As Bob wrote the other day, NBC has assured fans that Heroes will be back next season. Isn't that great? Well, no, not to me. I would like to assure NBC that I have had it with Heroes. I'm exhausted and fed up. Do you feel like me? Do you have Heroes fatigue?The changes have been detrimental to the original premise, ruining what was once the most exciting new TV show on the air since Lost. Quite simply, I don't like the new "book"; I don't like the characters that have been mangled beyond recognition; I don't like all the story lines that were dropped in favor of this new paradigm that has the government hunting down Matt and Peter and the other familiar heroes and treating them like terrorists. At the end of the last episode, I just felt bad about Heroes. What have they done to my show?
How could creator Tim Kring have blown it so dramatically? The plots don't make sense and don't connect logically to what came before. And unlike Lost, I'm no longer fascinated by the puzzle.
So, could I be suffering from Heroes fatigue? Is there a cure? I highly doubt it. Without being "punny," Heroes has lost its way. The joy of the beginning, when Peter was grappling with his feelings that he had some power, when Hiro squeezed his eyes and stopped the clock, Claire plunging 40 feet to the ground and being able to walk away from it without injury, was amazing. The entire first season -- "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World" -- worked. Since then, though, Heroes has floundered around in an attempt to reinvent the world it created.
I don't want to hear about why anymore because the end result is what you see on the screen. Since saving New York from a nuclear disaster, Heroes hasn't been the same. Characters have been added with new powers (the girl with the black tears), while others have been dropped completely (what did happen to Nathan's wife and children?). What kind of continuity is this?
I'm sorry, but I feel betrayed. And, yes, I'm fatigued. I don't have the energy or interest to stick with Heroes anymore. NBC is talking about18-20 episodes for next season. Those will be 18-20 hours that I won't be watching. Maybe I'll just buy the DVD set from season one.
P.S. If you don't feel like I do, take a look at what's in store for Season Four.
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3-08-2009 @ 2:39PM
Andy Grey said...
Fatigued is a good way of describing it. There was a scene in the most recent episode where Angela, Nathan, and Peter were sitting around talking civily to one another. I was confused because I thought at least one of those people was extremely angry at another. Then, I realized I have very little idea of the relationship between any of these characters. When you can't understand or describe the dynamic between major characters on a show, it might be time to let go.
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3-08-2009 @ 3:00PM
Jarrett C said...
That just about sums it up. As someone that used to LOVE this show and couldn't wait for Monday nights...I actually got up and walked away from the past week's episode, electing instead to IRON my clothes for work...that was actually more intriguing than the episode.
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3-08-2009 @ 3:05PM
Tim Dorr said...
It's not fatigue, it's just bad television at this point. You've hit it on the head. They aren't telling the story right. I don't know what will fix it, but I think the whole scattered storyline thing needs to go. Stop separating everyone up into groups and running 5 different narrative threads at the same time. It's confusing, annoying, and they've proven they can manage it right.
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3-08-2009 @ 3:26PM
Parker said...
ive been as disappointed as anyone at the direction the show has taken sometimes.
But honestly, what i really am tired of, what i really do have fatigue of is this trend of Heroes Hating.
It's suddenly become the done thing to publically trash the show and announce you'll never watch it again, as if that display's a level of maturity and intelligence that should be worn like a badge that has the words "Heroes Hater" written in big letters on it.
Honestly, guys, you sound remarkably like little girls in a playground...
So you dont like heroes... okay... great... so stop watching it and shut up...
being a whiner does not make you smart - it makes you irritating.
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3-08-2009 @ 3:45PM
The Deej said...
Bravo. I feel exactly the same way. Is the show perfect? No. I am still surprised and entertained and I will keep watching it as soon as I get home on monday (ya for time shifting!) and get what I want. entertainment.
3-08-2009 @ 8:40PM
Urkel said...
Here's the thing the "stop complaining" crowd is missing. Nobody goes around whining about the quality of Knight Rider because people are indifferent to it. But Heroes is a show that has all the elements necessary to be a GREAT show... except for the script.
People aren't "hating" on heroes because they want it to fail. They are voicing their opinion because they have seen the show get so many squandered opportunities to succeed that it's irritating to constantly watch them make the same poor decisions over and over again.
Whether you love the show or not, I think it's clear that this show hasn't reached its potential and with the direction its going then they have mangled the characters so much that they may never become good. And if that is the case then it is a tragedy worth discussing.
3-08-2009 @ 3:35PM
djbuhhda said...
im not confused or fatigued. i actually love this show, but it could be as good as season one soon i hope.
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3-08-2009 @ 4:34PM
izikavazo said...
They should have discarded those characters after the first season, they lacked interesting qualities.
I'm not watching it regularly, I'll probably catch up in the summer.
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3-08-2009 @ 3:46PM
Joseph said...
I agree completely, Alison. They took a show that could have been amazing and completely ruined it.
I was sort of hoping it was cancelled, but if they're going to bring it back, I'd recommend getting ACTUAL comic writers to come in and see what they can do.
You know what else would be cool? Just jump 100 years into the future. Just a reset. Although, obviously, Claire would survive. Bitch.
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3-08-2009 @ 4:01PM
Malren said...
If you don't see that the last two episodes - particularly the last one - are a MASSIVE improvement, then you are blind. I feel like maybe you are complaining about this just to see yourself complain with all the other 'Heroes sucks" cool kids. How could a person who watches the show closely not see the marked improvement in the last two weeks?
The show has ALREADY improved dramatically with Fuller's influence back in full swing, and I see it going nowhere but up from here.
I was one bad ep away from deleting the season pass, but the last episode in particular turned me around. Heroes is good again, at least for now.
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3-08-2009 @ 4:05PM
Fred said...
I gave up on the show earlier in this season, and I haven't regret the decision once.
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3-08-2009 @ 4:16PM
LC said...
I prefer the current direction the show has taken. The half season last year was all over the place and forgettable.
This first half of this season was an improvement, but kind of fell apart at the end. I liked the concept of finally having a villain superteam led by Arthur Petrelli against a team of good heroes led by Angela Petrelli, but that never came about and was anti-climatic with Arthure dying with a bullet to the head.
This half season, so far, is working well with the heroes and villains both being hunted. I just hope they work it up to something big at the end. Something Heroes has been weak on, not only with what I mentioned, but also with the big season one battle of Peter and Sylar, that amounted to much of nothing.
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3-08-2009 @ 4:41PM
juanis30 said...
I think that was were Heroes kinda first started to lose its cool, with the first season finale. We all wanted the heroes to interact much more than they did. A lot of build up and not much payoff.
3-08-2009 @ 5:21PM
Scott H said...
I have 4 new episodes stacked up on my TiVo. There's no other series I follow where I have that many waiting. That tells you everything. Yet I just watched "Company Man", the only other episode I have saved, and I still thought it was great.
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3-08-2009 @ 6:29PM
JD said...
I'm sorry, but I feel betrayed. And, yes, I'm fatigued. I don't have the energy or interest to stick with Heroes anymore.
Allison, PLEASE make these your LAST comments about the show. PLEASE stop watching it and whining. But I have a feeling that you'll continue to watch and continue to whine.
People where whining that it went AWAY from what Tim Kring wanted, and now that he's been back for all of three months and a handful of episodes, people STILL want to whine about it.
SO PLEASE STOP WATCHING and COMMENTING on it!
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3-08-2009 @ 6:50PM
Paul said...
I think you're confused. Tim Kring never left the show -- it's writer Bryan Fuller who left after season one and recently came back into the fold after "Pushing Daisies" was cancelled.
And the show never went away from what Fuller wanted, because he wasn't the creator. Kring has always been there. So even though it's great that Fuller is back and involved from a creative standpoint, you're combining 2 people.
3-08-2009 @ 8:38PM
GL said...
I gave up on Heroes a while ago. I really did want to like it, but it didn't work for me anymore. Battered viewer syndrome.
Please send me my Hero Hater badge. Be a Hater, not a Hater Hater!
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3-08-2009 @ 9:10PM
Jake said...
I would have to agree with being fatigued. I stopped watching after Volume 3 wrapped up and haven't been watching since. I really don't miss this show.
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3-08-2009 @ 9:11PM
Azzy said...
Heidi, Nathan's wife, left Nathan and took the children in season two.
I agree that the show isn't as good as it once was, but it is getting better. Honestly, people just like to complain about it for the sake of hating it. Ditch your biased feelings and rewatch the last episode.
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3-08-2009 @ 11:50PM
Cray said...
I got tired of it after the first episode of the second season. I knew right then it wasn't going anywhere but down. I think the producers tried way to hard to make this show compete with LOST, and failed miserably.
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