Heroes

So when i got home on Saturday from the trip up the mountain and back, i had a drink, watched the end of the Mets - Yankees game, and then pretty much vegged in front of the Heroes marathon on SciFi. I think i caught the last 4 or 5 episodes leading up to last night's finale.

i guess because i didn't have a whole season's worth of emotional involvement riding on the climax, it didn't quite pack the punch that the producer's were aiming for. Nathan's decision to forego the Presidency of a devastated America by sacrificing himself to prevent that devastation in the first place might be an object lesson for, say, Rudy Giuliani, but it didn't have the impact of Yoda shaking his head sadly and saying under his breath, "That is why you fail."

And Sylar leaving his trail of blood like snail slime crawling to the sewer to lead in to next year's story? And Hiro in feudal Japan?

All that's missing is Nazis.

I'll probably pass on next season.

Any Heroes fans out there want to change my thinking?

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