Comments on: HEROES: A Disappointment of Super Proportions

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:06:54 +0000

I agree that season 2 has become crap. What the problem for me is, is that peter is back to square one. I really liked his character in the first season and he was finally getting to become a badass and learn to use his powers to their potential. the show should have gone to the next level. but, it just tried to start back over. everything everyone had accomplished from the first season. It took all season for everyone to finally come together and then in the end. they are for the most part back apart again.

someone who knows some of the writers or some execs at the studio need to tell them to GIVE PETER HIS MEMORY BACK and if in the next episode Adam uses a stupid peter to do his dirty work. I will be very angry…. this will be VERY lame. I watch the show now in hopes that this crap will stop and it will be what I know it could be.. but, I am not sure how much longer I can do this.
GIVE PETER HIS FRAEKING MEMORY BACK.

By: TryingHard

TryingHard — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:31:13 +0000

This season is full of plot holes, painfully sappy moments, and just ill-thought out attempts to force the plot forward. My writing teacher called it the ‘hand of the author’ kind of appearing and moving the story on. I don’t buy the car being stolen just because it was unlocked. Those things have immobilizers, and leaving them unlocked doesn’t make them much easier to steal. Additionally there are things like INSURANCE. Eye drippy twins at the Mexican border, why not uneye drip everyone after you’ve passed them. It’d be stupid just to leave them in a dead pile. Eye drippy fix brother is all on the moral high ground, and his threat is to LEAVE his sister so that she can just leave tons of people dead?! I don’t buy it, what a bleeping mess. Watching this, I was certain they must have lost a writer or something, and now I find that they did. That writer probably tightened up a lot of the ideas and vision of Kring and wrote things in a way not so insulting to the viewer. I could see someone young liking this show because they’re not as of yet familiar with the overdone cliches, and sappiness. I mean, I loved Airwolf as a child, and it’s unwatchably absurd now.

By: Zyloch

Zyloch — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:48:30 +0000

I love Heroes, but I cringe every time they introduce a new character. There is a flood of subplots but no clear villain or overarching goal to tie them together. Or perhaps there is and there are just too many ambiguous characters for me to really figure out what is going on. Like many others here, I haven’t lost faith in the show, but it had better start tying everything together soon to keep me watching.

By: TieGuy

TieGuy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:35:11 +0000

The first season started out pretty slow, and this one seems to be the same. Lets hope the story line really picks up in the coming weeks.

By: nowiremonkey

nowiremonkey — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:56:12 +0000

I agree. I’m don’t watch any other “huge” tv shows so Heroes was the one thing I counted on. And I don’t usually post on tv discussion blogs but the disappointment of Heroes has brought me to that.

The acting and script are just so unconvincing. How could Peter already fall for that random Irish girl? They did such a bad job of developing that love interest, and the girl has no charisma. I liked Peter a lot in the first season, but his character now is very flat and cheesy. Mohinder, Nathan, and Parkman also are all very corny and seem to have no depth aside from the sparkly “yay I have such a pure heart, I will rescue Molly!” or Nathan’s “grr I’m grumpy all the time”.

Also why is Sylar back? He better not be the big “badguy” all over again. I miss when Heroes was more light-hearted (I’m happy about Micah’s cousin - at least she’s getting character development). Also why can’t we just focus on, say, 3 characters per episode and give them each a lot of time? Just when you get drawn into one character’s plot, you get pushed away.

I’m so disappointed. What’s a good new show I can get into where I can watch less than 20 episodes to catch up?

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:54:52 +0000

Let’s see what was good about last night’s episode — No Wonder twins. It was interesting that Elle got called off by “Daddy’ who’s Daddy? And Parkman breaks the Nightmareman’s hold - that’s cool but — develop faster dude!!
The bad –No Sylar. I was hoping he would eat the wonder twins’ brains (or whatever he does to get their powers. Nicki wants to get well? I want Jessica back - she’s more fun.
The Ugly — everything else.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:16:25 +0000

Hiro’s story is boring and totally flies in the face of time travel fiction. For instance, he doesn’t need to leave notes in the sword for Ando to discover. He could simply travel back to the exact moment he left and not leave anyone worried. The writers seem to be equating 4 months in history as 4 months in the present, but what we are watching from the past HAPPENED IN THE PAST.

Also, the whole leaving the note in the sword thing bothers me, as well. Him leaving the note changes a HUGE chunk of history and would completely change the “present” we are watching. By leaving the note, it means Linderman, his father, etc. would KNOW about his power when he was young and he probably would have been taken into custody of the “company”.

Also, some characters need to die/leave. Niki, the new twins, micah, micah’s cousin, the irish gang that peter runs with. The show just needs a hell of a lot of tightening and they need to ramp the story back up instead of letting it slowly come to a boil.

By: VCAD

VCAD — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:26:38 +0000

Do as I do. Watch 3 to 5 eps in a row. It’s worth it. Because if u wait to see it week after week. This happens. It sucks. But if you combine 3-5 episode in a mini marathon is more interesting. hehe

By: Rajeev Iyer

Rajeev Iyer — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:23:16 +0000

Definitely Disagree. I am loving Heroes every moment more and more.However it appears to be catering to people with the virtue of patience. Like any good comic book mini-series, the payoffs are slow and significant. For example, Matt finally went from Receiving to transmitting, it only took a year. Monica, will clear up Orleans, Elle is related to Bob? in the Company. Exciting exciting time. Peter needed a kick in the pants, and a new cute girlfriend with no ties. Dominic Keating will get a new power soon, and go after them because of the Company. Lots more to do, long way to go. Unlike LOST, I understand the mystery in Heroes, and its characterization. LOST sucked, beacuse I had no sympathy with the characters, I just wanted to know what the black smoke was.

Heroes, I like because, they are all flawed, like X-Men. and as such, infinite iterations.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:19:14 +0000

I completely agree TV addict. I have been disappointed in this season and in last night’s ep… the only really good parts were when Kristen Bell was on. And yeah I miss VM even more now.

The only reason I will keep watching is to hope that it gets better (because we know it can be brilliant, look at last season!) and besides KB is gonna be on it and I have to watch her!