Series end

What a great finale to Heroes. BBC2 was right to screen the final two episodes back-to-back as it made such coherent narrative sense. Relationships were resolved, all the bad guys got their comeuppance and New York and the world were saved. It wrapped up things pleasingly, of things that you had been hoping for from earlier in the series. There was a bit of a glaring hole towards the end - if Peter Petrelli can regenerate like Claire, why all the fuss about temporarily taking him out with a bullet to stop him from exploding? Our belief has been suspended to allow genetic make-up to somehow affect the laws of physics, so therefore the writers and producers have to be consistent and follow through on the application of these powers. Another smaller niggle is that Peter may have exploded like a nuclear bomb high in the sky away from New York, but surely that would still dust NYC in radioactivity? I seem to remember that the city has an Atlantic coastline, where the impact would be much more minimised from a sky bang. Moreover, I wonder what NORAD, the USA's premier defence base would make of a nuclear explosion in American airspace. But these are small things, for it was highly satisfying end to a great series that knew what it wanted to do from the start and carried that through to the end.