Want a list of the things that sucked about the episode?
1) Security guards not being able to find the three "Minorities abound" family in the Lindermin building after he was killed. That place would of been locked down and had poliece surrounding it in minutes.
Well, it is New York City, so that automatically slow response time by the police right there.
2) DL would of died. Fast. None of that walking around and being like "ohh this hurts!" bit. He would of died in Nikki's arm's like it was showing at the end of last episode.
Yeah, I kept wondering "Why doesn't he just temporarily phase and let the bullet fall out?" Sure, it wouldn't reduce the bleeding, but it would reduce the chance of infection.
3) Parkman going to kill Sylar alone. He already shot him with a full clip in one of the first episodes and he survived, or did the writers forget that because they changed so much of what they were gonna do with the show.
Well, I agree Parkman was a total fool thinking he could take on Sylar by himself, especially when he went alone to Issac's loft. However, he probably thought he could get a few lucky shots off while Sylar was busy doing the "Darth Vader choke hold" and didn't realize Sylar had acquired super-hearing along the way. After all, I would think because of Sylar's super-hearing he would be able to hear Matt come up behind him and shoot his gun.
4) The little girl going off about how theres someone more scary than Sylar.
It's called setting up Season 2.
5) Suresh not getting shot or hurt at all. He should of died. Long ago.
He's the narrator of the show, and you don't kill off the narrator.
6) Nikki, for NO REASON WHATSOEVER, stopped Sylar from beating Peters head in with a parking meter.
Oh, like she's just going to stand by and watch somebody get their ass wooped when she's got strong enough to rip a person apart with her bare hands? If she had remained as Jessica then maybe.
7) Clair not being able to shoot Peter, when he obviously would of survived.
If you've been paying attention, it's been well established that the only way to effectively "kill" Claire or Peter is when an object penetrated their head. If it's something large like a tree root or a piece of glass, then it can be easily pulled out and they'll be resurrected. If it's something smaller that could get logged in the skull, like a bullet for example, then they'd stay dead. And remember Peter told Claire that the only way to kill him was a head shot. Mr. Bennet also knew a shot to the head could kill Peter as well, which is why he was going to do it. Claire, being that she's only 16 and given the task of killing the man who saved her life and her uncle is naturally going to hesitate I would think.
8) Peter not being able to fly away when he was about to explode.
Remember Suresh described Peter's abilities being like a sponge? Well, a sponge can only hold so much. Also, Claude told Peter that if he absorbed too many powers that he would end up losing control, hence why he trained him in the first place. Absorbing Ted's power all ready made him on the breaking point and absorbing Nikki's put him over the edge. He's inability to fly was due to the fact that it took every ounce of his will to keep himself from exploding.
The whole "Sylar got away / was dragged into the sewer!" bit. Should of just had his body disappear and not make any mention of it. He's in the next season as a regular, probably going to go through some "anti-hero" changes, but seriously.
Well if Sylar's body was just gone, then the question would be how did he get away after being stabbed? Besides, it a bone-fide rule that the villain somehow survives to seek revenge.
11) No big "Peter VS. Sylar fight". It was like 15 seconds, and Peter was getting help from all kinda of people randomly.
Yeah, that was pretty weak, but hey, it's a TV show not a major motion picture. A full-on special-effects throw down a la Matrix Revolutions would have been way too expensive.
I could probably go on if I wanted to. But seriously, NBC screwed the pooch by not airing last weeks and this weeks episodes in 1 2hr season finale. If they did, it would of been MUCH better. There was a lot of action and an "epic" feel to last weeks ep. This one felt more like a "Ah ****, we were only signed on for 23 ep's for the season? Alright, lets just lump everyone together and throw some glaring mis-characterizations out there and hope no one notices because, get this, we'll throw Hiro in Fuduel Japan at the end!"
Yes, it did feel pretty rushed at the end as a result, I'll agree with you there. Still, it did wrap up things and introduce new plot lines such as What's Mama Petrelli's next move now that her and Linderman's plan went bust? Who is the bigger threat than Sylar? Whose Sylar going to seek revenge against first? Did Nathan survive? And where is Peter? And how long is Hiro going to be stuck in 1671 Japan? BTW, is it supposed to be established now that Hiro's dad WAS Kensei, meaning that his power is that he's immortal or that he has declerated aging?
