Heroes Season 2: Spoilers ahoy.....

[Bico]

NOT-REALLY SPOILERS FOR THOSE WATCHING SEASON 2 AHOY!


Unoriginality and retreads of the worst X-Men storyline ever aside (Legacy Virus - bit of an odd one to rip off after riffing on Watchmen for S1), I wasn't spear-waving enraged by Heroes' season 2 quality-dip (at least not as batshit crazy-mad as some of the online types) until last week's (6?), where the Russian bloke was saying stuff like "I trained you and your invisible friend Claude - you used to be my friend!  We worked together in the company--" and then it struck me that all I was hearing was dialogue that consisted of exposition and not much else, as the vagaries of evil plans got spelled out like the audience was comprised of idiot-children that needed everything explained to them in minute detail.  Then episode 7(?) happened and we're expected to believe that the big bad supervillain who will kill everyone is genocidal because his best mate kissed his girlfriend 400 years ago and he didn't take it well.
As motivations go, it's fair to say that this hasn't got me *entirely* convinced, but I'm of the opinion that the current writing pool is letting the side down, rather than the series being a total loss.  It's lost a few million viewers stateside and the producers have been told to up their game, so it's not like it's Dr Who or anything - seemingly existing in a vacuum immune from criticism, constructive or otherwise - so there's every chance it'll improve again after the writers' strike.

[the shutdown man]

This week's episode, Four Months Ago, was pretty good, explaining much of what happened in the gap between series 1 and 2, but still dropping the ball on several key factors, namely, The StinkTears Twins; Guess what they were doing four months ago? Yup, having a good ol' cry, and sweating, and then running out the door.

Also, Elle. Decent character perhaps, but Kristen Bell cannot act worth a damn. (Yes I know, no-one on the show's gonna win an oscar, but most of them aren't annoying. Bell unfortunately is.)

[the shutdown man]

Well, it's over.......

The final few weeks, despite their flaws were certainly a lot better than the first five or six episodes. But, now that I've seen the hastily tacked on ending to this season, and compared it to to the original ending that I read online, I cannot help but wonder what might have been.

I can only hope that whenever Heroes does return, the writers have actually learned from their mistakes this year and picked up their game somewhat.

[davidbishop]

Definitely meh. And stop bringing characters back from the clutches of old Morr himself!

[Matt Timson]

"...I cannot help but wonder what might have been."

What was the original ending you read online?

[the shutdown man]

*Kinda spoilers by implication*


Apparently the original ending was written when they thought that it was going to be a 20-something episode season like last year, and this was just going to be the mid season break. So the episode was going to end with the virus being released, Nathan being infected, and that whole area of Texas being quarantined. I don't have the exact link to it, I read it on a Heroes board.

[Matt Timson]

Cheers.  I've been watching it on YouTube- not great, but not the worst thing I've ever seen either.

[JTurner]

Watching the Beeb rather than downloads, I've only seen up to the finale of season 1 - but even that was a real let down, and I'm tempted not to even bother with season 2 now.

The fact that Sylar is still alive is enough to make me despair at the quality of the writing.

[Dark Jimbo]

My thoughts exactly. I was getting gradually less and less enthused, but I thought - 'Oh, I've already stuck with it this far, I might as well make the effort to catch the end.'

It was pretty dull and anti-climactic. No real surprises, no real sense of drama or danger, and the cop-out with Sylar getting away is the push I needed to say goodbye to the series. I think I'll just go and read Watchmen again instead.

[Hoagy]

i frickin loved it.

Nobody is doing anything else like it.

They have to save the world all the time( see men in black)


there isn't a day goes by when the world isn't under threat of being totally annihilated.


good stuff and good to see comicbook, superhero enthusiasm on the box.

you can stick your lost comparisons up yer mineshaft.

[Pyroxian]

I really enjoyed it, although it was rushed towards the end  but there was nothing they could do about that 'cos of the strike.

Really looking forward to season 3.

   Steve

[Jim_Campbell]

You can put me down in the "Really quite enjoyed that" column as well.

I've just seen Episode 11 of Season 2 - that is the unexpectedly truncated end to this series ...?

If so, under the circumstances, that wasn't bad. Bear in mind, fellow comic nerds, that if nothing else this series is bringing the major superhero cliches into the mainstream.

This is (and trust me on this) a Very Good Thing.

Cheers

Jim

[Shakara]

Moved a little too damned slowly for my liking although I'm sure that's already been said.

Enough so to get Tim Kring apologizing for it's ridiculous slowness anyway - a lot of the plotlines felt quite pointless and also who cares if any of them die from now on because all they need is a tiny bit of Claire's blood to get them back on their feet again - which removes any kind of real suspense from anything that isn't brain removal.

Also I thought someone said 'Sylar's treatment of the brains has been left ambiguous until series 2 when he'll explain exactly what he does with them'
...yeah?! c'mon then - does he make brainhoumous or what?!