I rarely root for a series I once loved to end, but an exception could certainly be made for Heroes.
Looks like I could easily get my wish, as Airlock Alpha (once syfy.com, before the SciFi Channel became SyFy) reports that NBC sources say Heroes is being asked to wrap up its entire story by season’s end.
An unidentified source was quoted as saying:
There isn’t much happening with this show in terms of audience, and giving it a ‘final chapter’ feel is something the network is considering to help allow the show to go out with a bang.
As I wrote earlier this season, even the most die-hard fans have been having a hard time staying interested. It’s all unfocused – the storyline’s all over the place, the characters are no longer interesting and they don’t seem to be working toward anything.
Even the disjointed, strike-impaired second season seemed to be working toward something. And last season had a good start before trailing off into “who the hell cares” anymore land.
I would love for Heroes to wrap up at the end of this season and answer these questions/resolve these plotlines:
- Who’s the third Nikki/Tracy triplet and what’s her power. And what’s the story behind their creation?
- Adam Monroe – what time is he REALLY from and how long has he actually lived?
- How far back to the heroes go? How many generations? Why do some of their children have powers and some don’t?
- Why has Peter’s ability to keep previous powers he absorbs gone away? (Or was that just a side effect of his father’s “hug”?)
- What happened to Peter’s Irish girlfriend in the plague-inflicted future that was prevented?
- When is Sylar going to actually figure out who he is, already, and is Matt just crazy and imagining Sylar in his head or did Sylar actually manage to crawl up in there?
- Where is Micah?
- Seriously, where is Micah? And what about his cousin? And the Haitian?
- What about future Hiro with the goatee. If you can’t change the future, as Hiro is finding out, where is Goatee Hiro?
- What is WITH this carnival? They obviously are aware of HRG and Primatech. How many generations do these carnies go back? Actually, you know what? I don’t even care that much about the carnie folk. I kind of wish they hadn’t been introduced, though there were a couple of cool scenes with them, because that just adds a whole new thing they need to answer and I find that to be obnoxious.
I know I’m forgetting some. Please leave your questions you want resolved in the comments. We should send them a letter or something and say, “THESE ARE THE THINGS YOU MUST RESOLVE BEFORE GOING OFF THE AIR. kthanxbai”
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I am holding on, barely, to this season. I mostly don’t give a damn about any of it. The fact that you were able to get a list together is awesome, but I just can’t seem to put that kind of effort into it. I hope they do give us a nicely wrapped ending though.
@Erika – I hear you. If I hadn’t heard this news, I most likely would have given up on it soon. Now, knowing it’s coming to an end, I want to watch and see if they can pull themselves together and answer some damn questions and wrap it all up. It’s one of the things I like, actually, about them giving a definite end to Lost – it stopped the show from veering off into Craptopia.
The only part I find interesting is Sylar. (And Hiro trying to save that redheaded girl next week.)
Everyone else bores the heck out of me. I don’t care about the new girl who can see sounds. (Yawn.) And I really want Peter to be Super Peter again.
I thought the story was far more interesting when Sylar might have been his brother. Oh well – another great idea discarded.
I don’t care about the carnival folk either. In the last scene of the latest episode, I was yawning through it all and rolling my eyes.
Oh, and Claire’s roommate bugs me. I kept wanting one of those attempts to kill her to actually work. Or at least leave her in a coma for awhile.
Maybe Sylar will get his memory back in the next epi and get rid of all the Carnival folks *and* Claire’s roommate.
@Steph – The whole Sylar storyline has gotten so silly, though. I think the Sylar in the carnival is interesting, seeing when he’ll get himself back in his head. But the Sylar/Matt storyline is borderline insanely craptacular.
I agree COMPLETELY about Peter and the brotherhood storyline, too. WHAT. THE. FRAK. And seeing sounds? Whoop-de-freakin’-DO.
I’m ready to kill Claire’s roomie, too. She’s totally annoying, though I keep expecting her to turn out to be some sort of Super, too. Which would be moronic by this point.
I like your last idea.
Oh yeah, the deaf lady! A nice power if you’re deaf in the real world, but not interesting at.all. in the context of this show. I thought the carnival had potential, and Robert Knepper is pretty awesome, but as usual, the potential of an interesting storyline has circled the drain. So sad. I used to love this show.