I will have to bookmark this so that I can read your fics (because I think I'm a fan of most of those pairings etc) but I just want to say that I agree with so much of what you've said here. Ugh writer's strike D:
But I have especially experienced this: "It was one of those shows where I could potentially ship everyone with everyone because there was so much subtext and chemistry." (and mostly anyone or everyone with HRG...)
Agreed! Definitely one of those circumstances where the writers fell in love with their own creation OR thought he was such a "fan favorite" that the show couldn't survive without him, but there was no place for the character to go. By the time he was talking to himself as his own mother...yikes.
I love Season 1 so MUCH! Maybe especially because I was able to do the whole thing in one fell, uncut, swoop. The other seasons, I basically watched in real time, FF-ing commercials and having put up with cliff-hangers and hiatuses. So I suffered through Maya and
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I agree about Samuel and his storyline having loads of potential. I too was expecting more. LOL I also agree about Claire/Gretchen even though one of my buddies loves it. XD Eh, I guess nothing is as horrible as Maya.
Oh, there was a huge buzz even before season one aired, but things have changed by season 3 and it's not really about show's quality. I remember an incident that I heard from a buddy who knew stuff from the inside: Heroes people invited EW to the set for interviews and then EW did an elaborate coverpage interview and then smeared them. And NBC made Heroes go media quiet. The thing is, I know so many popular shows becoming awful but none of them got the treatment Heroes did. After that incident and NBC's no media policy, everyone started to blast Heroes in every opportunity.
Thanks for filling me in. I generally pretty media-savvy about this stuff, but since I wasn't into Heroes when the first wave broke, I seem to have missed the ensuing fall out when the press found something else shiny to look at. Maya is to Heroes as ODOR is to House MD.
Absolutely. There was so much "problematic" material on any given week that if my social consciousness had been more engaged, I MIGHT have walked away instead of staying until the bitter end. Let's just say I was thinking with my Pasdar-lust and my love for HRG rather than anything rational.
I'm not sure it ever really worked as a pure genre show either, which may have been part of the problem.
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But I have especially experienced this: "It was one of those shows where I could potentially ship everyone with everyone because there was so much subtext and chemistry." (and mostly anyone or everyone with HRG...)
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place for the character to go. By the time he was talking to himself as his own mother...yikes.
And Christine Rose is AMAZING!
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Oh, there was a huge buzz even before season one aired, but things have changed by season 3 and it's not really about show's quality. I remember an incident that I heard from a buddy who knew stuff from the inside: Heroes people invited EW to the set for interviews and then EW did an elaborate coverpage interview and then smeared them. And NBC made Heroes go media quiet. The thing is, I know so many popular shows becoming awful but none of them got the treatment Heroes did. After that incident and NBC's no media policy, everyone started to blast Heroes in every opportunity.
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I'm not sure it ever really worked as a pure genre show either, which may have been part of the problem.
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