In Heroes’ first season, I enjoyed the roller coaster ride of “Save the Cheerleader, Save the World” and Hiro’s adorable embrace of his superhero-ness.
The Petrelli brothers and their twisted family.
Claire Bear and HRG and the hapless Mrs. Bennett.
Sylar torn between being good and evil.
Matt Parkman struggling to understand and use his powers.
Then there was the bizarre, strike-shortened Season 2 that had potential but just left everyone wondering what the hell happened to Peter’s Irish lass, stuck in some screwed-up, plague-infested alternate future.
Season 3 had its moments but took a left turn to weirdoland with a whole plot where we got to see Angela Petrelli as a little girl in a U.S. internment camp for people with powers. And, of course, Mohinder’s father was there.
And don’t even get me started on Mohinder doing his best Jeff Goldblum impression from The Fly.
I still watch; I can’t seem to help myself.
But the completely insane Sylar-as-Nathan (or is that really Nathan-as-Sylar?) storyline that has finally given Nathan a conscience – oddly enough – and Matt’s struggle against the Sylar inside him is getting on my nerves. And what about the depressed deaf woman who sees music as color?
And don’t get me started on the Carnivale storyline.
We’re no closer to understanding any of the big questions the show has raised, such as:
• Was Adam Monroe really from the past, or was he somehow thrust back into the past and forced to live through hundreds of years with none of his kind?
• How did Angela Petrelli’s generation of mutants find each other?
• What about the generation before Angela Petrelli’s? Were her and the others’ parents also mutants of some sort?
• Where’s Christopher Eccleston?
• Does Hiro’s sister also have a power?
• Why am I still watching?
Seriously, if things don’t start to change soon, I’m just gonna have to give up. And that’s even with tonight’s (SPOILER ALERT!) zombie Sylar coming out of the ground at the end.
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I haven’t seen tonight’s ep. yet, but I am right there with you! After Lost, I am pretty patient for a good show that will trail out the storyline, but Heroes is quickly becoming a big mess. Remember Molly, the little girl Parkman and Mohinder were raising? She was so cool! How about the cousin of Myka, who could learn karate by just watching it? What happened to her, she was awesome! How about all the escaped Level 5 ‘Evil Heroes’, or the Claire run underground Hero railroad that fizzled out… this show has had so many really interesting teases of storylines that never went anywhere, yet they keep bringing back boring ol’ Tracey, or Nikki or whatever the heck her name is these days… It feels like Tim Kring is either schitzo, got lucky in the first season, or is just not smart enough to run a show as complex as this one. It’s too bad, because Heroes used to be one of my favorite shows.
I feel that this season is better than the last one but still lags behind the first season. You can see the episode guide and trailers for Heroes at http://www.thetvking.com/tvshows/Heroes
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