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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 4575617" data-attributes="member: 807">I'm generally not critical of shows -- either I watch it because I am getting some sort enjoyment out of it or I don't.  And I still watch Heroes so I am getting some enjoyment out of it.Having said that, I did notice a couple things (something earlier posters in this thread mentioned).  When they conviced the show and through starting of season 1, they were expecting to keep it as a somewhat rotating cast (keeping characters through a couple episodes or through a whole volume at most) focusing more on 'regular life people' and how their lives are changed by finding out they have powers -- what is the nature of the person that evolves once they realize they have this advantage.You'll see a lot of this played out at the start of season 1 -- matt was an average cop who couldn't get ahead and his family falling apart but he was using his powers to better connect to people and fix all that, nathan was just trying to be the politician and tried keeping things a secret if not deny it to himself altogether, and so on.But the network and other factors caused the series focus to shift, instead of being about a rotating set of every day people, it became about these specific characters.  There is a line in an interview with Tim Krig (sp?) in which he says (something like) "it's difficult to write for characters and story lines that we expected to have closed last year"  and there was also another statement regarding "it's hard to do serialized story telling, we were originally hoping to do episodic stories or at least have mini arc stories" --- and, honestly, both those points show.  They keep waffling back and forth in their character development  (everytime they have a character develop they have something happen to go back to their initial character; how many times have we seen Sylar's character evolve into good, only to revert back to bad, or Claire finally resolve her problems with HRG only to have them revert back to teenage-daddy-angst), and some of the story lines are just so drawn out they've become weak and crippled - heck, for some of the story lines it just screams (to me) that they couldn't figure out what to do with a person so they came up with something last minute because they wanted some particular favorite-character to be there.Having said that, I want to reemphasize my initial statement... I'm still watching the show because I do get some enjoyment out of it.  Is it as "smart" of a show as I wanted it to be? No.  But at least some of it is still entertaining.</blockquote>

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