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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5275450" data-attributes="member: 32740">Heroes.  Last episode of season 1 was woefully underwhelming.  The writers were scrambling to FINALLY bring all the characters together and the result was events being artificially rushed and forced.  They also did not have enough time or funds to film the big knock-down/drag-out climax that the whole show had been brilliantly building to all season and so all the fantastic character building and plotting dropped with a thud.  If they'd have PLANNED for the season ender appropriately both in the writing and production at least that first season would have been nearly flawless. Second season their tagline of "Save the Cheerleader, save the world" had been used up and they never replaced it with anything.  They decided to just turn the show into a soap opera with supers.  All the characters were again physically seperated (and it was a large cast) and no season-arc plotting given that would bring them together.  Three of the characters presented significant plotting difficulties with their powers - Hiro with his time-travel would logically be able to fix everything and needed to have some functional limitation on it established; Peter needed to have a similar limitation instituted upon his power-absorbtion power if the character was to "return from the dead".  Also, if Sylar was to be brought back as the ongoing villain then he needed to present an appropriate threat which the other characters would need to cooperate to counter, instead it was as if the writers were fighting from week to week over whether he should be villain or hero and so was uninteresting and unfunctional as EITHER. That combined with an ENDLESS parade of new characters with new powers who served only to act as Red Shirts, two of the new characters they DID retain were widely disliked by the audience (the bleeding-eye wonder twins), one character was repeatedly reconceptualized from a Jeckyl/Hyde personality eventually ending up as a frost/water thing, and the character of Nathan was unbelievably the only US Senator who not only spent no time in Washington D.C., but no time in his home state and indeed never acted at ALL as if he were an actual elected polititician. One good idea for each season story-arc and a couple of writers who could stay out of the way of letting their otherwise terrific ensemble cast of characters go forth and do interesting and dynamic things - that's all the show ever needed.  It could have and should have continued to rival Lost as the best show on TV for years and instead they just ran it deeper into the ground season after season.</blockquote>

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