Minimally Exceptional

So the first hour of the three hour Heroes finale is on tonight.

What a great show this wound up being. I remember back in August when they were really pushing the promos for it – I just wasn’t interested. The previews didn’t make it look like it was worth a crap. Just another example of why you shouldn’t judge on first impressions.

So the blurbs in TV guide and online say that, between this week and next week, we’re going to see the resolution of the exploding man, and we’re going to lose two more heroes.

My personal prediction: Ted Sprague (which I’m almost certain about) and DL. I don’t really have anything to back up DL, it’s really just a hunch. At this point he seems like the most expendible. Everyone else still seems like they have some purpose to serve in the grand scheme of things, so I just can’t see any of them being killed off. Maybe Matt Parkman. But plot-wise, it seems like everyone else still needs to be around. The Petrelli clan, the Hiro clan, Micah, Niki, Linderman, and Claire all need to stay relatively intact.

I guess they could kill Sylar. I’d probably be OK with that and technically, he’s a person with a power, so he counts, I suppose.

I actually felt really bad for him last week, during the scene with his mom and during the scene where he realized he would be the bomb. For a moment, he realized his humanity. He realized that what he had been doing was wrong, and he just wanted to be normal. His whacked out mom just couldn’t let him have that and insisted that he should be ’special,’ and he kind of snapped. I don’t think he has any desire to really kill a bunch of innocents, everyone he has killed so far has just been in an effort to make himself more special. There’s nothing in it for him to kill a bunch of normal humans.

Ted is the other hero that I’m pretty sure is screwed. Ted has to be killed for Sylar to get his power, and regardless of whether or not Sylar is the bomb, he’s going to need that ‘power’ for whatever showdowns he has with Peter. So I’d be willing to bet that Ted’s out.

My other prediction: The bomb is going to happen. Three weeks ago I would have sworn up and down that they were going to stop the bomb and save the world, and while I guess they still could, it just doesn’t feel like it’s going to happen. Don’t get me wrong – I want them to stop the bomb and have a happy ending – I just don’t think it’s going in that direction. For better or worse, I’m in the ‘bomb’ camp. Everyone else at work seems to be in the ‘no bomb’ camp, and if that’s any reflection of the fanbase in general, I’m in the minority.

Back to work for now, I guess. I have some other thoughts on it, but nothing coherent enough to write about. At a certain point you just have to stop theorizing and watch the damn show.