The Petrelli mom blunder

Spoiler ahead!

I've always thought/wanted a twist in the plot regarding Angela Petrelli, but would never have thought the writers could mess this up so badly! Not much was known about her in the first season, it was a character full of contradictions: remember in the beginning in the first season she was supposed to be this clueless woman who got herself arrested just to get her sons attention? Then she was the woman who willingly gave up her granddaughter for adoption. And eventually, she was one who conspired with Linderman on the New York grand destruction plan, involving her son being the bomb.

The contradictions could have been a great subplot to exploit upon. When I saw Arthur Petrelli mind controlling her in this week episode, I thought, oh that's why she was clueless in the beginning... but then Linderman repaired her... and that all happened well before Arthur's death - the beginning the the first season. Oh come on, she doesn't love her sons enough to kill her own husband, she ended up sending them to the explosion. They could have played on having her being psychotic, having this habit of giving away offsprings like Claire and Syler... nope, they let it slip.

There are also these inexplicable things like, where did Syler get his finger beam ability after killing only Brian Davis. How could HRG acted like he knew nothing about Syler at first in the first season while now we know he had been watching him?

Last but not least, remember that group photo from last season? The guy with his head turned, that doesn't look like Arthur Petrelli does he? And where is Adam Monroe?


What a complete effed up storyline there is there now. They had a good thing going, and they completely destroyed it. I could have done better than those writers.

The question to how Peter Petrelli's scar failed to regenerate was explained though, he didn't have the power when he got it... or so I hope.