How did Heroes get SO AWFUL?!

[grphyx1]

The most promising superhero characters on television are written so poorly. Is there hope for a fourth season? I don't think so. What are your thought???

 

[EVILFACE]

During the second season. I stopped watching half way through last season.

 

[-jay-]

I've given up with it now i used to really like it but not anymore.

 

[grphyx1]

last night I felt I wasted 2 hours of my life watching Heroes. I keep supporting just in case something makes any of the plots relevant. Absolute disappointment. Thank God Chuck starts on Sunday

 

[pixletwin]

I didn't start watching Heroes until a couple months ago and everyone told me I would get disappointed and find it a waste of time, but I have enjoyed it so far. I can see how it turns people off though after season 2.

 

[grphyx1]

The First season was so unbelievably amazing, that I know it couldn't repeat that, but it has fallen so far below tolerable.

 

[SixMillionDollarMan Guy]

Thank God Chuck starts on Sunday

Thank God Yvonne Strahovski starts on Sunday.

 

[Josette]

During the second season. I stopped watching half way through last season.

Season two was mediocre for me, but it was season three that ruined the characters. Just completely assassinated them.

I quit during the beginning of season three, and even got rid of my season one and two boxsets - I just couldn't go back and watch them without being utterly disgusted by how the show turned out.

 

[pixletwin]

What is it that turned so many of you off of the series?

 

[-jay-]

For me it just got really dull i struggle to get through the 40 mins without falling asleep.

 

[galactiboy]

To me it is just continually annoying characters and stories that just seem to meander along. I really enjoyed the first season, but after that it was just painful.

I finally stopped watching 3 or 4 shows into this season. I generally found myself either bored or annoyed and decided it was time to quit.

 

[EVILFACE]

What is it that turned so many of you off of the series?

There were no "heroes". And I've never seen characters writen that were so clueless. They changed sides way to much. Eh it just sucked.

 

[Darth Waller]

I stopped after season two.

 

[grphyx1]

What is it that turned so many of you off of the series?

the characteristics of the characters from the first season seem all but forgotten. too many plot lines involving too many 'special' people, causing the storylines to spiral out to nowhere. All the likeability of the characters went out the door as they tried to make a 'big picture' storyline. Plus the Sylar moments just got tiresome.

 

[grphyx1]

There were no "heroes". And I've never seen characters writen that were so clueless. They changed sides way to much. Eh it just sucked.

Eli I think you hit the nail on the head. they flip flopped too much.

 

[The Mike]

Season 1 was epic, it felt that way like a real life comic book coming off the pages onto the screen. The build up was fantastic with the individuals learning of their powers and then realizing that they were apart of something larger then themselves.

Season 2 felt stagnant. Hiro going back in time, the introduction of so many superpowered individuals who seemed to be just thrown in there and so many plotlines that went nowhere. Remember Peter's Irish girlfriend Caitlyn that is seemingly trapped in the future with nothing ever said about her? Or foreshadowing of the future from Season 1 that never came to pass? Hiro still doesn't speak English as well as he did in his timetraveling days.

Season 3 had an amazing build up "Villains". The other side of the coin that went nowhere. The villains didn't seem any more villainous than the heroes throughout with people switching sides and jumping around and don't get me started on the ridiculousness of Hiro as a seven year old. I stopped watching right after that point before the fugitive part and haven't looked back.

The show couldn't contain its own hype and became a buffoonery and almost a satire of itself.

 

[Mad Old Lu]

I watched the first season, but even then I thought the series moved a bit too slow. It just meandered towards the end of the season. I was disappointed by the finale of season one, and I watched season two mostly on fast-forward on my DVR, barely slowing down during the Hiro and Kristen Bell segments. And I didn't bother with season 3 and onward, although I've heard good things about it.

I really wanted to like the show, and there were some damn great potential story lines and characters. But I just felt like nothing ever went anywhere.

The new trend on TV seems to be a more "soapy" timeline to the shows, where it's more about an overall arc to the series, instead of being episodic like Law & Order where you can tune in from week to week and not feel like you missed anything. I don't think this new trend is necessarily a bad thing, but I also don't think they have nailed down the idea yet. Buffy and Angel got it, though. They had the overall arcs to each of their seasons, but each episode was also its own thing. Something actually happened and got resolved in each ep, with elements from the larger arc going on as a subplot. To me, that's the perfect combination because the audience feels like something is actually happening, and the series has a grander scale to it that elevates it to something beyond a regular show.

 

[Kuzeh]

Yeah, last night was terrible...
WTF is going on??...
You can tell that even the actors aren't trying anymore...

There really isn't a plot at all... nothing to look forward to...
and the world still doesn't care about them...
It's now completely in-transcendent...

Can't wait for LOST!!
I think I'm pretty much done watching TV shows after Lost ends...

 

[karamazov80]

During the second season. I stopped watching half way through last season.

Precisely the same experience I had. I just lost all interest. I enjoyed the first season for what it was, though.

I kind of fell off the Lost bandwagon with the last season, as well. Much as I loved the previous seasons, I "lost" my interest and couldn't even be bothered to keep up with it.

 

[Mesa]

i don't even think i made it through all of season 2. I stopped when Hiro started time traveling with that blonde drunk dude back in medievil times.

Turned into a friggin' soap opera IMO. Plus it got a little complicated, much more so than LOST. Too many tangents that I didn't feel like trying to figure out.