Heroes: Rest in I Don't Care
So, three years ago, we all watched the first ep of Heroes. We were various amounts of interested.
The show coasted pretty far on "interesting", with a pretty cast and a bit of novelty. It got quickly renewed for a second season, and a spinoff show was announced to introduced new characters. That would provide a second season of 35 episodes in total. That's a lot.
But something just broke in it, and by the end of season one, it was obvious that things were not holding together very well.
But, I was magnanimous. Bring on season two!
Of course, Season Two was caught by the writer's strike, so it suffered significantly (unlike the Lost season that was on the same year, which kinda rocked). The plot where Hiro was caught in time with his idol, who turned out to be yadda yadda booooring. Peter was caught in time, and lost his girlfriend in a horrible future, and she was NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN.
Then they killed of Ali Larter's character in a fairly cheap fashion, but she still got a better out than her husabnd, who died off screen. Whoops!
The season ended on a fairly strong note, but it still didn't excuse the annoying plots that led up to it. We did not buy season two on DVD, which if you know us, is strange.
So season three came, inevitably and unnecessarily. And we just stopped caring. Monday nights belonged to xbox downstairs and Dancing with the Stars upstairs. The show tried, really it did. Robert Forster did his best with a completely un-necessary character in Papa Petrelli, but the way the show seemed to skip from an evolutionary step to something more like Vampire's feuding bloodlines and conniving elders really put me off.
Plus, Sylar was a Petrelli? Or wasn't he? I can't tell. We just left the last batch of episodes on the PVR, and eventually they, like the last batch of the Sarah Connor Chronicles, were consigned to digital purgatory, never to be watched.
So. Season four. Two episodes are on the PVR now. I don't know if we'll ever get to watch them. I think it's dead to me now. Which is a shame, as it started with promise. It seemed like there were mysteries to decode and a world to explore. There were, too, but not in such a way that I ended up caring.
The show coasted pretty far on "interesting", with a pretty cast and a bit of novelty. It got quickly renewed for a second season, and a spinoff show was announced to introduced new characters. That would provide a second season of 35 episodes in total. That's a lot.
But something just broke in it, and by the end of season one, it was obvious that things were not holding together very well.
But, I was magnanimous. Bring on season two!
Of course, Season Two was caught by the writer's strike, so it suffered significantly (unlike the Lost season that was on the same year, which kinda rocked). The plot where Hiro was caught in time with his idol, who turned out to be yadda yadda booooring. Peter was caught in time, and lost his girlfriend in a horrible future, and she was NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN.
Then they killed of Ali Larter's character in a fairly cheap fashion, but she still got a better out than her husabnd, who died off screen. Whoops!
The season ended on a fairly strong note, but it still didn't excuse the annoying plots that led up to it. We did not buy season two on DVD, which if you know us, is strange.
So season three came, inevitably and unnecessarily. And we just stopped caring. Monday nights belonged to xbox downstairs and Dancing with the Stars upstairs. The show tried, really it did. Robert Forster did his best with a completely un-necessary character in Papa Petrelli, but the way the show seemed to skip from an evolutionary step to something more like Vampire's feuding bloodlines and conniving elders really put me off.
Plus, Sylar was a Petrelli? Or wasn't he? I can't tell. We just left the last batch of episodes on the PVR, and eventually they, like the last batch of the Sarah Connor Chronicles, were consigned to digital purgatory, never to be watched.
So. Season four. Two episodes are on the PVR now. I don't know if we'll ever get to watch them. I think it's dead to me now. Which is a shame, as it started with promise. It seemed like there were mysteries to decode and a world to explore. There were, too, but not in such a way that I ended up caring.