Heroes: The end of the affair

[balikpulang]

I'd originally planned to post on ways to salvage my waning 3 year relationship with Heroes. So I started a list of "what's dysfunctional" with the show thus far in S3: over-used apocalyptic visions, alter-egos, time travel and good vs evil showdowns, and ultimately, the character abuse with Hiro and sidekick Ando, Tracy/Niki/Jessica/XXX, Mohinder/

Comments

[gi_jules]

The very first episode of the season was kind of disjointed and off-balance and just...weird. I felt like I must have missed something and come in a few episodes in. Then they started rehashing old stuff, getting just plain silly (Sylar as a partner? really?) and throwing in weird stuff out of the blue (Mohinder has never been the most balanced, consistent character, but now he's just nutso). They seem to have made so much use of the time travel thing this season so they can, in fact, make things up as they go and then change them to fit the latest idea. Sadly they haven't made use of it to change things that are unbearably stupid

[balikpulang]

I'm with you Ali Larter and Nikki/whoever. I thought they finally wrote her out in a good way ... and then, what the heck? We get tortured with a potentially never-ending supply of her beautifully bland acting?! That said though, my dislike for the show started with Hiro in S2. Like a bad bf/gf, I kept giving Heroes a "second" chance even though I *knew* it wasn't doing it for me anymore... till now. That's it for me!

[misseri44]

I've gotten the same feelings about Heroes since the season started. After last year odd season i thought they would change and try to get back the feeling of season 1, when we loved the show, but i really think the writers must be on drugs because i don't understand where they get those plots, specially the Petrelly family drama and Hiro-Ando trying to save the world, attemp #1000.

[balikpulang]

It's particularly disappointing b/c S1 showed such promise and creativity. What viewers get now are the same old plots with very little emotional (not to mention logical!) connection, exacerbated by the many "new" characters (or characterisations) while no one is successfully killed off! As creator/head writer, what is Tim Kring's overarching plot? Is his team going through a mega writers block? Are they being hampered by network execs or cast contracts?

[misseri44]

Yeah, it makes me thing they fear of killing a character because then viewers will stop watching it if they liked the killed character. Why bring back Nikki, Linderman (although he's really dead) and others???

Now they'll spend the rest of the season with a Petrelly fight, mum versus dad and you won't know who's the good and who's the bad.

They should have some plots from last season, when they couldn't use them because of the strike.

I, for now, am enjoying more Supernatural latest season than this one.