Don’t put a gun in Act 1….

a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://bp3.blogger.com/_dJEkdJdUM4w/R1ZCezoQqZI/AAAAAAAAADk/njyfChj5ZJY/s1600-h/305308414_b9b7b29943.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://bp3.blogger.com/_dJEkdJdUM4w/R1ZCezoQqZI/AAAAAAAAADk/njyfChj5ZJY/s200/305308414_b9b7b29943.jpg” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140369121712581010″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;” D/spanon’t put a gun in Act I unless you plan on using it by Act III. It’s a basic rule of story. One that I saw violated this week with the a href=”http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/”iHeroes/i/a Volume II finale.br /br /The gun I refer to in this case is Peter’s powers. And the violation of this rule over and over again in this shortened season drove me batty.br /br /Peter, for those who don’t watch the show, is a hero with a capital H whose superpower is the ability to instantly mimic/absorb the powers of the heroes he encounters. Those powers then become his, available to be used at any time.br /br /So far, Peter has absorbed the powers to fly, turn invisible, create radiation, move things with his mind, shoot electricity from his fingers, read minds, regenerate, travel time/space and stop time. There are probably a few other powers he’s gotten as well.br /br /SPOILER ALERT (Don’t read further if you don’t want to know what’s been happening in span style=”font-style: italic;”Heroes/span).br /br /This season, he accidentally strands a girl he has fallen for (Caitlin) in a future where humanity has been destroyed by a virus. The stranding happens at a point in the storyline when amnesia caused by the Haitian (another gun character who has disappeared with a completely unexplained storyline) kept him from remembering anything.br /br /What I have a problem with is what happens after he heals his brain and remembers. Instead of going back to the future (no one’s ever going to be able to use that phrase without a Michael J Fox flashback) now that he remembers how to use his powers, he goes along with Adam’s plan to stop the virus from being disseminated. To increase the blood flow to that region it is then when the person fails sildenafil 50mg to make erections. A prostatectomy is when the prostate gland is removed, usually along with small parts of the lymphatic system near the soft viagra tabs gland. It purifies your blood and levitra brand provides essential vitamins and minerals. The chief reason is not following good diet plan with well balanced nutrients and a little change in our attitude helps to understand and overcome adverse situations http://www.aimhousepatong.com/double-bed.html levitra uk in our life. That would be all fine and good, except Adam is a bad guy and even after being told (by Victoria and then by Hiro) that Adam is a bad guy, Peter can’t/won’t/doesn’t use his powers to inkle out the truth.br /br /This is a man with a freakin’ dozen superpowers, including mind reading, but he can’t figure out how to tell if Hiro or Victoria is telling the truth instead of Adam? Ummm, what about freezing time, turning invisible and checking if Victoria was really aiming at you when Adam shot her? Or going back with Hiro to see what Adam’s been up to?br /br /Plus, VOLUME II ENDING SPOILER why on earth would Peter send Adam into the vault for the vial of virus when he’s the one with the radiation hands. What was Adam supposed to do, regenerate the virus to death? And Peter can walk through walls, so why did he have to pull the door apart to begin with.br /br /Don’t even get me started on how they screwed with Mohinder’s character this year.br /br /If you put a gun in Act I, use it by Act III. If you give someone incredible superpowers, have them USE their superpowers (or explain why they can’t). And for God’s sake, don’t make them stupid all of a sudden without explanation just because it creates (false) dramatic tension for them to do the wrong thing.br /br /It’s one thing for the gun to jam at the end of Act III, especially if you see why the gun might jam. It’s another to kill the antagonist with a knife while the gun is still laying on the kitchen table.br /br /Writing like this is how writers (and series creators) lose readers (and watchers). And a writer’s strike is no excuse for shoddy plotting. End of rant.br /br /span style=”font-size:85%;”Photo by a href=”http://flickr.com/photos/bethanyking/”Bethany King/a/span