Heroes Season 3 promo

[Krug]

I didn't find the Honduran death twins that bad. Just didn't seem to be enough time dedicated to them. The whole of Heroes Season 2 never seemed to allow stories to settle. Just the camera whipping around from character to character frantically and never really getting any depth.

 

[Acid_crash]

Part of what hurt season 2 was that writers strike, which ended the show, oh, halfway through the season... Still, I hope that Season 3 brings back the magic of Season 1.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Sad to say that the show has kind of dropped of my radar after season 2, more interested in Chuck's return. Then there is Burn Notice in July!

 

[Arnwyn]

Not as interested as I would have been before, as Season 2 sucked. I'm particularly not interested in the whole "Villains" thing.

But I still have hope, so I'll watch it.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

What a weak statement.

"Because in every Hero, there could be a villain." What is this "could be" nonsense?

Tell me, which of these is better:

At every tea party, there could be cake.
or
At every tea party, there is cake.

I want something diffinitive and mysterious. There's a villain in every hero. What does that mean? And how will they deal with it? If there only "could be" a villain, why should I care? A lot of things could happen! I could get ice cream. I could be subpeonaed by the FBI. I could have massive heart failure.

 

[Darkwolf71]

What Heroes did wrong: Introduced the Honduran death twins and not having INS kill them off. Not killing of Sylar (aka Mr Plot Device) or Peter (aka the DMPC). Killing off D-Lo. Not killing off Mohinder. Introducing Emo Stalker Flying Boy and making him fall in love with Claire. Rehashing season one's Bennett family plotline and the MacGruffen Painting plotline. Time Travel plot hook. Giving Peter a love interest then conveniently writing her out of the story by making Peter leave her in the future then having him forget about her existence. Giving Peter the ability to read peoples minds when it's convenient for him to do so and not when it would be logical for him to do so. RESIGNING CAST MEMBERS WHOSE CHARACTERS DIED DURING IN SEASON 2.

What Heroes did right: Killing off one of the Honduran death twins (Maya still needs to die). Getting rid of Emo Stalker Flying Boy. Giving Mr Moggles more screen time then Lyle Bennett. Making Hiro become a bad ass.

I agree with everything except killing Mohinder. I think he's one of the more interesting characters.

I agree with others though, I'm not looking forward to season 3 nearly as much as I was season 2. But... the DVR is still set to record it, so it gets another chance before I write it off completely.

 

[Alzrius]

They won't be getting rid of Sylar or Peter any time soon, I bet. I'm glad for that, as I think both are great characters, and have a lot more to contribute to the show.

No, season two wasn't that great, but it had almost everything working against it. Cast members changing their commitment at the last minute (Missy Peregrim), the writer's strike forcing last-minute script rewrites, and even Tim Kring admits that he made mistakes were made that he won't make again. I see no reason not to be optimistic about season three, especially since the focus will be on villains, and villains are my favorite part of superhero stories.

It'll be really great to see bad guys like Sylar and Elle get more screen time, hopefully along with villains they've been hinting at in the comics for a while now, such as Linda Tavara, EVS Dropper, and the Tenth Bride of Takezo Kensei.

I've also been looking at some of the (relatively mild) spoilers for season three at the Heroes Wiki and to me, it seems to confirm that this will be the best Heroes yet!

EDIT: At the Jules Verne film festival, two promos of season three were shown - ones that contained actual footage from upcoming episodes. Someone recorded these as they were being shown and then uploaded them to Youtube; hence, the picture and sound quality isn't great, but it's better than nothing I suppose. Here are the links:

Promo #1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZNS0pbzI6c&e

Promo #2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iBLZ_4rTuQ

For a list of all the other spoilers known so far, check out the Season Three page of the Heroes Wiki.

 

[Vocenoctum]

No, season two wasn't that great, but it had almost everything working against it. Cast members changing their commitment at the last minute (Missy Peregrim), the writer's strike forcing last-minute script rewrites, and even Tim Kring admits that he made mistakes were made that he won't make again.

Season1 ending didn't leave me with a good feeling. Season 2 just trampled whatever goodwill I had left.

Missy not commiting to Heroes was no deathblow, unless there was some extravagant writing that made that Candace/Sylar plotline work. That's a lot of hope there...

Writers Strike rewrites don't explain the suckitude of the first part of the season.

Kring watches plummeting viewership and postings of "this is what's wrong with Heroes!" posts everywhere and comes to the realization that he made mistakes. Nice from the perspective of responding to customer concerns, but not helpful from a "we watched the season and found these problems" manner.

 

[Alzrius]

Season1 ending didn't leave me with a good feeling. Season 2 just trampled whatever goodwill I had left.

Missy not commiting to Heroes was no deathblow, unless there was some extravagant writing that made that Candace/Sylar plotline work. That's a lot of hope there...

I disagree. They said they had several episodes written where Sylar and Candice (Missy's character) travel together. However, that had to be hastily rewritten into him killing her in one episode (and then she couldn't even appear for that). Given, however, the chemistry that the two characters had in the brief scenes they did share, I think that would have been much more entertaining to see.

Writers Strike rewrites don't explain the suckitude of the first part of the season.

But it does explain why things didn't get better as much as they could have. Season two did start to improve as time went on, but it never got the chance to really make up for its slow start.

Kring watches plummeting viewership and postings of "this is what's wrong with Heroes!" posts everywhere and comes to the realization that he made mistakes. Nice from the perspective of responding to customer concerns, but not helpful from a "we watched the season and found these problems" manner.

Um, what? It's extremely helpful from a "we watched the season and found these problems" manner, since in his announcement he identified what specifically didn't work and why, promising to fix those problems in the next season.

I honestly don't understand a lot of the hatred I'm seeing for the show. Yes, it's imperfect, but people really seem to get worked up over its failures, despite the fact that it's succeeded more often than it's failed. The characters and plot are still really interesting, and the way it tells its stories works. But again and again, people seem to say how a single character just ruins the show for them, or how after season two (which was half of a normal season, had problems that have since been fixed, and was still pretty good at the end) has convinced them never to watch the show again.

I don't see why people seem to take every misstep Heroes makes so personally.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Darkwolf
-I agree that Molhinder is a one of the best written character on the show, but I think he is deserving of nice grizzly death (same with Matt) because as long as they are Molly's protectors, she's going to be continually placed in Harm's way and not just with Sylar but also with the company. Hopefully next season Mohinder would do the smart thing and MOVE out of NYC and change his name (while having Molly continually tracking Sylar so that they would know where he is all the time).

Alzius
-The problem is that the Peter's continual existence in Heroes leads up bad writing practices. Sad to say, Peter has been written into a Deus ex Machina type of plot device that only leads to the writers consistently degrading the show's script when dealing with Peter to avoid having the plot become spoiled by his having an easy way out of any situation (Ie. What happened last season when Peter and Adam went searching for the Shanti Virus). Unfortunately, as long as Sylar exists on the show so too must Peter since he is the only character on the show that is able to match Sylar's abilities.