How did Heroes get SO AWFUL?!

[IrishJedi]

Such squandered potential.

 

[viezure]

I've almost finished watching season 1 for the first time, and by the look of things you guys are saying, it went downhill after that? I can't understand how, the first season is great, with very cool characters/actors..

 

[Entropy]

I've almost finished watching season 1 for the first time, and by the look of things you guys are saying, it went downhill after that? I can't understand how, the first season is great, with very cool characters/actors..

Quit while you're ahead and think the show is cool. Seriously. Season 1 was great at the time, pathetic now seeing where it went. From season 2 on, it quickly loses focus, introduces story lines that are dropped without reason, and has characters behaving erratically and nonsensically. The very worst of cliched soap opera melodrama. Everything you spend time wondering about or puzzling as part of some larger story in season 1 - save the cheerleader, the company and all that - goes nowhere and is even contradicted several times by the boring drivel that follows. Do something productive with the time you save and avoid Heroes like the plague.

 

[IrishJedi]

Quit while you're ahead and think the show is cool. Seriously. Season 1 was great at the time, pathetic now seeing where it went. From season 2 on, it quickly loses focus, introduces story lines that are dropped without reason, and has characters behaving erratically and nonsensically. The very worst of cliched soap opera melodrama. Everything you spend time wondering about or puzzling as part of some larger story in season 1 - save the cheerleader, the company and all that - goes nowhere and is even contradicted several times by the boring drivel that follows. Do something productive with the time you save and avoid Heroes like the plague.

I agree with all of this, except for one thing: the first season of HEROES is still very good television. What happened afterward doesn't change that, much the same way the Star Wars prequels don't change the fact that the Original Trilogy is awesome. (Not that HEROES was ever on the same level, but you get my drift).

I'll just view Season 1 as a very happy accident. Tim Kring screwed the pooch, because he never had a plan. And a hack without a plan is just a hack.

 

[Entropy]

Good point. It took awhile to cleanse the taint of the PT out of mind and reconnect to my love of the OT, but I can now view them again without the stinky shroud of what the franchise would become.

But the other side is, sure Hitler helped spearhead the creation of the VW, a nice little car, but that pales next to the other junk he's known for. So season 1 is like his creation of the VW. That's right, Heroes = Hitler. .

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I'll just view Season 1 as a very happy accident. Tim Kring screwed the pooch, because he never had a plan. And a hack without a plan is just a hack.

tell loeb that

 

[hairlesswookiee]

I agree with a lot of the statements made, but some of the Season 2 episodes are pretty good.

 

[viezure]

Quit while you're ahead and think the show is cool. Seriously

I can't understand how something like Heroes could go bad, considering you have peter, hiro and sylar (kind of my top three chars). Are they so underdeveloped and become utterly uninteresting in season 2 and on?

 

[Hulksmashed]

TO me heroes seems to be stream of consciousness from the writers in screen from...just random directions and meaningless angles all meshed together to form a worthless story

 

[Vader AL]

I can't understand how something like Heroes could go bad, considering you have peter, hiro and sylar (kind of my top three chars). Are they so underdeveloped and become utterly uninteresting in season 2 and on?

i know it's hard to believe but keep going...you'll see.

 

[Agent0028]

Season 2 wasn't horrible. It was just very slow moving.

 

[Kuzeh]

Heroes cancelled...
I guess it was bound to happen... too bad... so much potential...

'Heroes' canceled by NBC
by Lynette Rice
Categories: Fall 2010 Development, News, Television
Image Credit: Chris Haston/NBCIt seemed inevitable but the news is nonetheless shocking: NBC’s drama Heroes won’t be back for a fifth season. The beleaguered drama only averaged 6.5 million viewers this year. It last aired on Feb. 8, when it only brought in a mere 4.4 million.
The show never managed to recapture those stellar ratings from its critically-beloved first season, when it averaged a whopping 14.5 million. There has been talk that NBC may air a movie that allows the producers to wrap up the story, but nothing has been set in stone. NBC will announce its fall lineup to advertisers Monday in New York.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

That show was a serious case of reverse alchemy. They had gold and turned it into lead.

 

[King Darkness]

Laterz! Take you fail cake with you

 

[Darklord Dave]

Can't say that I really even need a movie to wrap things up. There weren't any burning questions left unanswered - except maybe Peter's poor Irish girlfriend stuck in the desolate future...

 

[Agent0028]

I don't feel the need for a movie either, but if they do one I'd still watch it. How hilarious (and sad) would it be if they did a movie and were able to recapture the greatness of season one?

 

[Trustey]

I never liked it. Bought the 1st season DVDs and only got to the second disc...

 

[tomandshell]

I finally gave up and stopped watching halfway through season four. I didn't care any more and it wasn't worth wasting my time, so I told the old DVR to stop recording it. I wouldn't watch a fifth season, a two or four hour wrap up, or pretty much anything--and I think that enough people feel the same that the official cancellation isn't even much of a blip on the radar.

It's just amazing how far this show fell in such a short amount of time.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I watched all 4 seasons...it's done now anyway

 

[dcflake]

'Heroes' canceled by NBC
by Lynette Rice
Categories: Fall 2010 Development, News, Television
Image Credit: Chris Haston/NBCIt seemed inevitable but the news is nonetheless shocking: NBC’s drama Heroes won’t be back for a fifth season. The beleaguered drama only averaged 6.5 million viewers this year. It last aired on Feb. 8, when it only brought in a mere 4.4 million.
The show never managed to recapture those stellar ratings from its critically-beloved first season, when it averaged a whopping 14.5 million. There has been talk that NBC may air a movie that allows the producers to wrap up the story, but nothing has been set in stone. NBC will announce its fall lineup to advertisers Monday in New York.

Aww well that's quite sad.

I loved the show. First series was amazing but it got worse and worse. I was still able to watch it. I liked Sylar so much even though the good/evil Sylar did get really annoying.

The saddest part is that the last ever episode was one of the most entertaining since the first series but I know a lot of fans never got to see it because as the ratings show less and less people watched it.