Honestly, the thing that annoyed me the most about this past season was the sheer number of characters that have gotten the Brother Chuck treatment. Like, "Oh no! Speedster just ran away. Now, either Matt and Hiro can revive the Comic Book plot device (despite the fact that the Comic book's artist died in the first season, and it was implied that he only drew them up to Sylar's defeat at the end of the first season), OR, they could just go ask the clairvoyant girl sitting in the next room. You know, the one Matt adopted?"
Also, the eclipse, which I felt was the writers deciding to fully and completely divorce themselves from anything even approaching rational explanations for anything.
And Smug Snake Arthur Petrelli, who spent all season just randomly beating people without any indication of how he'd accomplished it, just "we need Arthur to win here, come up with something that could happen".
Dear god, and Maury Parkman, who randomly recovered from being trapped in an endless prison of his own mind only to have Arthur randomly kill him in practically his next appearance because he had outlived his usefulness. And nowhere in there did they bother explaining how Arthur got his own mind powers; the implication in the first appearance was that Arthur was issuing orders via Maury's mindlink.
... it took me way too long to find that second link on tvtropes.
I think the second season tricked them into believing it's advisable to condense a season's worth of plot into three months.
Because a lot of the things that annoyed me would have been less annoying if they'd taken longer, and actually warranted explanation, or, God forbid, on-screen action to show us what happened.
It's still bound to raise an uproar when it does come to light. This whole plot annoys me in part because Kring (or whoever's doing the writing nowadays) took the War on Terror and made it more ridiculous, so that it's obvious the government is wrong.
Up to an including having the lone non-politician supporter of the policy get kidnapped by DHS seconds after saying the government should go ahead and round them all up.
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And Smug Snake Arthur Petrelli, who spent all season just randomly beating people without any indication of how he'd accomplished it, just "we need Arthur to win here, come up with something that could happen".
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... it took me way too long to find that second link on tvtropes.
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Because a lot of the things that annoyed me would have been less annoying if they'd taken longer, and actually warranted explanation, or, God forbid, on-screen action to show us what happened.
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Up to an including having the lone non-politician supporter of the policy get kidnapped by DHS seconds after saying the government should go ahead and round them all up.
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