News your connection to The Boston Globe  Season finale
highlights 'Heroes' flaws  Reprinted from late editions of
yesterday's Globe.  "Heroes," NBC's hit freshman series, made it
to the finish line Monday night in a bit of a shambles. The
show's flaws -- too many characters, the obviousness of "saving
the world," the very random rules governing each magical
"ability" -- were easier to overlook while the season was
developing so imaginatively. But they were impossible to ignore
during the heavily hyped finale, when all the pieces were
supposed to fit together with some kind of internal logic, and
didn't.  Instead of a riveting hour of resolution, "Heroes"
lurched from commercial break to commercial break -- and there
were many of those -- without tension or clear sense. The plots
didn't converge so much as knock against one another as the
motley crew finally made it to Kirby Plaza for the much
anticipated explosion.  There was action -- Claire jumped from a
skyscraper to evade Nathan and his creepily be-lipst