Comments on: DVR Break-Up: Heroes

By: Cat

Cat — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:20:59 +0000

Aaaaand I'm done. I managed to finish half of last night's episode before throwing up my hands in disgust. Between the fact that they are apparently determined to keep forcing annoying, annoying Sylar on the audience (hint to writers: Don't spend two seasons building up a character as a sociopathic, utterly remorseless murderer and then out of nowhere decide that he's actually heartwarming and sympathetic if you want anyone but a handful of drooling fangirls to buy it, mmmkay?), the complete nonsensicality of the Nikki/Jessica/Traci/whatever storyline, and the fact that they just can't seem to give up the cornball "traveling to the future to save the past!!" plots…this show sucks. What Sandman said above, about Lost telling him to his face how stupid he thinks he is? Yeah. This show.

And I think Supernatural has spoiled me when it comes to TV drama acting (last episode: omgDEAN, and while it was hardly perfect, ahem, that was a much better way to show the futility of time-travel in trying to change events than Heroes and its "in the future, good characters are evil and evil characters are good!!" crapola), because I was able to put up with half of the cast of Heroes being stilted and stiff before, but now…not so much. Oh well.

By: Cat

Cat — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:38:24 +0000

Uggggggghhhhhhhhhh, after tonight's episode, I'll…keep watching, for now, but I really wish I knew how to quit this stupid show. Sylar – WTF??? SERIOUSLY? And Claire is now the only female character in this entire cast of thousands who doesn't completely annoy the hell out of me, and even that is mostly just because I give her the benefit of the doubt for still being in high school. Even Hiro was acting like an asshole! And, and – HEADPHONES that convey powers?? What the hell is wrong with this show? And why can't I turn my back on anything involving superpowers?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:08:02 +0000

Eh, I'll keep watching it (this season at least, plus I do "Hero-vivor") until it totally bores me, but yeah, I have to agree on the "few good episodes does not make it brillyunt show" thing. I'm just…watching it to watch it, I guess.

By: Charissa

Charissa — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:08:14 +0000

Yeah. That. I chalked some of the season 2 weirdness up to the impending writers strike and the need to condense stuff (at least I hope it was a need, 'cause that's what it felt like), but most of the new characters just irritated the crap out of me (and Sylar is, and always will be, the most irritating villain/whatever the hell he is now I've ever come across). Season 1 had so much potential, but by the end of season 2 and now definitely with season 3, I got the sense that the show was becoming too impressed with itself. This is not usually something that happens to a show in season 3, though, which makes the whole thing rather disappointing. I'll probably keep watching, now that baseball season may or may not be over for my Twins and there's a lot of time to fill between football Sundays, but I hope it settles down a bit or at least gets off its high horse, 'cause once a show rates more than 2-3 eyerolls an hour, it's pretty much done for.

By: Sandman

Sandman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:37:38 +0000

@Jaybird: "I just kept thinking, 'Gee, fatally annoying peroxide-addled lounge lizard, thanks, but we already have an Elle, and I don't much like her either.'"

Yeah, what you said. Also: a "big case of Narrative Necessity at Costco" – hee! I think Kring and Kripke got the two-for-one special this month.

By: Sandman

Sandman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:29:14 +0000

I don't disagree in any particular point, but apparently I'm not as strong as you are. I can't quit Heroes, even though I know it's going to do me wrong. I have no shame when it comes to comic book movies and superheroes, I know. Lost pretty much told me to my face how stupid it thinks I am, so it's not welcome in my house anymore. "The 'Hiro meets the Williamsburg Speedster' plot was so muddled on the laws-of-physics implications that I could barely follow actual events onscreen; I was too busy trying to figure out how everything was supposed to work. And why she couldn't slow down for ten minutes to buy a comb." Yes, yes, YES! (And hee.) God, that was awful. And besides, they already have an annoying smirky blonde girl! Am I supposed to put up with Elle and Squinty the Causality Fart? I think not. And the whole Mohimbo squirts himself full of hero-mones "development" was catastrophically lame. Stop it, show. Can't argue with your choice of tags, either.

By: FloridaErin

FloridaErin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:54:45 +0000

I actually watched Journeyman! I loved it! Which, of course, is why it no longer exists.

At least I still have Chuck. And NBC Thursdays. ::sigh::

By: Cat

Cat — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:23:05 +0000

I'm going to give Heroes a few more episodes before I give up (I freaking loved S1, I'm sorry…but S2, not so much), but I have to say "word" to everything Merin said. My perverted side enjoyed the Peter/Nathan interaction (awww, of COURSE Peter is there to catch Nathan when he collapses, even if it was in a weirdly out-of-character Jesus fervour), and finally finding out what Mrs. Petrelli's power is was nice, even if it was pretty lame (and was that DL in her dream? I'm getting really tired of this show's tendency to repeatedly fake out killing off characters, but I LOVED DL). The "Claire, that's disgusting" line was also good, to me – and freaking finally, we got to see how Sylar's power actually works, albeit in a slightly too fan-service-y way. But Mohinder the Mack Daddy and Jesus Christ, It's Stupid Bitchface Nikki/Jessica/Who the Hell Ever AGAIN? Ugh. Ugh! If they give Mr. Bennet, Micah, and Matt more screentime and get rid of/cut way back on Maya and Bitchface, I'll keep watching. Otherwise…sigh. At least I've still got Supernatural, although if THAT goes in the direction I'm really worried it is (Good!Dean having to fight Evil!Sam, NOOOOOOOO), I'm going to be kind of screwed for TV. Damnit!

Also, reading the comments…I am *so* glad I never even tried to get into Lost.

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:08:45 +0000

Yeah, I had the show on my DVR and finally got around to watching it, but realized I was actually reading email and working on the computer during the entire episode. I don't think I'll be able to last much longer.

And, I may be the only person in the world who LIKES voice-overs and also the letters on Fringe (they look cool to me, what can I say?). I am very into this superhero/mysterious-stuff genre, but I just can not keep up with this show. When Mohinder was injecting himself, I spent the rest of the episode (the parts I was paying attention to anyway) wondering why he does not know this destroys the world and how he is messing around with it anyway? Or, was that a flash forward? Or an alternate universe?? I'm Just So Confused right now!

I'm just going to focus on my much-loved Terminator series. Summer Glau is the most awesome terminator and it always makes me happy to watch her. :)

By: Jaybird

Jaybird — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:44:36 +0000

@Merin: THAT'S where I've seen that cocked-head spiky snippy obnoxiousness before. THANK YOU. I just kept thinking, "Gee, fatally annoying peroxide-addled lounge lizard, thanks, but we already have an Elle, and I don't much like her either."

I'm also not buying that after having seen the awful alternate future back in S1, Hiro would suddenly decide he couldn't trust Ando. He still trusted everybody ELSE–why not his best friend? Could it be because he picked up a big case of Narrative Necessity at Costco, or what?