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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6266735" data-attributes="member: 32740">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.</blockquote>

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