This resulted in Sylar changing allegiances and personalities so much throughout the series that he became yet another liability. Most egregious of all were the details that seemed small on paper, but wound up hindering the show dramatically. It was more than ruining a favorite character- it somehow, implausibly, felt like in-house sabotage.
It was a good scene, a proper end for a character who had outlived his usefulness, and a death that would hopefully encourage Claire to grow and develop as a person. Now, death no longer applied in a series that needed that element to maintain a viable, constant threat. The second year was also the point where Heroes revealed that it was less of a serialized show than a cleverly-disguised, season-long procedural.
Indeed, season two follows the formula established by season one almost comically, this time with a prophecy that involves a virus in place of a bomb that will wipe out millions of people unless the heroes can stop it in time. But at the same time, it gave Heroes time to work on a creative resurgence. But Heroes was about to reveal itself not only as a show with no tricks left, but as a magician ready to go on a murderous rampage to conceal that fact.
And this time, there were no prophecies about eventual disasters. It was the most patronizing season of television ever made, one that practically criticized you for not following every insane character decision that it made. One two-part episode dealt with Nathan and Peter stranded in the jungle, helping each other get out, and ended with Nathan angrily declaring that he was joining up with their evil father, flying away and leaving Peter there, just as baffled as I was.
It ends with Nathan dead and Sylar unconscious. NBC briefly considered bringing the show back for an abbreviated fifth season to tie up lose ends and appease its fan base, before looking at the Nielson ratings and realizing that said fan base no longer existed. The show that had debuted four years earlier to So, where did it go wrong?
Wanna come? Had this show gone the way of American Horror Story and just recast the new season with a new, unrelated story, this show would have been amazing. So, do yourself a favor and please watch the Pilot. If you like it, then chances are that you will really like the rest of the season. But beware, the 2nd season is when the show rapidly deteriorates and by the 3rd season you will find yourself not caring.
That is my opinion however. For me this is a one-season wonder, but damn, is that 1st season really amazing! Perhaps it had to happen, but the day of television once surpassed by mega-budget, superstars of theatrical films and movies still has the potential to surprise, delight, and produce a film media experience that can rival and perhaps surpass that of any movie endeavor for the very reasons that movies are what they are.
Heroes is a superlative mini-series that enables detailed character development, movie arcs that continue for many, many hour over time to create a visceral experience that movies such as X-Men or the Fantastic 4 can never truly deliver. Heroes really is a progressively, qualitatively more mature, more sensitive, more authentic look at superheros, that even Spiderman is only able to achieve over its so far three movie series. Even so, movie seem to each have a beginning and end plot, except for such epics as Lord of the Rings as a rare exception.
Nine out of Ten Stars. The reviews of Heroes on the IMDb make perfect sense. Reviews written at the beginning of season 1 are absolutely glowing, people couldn't stop talking about how great the show was.
Then as the season dragged on, the truth started to come out. You begin to notice that everyone has these super-powers but are all reluctant to use them, and for the dumbest imaginable reasons. One guy wants to pretend he can't fly because he's afraid it will hurt his political career.
And it doesn't help that he is one of the most dislikable characters in the series. After only a few episodes you will begin to notice that the vast majority of the show is composed of one cheesy scene after another, all strung together along a flimsy clothesline of a plot, which serves as little more than a vague direction along which to bombard us with a horizonless barrage of pseudo-revelations that constantly lead nowhere.
After ten episodes, you don't know any more about what is going on than you did when you first saw previews for the series, it's a classic example of always promising that in the next episode you will learn something, but you never do. This is some of the worst writing I have ever seen on broadcast television. In order to stop this, a Japanese software engineer must use his ability to stop time to do something. Also, a young man who can absorb the powers of other must use his gift to do something.
And an up-and-coming politician must ignore his power to fly so that instead of making use of his superhuman ability he can do something. Also, a cheerleader who can't be injured must also ignore her power to instantly heal even the most catastrophic injuries so that instead of using her power she can do something.
Save the cheerleader, save the world? Am I really hearing this? Well, get ready, because that is the whole series. One of the biggest problems is that there are no rules established. There are no parameters within which these people can use their powers. Their powers either work or they don't work, and there is no reason given.
We are just as clueless as the characters, which makes it impossible for the show to generate any tension or even drama. In an atmosphere where anything can happen for any or no reason, it is impossible to know how to react or to react at all. The writers try to break all the rules with this show, only to learn that the rules are there for a reason. The part of Hiro Nakamura, the Japanese man who can stop time, is a breath of fresh air in what is otherwise a plodding and intolerably cheesy soap opera with an occasional special effect.
It's like the show wants to attract the science fiction crowd and the daytime TV crowd, but not only doesn't realize that these two audiences are about as polarly opposite as audiences get.
Not that they would know how to please either one individually anyway. What a mess. Every episode is book-ended with goofy, melodramatic monologues which serve only as vain attempts to impose meaning onto material which not only has none but couldn't possibly support any even if the writers weren't no-talent hacks. These rants are read by Mohinder Suresh, one of the show's goofiest characters, wildly overacted from start to finish and with an intolerable fake accent by Sendhil Ramamurthy.
And don't try to tell me that accent is real, the guy is a frat boy from Massachussetts who was born in Chicago. I wonder if he has ever set foot in India. Couldn't they find an actor with a real Indian accent who couldn't act, rather than an actor with a fake Indian accent who can't act? And it doesn't help that Suresh spends much of his time on feverish missions, desperately trying to "find these people As an interesting note, Hiro is played by Masi Oka, a digital effects artist with Industrial Light and Magic who has an astonishing resume.
He is great in this show, it's just too bad that nothing else is. I love this show. My favorite Season 1, then 2, then 3, and then finally, 4. So literally, it declined every season, which was sad, but by the time it got cancelled, I wasn't that heartbroken, that was good.
It's just a great show with a great concept, a lot of awesome characters, some that leave the show early on and some that come in, and a whole heap of amazing actors and actresses.
This show is about heroes, obviously. All over the world, yet mainly the United States and literally only one other country, people start to realize that they have special abilities, and soon they find each other, and learn that they must save the world. Overall, I give this TV show a 9 out of 10, which in my ratings book is: Amazing. I loved it, the premise was great for comic book fans. Even the first season adverts "Save the Cheerleader, save the world" promised something insanely different, totally unique.
It proved to be so and, watching as the characters progressed throughout the season, we saw a kind of development that is rarely even seen in the new golden age of television. It broke from a formula that revolved too much around new and refreshing.
And then it ended, it ended on a cliffhanger that was never resolved only to be brought back as a shadow of its former self in an effort to cash in on the blockbuster super-hero movies. It's death was no where near what it, or the fans, deserved.
Heroes is a great show, a shinning example of American culture and how television is challenge cinema for quality. Heroes has been seen as a television version of X-Men, but hey, that's why I like it. The show focus on a good of people who are starting to discover that they have superpowers: these including flying and healing to bending time and space and absorbing other powers.
In the first season there was a major story arcs involving stopping New York from being destroyed, avoid and stop a serial killer called Sylar Zachary Quinto and avoid capture by a mysterious government organisation called the 'Company'. The show is very entertaining, with lots of drama and action and a little comedy, but also treats the audience with some intelligence; having many complex concepts and ideas and hidden clues, sub-plots, complex characters which makes people care for them.
The show is brilliant written, with plans to make five series and then stop. There are many interlinking plots and unlike a show like Lost, does raise too many questions and actually answers them. It also has some like comic book easter eggs such as a cameo by Stan Lee and Jeph Loeb placing some of his works in the show, e. Hulk Grey. Heroes is also shot with a comic book in mind. The art shown in the programme is comic book art and any writing, such as place names or subtitles is done in the style of comic book writing.
It is more successful then the Hulk movie at using the comic book style and doesn't overdo it. If I could give "Heroes" a rating higher than 10, then believe me, I would give it an 11 in a heartbeat. It wasn't long after "Heroes" was announced a few years back that it took me all of two seconds to think this was going to be a rip-off of the X-Men.
I'm a comic book reader, and a reader of both Spider-Man and the X-Men among many other superhero titles from Marvel Comics, a select few from DC Comics, and several independent labels , so you can bet that I did look to "Heroes" with a bit of skepticism.
But "Heroes" is so much different, and so much more. The characters are real people that we can all identify with and are not comic book caricatures though the nods to the comic book fantasy that inspired it are everywhere. In this way, "Heroes" can be readily accessible to those who don't even read comics. But yes, in "Heroes," the creation of series originator Tim Kring who no question has sorted through comic book lore with a fine-toothed comb , ordinary people do wake up one day to find that they have extraordinary abilities, and the show deals with their attempts to understand their powers and come to terms with their new super-powered lots in life and of course, "save the cheerleader, save the world.
I don't watch much network television, but "Heroes" is without question my favorite show on the air right now. I can't wait for season two. ShelbyTMItchell 17 August Heroes really kind of helped the last placed NBC network a bit of a boost.
Though not that much. Still it is a one of a kind show. Where different kind of people from the different walks of life. Try to live their days ordinary. But in the end, they find out that they have special powers. Hence the title. But just "ordinary" people with extraordinary powers. Like Claire the cheerleader can regenerate, cop Matt who can read people's minds, lawyer turned politician Nathan who can fly, the list goes on.
As the tag line once read "Save the Cheerleader, save the world" hence referring to Claire. Heroes wished that it could had grown over more years as darn NBC had to cancel it. Still a cool show! Serials are sometimes very difficult to follow. One of the biggest superhero movies of — Venom , originally one of Spider-Man's darkest villains — is a perfect example. If a supervillain gets popular enough, the comic book companies either make them good guys, or at least make them straddle the fence between Justice League and Legion of Doom.
There's nothing inherently wrong with redeeming a villain, but when you make a villain become a hero, you risk eradicating exactly what's so engaging about the character. Sylar became another unfortunate member of the funnybook flip-flopping fraternity. Zachary Quinto masterfully played the chilling and terrifying villain Sylar of Heroes ' first season, but his alliances became more fluid as of season 3. When he was captured by the clandestine organization known as the Company, Angela Petrelli convinced Sylar she was his mother.
After some road trips, Sylar went back to the dark side, only to then go back to the good guys again by the end of season 4, helping against Samuel Robert Knepper and his carnie villains. By making Sylar flip-flop, the writers of Heroes gutted the proverbial goose of its golden egg. While Sylar was just straight-up bad, there was no scarier villain anywhere on television. Sometimes you've just got to keep the bad guys bad. Sylar may have been Heroes ' best bad guy most of the time , but when it came to the good guys, Masi Oka as the wide-eyed innocent Hiro was one of the best reasons to watch the show.
While most of the show's good guys came off as much as victims to their new abilities as they were beneficiaries, Hiro was the Billy Batson of Heroes — a boy though grown with his dreams of superpowers magically fulfilled. Watching the first season of Heroes , viewers loved the sweet and lovable Hiro and couldn't wait to see him finally meet up with the show's other protagonists and prove himself against Sylar.
During the battle against Sylar in the first season's finale, Hiro finally fulfilled the prophecy found in the pages of a comic book and ran Sylar through with his sword.
But before any of the other characters even had time to ask who this Japanese guy was who came out of nowhere and stabbed a dude, Hiro was hurled through the air and teleported to 17th century Japan. That time jump back to Japan — or at least the amount of time Hiro spent there — was a mistake. It kept Hiro away from the rest of the show's protagonists, and it didn't entertain on its own.
Heroes creator Tim Kring said as much when talking to EW about the failures of season 2, admitting Hiro's adventures in the past should've lasted no more than "three episodes. Speaking to GamesRadar at 's San Diego Comic Con about the release of Heroes Reborn — the miniseries set ten years after the conclusion of Heroes' fourth and final season — Heroes creator Tim Kring said the show never should've been canceled. Contrary to the numbers , Kring claimed Heroes' fourth season was a spectacular success.
He said the problem was that Heroes ' low ratings weren't an accurate gauge of its viewership. Heroes Reborn 's failure to impress could give you good reason to doubt Kring's postmortem assessment of Heroes , but he thinks the poor reception to Heroes Reborn has less to do with the show's quality and more to do with audience expectation.
Death was too cruel. Death was too kind. The writers' strike. Bad Romance. Too much soap. Too dark. All we got is a story were, for the most part, after a couple of episodes, or even after less than an episode, everything went back to the way it was most of the time. Part of it was the reluctance to kill off characters post-season two. I mean, did we really need characters like Flint, Maury or Alice to stay alive? There was an unwillingness to explore new uncharted territory and really commit to game changing events, for the most part.
In season two, we find out Isaac had written a comic book about a superpowered vigilante, whom we late discover is most likely Monica. Instead of grabbing the opportunity to show how a more convential costumed superhero story would work and impact the established universe of Heroes , the character gets written out. Instead of building on the intriguing origin story provided for Primatech and its founders in season two, it gets disregarded for a completely new, worse, origin story in season four.
If they see some funny shit, we should take care of it! Heroes started out with a very simple premise: ordinary people acquire and cope with superpowers, all while being thrusted into not-so-ordinary situations and places. It was pretty good at that. There was something particularly fascinating about seeing these ordinary people leading ordinary lives discovering their powers, learning how to use them, reject them, accept them, build a life around them, integrate them into their ordinary lives or turning their lives into heroic journeys thanks to their newfound gifts, create hidden-in-plain sight places Primatech, Pinehearst, the Carnival for superpowered folks and a few ordinary people in the know, and finding more and more people to populate them.
It was very good at writing families. That worked. You could feel the love and the conflicts and it was engrossing, character driven drama with a focus on sci-fi and plot twists every other episode that built towars a definite endgame. Gone were the days of the characters finding both joy and sadness from the experiences having special abilities put them on. Instead, Heroes got more and more convoluted as time passed, a loose cannon with no aim. That left little time for the little sweet, joyful, bittersweet and hearthbreaking moments that defined the series from the very beginning.
Like I said, I love Heroes. Oh, who am I kidding? First time was the charm for me , I know my interest will be piqued. You are commenting using your WordPress.
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