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Heroes.
The first season was so fantastic. I mean, it has to legitimately be one of the best series of television to come out of America. They were able to take these people with, let’s face it, mutant superpowers and make them real and believable and relatable. Having the enemy be this unseen, unknown entity was brilliant. And as much as it pains me to say it, the show started going downhill when it spent so much attention on Sylar. Not that I don’t like Sylar, or Zach Quinto; I love ZQ. Probably unhealthily so. But the character of Sylar was much more interesting when the writers weren’t continually trying to make us empathize with him, get to know him. What made Sylar compelling is that we didn’t know.
But I digress.
And I have to admit that I think a lot of the downfall was due to external circumstances beyond its control. The second season was cut short because of the writers strike, and had more holes than the Guinness World Record holder for largest piece of Swiss cheese. The third season had to try to make up for it by including way too many new characters that they couldn’t do anything meaningful with. The fourth season had potential but needed at least three or four more episodes which they didn’t get because of NBC’s Olympics coverage.
I think we may get a satisfied ending through the graphic novels and web content. At least that should be a possibility, seeing as that is still a very marketable side of the show for NBC. I guess time will tell. They may ditch it all together, which would be a shame.
And an aside: I’m almost a bit happy because this will give ZQ a chance to free up his schedule and do other projects. While he was great as Sylar and Spock, I think he’s a lot more flexible and talented than just being stuck in genre works. Give the boy some drama! And make sure he’s shirtless during part of it …
[/caption]Heroes.
The first season was so fantastic. I mean, it has to legitimately be one of the best series of television to come out of America. They were able to take these people with, let’s face it, mutant superpowers and make them real and believable and relatable. Having the enemy be this unseen, unknown entity was brilliant. And as much as it pains me to say it, the show started going downhill when it spent so much attention on Sylar. Not that I don’t like Sylar, or Zach Quinto; I love ZQ. Probably unhealthily so. But the character of Sylar was much more interesting when the writers weren’t continually trying to make us empathize with him, get to know him. What made Sylar compelling is that we didn’t know.
But I digress.
And I have to admit that I think a lot of the downfall was due to external circumstances beyond its control. The second season was cut short because of the writers strike, and had more holes than the Guinness World Record holder for largest piece of Swiss cheese. The third season had to try to make up for it by including way too many new characters that they couldn’t do anything meaningful with. The fourth season had potential but needed at least three or four more episodes which they didn’t get because of NBC’s Olympics coverage.
I think we may get a satisfied ending through the graphic novels and web content. At least that should be a possibility, seeing as that is still a very marketable side of the show for NBC. I guess time will tell. They may ditch it all together, which would be a shame.
And an aside: I’m almost a bit happy because this will give ZQ a chance to free up his schedule and do other projects. While he was great as Sylar and Spock, I think he’s a lot more flexible and talented than just being stuck in genre works. Give the boy some drama! And make sure he’s shirtless during part of it …
I so agree w/you on Heroes... For the most part. Except that I am MUCH HARSHER on s2-s4! More eps for s4 I think NOT!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. The first season of Heroes and the first season of Veronica Mars compete for the best season of American television ever in my book. Both were fantastically plotted serialized dramas. Veronica Mars didn't suffer from quite the sudden drop in quality (that was season three - damn you CW). I feel like the problem is that there were a few years of development so the story was well planned in the first season. They didn't have as much time for the following seasons and the writer's strike didn't help matters.
ReplyDeleteSo sad, but true! I loved the first season character development and compelling storylines, but found season 2 to be so ridiculous and convoluted it was unwatchable. Damn shame, that. I had such high hopes.
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