Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Jul. 3rd, 2010 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fabrisseHeroes, a thousand times over.
I stopped watching near the beginning of the third season. When the third season came around, I don't know what happened, but I really wasn't enjoying the show and halfway through the two-part eclipse episode, I thought, "I don't need this." I never watched another episode.
The first season, I absolutely could not miss an episode. Some were less good, but none were outright bad. Moreover, they'd plotted out their online content so it truly complemented the episodes without being necessary for the fans who weren't as involved. When Nathan swooped down to save the day in "How to Stop an Exploding Man" it was the culmination of all 22 episodes. It was the perfect bookend to his flying up to keep Peter from dying in the first episode. Had Tim Kring had the guts to follow through on his original idea -- that each season of Heroes be newly cast with one or two characters (probably Sylar and Mohinder the most) from earlier seasons crossing in and out occasionally -- I think the series could have been great. Instead, it became a watered down soap opera with superpowers.
In its own way, as satisfying as it was to open Season 2 with Peter rescuing Nathan, the mistake came when their sacrifice became something they could recover from. I love Pasdar. He tried to make sense of some inherently nonsensical scenes and dialogue and succeeded more often than failed, but magic blood and the writer's attempts to recapture the lightning in the bottle of the first season meant that his talent, and that of everyone else, was ultimately wasted.
I stopped watching near the beginning of the third season. When the third season came around, I don't know what happened, but I really wasn't enjoying the show and halfway through the two-part eclipse episode, I thought, "I don't need this." I never watched another episode.
The first season, I absolutely could not miss an episode. Some were less good, but none were outright bad. Moreover, they'd plotted out their online content so it truly complemented the episodes without being necessary for the fans who weren't as involved. When Nathan swooped down to save the day in "How to Stop an Exploding Man" it was the culmination of all 22 episodes. It was the perfect bookend to his flying up to keep Peter from dying in the first episode. Had Tim Kring had the guts to follow through on his original idea -- that each season of Heroes be newly cast with one or two characters (probably Sylar and Mohinder the most) from earlier seasons crossing in and out occasionally -- I think the series could have been great. Instead, it became a watered down soap opera with superpowers.
In its own way, as satisfying as it was to open Season 2 with Peter rescuing Nathan, the mistake came when their sacrifice became something they could recover from. I love Pasdar. He tried to make sense of some inherently nonsensical scenes and dialogue and succeeded more often than failed, but magic blood and the writer's attempts to recapture the lightning in the bottle of the first season meant that his talent, and that of everyone else, was ultimately wasted.
