Heroes Reborn

[Herobizkit]

Also, there was a big writer's strike that cropped up around the mid-second season mark and the story just kinda... stopped. The writing never got better after it.

Most people hated the final season, but I kind of enjoyed it. Season 1 was plain amazing and worth watching.

 

[Kramodlog]

Funny, aside from the first two episodes (the TV movie), the first season was the weakest for me and the third the strongest. The Pegasus ark really helped the second season.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Heroes annoyed me when they decided to nerf the power-copying character to just "the most recent other super he touched" and they took the character I hated and said, oh, she's no dead: she was one of triplets, each with a different power.
I did like that season 3 and 4 had two separate stories each, instead of an overblown season arc, but the stories were too weak and poorly thought out.

What they should do is have a 1st season worked out, and a rough idea for another 2-4 seasons planned in case the show gets continued. Each year should be self-contained so that the show can just end, but have enough follow-through that it can continue on the same threads if extended.

Yes, when shows are continued past their intended end, the results are usually very disappointing.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

I thought the first season of Heroes was awesomesauce. Well, the finale left much to be desired - the closer it got to the final episode the more apparant it was that the writers were struggling to get all the characters into the same place at the same time and to actually pay off on the premise, the catchphrase, "Save the cheerleader. Save the world." The final fight should have been a really cool knock-down drag-out but they later admitted that they simply ran out of time and money to do better.

After they resolved that first season arc they really had difficulty in finding something to DRIVE the show forward. They introduced SO MANY new characters with really interesting powers - characters that could have featured in the stories in all kinds of ways and yet the ONLY thing they seemed to think they could do with them was to just kill them. Even without a constant stream of red-shirted new-power heroes the show had a large cast and they were going in a half-dozen utterly unrelated directions at once.

They brought back the BBEG for the rest of the series but every freakin' week it seemed that the episode was being written by a different writer and NONE of them were following any kind of series writers guidelines. He's a bad guy - no, he's a GOOD guy! - no wait, he's just kinda mean, no he's actually just misunderstood, no he's REALLY monstrously evilly bad, no wait he's good this week... It was a dictionary example of sophmoric writing: "conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature." They thought they knew what they were doing because the freshman season had succeeded so wildly but as a sophmore show they only proved they didn't really get it - they had simply lucked out the first year. The show bounced around with a few ideas of possible good directions to take things that were always abandoned or eviscerated after only a few episodes.

The biggest crime was that none of the writers seemed to have read a comic book in their life and after the first season had no clue how a neophyte super-hero should react to anything or what they should do.

I will be interested to see what they do and so I suppose I'll watch it. New cast with just some cameos of original characters, and all new plot/story - it might work. But I'm not holding my breath. They had three seasons after the success of the first to get that show on track and they failed. If all they're doing is applying the same "formula" of those three seasons to a new cast then it's doomed.

 

[The_Silversword]

Funny, aside from the first two episodes (the TV movie), the first season was the weakest for me and the third the strongest. The Pegasus ark really helped the second season.

I thought you said you hadnt seen it? Did you do some binge watching? And Pegasus ark? I dont remember any pegasi in Heroes, are we talking about the same show?

 

[Kramodlog]

I confused two threads about two shows, lol. Seems all shows are the same.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Just need to get placed on a cable network that has no problem pushing the envelope.

 

[Nellisir]

I'm interested, and new heroes/new villains is a plus to me. There ought to be room for more than one story in that universe. I wouldn't mind seeing a few people come back (Hiro!), but Sylar was overused, Peter was overused, Claire was overused....

 

[trappedslider]

What they should do is have a 1st season worked out, and a rough idea for another 2-4 seasons planned in case the show gets continued. Each year should be self-contained so that the show can just end, but have enough follow-through that it can continue on the same threads if extended.
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Not everyone can or is willing to plan like Straczynski did..but even he kind of got screwed over towards the end of B5....

 

[bone_naga]

I though season 1 was great, season 2 was decent but a bit disappointing, and then it was just going downhill.