Well, a hell of a lot has happened since episode 7.

After a very slow, misstepped beginning, the season started to get good. Episode 8, Four Months Ago gave us a nice insight into what had happened to get the characters to where they are. I like D.L.'s fate, it really worked for the character. Nathan's story was satisfying too. Having Adam use Nathan to gain Peter's trust was excellent, though it pained me to see Peter being manipulated so blatantly and not realise. Duh!

Episode 9, 'Cautionary Tales', was a good one, with a particularly good, if not a bit predictable ending.

And then we come to the final two episodes in what is an unfortunately short season. I like strong, uncorruptible heroes a lot of the time (wonder why Superman is my favourite?), and as such I'm not too keen on Peter being led stray, as i've said before, but it works well, especially as David Anders is so good as Adam. I also quite liked it when Sylar killed Alejandro. It was about time they got rid of at least one of that pair.

Hiro's pursuit of Adam is good too, although the stuff in the 70s was making me wonder why they could get someone who at least vaguely looked like George Takei. Just nitpicking though.

The finale, Powerless, I thought was very good too. Not great, but definitely satisfying, especially factoring in that it was supposed to be the end of Volume 2, but not the end of the season and they had to film an alternate ending. Best bits? Sylar being back (and i'm sure ready to kill kill kill), Hiro locking Adam in a very solid looking coffin (he'll be so pissed off if he ever gets out). I really like that Mr. Bennett has been coerced back into working for the Company and having Nathan assassinated like that was very nice. Adrian Pasdar was good and i liked the character, but still, good character to knock off.

With Angela's comment about opening Pandora's Box, i'm gonna guess we'll maybe see a pissed off, rampaging Peter next season. Cool.

Not so good? I don't really care about Niki, Micah, Monica or Maya.

All in all, a very mixed season. If it had started as strong as it finished, all would have been well. But when you look at it overall, it didn't really get good until episode 6 or 7, which was more than half way through the season. Still, i'll be anticipating Season/Volume 3, which we probably won't get until September 2008


(Edited by Maffrew 05/12/2007 13:54)