Heroes the TV Show

warwick.hoy · #1 12-12-2010, 06:59 PM

My wife have has been watching this program on Netflix intently and I've been looking up from the laptop every now and then.

While I'll admit I'm surely missing some things due to my multitasking and evening commitments; meaning I've missed large portions of the plot. I'm having a hard time enjoying this program. It's not inherently bad or anything, but the story line is so convoluted and complicated.

All the switching of sides,...people dying and coming back to life (or staying dead, or coming back to life as a different person [Nicky, Jessica, Tracy? African Isaac, ***?]),...time travel and location shifting I'm really having a hard time following much less enjoying this program. At this point (somewhere in season 3) I've lost all interest in this show and am just really thinking it's pretty stupid.

iamlowsound · #2 12-12-2010, 07:09 PM

Yeah, it really jumped the shark near the end.

lowsound

C.Linton · #3 12-12-2010, 07:14 PM

That's kind what happened to me with "Lost", after the first season, I missed a couple of episodes and when I next saw it I was totally "Lost" (no pun intended) to the point I just gave up on it.

MJ5150 · #4 12-12-2010, 07:22 PM

This is why you just watch hockey. When you venture out to other programs, this kind of stuff happens.

-Mike

Sonic_Death · #5 12-12-2010, 07:28 PM

Heroes had so many issues with story lines and continuity that it takes a lot to really get into the show from season to season.

The focus changes several times throughout the show, a lot of characters were added, and other ones became much more emphasized over time.

I liked the show, even to the very end, but I'll be the first to admit that it definitely had several low points.

If you can make it to the last season (season 4), I actually really like Robert Knepper as an actor and thought he did a very good job on the show.

sandmangeck · #6 12-12-2010, 07:38 PM

yea, you can't miss a show.

DwaynieAD · #7 12-12-2010, 07:41 PM

after the first season i was done, just went overboard
prison break lost me after season 1 as well

yehongxiang · #8 12-12-2010, 07:52 PM

The first season of Heroes was really good, but after that it just got really boring.

DavidE · #9 12-12-2010, 08:00 PM

I think I made it through the first two seasons before losing interest.

mid_life_crisis · #10 12-12-2010, 08:12 PM

Second season (maybe the beginning of the third) when Hiro froze time and the speedster could still move, I took it off the DVR schedule.

m0nst3r · #11 12-12-2010, 08:17 PM

That's probably why they ended the series. :-\ It's one of those shows you have to watch from the very beginning without missing a show. Once you miss a show it can get pretty confusing.

warwick.hoy · #12 12-12-2010, 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MJ5150

This is why you just watch hockey. When you venture out to other programs, this kind of stuff happens.

-Mike

Agree'd. Most TV programs are just dumb. I like Dexter though.

EDIT: Oh and History Channels' Universe.

Kwesi · #13 12-13-2010, 02:39 AM

The first season was fantastic after that it became a story-telling masturbatory exercise. "How complex and ridiculous can we make this story... Yeeeeaaaaah, that's a good over-thought tv show!" Too many personal story lines to follow, changing temporal perspectives and a general lack of focus from season 2 on just made it unwatchable for me. I wanted it to be awesome and it failed miserably. It's be nice if they redid the series with more focus and a more streamlined story.

I have no problem with shows that make you have to see every episode. You don't skip a chapter in a book an expect to know everything, right? I do however, have a problem when a story, TV or otherwise, becomes so wrapped up in itself that it can't stand up straight.

hrodbert696 · #14 12-13-2010, 04:51 AM

+100 to all the comments here. Amazing first season, then it totally lost it. And miss one episode and you're completely lost. I sometimes suspect that they didn't plan on it's being renewed for a second season and had to scramble to throw it together; the first season was so intently built to reach a climax and END.

C.Linton · #15 12-13-2010, 05:05 AM

The shame was, it had some good writing and acting and all that, there were some cool moments, but it just sorta got bogged down after a while.

NateS · #16 12-13-2010, 05:56 AM

+1 million to everything said here. Great first season, second was ok, and third was just...bleh. the thing to remember about heroes is that it was originally planned to have no main characters: it was supposed to just follow regular people who find they have amazing abilities. And the first season does that decently well. Then they decided "since everyone loves the first set of people, instead of a new cast like we had planned let's keep them on and make it a super hero show". It then spiraled downwards as they tried to make it more and more super-hero-y.

I do feel that there are very good scenes, in all three seasons, and very good episodes. But I can't finish season 3, I always lose it somewhere and feel like I need to restart a week or so later. My ex had the first 3 seasons on DVD, but we never bought season 4 cause we wanted to finish 3 first.

After we broke up but before she moved out, she either finished 3 on her own or moved on and started watching season 4 on my netflix streaming account. Oh well, she didn't finish before she left.