'Heroes' season finale

Below are three clips from Monday's "Heroes" season finale, which aired last night on NBC.

Now I have to say that I was rather pleased with the way things were tied up last night.  The show had been moving rather slow and last season was just as slow as molasses going down hill in the winter time.  In my opinion, the show has had some good moments and started off with a BANG, but that was always my problem with "Heroes" -- not that that it was always unrelentingly bad (OK, it was pretty bad for long stretches last fall), but that the good bits were interspersed with so much not-good stuff. The storytelling started to seem so random and overstuffed at times. 

Anyway, I watched last week's "Get to Know the Softer Side of Sylar" episode (it was actually called "I Am Sylar"). The good news: The show has pared back the number of stories it tries to tell in each episode, and the writers are certainly working furiously to give some kind of emotional heft to the characters' motivations. The bad news: That episode in particular was quite sloooow-paced.

I've now finished the finale and I'm glad to say that it is about time that we start to see consequences for these people using their powers so often.  In the Marvel or DC Universes when an a super hero or mutant uses abilities there normally is a weakness to go along with them and in last week's episode and the finale we saw those.  Sylar seems to be fractured as a person now that he has this morphing ability and is loosing himself.  Hiro has begun to have nose bleeds when stopping time and Suresh explains to Hiro that he cannot use his powers as their bodies cannot take the constant strains.   

I give KUDOS for the writing team for FINALLY showing this side of a Hero using their powers.  Angela seeing Matt Parkman saving Nathan but that turning out to be that he actually saved him by wiping Sylar's mind blank and implanting Nathan's memories was right out of the Marvel Universe.  Add to that the final scene in the next Chapter: Redemption's beginning where Nathan/Sylar adjust the time on the clock at the end, showing us that while he (Sylar) has been wiped, his core ability still exists was outstanding storytelling!  Will we see Sylar again?  I think so...

Now for just a random thought, the main thought that occurred to me during both of the final two episodes? Man, that is one terrible wig that they have put on Hayden Panettiere's head. 

Anyway, enough from me. What have you thought about this season of "Heroes"? Have you stuck with it? Why? If you haven't kept watching, will you tune in when the show returns in the fall? Share your thoughts in comments if you care to.