact that there has been bits of action through the season, the show has more been about the emotional core, and I think that's why they took that route here. It just fit with the show and the characters' development.

Hmm, most of this series I have found boring as I have previously posted. I planned to watch it to the finale just to see what happened, then I would not watch it again.
The thing is, I actually really enjoyed this episode, everything seemed to come together and for the first time since this series began I pretty much enjoyed all of the episode,not just certain characters parts.
One thing I could not beleive is how stopping Peter from exploding was resolved, weeks ago I thought why doesn't he just do that? although I didn't expect Nathan to help, however it was pretty obvious he'd help out somehow.
So now I am unsure if I should watch the next season or not. I am happy how it ended, so could stop, but as I enjoyed it, maybe the next season will be as enjoyable as this episode was. Then again, if its like the rest of season 1 I'd rather give it a miss.

Overall I've really enjoyed the show. I enjoyed the finale as well *but* there was one thing that bugged me.

What the hell was Peter's dream?? In his dream he exploded during the day outside the campaign office yet they were nowhere near that location. And don't get me started on the people that were in the dream but weren't there at the end. That's really got me annoyed.

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by Milky
What the hell was Peter's dream?? In his dream he exploded during the day outside the campaign office yet they were nowhere near that location. And don't get me started on the people that were in the dream but weren't there at the end. That's really got me annoyed.

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I think the key here is that it was a dream... a big point this season has been that time isn't set. Destiny isn't set, and everything changes. Peter didn't have an exact prophetic vision, he had a dream that set out the fact that he was going to explode and destroy new york. The rest is irrelevant.