Sylar should’ve stayed dead at the end of season 1, and most of the characters should’ve faded into the sunset, as was the original intention. As far as I’m concerned, Heroes is a really cool, 22 episode miniseries which inexplicably kept going.
well i still have hope, fool that i am
it seems like a slower better paced storytelling this season. that being said i don’t go out of my way to watch heroes but i still watch it.
I can’t stop watching. At this point I’m doing it primarily because Ray Park is guest starring and I’ve had an unholy crush on him since The Phantom Menace.
Plus, I figure it’s like the Ultimate Marvel comics. Started off great, turned to crap, and yet I still kept buying in hope that it would get better again. And cemented my resolve to never get involved with anything Jeph Loeb touches.
It sure worked out like that, didn’t it? 
Count me as one of the amazed that anyone, not just you, has made it this far. I spent all last season watching, hoping Sylar would annihilate them all. Seriously. I hate Claire. I hate Peter. Hiro and Ando became caricatures. Parkman’s character became so thin you couldn’t spread him across a slice of bread. And then the finale…the whole Nathan thing? Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. That was it for me. I officially decided during the summer when I had absolutely no interest in any Heroes info or spoilerage at all. I couldn’t be bothered to click on it, so I figured why watch?
Congratulations, Solai, on reclaiming an hour of your life that would be better spent examining your toenails than watching Heroes.
It got renewed becauses it is NBC’s highest rated show. How SAD is that?!
Amen, brother. Amen. 
Yeah, sad. This is the network that dominated broadcast TV in the 1980s and 1990s. And they still produce some good shows (I’m loving Community, 30 Rock is good, SVU is still decent–hell, I’ll still watch original Law and Order when it’s on) and they seem to be nurturing their quirky comedies quite a bit. If only they’d left well enough alone and let Tim Kring pursue his original idea of rotating casts for Heroes, rather than trying to make the actors all stars (how’s the little golem that is Hayden Pannetiere working out for you, NBC?).
I feel so validated right now. I’m not trying to gloat, but I felt so guilty giving up halfway through last year, I just couldn’t take it anymore. Everything felt so directionless. AT least on LOST I knew there would eventually be an intersection point where the timelines crossed.
We all fought the good fight. Thank goodness for SGU starting.
While it’s still no masterpiece, I really think the show is far more entertaining this season than last. Maybe I’m just a sucker for a thinly veiled homage to “Carnivale,” one of my all-time faves that was canceled far too soon.
Me three. I skimmed the season premiere and said frakkit.
I won’t list me gripes with the show, lest I seem a hater. But it’s one of my pet peeves when a show kills off a character and brings it back. I know different writers and producers and various considerations are involved, but if a show can’t commit to its own direction, why should we? And the constant pivoting and flip-flopping – from character relationships to plot directions – drove me batty.
Heroes did the thing that I hate most: they didn’t develop a solid arc to fill the season, and they didn’t go adventure of the week. If they’d chosen either path, things would have turned out better. It seems like they meander around for most of the season, and at the end of it, nothing has really happened (quit using time travel as an undo/what if button. GAAHH!).
I had tests for the first two weeks of the new fall season, so I caught up on the weekends. I watched the things I wanted to see most first, and worked my way down from there. I could never make myself watch Heroes. It felt like a chore that needed to be done instead of something I wanted to do. If I wanted to do chores, I would clean my apartment (which I will pay anyone $10 to do).
So is ANYONE going to watch tonight’s episode? After last week’s dismal attendance, I’ve been tempted to stop even bothering with setting up the frak parties (which, frankly, are the only reason I’ve even considered watching it this long).
Ill be there with you Badger!!!
Now you’ve trapped him into watching this week’s episode too, you enabler!!! 
Its what i do best!!
Coming from you, Solai, this is saying a lot. I personally gave up on Heroes after “Villains.” It must have gotten even worse after that. Many consolations, my dear friend.
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If you need some entertainment in the meantime, I’ll be posting my script “The Wanderlings of South Jude” in the GWC Writers’ Forums.
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Cool beans! Good for you, man. I’ve flushed Heroes out my system since S2-S3, when I realized I hated every single character on the show, the writers are just a bunch of twats who just keep making characters and plots worse and worse and worse, and they wouldn’t own up to it in any interview I’ve read, instead saying some crap about “it was too hard to understand for normal people”. I understood it perfectly fine, I just thought you basically destroyed every single character on that show in the worst possible way, and your show really really sucks now. Ultimately, it was too hard to keep yelling at the TV for insane plots and nonsensical characterizations, so I finally gave up after a few relapses (hence the S2-S3).
Trust me, your life will be better now that Heroes is out of it. Congrats!
I watched 3.4 episodes this week (I stopped in the middle of an episode 4 weeks ago). It seems more palatable if I let episodes acrue on the DVR then watch them back to back. Dunno why, but it seems to be getting better now.
The weakest subplot in my opinion is Sylar vs Matt. The sorority subplot is a close second.
I do like seeing the deaf Hero. Maybe I’m biased since I’m disabled, but you don’t see many people with disabilities on TV. I also like watching HRG trying to readjust his life. The alternate view of what happened 3 years ago was also a favorite moment of the season so far. I just wish they’d tie up what happened to the woman Peter took into the alternate timeline sooner than later.