So what the hell am I supposed to watch now

Heroes has made a hell of a splash in both my household and across the viewing public.

While the show's had its ups and downs, last night's season finale was pretty decent. Toward the end of the show, I thought they might end it right before the "big fight," but they didn't do that to us. No, they just didn't give us a big fight. But they did resolve the explosion angle.

Now, we're left with the fallout (heh). Was that Hiro's father in ancient Japan (or his ancestor)? Did Peter survive? Did Nathan survive? Why did Sylar survive?

For the first, I am inclined to believe that the blue samurai was Kensei and he's going to wind up being Hiro's father who will have some weird time traveling ability.

Second, yeah, Peter survives. But we won't find out about that for a few episodes. The future "what if" episode already shows us that Peter survived when he went nuclear. It's really a non-question.

Nathan, however, is toast.

Sylar. Why couldn't they just kill him off? Honestly, while I was hoping they'd do some things differently, I was pleased overall with the episode. Except the ending of Sylar. I am very upset that they're implying he survived. The character served his purpose. The only way to redeem this is if he was dragged into the sewer by some other being/creature. Now THAT would be pretty cool.

Been a pretty good TV season this year. Heroes was great, Lost has greatly redeemed itself and the current Doctor Who season is fantastic. Don't know what I'm going to do when they're all done (got a little more time on Doctor Who than on the others though).