They already fired a third of it when they lost Loeb and Alexander. And brought back Bryan Fuller from season one (he was working on Pushing Daisies) I seriously don't understand the hate for this show. Spew some hate for the horrible reality television that takes all the intelligence out of Prime time TV. They are trying to entertain, personally even with the issues it has, I am entertained. What show is perfect? At least there are good actors and some really good sequences in this show. I would much rather see that then people voting other people out of a house or off an island.
I won't use the word 'hate', since I'm still watching and will continue to watch for now. It's more akin to the profound disappointment only a fan can feel when his team lets him down and underachieves. And this show is either badly underachieving or the writers are trying to be epic when they only have the ability to put together something above average. I won't debate which, but I know I'm disappointed in the show. Too many plot points seem haphazard, there's FAR too many plot holes, and the character writing and development is absurdly bad. There's too much to even list at this point. If you don't agree that the writing is getting in the way of what could be a very good show, I have to wonder if you're 14 or something. I know that's a little insulting, but geez, this show. 24 fell of in an extremely manner, but at least it could keep characters consistent. Maybe part of it, at least for me, is being spoiled by LOST. I honestly can't think of a smarter, better written, better executed sci-fi TV show. Ever. Heck, maybe even if you count all forms of media. It's clear that Team Heroes has a major boner for LOST and try to incorporate a lot of that into their own template, but it's beyond their grasp. Evan
I'm not really big on this last episode. I didn't like the Sylar switching the past couple of weeks, it went nowhere. The Daphne time travel thing.......that was stupid. Her ability doesn't make sense to travel through time. As pointed out, if anything it would have made her age much slower than the people she left, but she coulnd't go back in time. All that gets into a deeper topic, but I just think they could have figured it out better than that. Why not just have someone in the past save him? They oculd have done better. Plus what the hell is up with Claire? I hate how they have to go out of their way sometimes to make her character useful. So a bullet can't break the glass in Level 5, but she can when she jumps? WTF? That annoyed me. Also it irks me that Daphne becomes super strong and can transport anyone when she runs. I didn't mind how Peter got his power back, that was somewhat logical. Kind of funny how quick Nathan turns though. I agree that a lot of fans try to nitpick shows on things like this, but Heroes is bad about it. Honestly it makes it hard to watch. This season has been decent overall, but those seem like easy fixes to make it great. Maybe I just don't get it.
The Daphne time travel thing: I'm actually fine giving them a pass on this (fwd and back in time). There've been a lot worse, and as said time travel almost always is the biggest stretch in sci fi. We've had: The Starship Enterprise go fwd and back in time by slingshoting the sun Flash timetravel with a treadmill and in perhaps the most outrageous bit of all time, Superman II ending with Superman flying around the world enough times and fast enough that the entire movie never happened - Lois forgetting his identity.....but all the bad guys still somehow beaten. WTF? So...Daphne...not so terrible. The several inches thick bulletproof glass (which is only part glass) suddenly becomes 8th of an inch thick regular glass after Meredith superheats it and Noah cracks it with a bullet? WTH? Let's leave alone that superheating it would have lessened the cracking in a major way. That would have been awful in a B movie, let alone a "thinking man's superhero series." UGH. Even if we buy that it worked....are we then suppoed to still believe that this cell was going to keep anyone locked up for more than 10 minutes? Good Lord. Also - anyone else half-expecting to have Nathan suggest to the President that they use 40-ft tall purple and blue robots to hunt down the muties?
Anybody know what happened to the Haitian? Wasn't he supposed to be chasing Sylar at the end of last weeks episode?
Probably was fatigue from trying to hold Arthur that he slipped and fell on his hand while chasing Sylar and forgot what he was doing when he got back up.
QUESTION: How did Clare know that behind her head would kill her . .. there for would kill Sylar? When was this revealed? Rocket River
Season 1...when she was killed during her attempted rape. Or when Peter had the glass stuck in his head during his second confrontation with Sylar. Or at the end of that season, when they were going to put a bullet in the back of Peter's head to keep him from 'sploding.
add it to the pile of lazy writing issues that we apparently aren't supposed to care about since it is fiction S1, when she had a stick or some such get jammed into the back of her skull. She was dead and autopsied in the morgue until the doctor pulled it out. With the show - trash the brain, kill anyone. Similar to why Peter was instructed to put a bullet in the (back of the) head of both Adam and his Dad. Evan
LMAO. Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I'm surprised they didn't turn Mahinder into a furry, blue beast. Ha.
I know many of you are disillusioned with this show, but I wanted to share cause I am excited about it. My podcast The 9th - Heroescast.com is doing an interview with Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman) live tonight at http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/28802 at 8pm EST In case you all wanted to listen.
great call, i'm enjoying it which I thought was the point of tv.... the way you guys are discussing this, this thread will end up in the D&D
I've been watching the last three episodes today, still haven't finished the last one. Anybody else find it a little funny though that the soldier they injected was Kyle Baldwin from The 4400?
2008's most over used word in TV: Reboot. First Knight Rider, then Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and now Heroes. Here is some news for season 4. Its hard to say if its good or bad. A couple minor tweaks will make this show a whole lot easier to write; No Time travel. No Super Duper heroes. Easy enough!
