It's dead Jim. Heroes.

[Jdvn1]

I bought season 1 last year, and was advised not to buy season 2, but was also told season 3 was manageable. Seems like Thornir didn't like season 3 or 4 as well?

 

[Merkuri]

I bought season 1 last year, and was advised not to buy season 2, but was also told season 3 was manageable. Seems like Thornir didn't like season 3 or 4 as well?

Just stick with Season 1. Seriously. Don't waste your time on the others. You'll be happier having just seen the first season and no others.

 

[Vanuslux]

It seems to be the concensus that the first season was good, then the series went down the toilet from there but a lot of people loved the premise and the potential shown in the first season enough that they desperately kept watching hoping for a turn around in quality. I made it through the first few episodes of the third season before I just couldn't kid myself anymore. It's amazing to me it's gone on as long as it has with very few people who watch it really liking it.

I just hope producers in the future realize that Heroes died because it was excrement, not because people aren't interested in supers.

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[jaerdaph]

I'm only slightly disappointed, and I can't say I'm surprised. They never did recapture that first season magic, and I'm not sure it would be worth another try.

 

[Felon]

Live-action superhero shows tend not to last long. Heroes had a good run...I hope they do let Kring wrap up the series a bit.

Well, there's always Smallville.

Heck, if Heroes had been on the CW, it'd be still be on the air. Of course, all the characters would be twenty-five or younger.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Live-action superhero shows tend not to last long. Heroes had a good run...I hope they do let Kring wrap up the series a bit.

A good run? No, it had a good first season with a questionable season-ender... and the rest did untold damage to the genre with every episode. I finally managed to wean myself off of the self-abuse that constituted watching this show about a year ago. Would have been merciful had they killed it before it had a chance to really fester.

But that's probably just me.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

For example, this season the woman in the hospital with the ability to see sound and perhaps do something more with it. In the episodes I have watched (have not watched the final five shows), I could not for the life of me figure out what purpose she served. Was she a love interest for Peter? Would she save somebody? Or was she just there as filler to get to the 20 episodes they were contracted for?

She actually did figure into the last big battle in the show. Her ability wasn't just to see sound, she could also manipulate people's emotions with sound. Eventually, she was forced to act as kind of a siren to lure people into the range of this story arc's main villain...

A good run?

As in it lasted 4 seasons. That's probably 2x as long as the average live-action superhero TV show that doesn't involve a Marvel or DC character...and longer than some that did.

 

[Grymar]

Heroes suffered from poor writing, some of the worst I've seen. I stuck through all of the episodes and was frequently ashamed to admit I watched it.

Sylar, season 1, was an EXCELLENT villain. Why did they screw with that? They should have either,

a) let him die at the end of season 1, or
b) kept him as a bad guy.

Instead he became an angst-ridden guy who wanted to be good, then evil. He had mommy issues, daddy issues, brother issues, death issues, loneliness issues...

They ruined him. The way that character was treated is a microcosm of how the plot was treated after season 1.

 

[jaerdaph]

Heroes 2006-2010 RIP

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Heroes 2006-2010 RIP

*snork!*

OTOH, like a good supers character, perhaps it will come back from the dead and be picked up by a channel that knows what to do with a genre series...SyFy, Chiller, perhaps one of the cable channels like Showtime Beyond...with, I would hope, writers familiar with the genre in question.