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The ratings for “Heroes” continue their steep slide (“How I Met Your Mother” drew a bigger rating for the first time last Monday) and I have to admit I’ve finally decided to join the multitude jumping ship. We finally meet Arthur Petrelli tonight (played by Robert Forster, who looks nothing like the Arthur Petrelli we saw in that group photo), but I cannot get excited about the debut of Nathan and Peter’s pop. Following Peter’s ludicrous showdown at FutureSylar’s house, I have zero confidence left in this series’ writers.
(If Nathan’s laughable “flight” last week was any indication, NBC-Universal may no longer have enough confidence in the show to give it a reasonable effects budget. It reminded me of the hideous flying effects that attended "Superman IV" as Cannon tried to milk just a few more dollars out of that spent franchise.)
From Wikipedia’s entry on “idiot plot”:
In literary and film criticism, an idiot plot is a plot which (in the words of the Turkey City Lexicon), "functions only because all the characters involved are idiots: They behave in a way that suits the author's convenience, rather than through any rational motivation of their own." Alternate formulations describe only the protagonist as being an idiot.
And, indeed, Peter, Nathan, Noah, Angela, Hiro, Claire, Sylar and other major characters all seem to have had most of their IQs slowly sapped away by the Haitian over the last two seasons.
NBC says:
Armed with H.R.G.'s old files and a taser, Claire attempts to take down her first target -- Stephen Canfield (Andre Royo), a Level 5 escapee with the ability to create black holes -- unaware that others are closing in. Meanwhile, in horror, Peter flees from all the death and destruction in the future, only to grimly discover how deeply the experience has changed him. Frustrated that Adam Monroe (guest star David Anders) didn't get them closer to "the formula," Hiro takes a stab at becoming friends with Daphne (guest star Brea Grant) and new associate Knox (guest star Jaime Hector), much to Ando's dismay. Later, Suresh's urge to correct research errors puts Maya, among others, in a sticky situation. Linderman (guest star Malcolm McDowell) advises Nathan to stick by Tracy, seeing that they could accomplish great things together. In Africa, Matt sees his vision of "happily ever after" destroyed. Zachary Quinto and Cristine Rose star. Alan Blumenfeld, Ashley Crow, Jessalyn Gilsig, Brea Grant, Jamie Hector, David H. Lawrence XVII and Andre Royo guest star.
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I Saw the entire first season in 3 large installments and wasn't remotely impressed.I couldn't stand Ali Larter or her character either.Pull a Nail in it ITS DONE.
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I'll say it againremove Kring and hire Paul Dini, and McCorkle and Shooney (from Sky High and Kim Possible) pay them whatever it takesI'm watching every week and it's fun mindless distraction but well let's just leave it at buthowever S3 of Lost was slow and boring, not idiot plot, but certainly not a GREAT start and looked how that ended so maybe there is hope
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as in "who's carrying the idiot ball this week"?
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Because after football season is over, there won't be anything on after Chuck on monday. Except for video games.
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But it really is getting hard. I can excuse a lot, and I mean A. FREAKING. LOT. There is no direction left. With all these incredible superpowers floating about, they're still stalling any kind of confrontation between the big guns. What's with all the fist fighting? THESE PEOPLE CAN THROW FIREBALLS! Let them throw some fireballs for a change and I might be more entertained. On a sidenote, Zachary Quinto is amazing and I feel more and more that he hasn't been used to his full potential. The rest are still hacks and I'm losing interest.
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Heroes will continue to flourish despite what you haters say. Many people think the first few episodes are already a vast improvement over Season 2.
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still don't care that much, but getting Robert Forster on board does get my attention a little.
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This show didn't deserve a third season. It's not being a "hater" if the thing you're baggin' on ACTUALLY does suck.
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is also killing it very quickly. If Peter and Hiro can time travel AND change the past, then it's a simple matter of figuring out what to go back and prevent. If they actually used some cause and effect with the intricacies of time-travel and various butterfly effects that can be caused, instead of jumping around like freaking morons and doing whatever they feel like and not having any purpose and then deciding (in Hiro's case) "Well, I don't want to screw it up any WORSE, so I'll stop all together instead of logically determining a solution" or (in Peter's case), "I'm freaking braindead so I'll just do whatever I feel like and screw shit up even worse." And meanwhile everyone else is being retarded and none of it matters, because at any second the writers could say "FUTURE CHANGE" and then nothing they've built up exists anymore and they start from scratch with new idiots with A) awesome powers they will never use or B) stupid powers they use all the time until Sylar (now Peter) steals them and then doesn't use them ever. SHEESH.
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...of all the current fans of this show.Stop being such haters. It doesn't have to be Shakespeare! Haters! Stop hating. You wanna blow this for us!?! Hey, I don't require competent storytelling or interesting character arcs in order to be entertained. So long as you tell me that you're making a show about something comic booky I'll be there with bells on. But why do the haters, have to be hating!?! Why don't they get that this show rules!?! It rules like Captain Power ruled! They don't get it...they just hate. Haters. Hatin'....ohhhh...wasn't it so cool when Hiro stopped time and walked thru the girls speed lines. OHHHH....she said SPEEDSTER. I know what that means. OHHHHHHH!The show had a decent first season....haven't watched an ep of this one since the premiere. Later, Turkeys
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You really need to keep in mind that the worst Heroes episode is still better then 95% of most television. People really critique this show waaaayyy too much. It's entertainment based on super heroes. It ain't a fuckin' reality show. Get over it.
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Do you think they were going to have it be a time-traveling Peter from the future that shot Nathan? Obviously not, because of the "alternate ending" that wasn't used. So that means, for sure, that they are PULLING THIS SHIT OUT THEIR ASSES. And not doing a very good job. This is far worse than any of Lost's slumps, and there were a few 4-5 episode stretches there that REEKED of retcon bullshit. This show should be renamed "RETCON HEROES" Mama Petrelli to Sylar: "Oh yea I'm actually your mother and your father is still alive and you've been trying to kill your brother and actually this is just a dream and you're really only 12 years old but your power is to imagine crappy futures." /rant
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Heroes is done.
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Stick a dick in you... you're done...
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I was at Comic Con and they moved the Heroes panel this year to Hall H which the largest hall and it was jammed packed. People were spending the night outside just to get into the panel. Same with Sarah Connor but wasn't in a large room. But there was a very long line that snaked around the building. The majority couldn't get in. So I'm tending to believe the TV ratings system doesn't work and accurately reflect how many people are really watching.
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Fag, huh? What are you, 12?
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but yes...its too late for him to save the show
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Than wasted potential.
I don't think the wirters have any idea where they are going with this show, I for one will give it a few more eps seeing as I've come this far, hoping against all hope that something good will come out of this show. -
Perfect summation of the way the show "works" I had high hopes for it....without some major battles...matrix style stuff... I'll be tutrning on the playstation during heroes.
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I was dissapointed with the ending of the first season, but I chalked that up to them using up their effects budget..
What killed the show is the best creative people from the first season moved onto to other things, leaving Kring and his fellow hack writers, and it shows.
Saying the worst Heroes episodes are better than other tv is ridiculous. Better than what, The Biggest Loser?The Hills?Knight Rider?That's like saying dog shit smells better than elephant shit.
I haven't stopped watching yet, but it's been relegated to background noise while I do other things like clean house.
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the hall holds what, 5k? ratings are judged in the millions...so the show has some hardcore fans...but it needs to cater to the masses...and it lost a ton last season...the strike soured alot of people on tv, and the reality shows and the lack of good shows have soured more, as they find better ways to spend their leisure time...add to that the ability to watch shows when you want and where you want, thanks to tivo, computers and ipods, and you have the perfect storm...tv has a 5 year window to get its act together, or it will face the same problems that the music industry now faces and the movie industry will face....and i agree that kring must step down as show runner...there are many who can take his place who understand how to handle a show like this...my personal choices are jms or whedon...or go totally crazy and get warren ellison
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No, I stuck my dick in your mom.
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Oh, get over yourself - 'wah, the flying effects were bad'. Perhaps because they spent so much money on an INCREDIBLE LOOKING EXPLOSION. Jesus Christ - what would you prefer measured up effects wise?
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For someone who has "Given up on the show," or "joined the multitude" who have bailed, you sure are talking about it a lot.
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I'll say it again, I like show and I see the flaws. There are haters who post here, because you 150% hate the show yet continue to watch and provoke people - I have no time for you. But there are plenty of folks who genuinely want the show to get better, and while I don't agree with them I like debating with them because they care. And, to be honest, if Hiro doesn't shape up soon and do something that isn't goofy I'm gonna be griping about the show too.
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Screw you - just because you're being a whiny little bitch who doesn't like the show does not give you the right to spoil us on a huge twist. That's a major dick move, sir - the equivilent of me going and throwing out the spoilers I know for Lost Season Five... only I wouldn't because I don't want to tarnish the experience for everyone else. And after the pathetic display by you and Moriarty with the Lost S3 teasing, and subsequent shutting down of the talkbacks, this just shows you as a hypocrite.
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but we'll see what kind of character he turns out to be.Instead of just being a "hater," here is a bit of constructive criticism for the writers -- cut down on the number of characters in the show, and concentrate on making the ones that remain act logically. Parkman has always been useless and is now stuck in a retread plot. Nikki, or whatever her name is now, is good for T&A, but little else. The guy that plays Peter can barely handle one role, let alone two, so get rid of future Peter. The Fly/Narrator dude was another weak initial character who shouldn't have survived past season one. Take his teary fsck buddy with him. The relationships between Hiro/Ando and HRG/Claire are the only ones that have ever remotely resonated with the audience. Don't ruin them.
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Sir, I always thought that they should only use four regulars per episode. Keep the stories small, self-contained with bits of overlap. Then you don't have too much happening at once, and stories can breathe. I know, for instance, that Maya could benefit from a lot of her story arc happening in one ep.
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....an episode of Season 3 yet, I wait till quite a few are online so I can go ahead and watch them back t back in one full swoop. Reading some of these talk backs doesn't make me look forward to watching it though. It can't be as bad as the second "season," can it? Oh well, if its that bad, might as well wait till next year when Lost comes back. I always wanted to like Heroes, but I feel they almost jumped the shark last season with the Copycat chick and the Telemundo twins. Is Mya back this season, she was only good to look at, but her character sucked "webbos."
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It's not as bad as the second season and, from me, it's not bad at all. A lot happens, maybe too much, but a lot of the characters interact more and there's some awesome plot twists.
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Yes, this show is not as good as it once was. Absolutely. BUT! Season 2 wasn't terrible, it was just too slow and brooding. You can't blame them for trying to take the formula that made the first season work and try to lean on it even more. It didn't work. It didn't work at all, but there were still some great moments. I'll agree with everyone who says this is better than most things on TV. I love the characters. I love Sylar, I love Bennet, I love Hiro. I am happy to get to see them for 40 minutes a week when I can. I do believe that Ali Larter must be fucking the creative staff to still be in this show and I've hated her storylines from day one, but what can you do? Herc, the showdown with Sylar in the future last week was one of the best moments of the show! It could have been bigger with a bunch of crazy shit, but it was still very emotionally and epic. Also, the key is that Peter had to learn how to 'access' Sylar's power, not get it, even though that's what everyone but Sylar said. Sure, it's like a soap opera with super heroes. How is that a bad thing! There's never been anything like it. And for what it's worth, the first 3 and a half seasons of Lost were horrible. It was only after the death of Mr. Eko did it really evolve into such an amazing show. Thank you Brian K. Vaughn and Co. I knew everything that happened in Lost and Heroes before I started to watch them. Knowing what happened in Lost took away the only power it had, surprise. Knowing what happened in Heroes only made it better, anticapating how things would work out even though I knew they would. Just pointing that out. Lost has become something amazing in it's past 30 or so episodes, but it started out as a crock of shit. Heroes may be heading towards a crock of shit, but I just don't think so. There are always great moments that make it all worth it. HRG putting Elle in the tub of water at the end of the second season!!! Come on! I didn't like the second season while it aired, and I've really thought that this season was getting a lot better. A future where everyone can have powers? Sylar a Petrelli? Sylar AND FUCKING HRG AS PARTNERS!!! There is some really good stuff coming. It doesn't have as talented of a writing staff as say, 30 Rock, but this is a drama. A drama about people who can fly and time travel and all that crap The only problem I think any of us fanboys have with the suspension of disbelief is that they did such an amazing job of tying everything together in the first season.
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You mention that a lot of the characters interact more, and to me that has always been a major problem with the show. There should have been a slower build up to these characters interacting. I thought season one was OK with how it ended with all the characters ending up in NY fighting Skylar, but I think the show makes the situations and the meeting of these characters too convenient. Its almost as if the Heroes universe is one small town, like Jericho Kansas.
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Sylar. stupid typos
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I sort of agree, but the slow-build up was designed to bring them all together. Now that they know about each other, it stretches logic for them to rarely cross paths.
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I mean, he was always kind of precious, but this season it's ridiculous. He matured so much last season, learned how to use a sword, defeated an immortal enemy (which, in a convenient and dumb "idiot plot", he has to dig him up again, thereby negating everything he did LAST season.) But this season, what's with the cutesy shit with the "speedster". Hiro has seen the future. He knows what will happen if the formula gets in the wrong hands. After the bitch punched him out in episode 1 he should have grabbed a sword, teleported to her, stopped time, and cut off her friggin head when she's at normal speed in frozen time. Then, Hiro can agonize about how he had to cut off a bitch's head to save the world. Now THAT'S action AND drama!!!!
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Um... right. As if two guys who can absorb every power ever, and a bunch of immortals weren't powerful enough. Now we have a guy who can create black holes.Who are these writers?!
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Yeah, that's NBC promo writers... I don't think we're actually going to see someone create 'black holes' so much as manipulate the atmosphere.
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Because most people here think they know what they fucking want to see. Then the fucking idiot film makers think, oh lets give them more of this and this and oh yeah much much more of that, they'll be happy. Kring admitted it himself, he said we heard you and we promise more in the next season. Fucking idiot. Writers have to write what they feel is right not waht we feel is fucking right. Are we fucking film makers? Are we writers? No, we're just fucking fans who like to talk and yeah we say what we want to say but dont take us literally. Sigh. Either that, or the writers are really just shit. I know some of the original writers of the far superior first season left show but shit, Heroes really has lost the plot now. All of the character developments have been utterly ruined. The only ultra cool people in this show are Sylar and Noah Bennet. I am continuing to watch this show now only to see those 2 grace the screen with class, in front of an abyss of shit in the background.
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of the way through the first season. Shame.
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Where's my ice-cream?
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Monday Night Football is killing the Monday night shows
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seriously. I'm not quite ready to write this show off ... but the absolute stupidity in the writing is brutal. They broke the first rule of comic book movies ... they treated their audience like idiots. The characters just don't make any sense sometimes, and the time travel device is just brutally illogical.
Rather than time travel, they should have left "the future" with the ability Isaac had ... just painting it. I'm totally lost when Peter from 4 years, 3 months, 1 day and 12 seconds in the future shows up to get in a fight with Peter from 3 years, 2 months, 14 days, 12 hours and 2 seconds in the future. -
Hiro travels to the future to see (or rather, not see) that the world has been destroyed by a black hole. Meanwhile a virus/formula is destroying all the newly created artificial heroes, who took the formula of Volume III. And Clairebear is in love with someone at school.
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The future stuff is a tad difficult to understand, but it does seem odd that people are using that to attack the show. It's a plot-device, nothing more.
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One snag, they're now having Claire as a pro-active character with no time for romance. If you want to gripe, at least gripe about what the show is doing rather than what it used to do.
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Would that be physicists from the LHC, looking to keep their monopoly on black hole generation?
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wrote a Defenders/Howard the duck crossover treasury edition (one of those big Life Magazine format comics) that features a supervillain with a chunk of black hole dark matter embedded in his check (really no stupider than DC's Atom having a piece of dwarf star matter in his belt buckle).So at one point the villain springs into action and initiates his black hole absorbtion power and Gerber wrote one of the greatest Marvel captions of all time and certainly one that had to make an end run around the comics code ti get published:"SUDDENLY... THE BLACK HOLE SUCKS!!!"
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Sir, that caption is awesome and your posting it is awesome. Fantastic!
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that it pleases me that I fucking love Heroes and am enjoying the hell out of the plot lite and special effects and action heavy third season that dozens of AICN talkbackers are hating on, whining about and mourning because they claim they wish it was better or lived up to their conception of the mid-point of the first season's potential. This gives me sadistic glee that I'm experiencing great pleasure from something that either aggravates you or makes so many of you sad.I'm not saying that I'm not sorry over experiencing such schadenfreude over your critical despair while I goggle wide-eyed in delight. But you know what they say, if you can't laugh at yourself, you have to laugh at other people."Oh, but Pancho, don't you see, if they're going to do a comic book inspired TV series, why can't it be on a level of quality with the best comics ever written, not the mundane average crap that most comics are? And, oh, the middle part of season one, after they had all the characters introduced, produced a couple of the shows best episodes ever. Qhy can't EVERY episode be the best episode ever, like on Lost? Oh Pancho, don't you see that your liking something I dislike makes you inferior to me and my exquisite flavor... I mean, taste?"Yeah, I see what my hypothetical examples of something you might say are trying to say. Really, I just don't care. My life sucks in ways you can't imagine, but Heroes gives me an hour a week to be happy. Not that I'm that picky - actually the Chuck Heroes Boston Legal triple feature gives me three hours to feel pretty good. You have a problem with that, talk to my lawyer's hand or something.
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Dude, terrific post. And I'm with you on Boston Legal, I wish I had more time to watch that show... even if I do wish ever so hard that Shatner would pop up on Heroes
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I really don't think the individual episodes have been that bad. I really don't see how they are that much worse than season one.
what annoys me is that through three seasons, they seam to be using the same plot. Something is going to destroy the world, we get shown how the world will be if that happens, then the heroes randomly come together by the end of the season to stop it. We are on season three of the same f-ing formula.
That's the lazy writing that's killing the show. I can deal with less than perfect effects and some "convenient" plot devices...but when you can't think of a new over-arcing plot for an entire seaon...that's just bad. -
Sure it's a drag when the writer hosting the TB turns hater, and sure it's turning into a sour experience coming here reading all the Heroes hate every week. But I can enjoy a TV show without a talkback. Few of the shows I like best ever get AICn talkbacks anyway. If you really hate on this show that bad just man up and ignore the series the way you do with Supernatural and all the other geek fan favorite shows that never get talkbacks here. What are the last of the heroes fans and the most vocal haters going to do, continue the never-ending battle in the final heroes talkback and keep it going until they hit 10,000 posts? Or try to hijack one discussion per week the way the Supernatural fans do?That old AICN cliche "if you don't like it don't post here" applies to you too, Herc old pal. Now that you don't like Heroes anymore just stop writing about it and see if anyone notices or if anyone else at AICN posts one to take up the slack and get the clicks. Why aggravate yourself by having to write about something you don't like week after week. It's not like it's your job, right?That's just my opinion, Hercules. See you in the next SNL TB.
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If the Heroes TB trend ends, I'm going to hijack the last Lost TB.
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Boston legal is into it's final, short season - maybe eleven episodes to go, so if you have a VCR or DVR and the 45 minutes it takes to watching it while blipverting the ads, this is your chance to see how the series ends.p>Conversely, the series has now entered syndication and several local channels where I am seem to be airing it - and it also runs multiple nights per week in prime time on the basic cable ION TV network, if you don't mind watching the excellent first season episodes (with the beautiful Rhona Mitra, Monica Potter and Lake Bell).I just wish the syndication package included the final season episodes of The Practice that introduced Crane, Poole and Schmidt back when Alan Shore was a really complex and diabolical character.And I agree, Heroes should have at least one Star Trek veteran in the cast at all time. Hey, I think Jolene Blalock isn't very busy...
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You have to admit there are a huge number of flaws, and it has wasted a lot of its potential. The main problem is that the show could have actually been very good if you had someone competent running the thing.
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http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36908Drop by anytime. Sure, they'd like to keep it on topic, but if you'd like to chat about Heroes, Fringe, Life On Mars and so on, I think they'd be up for that. Especially the Farscape fans over there.
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Course I admit there are flaws, but every TV show I've ever watched had flaws. They just hit something in me that said 'fuck it' and watched anyway.
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Seriously just kill of everyone except for her, Adam, Hiro and Ando.
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So how would that work? Elle and Adam try to attack Hiro, he teleports away and/or stops time. Repeat each week.
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they mishandled the major arc of the series: by saving the world in the first season, they set themselves up for defeat. how can you top that? maybe some talented writers could, but these guys obviously cannot. they should have had the 'world saving arc', stretch out over 3 seasons.
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No, they really shouldn't - you think Lost gets a lot of hate? Heroes would get a hundred times worse if they hadn't resolved that arc at the end of S1.
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In fantasy TV world, if I were in charge, I'd bring in J. Michael Straczynski and let him have a go at an actual story arc for three more seasons... and have that be all.
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RATINGS not anyone's opinions will decide this show's fate. Given the (consistent) trend and direction they're heading, this show is on it's last legs to be sure. Bitch at the 'haters' all you want Heroes fans, you apparently don't have the numbers to keep it on the air for much longer so get over it already.
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You'd first introduce new characters. But those 4 are the only ones worth saving because they're the most interesting (I won't say complex) left on the show. I don't know if I would make Elle a villain, that would be too simple.
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Judging by how bad Hiro's storyline has been this season, I'd say he's one of the least interesting characters.
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Absolutely ridiculous - yes the ratings are falling, but it's hardly crisis point. Besides, name me a show that could stay off the air nine months and come back with equivilent ratings to where it left off.
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I don't know. I really want to like this show. But it is a disaster of epic proportions. The biggest clue I had was after the "Five Years Gone" episode. Because NOTHING Hiro did after returning from the future would have changed the future that he saw. Yet, it did change. In fact, people who were originally NOT EVEN IN NEW YORK in the future, conveniently showed up during what passed for a "showdown" between Sylar and Peter. To me this showed a complete lack of consistency and a feeling of "Hey, you know what would be cool? If we did Days of Future Past" (Oh, I'm sorry. Kring never read a comic book. He comes up with these ideas on his own.) On top of that, the show falters because of the nature of the threats. The threats are always predetermined apocalyptic disasters that someone from the future needs to inform someone from the present about. Because apparently the people from the present are so fucking incompetent that they can't gather clues and information on their own to stop a disaster. No, it needs to have happened first and have someone from the future say "Listen, you know what, I think you need to stop this nuclear attack/virus/world splitting apart thing from happening." Why can't the characters be self-sufficient? Why can't they discover insidious plots on their own? Well, they can't because they're fucking incompetent. And maybe if this was a comedy, I'd enjoy watching a bunch of incompetent imbeciles walk around with superpowers, but a show that is attempting to be a drama, well, it sucks. On the bright side though, I am at least entertained this year when I watch it. Last year I was just BORED OUT OF MY MIND. This year, I'm entertained. The show is obnoxiously stupid, but at least it feels worth watching on a pure entertainment value. I just think its potential is so much more.
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that took a hiatus after the strike was over has registered at least 25% less ratings - Chuck, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money, Pushing Daisies (which is the worst off; they've lost almost 55% of their freshman season audience). But Chuck isn't exactly helping matters as a lead-in on top of the issues that Heroes does have.
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Exactly. And yes, Hiro helped change the future. Hiro yelled 'virrain' at Nathan, so he was sufficiently down for when Claire turned on him. It was a subtle change that pushed Nathan to fly Peter into the sky - and as Sylar showed, Peter WOULD have destroyed a lot of New York.
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I saw the first two seasons on DVD and really enjoyed it. Now watching season 3 on tv the plot holes and lack of common sense are killing the show for me. im not jumping ship yet becuase i have 2 dvrs and space. push comes to shove and i am done
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You can jump shit, but you will have to get right back in the Summer. When the show rebounds, people are happy, and you are on the outside looking in. Seriously, this is how the show works, and you have to be patient.
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Or MAD MEN. Either way is all I'm saying.Sorry HEROES fans. I'm just stoking the fire...heh.
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and you have a good show again. The idiot plot devices they keep coming up with to keep Peter from being all powerful are really dragging down the show at this point. also, Ali Larter has consistantly had the worst story lines in the show. I dont care if she's the only female cast member who will get in her underwear week after week, she's a terrible actress with terrible storylines. Kill her and Peter off and this show would jump right back up to where it was season 1.
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start really killing off characters
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why is Ali Larter even in the show? Because shes hot? What has she contributed from the beginning uptil this point that has mattered to anyone?
Why is Nathan Petrelli doing? He was a political figure, but now hes doing nothing.
What is this crap with Hiro and Ando, why can't he reach out to his other hero friends if this quest is so important. Has everything that has happened in the last two seasons been completely nullified? Does he have to go back to being a nitwit again?
How easily Noah goes along with being Sylar's partner. And how did future Peter die with a fucking gunshot wound?
How many times must we endure people drawing apocalyptic versions of the future or seeing the future just before the apocalypse...for once id like there to be some mystery surrounding the big questions. Would have been cool if no one knew what the formula was till later. Or know what happens. And seriously, did we really need cliche spiritual African man who makes Greg Grunberg walk his "spirit walk", refusing to answer any of his questions in anything but vague terms?
This whole thing is bullshit. Kill off a bunch of characters. Write it better, and make people use the powers they fucking have in a logical way. Id love to see Hiro use his time travel, time stopping abilities and chain them up and really get that speedster bitch confused about where the heck she is. Who wants to see a show about heroes with superpowers and the intelligence of a monkey. sigh. -
It took a bit of force from my thumb, but I did it... I deleted Heroes off of the DVR. Like many of you, it is just not worth the time any more. There is much better TV out there (maybe). Anyhow, if the season somehow redeems itself and gets "good" there is always Netflix.
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She's on the show because she's a trooper, and acts the Hell out of her bad storylines.
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Quit whining! I mean we have the "Kristen Bell will save us" guys (She's good looking. Other than that, no matter how much you see her on-screen, you won't get to fuck her...), We got the "Why don't they do this, instead of that" (It's a super-hero tv show dammit... It's not thesis on how would superheroes would be if they were real)
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You would think that they would hire someone who could run well to play the role of a speedster but when the Haitian was around and she couldn't go superspeed it was embarrassing to see her run so poorly.The fact that half the cast is related just strains credibility too much. If every superhuman has superhuman kids it would mean that a large percentage of people would be super. If you have time travellers then it really makes it hard for the viewer to think, "Why don't they just go back in time and fix it?" and especially since all the stories involve time travel in the first place. Unfortunately, they haven't done anything to explain why they don't go back in time.
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the guys going on "Lost is much better than Heroes" (Well DUH! But they are two different kinds of shows dammit!). And Herc...ok we get it! You are being paid to promote other shows... Enough already with your stupid excuses...!
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Man Herc, you sure have changed over the past few years. Had this been Heroes S1 you would have been loving it and digging it. But after what people refer to as a "abysmal" season 2, you aren't even giving this show a chance anymore...
Nor are any of you haters who are talking about how stupid the writing has gotten etc, about how peter/hiro should just continually travel back in time to fix things, and its stupid that they don't.
You complain when Sylar is turned into a good guy with a son saying its stupid. You complain about everything! Why do you even watch this show anymore if all you are going to do is complain.
Let me tell you something. I am the majority when I tell you this. All the haters that come here and post about how shitty this season is take note. Heroes is the SAME fucking show its always been.
Those of you talking about lazy writing need to wake the fuck up. The writing has been the same on Heroes since S1 where everyone was retardedly not using their super power. Hell most of S1 was about people knowing that they had a Superpower, and pretending like they didn't. (I.E Everyone telling Peter he was crazy for umm I dunno the first 10 eps of S1~!)
S3 now, has actually started giving us meat and exposition on these characters yet all you complainers can do is moan that its unrealistic. SUPERPOWERS are unrealistic. Get over it. Watch the show and enjoy it for what it is.
Hell Sylar with a son has you up in arms, yet when ANGEL had a son (you know a vampire who umm has dead sperm?) everyone praised it as good writing. You need to get off your high horse and start watching tv like its TV again. Not like its supposed to be some magical window into a world thats supposed to be exactly how you would make the world if it was yours. -
trying to make sense out of a comic book plot (and there are some real ridiculous plots out there... "Brand New Day" anyone?
Bottoline: It's a show. Yoy like it? Good. You don't? Just don't watch it so we can finally have some time off from all the bitchin'. GET. A. LIFE! -
Heroes has the most potential I've seen in a show in a long time. The very idea of super powered beings fighting each other and against rogue organizations etc stokes emotions and imaginations in everyone (as shown by early season one ratings). But clearly - and I think even the hard core fans would agree - Kring has done an exceptionally atrocious job. Heroes might be the biggest bungling of an opportunity in the history of network TV. Put someone who's a competent scifi/fantasy writer, someone who understands the superhero myth and stories, and someone proven in charge and our collective faiths would be restored. I for one, wouldn't be against the folks behind Avatar/Airbender.
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The ratings continue to slide down each weak (pun intended) of Season 3 IN ADDITION to the break incurred drop.
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In Season 1, episodes 2, 3 and 4; it is PETER from the future who killed Molly's parents, and it's PETER who Parkman and the FBI agent chase down and confront as 'Sylar'. This is evidenced by a few things: 1. In season 3, it is Peter who has become obsessed with gaining Molly's power. 2. Molly's father was found frozen in episode s1e2, and neither Sylar nor present Peter have that ability yet. So it is 1 of the 2, either Peter or Sylar, who at some point will apparently take/copy Ali Larter's freezing ability, that have come back from the future to find Molly. 3. So far, it's been essentially established that Sylar never gets the 'go back and forth in time' power, even in the alternate timelines he never has that. Only Peter and Hiro have that. And finally, in s1e3, they GUN DOWN Sylar in a hallway, and he gets up and runs away. And at that point in the story Sylar still hasn't found Clair to steal that power. So again, the person they gunned down in the hallway, was either future Peter of future Sylar. And since they are building Peter up to be the villain, and Sylar can't time travel, this leaves Peter. Also interesting to note, is that the 'future Hiro' that introduces himself to Peter on the train in Season 1, may have actually been a villain too. He's dressed in the same 'villain' garb as the rest, slicked black hair, black leather, etc. He wants Peter to save the cheerleader not because of the explosion, or Sylar, it's because she's an integral part of that future war going on between the mutants and the normies. That scene, all this time, has been Hiro from the 'villain' leather squad, getting Peter to save the leader of his 'villain' leather squad. This shit has been all planned out, and I think if you see it through, you'll realize all the stuff you think is dumb now is part of a really big picture that will make season 1 and 2 even cooler once it's complete.
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Man Herc, you sure have changed over the past few years. Had this been Heroes S1 you would have been loving it and digging it. But after what people refer to as a "abysmal" season 2, you aren't even giving this show a chance anymore...
Nor are any of you haters who are talking about how stupid the writing has gotten etc, about how peter/hiro should just continually travel back in time to fix things, and its stupid that they don't.
You complain when Sylar is turned into a good guy with a son saying its stupid. You complain about everything! Why do you even watch this show anymore if all you are going to do is complain.
Let me tell you something. I am the majority when I tell you this. All the haters that come here and post about how shitty this season is take note. Heroes is the SAME fucking show its always been.
Those of you talking about lazy writing need to wake the fuck up. The writing has been the same on Heroes since S1 where everyone was retardedly not using their super power. Hell most of S1 was about people knowing that they had a Superpower, and pretending like they didn't. (I.E Everyone telling Peter he was crazy for umm I dunno the first 10 eps of S1~!)
S3 now, has actually started giving us meat and exposition on these characters yet all you complainers can do is moan that its unrealistic. SUPERPOWERS are unrealistic. Get over it. Watch the show and enjoy it for what it is.
Hell Sylar with a son has you up in arms, yet when ANGEL had a son (you know a vampire who umm has dead sperm?) everyone praised it as good writing. You need to get off your high horse and start watching tv like its TV again. Not like its supposed to be some magical window into a world thats supposed to be exactly how you would make the world if it was yours. -
Only snag, Sylar DOES have a freezoing power. He showed it off in 1x21 'The Hard Part.' Cool theory other than that, and I do think they are going back to S1 and tying certain loose-ends up.
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has ALWAYS been about stopping the earth from splitting in two or whatever happens.
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I don't hold anything against the people who still like this show, and think that it's better than ever. I don't think they're bad people. Just very easy to entertain. Because Herc actually managed to sum up the problem with the show with his "Idiot Plot" definition. This is precisely the problem with Heroes. No one actually does anything plausible, and all the characters exist to service the plot, no matter how much it ruins the characters. People liked Season 1 because it had real emotional impact, better acting, and a whole lot of potential. Then, Season 1 ended badly, and Season 2 was horrible. And you can't really blame the writers strike. Season 2 sucked from the first episode onward. Amnesia is a lazy crutch, and that's what Peter had right at the start of the season. Hiro never should have spent so much time in Japan. Clarie's story was essentially a reset. And lets not forget the terror twins. All pre-strike, all awful. This is not a recent development. Since the idiocy of the Season 1 finale, Heroes has been inexorably leading to the state it exists in now-a stupid, Sci-Fi channel original story that seems to think that SHOCKING reveals=Character development. I'm surprised anyone said that this show is "better than 95% of what's on TV". That excuse worked for the Simpsons in the early years of it's decline, and considering it was on Sunday nights, that was mostly true. Heroes is actually worse than 95% of the shows on Monday night. It's worse than Terminator, Prison Break, How I Met Your Mother, Chuck, Life, and that show about the nerds who like the hot girl that runs on CBS. So why do I still watch, and hate, on Heroes? Because Heroes is becoming a show that is fun to mock. It's so self-serious. It thinks it's deep when it's as shallow as a kiddie pool. It's attempts to be goofy, with Hiro and Ando are terrible as well. So terrible that it's actually hilarious to watch. And it's also funny watching people try to defend it. "Hey guys, sure the story makes no sense and the acting is terrible, but there was a big explosion!". I will continue to watch as heroes drives itself into the ground, and I will laugh at it, because it seems incapable of laughing at itself.
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Oct 13, 2008 9:44:24 AM CDT
I'll have to rewatch that but even if he does have that power
by smackfu
The guy Parkman shot in the hallway, was not present Sylar because he couldn't regenerate at that time. The person shot was from the future, and only Peter can regen AND time travel.
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Lets just take it as Sylar used Telekenetics to STOP the bullets, rather then he got shot... We already learned he was powerful enough to survive the fall from the top of the school roof with only a minor limp, so lets assume bullets just didn't work :) I think in the beggining they didn't know WHAT sylar was. I don't think it was somehow future peter.
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I'm with you dude.
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Question: What the hell is up with Heroes' ratings?! Where'd all the viewers go! -- Joel
Ausiello: NBC is praying hoping a few million of them turn up on Oct. 13 when the live-plus-three-day DVR data starts to trickle in. -
That at least is a FAR better direction for the show, as well as being a damn nice plot point.
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The show is really not that worse than the first season. It's just that everyone was willing to overlook certain idiocies then because the show was "fresh."
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All credibility just flew out the door. Sorry folks, this just isn't as bad as everyone is saying it is. It's a mess at times, but nope. It's not horrible, it's not bad. It isn't even poor. It's just not living up to your expectations OR season 1 for many people. But let's not confuse that with poor. Should we want better? Sure. Should we want more? We do. But the fingers are getting a bit heavy here.
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... so try varying the shows that get talkbacks rather than generate pointless flame wars for a dying show.
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... and his newfound ability to create singularities. Perhaps he should have developed that power before that one crazy crackhead in B'more started stealing all of the shit out of his mobile shopping cart-mall.
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Oct 13, 2008 10:39:30 AM CDT
I also like Smackfu's theories, but writers just aren't smart en
by turketron
And yeah, Sylar does have freezing abilities as shown in the episode where he made snow for his mom. Dunno why he's so bullet resistant, but he also survived getting shot by Noah in season 1 (I think they showed his wounded escape in one of the graphic novels).
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Prison Break has better actors, a story that moves forward, and the show embraces it's over the top craziness which Heroes is unable to do. Plus, Prison Break has William Fitchner, which automatically makes it a better show.
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Oct 13, 2008 10:46:45 AM CDT
Also, Heroes is horrible, not just "not as good as" Season 1
by brock samson
Exhibit A is Future Peter's acting last week. Exhibit B is how no one remembers they have powers when they most need to. Exhibit C is Future Claire's acting last week. Exhibit D is the absurd notion that Syler is a Petrelli and that he should ever be let outside of a prison.
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Motherfucker was in The Black Hole! Heroes sucks now but I'll watch for him.
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The ratings are sliding faster than cake down a fat kid's throat.
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Didn't anyone else make the connection about black holes in Heroes and Robert Forster?
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If you keep watching it you are only emboldening people that make shitty shows.
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Don't hop in and say they've got a SUPERNATURAL thread going in The Zone, because 1.It's a different community, and 2.It's nowhere to be found. If it's not on the first three pages of Coaxial (which it wasn't the last time I checked), it's long dead. There's a demand for one here though.
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Coleman, Rose, McDowell, Quinto - Fichtner is but one man. Heroes might not always entertain you guys, but the show has some amazing actors.
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He can stop bullets with Telekinesis. That is what he did. But he was surprised by them, and the impact sent him flying backwards.
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No matter how bad it gets, it never comes close to the levels of recent Smallville in terms of disrespect to the viewers. Last week's intergalactic hussy was a bad move when they're so desperately trying to cling to the fans that are ready to jump ship after the only good things regarding the series have left. They should've at least kept John Glover.
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Sir, do you not agree there should be a thread for both shows. It's not going to kill Herc to get off his ass and have a Supernatural thread on Thursdays.
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John Glover is an amazing, amazing actor. I tell ya, with him, Rosenbaum and Mack Smallville could have the worst plots and I'd watch. Now Glover and Rosenbaum are gone, and Mack's turned into a fucking deus ex machina.
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Season one certainly had it's share of problems but it also had redeeming qualities that served to offset it's issues. There were also high expectations that the payoff/showdown at the end would be fantastic and that the show would improve over time. Unfortunately, anything that was good about S1 all but disappeared and the problems grew to levels no one expected.
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I'd agree amnesia is a crutch IF IT WASN'T ESTABLISHED THAT A CHARACTER COULD MESS WITH PEOPLE'S MINDS. The amnesia was not convenient, it was intentionally done to the character by another character. That should not be allowed to be used as a criticism of the show, period!
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His delivery before going nuclear last week was weak.
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I couldn't have said it better myself.And to those saying that the writing has been this bad since season 1, yeah, you're probably right. But season 1 not only was it fresh, but there was no back story. Now, the stories exist inclusive of those that came before. So bad writing piles on top of its bad writing, becoming crushed upon the weight of its own poor writing. And yes, Hiro calling Nathan a "villain" may have been enough to get him to save Peter, but that doesn't explain how everyone who was at Kirby Plaza wouldn't have been there in the future world. Hiro didn't do anything about that. I don't stop watching because I really want them to turn things around. I won't give up just yet, because I want them to look into making things a little more consistent. Do it, Kring. Do it!
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Not only will it not kill Herc, but it will garner more clicks. So it's a win-win situation.
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Maybe amazing is stretching it, but the guy is managing to take some slightly off writing (Gabriel Petrelli) and raise it to a decent level... and he's capable of playing multiple sides of the same character.
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Aye. I've never actually watched Supernatural, but I can't believe Smallville gets threads and that doesn't. At this stage, it appears that Supernatural is geekier than Smallville.
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They all, in their own ways, helped save the world. I could go into detail, but if Matt hadn't met Peter in Odessa... if Claire hadn't found out Nathan was her Father... if Niki hadn't met Nathan - the world would have ended.
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I'm still pissed Chloe and Clark are dancing around their relationship. For God's sake Clark, Chloe is flat-out awesome... why are you still pining for that crazy bint Lana?
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that annoying actor from that Battlestar Galactica show? I think it is. What's his name. He was also in Stand and Deeeliver....ha ha ha...
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goodness (don't know how long it'll be posted, but enjoy) http://www.philly.com/
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Stay cool, sir. My sources inform my KB will be back in a few episodes. And, from what I've gathered, it might not be a cast-iron exit from the show.
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What are we supposed to enjoy at that link?
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Oct 13, 2008 11:24:08 AM CDT
On the one hand, I totally agree with the Idiot plot criticism
by hst666
On the one hand, I totally agree with the idiot plot criticism. It doesn't feel like the writers know who these characters are and are just writing with the plot in mind.On the other hand, why is shit like Smallville still on after 7 seasons of sucking?
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Oct 13, 2008 11:28:01 AM CDT
I don't like the plotholes anymore than the rest of you
by dapper swindler
But there are only about 4 shows I still watch on tv (and Lost is on hiatus), so I'll stick with it.
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Mostly on the Forgetting Sarah Marshall DVD (and a tidbit of Heroes tossed in). She's the top story on Philly.com right now, or at least when I posted 10 minutes ago.
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Lookie, all, I invented a new word on Columbus Day!
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Rewatched Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I'm stunned Bell isn't a star off of that.
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Good theory on Future Peter / Sylar.
As mentioned by others, Sylar can freeze stuff and likely used telekinesis to stop Parkman's bullets.
As much as I want to believe that they have things this well thought out, they DON'T.
Hell, idiot boy Tim Kring didn't even start work on a series bible (As per far superior writer Damon Lindelof's insistence) until the lull provided by the writers strike last year.
Yeah, you read that right- he didn't have a plan in place for the series until the third season.
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I'll say it again: This show sucks.
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Yes.:)
Offtopic, Megan Fox - cotton candy. Kristen Bell; full-course dinner; http://tinyurl.com/4quw27 -
While there should've been one, I think it's odd that such anger is being thrown at Kring. The show is Volume based, it's not one huge overarching mythology. There's cross-over, but seasons mostly stand alone.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: This show sucks
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I saw an interview she did on Leno - I usually don't say this about actresses, but she can do a few million degrees better than that ass-clown she's with.
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1x10 hints that Gabriel was adopted. He talks about being special and hoping someone would take him away in a VERY similar way to Claire. And she turned out to be Nathan's daughter.
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http://tinyurl.com/3eomt9.
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Nice. First time I watched it, I sort of liked it. Second time was at the University bar, and it killed. It absolutely killed. Every punchline got a huge laugh.
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GO PHILLIES!
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The plot is driven by the characters decisions, it should be the other way around.
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ever again. Terrible. Great first season. Lousy Second season. and this. zzzzz....Lost cant come back soon enough.
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Prison Break. Season one was the best. Then that bitch gretchen turns up. off turns goes my tv. The actress who plays her should play cat woman. Second season of PB is when it shit.
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Dead after the 1st season finale blew.
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http://tinyurl.com/3n3rev, and here's the money quote.
"Elle's future with Heroes is uncertain, though, thanks to the "strange and loving handshake deal" Bell enjoys with the producers: she wants to stay, they want her to, but because of "a wave in my career that I'm not sure I'll ever get again" she's pretty much allowed to come and go as she pleases. That's pretty nightmarish for Heroes' writers but it's little wonder they want to keep her on board; this wave in Bell's career is seeing her occupy a kind of Alan Dale status as the go-to girl for securing a televisual hit."
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It had like 6 or 7 top flight episodes that kept folks watching but between them were many episodes littered with all the problems that plauge Heroes on full display. Hell even the good episodes had the same problems. The biggest diffrence between season 1 and 3, the loss of Bryan Fuller and no sense of danger to the characters or suspenful ending to some episodes. Its very pedestrian now, more so then season 1.
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Oct 13, 2008 12:50:15 PM CDT
time travel in the show just makes it very hard to watch
by bob c. cock
it's frustrating when some characters are so over-powered that the writers seem to be racking their brains to find ways to keep them from using their powers (amnesiac peter, peter-in-the-bad-guy-in-jail, the haitian, not freezing time when future claire is trying to kill you). there are actually times when i yell at the TV, i just hope it gets more manageable. PS, get rid of parkman and nikki/tracy/jessica, it's awful, awful stuff.
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At the end of season 1. This would have allowed them to kill off the worthless characters, kill of Sylar in an awesome epic battle, and provide a plot for Season 2. (Heroes being hunted by the US gov.)
As it is now, the show is one huge Epic Fail of dropped plot points.
What happened to the Irish Chick?
What happened to the flying boy Clare was dating, surely he still lives up the street from her. Yea he wasn't a great character, but there was potential there.
Etc.
Let this season be its last. Even when 24 stumbled in season 2, it recovered quite a bit in season 3.
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Yeah, the writing has been the same it's always been since Heroes Season 1 BECAUSE IT'S ALL STOLEN FROM COMIC BOOKS. I watched S1 and S2 and the first few episodes of S3. I don't support plagarists. Period. You shouldn't either. Never read a comic book my ass.
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...and that's a large part of the problem. Season 2 and Season 3 are the plots as Season 1, with a few tweaks. That's why the characters have been forced into idiot mode, they don't drive the plot, they are shoehorned into it. The only character progression is seeing the 'darker' future versions of characters, which is just the character done 90's Image style. This also leaves them without any more genuine plot surprises, so they have to fake them like Sylar as Nathan and Peter's brother. Initially it seems like a "Ohhhhhh" moment, except they didn't build to it all; its just because somebody decided that all Heroes are related to the originals or artificially created. The second major problem is that there is absolutely no sense of finality to the show. There isn't a sense of danger because they have proven that they won't kill off any of the main Heroes, even though they tease it. How many time has Nathan been 'killed'? Peter, Claire, and Sylar are pretty much immortal. Ali Larter can be part of a quintuplet for all that we know. The painter is dead, but it doesn't matter since Peter, Sylar and now (through the power of drugs)anybody can possess that ability. Worst of all, you know that the prior season will be negated by the current season. They did the build with Adam as the mastermind, culminating in what Hiro did to him. Except now, of course, there's another mastermind behind everything. And Hiro, who despite driving Adam down an evil path with his infidelity; and who had to travel a dark path of his own finding a solution on how to deal with Adam, is Happy Hiro again. Then this week he digs Adam up, for no good reason as the episode preview this week states that Adam doesn't know the answer. The biggest problem with the show, obviously, is how they (don't) deal with the time travel issues. They really should have left as Hiro's ability alone, it would have been logical that traveling back time to fix every problem would have been against his moral code. But they didn't, they gave the ability to Peter as well. Then they had Hiro change the past, killing any qualms that he might have had. So now there really is no explanation on why Hiro or Peter could not travel back at will to fix things. This is a big black hole of a logic and reasoning problem, with numerous examples. The most recent would be Future Peter. When it becomes apparent that he screwed up the future even more when he shot Nathan, there is nothing offered to the audience to explain why He doesn't go back in time. The Future Future Peter could have just told Future Peter that shooting Nathan would make things worse.The writers strictly use time traveling to fit their own needs, and the transparency of it is killing the show. Before the trolls come out in force, bear in mind that I like the show and that's why am so frustrated by it.
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Should have been the Heroes trying to stop an old angry white man from becoming President.
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Heroes is a show with a fantastic premise and a lot of potential that is being destroyed by way too many characters and writers who have no idea what is going on.
I thought the pace of season 1 was pretty perfect, balancing suspense and action. Then season 2 began to drag...now season 3 is moving too fast. There is so much repetition going on--traveling through time to prevent the end of the world (again), HRG wanting to kill Sylar and Sylar wanting to hurt Claire (again), the stupid drawings that tell the future (the lamest plot device ever?). I think it's obvious that, unlike Lost, Kring and his co-writers have no clue where Heroes is ultimately heading. So maybe it's time to tone down the whole overarching mythology and the self-seriousness of the show.
Here's what they need to do: kill off about half of the characters. Seriously, we could do without Nathan, Mama Petrelli, Ando, Nikki, Parkman, Mohninder, Maya, Molly, Alex and a few others.
Then, scale back the whole mythology. Have some episodes actually be stand-alones where there is one story that the heroes must accomplish that week. You can pepper the mythology in a bit, but give it more of an X-Files balance, where stand-alone episodes are accessible as well. Retcon it so that there is no ability to time travel or steal powers and make it so that when you kill a character, that character actually stays dead.
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Nielsen ratings are no different and works with smaller samples that represents the entire US. Heroes is aimed at the Comic Con type viewer. I'm not a Heroes fan just like I don't masturbate over Battlestar Galactica like apparently many fanboys do but there seems to be a following with pitiful ratings at the same time. SO there seems to be a flaw on how accurate their figures are when it comes to real viewership.
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This show is a comic book. It has the same type of writing and characters as a comic. It is not "Mad Men," or "The Wire," or even ""Dexter." To complain, and it is a ludicrous point, that the flying is "unrealistic," I think misses the intent of the show. i am sure that there are some out there who were looking for "realistic" views of people flying, changing time, becoming invisible, becoming super strong and countless others. Please let me know when you find them. This is a comic book. This isn't serious. It isn't supposed to be realistic. The world is falling apart, chill out and enjoy the show.
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The only reason the Haitian (another poorly drawn character who is either good or bad, depending on what the plot requires) zapped Peter's brain and stuck him in the shipping container was to allow him to...to...wait I have no idea why he gave him amnesia since he remembered everything eventually, and his amnesia just served to make him "doubt himself" so he could be duped by Adam like the 12 year old intellect he is. Or maybe it was so he could have those terrifically exciting adventures in Ireland and leave his temporary girlfriend to be erased in the future. Because that was just awesome.
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Has anyone noticed that the quality of most Comic Book based films is pretty high these days? Hellboy, Iron Man, the rebooted Batman franchise? First 2 Spiderman films? These are comic stories that while fantastic don't have huge plot holes or invent things on the fly. They are well written and acted. You can no longer say "It's just a comic book, relax!". The show was marketed differently. It started out reasonably well written. Now it's almost self-parody, and while I love to watch how stupid it is, that shouldn't be the goal of the writers.
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Let's have Heroes who ACT like Heroes--character development, and no more Idiot Plots: the downfall of Stargate Atlantis was it's reliance on Idiot Plots: the characters had to act like idiots every episode to get into trouble, then act like geniuses within the hour to get out of it. Each week was Rinse, Repeat.Comic book energy in Heroes is welcome, but the idea that BECAUSE it is comic-book-like it can just be stupid is the fundamental flaw here. We are over the novelty and newness we were feeling in Season 1, and now we want content. So many lost opportunities in Season 2 (When Peter finally opened the Box, for example, it should have contained misleading information: told him he was Sylar, etc., something!). S3 does not seem to be about reversing the downward trend of S2.
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I think so many of the issues with Heroes could be forgiven if they just STAYED IN THE PRESENT. Don't fuck around jumping back and forth between time making things completely unnecessarily complicated. You have some good guys. You have some bad guys. The bad guys are trying to do something bad, then the good guys figure out what that is and stop it. IN THE PRESENT.
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Whenever you create a character that is so completely powerful that only his own idiocy stops him from achieving his goals, that character needs to go.
He seriously went to the future to get a power that is unnecessary if you can understand the basic principle of cause and effect. You can't steal an ability that is nothing but moderate intelligence. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to understand the cause and effect of altering things in the past and future. So, I'm still wondering why he needed to get the ability of a brain surgeon! -
We'll be able to test your theory in a couple weeks. She's in 307.
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I was getting damn tired of that Hayden Panettiere. Nothing against her personally, but the anointment of her as some kinda star on the basis of one moderately successful season of a show was irritatingly premature.
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Will that title get past the html filter? Hmm...
Heroes is still one of three shows I regularly watch; all of them are on Monday, coincidentally. Heroes makes all sorts of terrible mistakes, but it's still an addictive watch, in my opinion.
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Apparently in 307 also, Sylar is tasked with saving Pete from a "rival company."
Once they reveal Sylar as being the true main character of this show, I will say that this show has either crossed into another plane of badass or made the biggest shark-jump in TV history. -
it's still stupid as hell, but at least some cool stuff happened and that's a lot more than we can say for Season 2 and I think they started to do some good work on framing the season's plotlines, showing what the formula will do, etc. I give it 3 more episodes to start bringing in a coherent arc and start showing more character development... then I'll start watching How I Met Your Mother as it airs instead of TiVoing (seriously, it's a really great sitcom. NPH is very good in it.)
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1. Fitchner. ALWAYS great.(But prison break is still really, really bad in my opinion)
2. Supernatural DOES deserve a talkback.
3. I would take Journeyman back again over Heroes any day, any season.
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You know, I have been enjoying Heroes. Now I must stop and hate it...
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will they ever get off the island? OH wait. Wrong TB.
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I always hate hearing that "there's nothing good on TV", "there's nothing but reality shows on TV" and all that. Seriously, there's a good deal of pretty entertaining television out there, and so many different ways of getting it, that if you're bored on any given evening it's your own fault.
House, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters, Eli Stone (a show I'm just getting into), Weeds, Dexter, The Tudors, Eureka, Battlestar Gallactica... the list goes on and on, and includes some pretty unique and well-written shows. Hell, I'd even take Lost or Sarah Connor Chronicles over Heroes.
If you've already watched those or it's a night they're not on, get yourself a Blockbuster membership or something and rent some older TV shows. May I recommend: John Adams, West Wing, Firefly, Carnivale... and so on. -
Someone said really, really early in the talkback that it would be better if Heroes got rid of some of the characters, and that I agree with. There are too many of them to have any sort of emotional investment in, and without that the show isn't much of anything.
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It should be Hiro. If you'll notice, he doesn't fuck about with time. He sees what happens, then he tries to fix it in the present. Just ditch the goofyness, have Hiro not travel in time unless he has to, and mature him.
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I'm not saying the Irish storyline was good, I'm just saying that the show set a precedent for who can give people amnesia. It's like complaining about the Magic Blood - it's just creating a precedent so that when people are revived, it isn't some bullshit 'Oh, the Island brought him back to life' cop-out.
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Are you seriously quoting Wikipedia to prove a point? Really?
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Who quoted Wiki?
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I mean, what the hell! A new season started this past weekend and NOTHING. We need our Degrassi. Truly.
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BSG's "Six of One" episode was on CityTV last night. I once thought Heroes could be that good. I really did. Of course, maybe, like some have said, it's just got the Lost slump syndrome. Maybe the writers will pull their heads out of their asses like the Lost crew did?
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Aye, what Audio said. We've only just started to get the seasonal arcs sorted (the villains and Mohinder's Formula appear to be red herrings.)
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The level 5 character is going to use the power of the Higgs Boson for evil instead of good!
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Herc, if you hate the show, stop posting on it. Stop trying to convince me that's it's shit. I get the message. You hate it.
Yeah, the effects aren't the greatest. Guess what? The economy's in the shitter. Of course effects budgets are getting cut! Also, you're at the point now where you only see the bad. The next episode could be the equivilant of The Godfather and you'll only see the flaws. I see a show that's not great, but it's entertaining and I'd much rather watch this than "Who Wants to Be an Olympian Bobsledder?" So enough with your weekly rants on how much Heroes sucks.
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Herc quoted Wikipedia. My point was that Wikipedia is not a source to quote from if you are trying to make a point.
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Lego Batman is FUCKING AWESOME!
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Whatever happened to all the heroes?
All the Shakespearoes?
They watched their Rome burn
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?
No more heroes any more
No more heroes any more
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Very true. I like Wikipedia, but it's hardly fact.
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I still really enjoy Heroes, but the characters do seem a bit dim this season. I'm mostly thinking of Peter. When he was running from Claire as she shot at him last week I was yelling "You can stop bullets! And you can stop time! And you can fly!"
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I must say that I'm better off because of it.
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C'mon zeddemore, you think the "magic blood" which apparently only works when the writers need it to is a GOOD precedent? It's emblematic of the plot before character problem with the show. And the amnesia was another horrible precedent to set. You're defending this is a good thing? Amnesia is one of the most cliched fallbacks out there. Gee, it's great they set it up as a potential recurring theme! "The Island did It" has not been the answer on Lost, ever. Especially since so much about the island is still shrouded in mystery.
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The Haitian was right there.
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Saying it's just a comic book and not the Wire and Mad Men is the soft bigotry of low expectations in action. Why can't it be. Or at least, why can't it not have gaping plot holes. Buffy, for example, was a much more sophisticated superhero show.
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Um, whuh? Everytime Magic Blood has been used, it's worked. Now if you had said 'they only use it when it's convenient', that'd be a valid criticism that I couldn't defend. As for Lost, I find idiocy in that that's mind-blowing. Like Mikhail dying a half dozen times, and repeatedly coming back to life with idiotic 'it wasn't on full capacity' rationales.
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Yeah, I think parts of Buffy are flat-out terrible.
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I will watch every single episode of this show until it is cancelled, or goes off the air for some other reason. I agree with the haters about a lot of the frustrating plot points. a lot of things don't make sense. there are way too many characters. the time travel is logically shoddy sometimes. the regeneration of nearly every character except Isaac is a little bit of a cop out. after Bryan Fuller left, they haven't been able to properly sling a cliffhanger at us and make it feel right.but I can't explain it. I will never leave. I will watch it every week and buy every DVD.
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there are a gret many legitimate complaints about the show, but there are lots of times where people perceive lazy writing and illogical character motivations, because of lazy watching. maybe that means there's too much going on the show, or to many characters, and that's a valid criticism, but so many times, people just miss important points, forget things, or completely misinterpret important plot points, and then say things like, "Why didn't Claire just fly to Japan, she can fly, duh!" it is SO frustrating, because it just gets piled onto a heap of complaints, and no one has the time or inclination to correct and clarify each mistaken point like we used to back when the talkbacks were 90% supportive and 10% haters (9% was Jimmy_009 all by himself).
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Man, me and you HATE Lost, eh?
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just get people to have some fun at the beginning (I'm sure crack is fun the first few times) and they'll keep coming back, and eventually, they'll have no reason to come back (like a fucked up crackhead has no reason to keep doing crack), but they won't be able to stop. it really is like crack. (except no one ever has to suck dick for Lost...at least I hope not.) it's truly idiotic, but because so many people are addicted to it, it is ascribed some sort of cultural significance. well guess what? millions of people watch dancing with the d-list retards as well. it doesn't mean it's a meaningful or worthwhile show.where is the West Wing when you need it?
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Finally he admits it to himself. I still love it though. I'll be okay a few rungs lower than you though buddy.
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Not watched a lot of it, but Sorkin writes real purty. As for Lost, exactly - when I watch, I hate myself because it's less about expecting quality and more about what happens next. Which is usually poor (turning Ben into an anti-hero is vulgar to me. He committed fucking genocide.)
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Oh wait, that's just the rotting carcass of what could have been.
No, no, no, wait!
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"They behave in a way that suits the author's convenience, rather than through any rational motivation of their own."I disagree with this statement all together. The characters this season on Heroes act according to thier motivations. Their motivation this season is that they are facing a choice, of turning into something that might be considered a villian or staying true to themselves. If you can't see that you aren't really paying much attention to the plot.
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While I'm waiting for Heroes, and Judd Apatow said that he had Kristen on his radar when it came time to cast Knocked Up. I never knew that. Imagine how much better that movie would have been with Bell instead of Katherine Heigl.
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What the hell happened?
Last year, I could barely look at her
This year she's totally fucking gorgeous.
Did they change her hair?
Is someone pumping pheromones into my house?
Am I just that hard up?
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Flying Spaghetti Monster?
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Not Fucking School Musical: Senior Year, mind you. ;)
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I'm sure you read these boards because of how conscious you are of giving the fans of the show what they want. Anyway, if you're listening here are some of my thoughts on Heroes. You are in serious danger of fucking the whole thing up, but it really doesn't have to be that way. The first series was really good for the most part (OK, the pilot was a bit boring and the finale was abysmal but there were some amazing episodes in between). Season one had intrigue, mystery, atmosphere and a great story. Then all the really good writers left and you never replaced them with more great writers. You wrote the finale yourself, and I gotta be honest with you Tim, it was fucking shit. My advice would be don't write any more episodes, but get some proper talent onboard and play to your strengths...Hiro, Ando, Noah Bennett, Nathan, Sylar. Heroes does not have to die, there's alot of potential there but it's all getting completely pissed away. I'll say it again, hire some decent fucking writers.
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Here we go.
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Did he commit genocide really? Or was the Dharma Inituitive and those who threaten the island the true evil? Did they deserve it? And is Ben really an anti-hero? He still seems to be a remorseless killer and wants to eventually kill Penny.
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this HAS to get better
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Hire Claire, Mama P!
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To not grow facial hair will buried alive.
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Gods help us all. http://tinyurl.com/3p3khy
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Enjoy Heroes, and by enjoy I mean - Drink beer with. Yes Heroes now joins the illustrious company of Torchwood, Sanctuary, Eureka and even Stargate now as background noise to be experienced through a liquid medium.
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and it's actually worse than Bionic Woman was
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Mohinder's syrum has turned him evil. Sylar's power is affecting Peter in a negative way. Hiro doubting Ando. Claire rebelling. Nathan being manipulated by head-Linderman.
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If Lucas could do with Anakin as they are doing with Peter, I'd have bought it.
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LMAO.
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And that's where Pinehearst may come in.
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*snaps fingers*
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I retch every time mama patrelli is on screen
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Go D!ohinder!
j/k'ing, nothing will ever make D!ohinder! interesting
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AHHHHHH! SO FRUSTRATING!!
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Or at least after the commercial.
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Freeze time
Rig blood pack
Brief Ando
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and the crowd didn't care that dumb died at the hand of dumber because it won't matter due to time travel, magic blood or something.
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... BY THE DAMN MINUTE !!!
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Shoulda paid the royalties and done WildCards
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Does Sylar have the powers from before he lost his or only the powers he's gotten since then?Hiro will find out about the bad guy and go back in time to prevent himself from killing AndoI didn't know that Steve Woz was on the show though!
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Dammit, it was!
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Anyone notice the Wire connection? Both Marlowe and Bubs were in this episode. Glad to see them working.
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Um, that episode was fucking awesome, straight up awesome. The black hole guy was great, Linderman explanation perfectly executed...This show is reach back for the top. The sound byte of Robert Forester saying, "The bad guys are here." !!! Hiro killing Ando!!! I'm convinced that Herc is not watching the episodes and just reviewing the TV Guide synopsis.
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should never have a job in Hollywood again. I though last year was bad. That was a silver age of the series by comparison...
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That was a cool ending. BUT THAT SERIOUSLY PISSED ME OFF!
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Was awesome. I really couldn't care less about last season at this point, because the only thing that could make this any more entertaining would be Miss Elle Bishop.
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Just because we didn't hear Sylar hearing HRG doesn't mean he didn't hear him. I think it was apparent from the look on Sylar's face that he knew exactly what Bennet was up to.
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WTF David Blaine? Hiro kills Ando? Something weird is up here.
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Not too late.
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Dear lord the stupidity is entertaining. And they killed off another good actor, the vortex guy who actually had an interesting power. Syler is officially the only good thing about this show.
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The Ando thing would have been shocking if we didn't already know that Ando plays a huge role in the future. Since we know that he kills Hiro in the future, one can easily deduce that either
A) the stabbing was faked
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B) Claire's 'magic blood' will bring him back
And that wasn't much of a cliff hanger was it?
I mean really, are they taking their inspirational notes from the McCain campaign or something?
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I kid. Heroes is no worse nor better than Smallville now as far as I'm concerned (and I enjoy that show) but if this is what the writers cooked up with all that time off...
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It can't be true.
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you are a liar.
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Except it wasn't.
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Oct 13, 2008 9:25:40 PM CDT
"Um, that episode was fucking awesome, straight up awesome."
by mose schrute
Except it wasn't.
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The women are hot
the writing, acting and directing are hideous.
Someone explain to me, why that when there is a situation, that they start spinning KITTs turntable so that it's a hazard while people are trying to reach their action stations.
You know, KITTs out in the field, so they rev up the turntable he recieves maintaince on...
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No way they did not kill ando.. Some kinda trick is up I suspect no fuckin way Hiro would kill Ando... maybe thats why Ando kills Hiro.. Hiro really turns evil!
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I really liked this one. I'm really feeling the villain army building up, and I love the twist with invisible Linderman and Parkerdad.
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dang, would I watch that every day of the week. right now watching heroes is kind of a chore, but to try and stay away from the many negatives for a minute, those two as partners is really working for me. everybody else can go away... except I wish there was a way to keep Hiro/Ando.
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Oct 13, 2008 9:32:07 PM CDT
re: Um, that episode was fucking awesome, straight up awesome
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I bet a sparkler makes your 4th of july awesome
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Hi, Krings mom and dad
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I think I’ve pinpointed the core problem with this season (and no this isn’t going to corrode into one of those “it sucks hahahahaha” troll posts). The first season was like an X-men knockoff, though in a very good way, as written by writers who clearly loved their Marvel-comic-loving childhoods. While I would never say that season one was Marvel-quality, it strived to be, and that’s what made it work. Jump to this season, which isn’t trying to be Marvel. It isn’t trying to be DC. It isn’t trying to be Dark Horse. It’s just corroding into prepubescent D-grade web comic cheap-shock-value schlock, where oh gee blood blood blood and oh gee that guy just killed a guy and gosh a woman's screaming and gosh oh golly isn’t it soooo cooooool there’s so much broken bones and blood? Why in all of what’s still decent in this show would Hiro, under any circumstances, stab Ando in cold blood? For mooooore bloooood, that’s why. Great…except, not. This isn’t storytelling; it’s quite frankly become a caricature of a caricature of the worst caricature in the history of truly bad D-grade comic crap. This, mind you, is coming from someone who was (and to a point still is) really rooting for Heroes to get its mojo back. Tonight’s episode was just so much crap atop of crap I cannot see myself defending this “Volume” of the story anymore. The only possible redemption for this season (if not the entire series): maybe the rumors are true and they are making 2 volumes (stories) per season, which would mean that Hiro, as early as November sweeps, simply goes back in time and replaces the stolen formula with a bogus one (um…DUH? I figured this “complicated” solution out in the friggin PREMIERE!), and then the second half of the season can be anything OTHER than this “villain” tripe. Who is the real villain, and who is the hero? Simple: the villain is the asshat currently writing the scripts, and the heroes are the true fans who demand this jackass is canned like bad tuna. My advice: end this story, ABANDON it if you have to, and get the show back to its Marvel-comic-loving roots. DO IT NOW.
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Actually, I'm a screenwriter, not a liar. The episode was pretty paint by numbers, sad to say.
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Four episodes, "often a precursor to a full-season order."
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As I read the multitude of posts by the haters I come to an ironic conclusion. I love how they bitch and moan that nobody dies when they have been exposed to that in comics for decades and it was never a problem. Why is that? If you don't like the show, don't watch, but quick making up reasons why it sucks. You don't like the plot? Fine, move on. I enjoy Heroes because it is unapologetic entertainment, not some metaphorical thesis on the human condition. The later = snore. I don't need Shakespeare to be entertained and those of you that do are so far out of touch with the real world it is amazing.
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I thought Hiro was trying to get the formula back? Why is he working for the people who stole it from him? And why would they want him to join?
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Pushing Daisies. Please. That show needs more viewers.
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even if your theory is true all it does is make the Berman and Braga Star Trek universe seem really deep.
The time travel reset button trope has been done to death and far better.
It's worse than a dead trope, it's a poisonous trope. Esp in the hands of shallow writers.
A time travel fix should be like a wish, an event so rarely used that when written well, you actually buy it.
Not used like a bludgeon like Kring, Berman and Braga build their house of dust on
A time travel fix should be subtle and extract a great price. Not a fucking freebie
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If this was Smallville, he'd have Lex Luthor's suite at Smallville Medical Center. :)
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The ep where paw Kent died was done well.
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THAT was the episode where the show jumped the fucking shark.
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He lost his powers so I don't think he has that anymore. But who really knows, there's no point in thinking about those kinds of things, this show will do whatever the fuck it wants. I think some parts of thos show are awesome--like the Mohinder creepiness, Hiro killing Ando, and Angela finding Nathan and Peter dead--but there's too much silliness. Sylar being Peter's brother was lame, do they need to keep having to remind us? Sylar's "You mean my BROTHER" was just pathetic.
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That's the one they got WRONG. It would have been perfect if it was done the other way. Dad dies, Clark resets, and LANA bites it. That would have pushed the plot forward and been an AWESOME way for Clark to finally take action and become a hero.
By having NO plot forwarding actionm, it furthered the train wreck of having Mom get into politics and working out of Lionel's pocket. Lana and Clark reset another 7-8 times if not more since then. Now she's coming back on episode 10 later this season. When Clark is being courted by Lois and finally opens up with Chloe as well. Smallville is finally becoming more than what we saw in season 3. So much wasted time. -
They brother angle works AWESOME. Especially with Nathan being the favored child for so long. He's the one they cheated to give powers to. Pete and Gabe, as far as we know, had poweres, but were cast aside.
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...it screwed us out of any big showdown between Jonathan and Lionel. That feud had been brewing for five seasons, and there was no satisfying payoff. Then after they dropped the ball with that, they dropped the ball with the Lionel/Martha pairing. Schneider and Glover were the greatest things to ever come from this show, and they blew it.
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...Heroes is great...Lost is better. The writing on Lost is much more mature and thought out. Heroes is suffering from massive plot holes and character mess-ups.
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That can be found between the "h8ters" and "defenders" and piece of ground is that the gash on the show is hot. Look at what you got: Electrical Lass, AKA Veronica Mars the hottest crosseyed near midget working in Hollywood today.The telenovela chick. Holy cow did she blossom over the break, nice cans.The Cheerverines TV mom is the hottests piece white trash on TV.IceWomen/Stripper Hulk finally grew into her looks.Mama Patrelli, I'd visit her cougars den if you know what I mean.The Cheerverine, they're vamping her up lately, nice. She's one of the top five fidgets working in hollywood today.Plus they've run a bunch of trim through the show as guest stars that are worthy of commiting the sin of onanisim. See what I mean about there being a basis for agreement?
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In theory. The execution of it has bee awful, though. The revelation came out of nowhere, and whenever Sylar mentions it, it sounds right out of Days of Our Lives.
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Was rather good. I like where they are getting at. And indeed, some of the plot surprises, idin't see 'em coming. And for fuck's sake...enough with the Kritsen Bell Cult. I already said it: NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU GET TO SEE HER ON TV, YOU WON'T GET TO FUCK HER!!!
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Yes, the show needs a cahtarsis, and a clean slate to start anew. Let's hope it will happen by the end of "Villains"
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:) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTgKb2hzhnw
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Because thats the only explanation for her beyond stupid scenes tonight.
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...then decided to watch Jaws on dvd. Cause I haven't seen it in a couple of years.
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Let's see... Maya sees blood splotches on the floor and theoretically puts two and two together with regards to the missing neighbor. She comes back later at NIGHT when she knows that SURESH WOULD BE THERE and calls a murderer a monster after he allows her to leave.
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Including telekinesis and painting the future? I'm sorry, but that is the most retarded line of reasoning ever. Sylar can't have his superhearing ability because he has ALL HIS OTHER ABILITIES from before the S1 finale... I thought the show was stupid, but it may just be some of the viewers...
Scratch that... the show is slightly stupid too. Whoever called "idiot plots," wins (why else would Claire's real mother go to a puppetmaster on nothing more than a hunch and be foolish enough to be caught?).
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Oct 14, 2008 12:25:05 AM CDT
Hiro could have gone back in time a few minutes and get Adam
by supermans
Hiro could have gone back in time a few minutes and get Adam... I guess this is too hard a concept for a time traveler that can bend time and space... I'm not going to say any more as I do like the show and they are taking it in a better direction than season 2. However I don't see how they can fix things when people can be brought back to life and others can go back in time and chang things..And like everyone else here is saying, the powers never ever get used when they should (in a common sense fashion)
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The only thing that has bugged me about this season is the whole Sylar as Peter and Nathan's brother. I kept on hoping that she was being symbolic. Im still hoping that Parkman's father is manipulating her or Sylar. The rest I've actually enjoyed. I like the idea that Parkman's father has been manipulating the characters, I like Hiro's goofy self imposed quest, I like the idea that there is a show on TV where a plot has centered around a group of super villians robbing a bank. I don't even mind the future storyline. In this series the future just plays a big role. I can see why others dont like the show, but I cant see why others hate it so much that they need to take the time to decry it each week. In fact, I can't think of any show that is worth coming to a message board every week and just talking about how much it sucks. This show literally makes me happy when I watch it.
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I had enough of this awful crap. Was hoping it would turn around, but that's just not going to happen until they clean house. Fuck this show.
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where it seems like they're defeating the big-bad - and it's all happening without sufficient explanation - but in the end it's explained by being an elaborate dream to turn Angel into Angelus.
Now they did this all in one episode so it was ok. By putting the explanation at the end of the episode, it made an episode that wouldn't have worked, work.
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This show needs Kristen Bell badly.
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According to E! Online two people are permanently dying soon. Anyone know? Guess?
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Yeah, I call BS on Ando being dead.
Happened way too fast within the scene to be genuine, and seeing as how Hiro said in 3x02 'I do many things you don't know about', I'd say chances are he's infiltrated Pinehearst.
Not a bad ep, overall. I liked the Canfield stuff, even if it's a little heavy handed. Loved the Mr. Petrelli stuff (I have to fanwank the whole Linderman thing considering Maury was in Level 5 when Linderman first came back, but that's a minor bug.)
Angela being paralysed was... interesting. I think that all but confirms that he has the ability that Peter used in 1x23 - namely being able to manipulate a dream like state. Which is a shame, as I was hoping that'd be Charles's ability... but I guess Roundtree's not coming back anytime soon.
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I'd say Maury, Arthur, HRG and Mohinder are unlikely to survive this volume.
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Hey beet farmer, sparklers are awesome bro.
Here is my be all end all statement for Heroes. If you never liked it, I understand. But if you ever really did, how could you consider it so bad now? It's not that far from wherever it started, good or bad. I mean, remember the DL/Micah/Nikki storyline in season 1? Or the time Hiro and Ando got sidetracked by Missy Pyle and the dude from Coach? If you are looking to point out that this show was never good, then go right ahead. But if you once loved and now hate it, well...you've either grown up or grown cynical. I defintely have to agree with those who are saying that if you like comics, that you should be adjusted to this stuff. I've read comics for years, and yes, most of them are mediocre. The past few years, well, things have improved in a big way, but that's still not what we all grew up falling in love with.
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Yeah, people have short memories. Least this season is moving forward, S1 had Hiro trying to regain his powers by searching for a sword... for over SIX episodesfinally being told 'The sword is irrevelent'.
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This show depends on so much of where they go with it. For everything I said, I really did not care for Season 2 and feel that Season 3, while it might not have upped the logic, which we all crave like every show has to be the Wire now, they have upped the drama. They are finally understanding how to use Sylar in the best way possible and now there is a rising army of super villians being lead by freakin' Robert Forester and Sylar is on our side! Can't we just fleece out the good and focus our intense scrutinty on say, the ecomony or the up coming presidental race? Or our families? Or at least something that isn't so automatically campy and fun like this show has been?
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Is that a show or something?
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Exactly!!! I forgot about that.
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See, my thing with the show is that for every dull plot there's something to latch onto. Like in this ep, despite thinking Hiro and Ando's plot is off (and Ando ain't dead, y'all), there's the fantastic Angela-Arthur powerplay. What a truly fucked up family the Petrelli's are.
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Is like an old school Canadian teen soap opera. There was the Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Jr. High, Degrassi High, and now Degrassi: The Next Generation. It's actually pretty addicting. They show it late night style on this channel called N on ATT Dish. I'm up all night and accidentally watched, oh, you know...12 episodes or something. It's like if you crossed the greatness of Freaks and Geeks with the not so greatness of Beverly Hills 90210. That being said, I watch it whenever I can catch it now. My girlfriend thinks I'm having a midlife crisis.
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I mean, we knew it wasn't going to happen, but still. It was great to see Mamma Petrelli scared shitless.
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Word. And Sylar saving her... I was stunned by that - for all the hate people dish on this show, could you have seen them effectively switching Sylar and Peter and doing it so subtly back in S1?
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I did not see that coming at all man. They have to really work hard with Peter to avoid how Neo became boring in the Matrix once he was all powerful and I think having him go rouge is the perfect way to do it. They tried it with the amnisia last season and it was a good effort, but this is waaaaaay cooler.
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See, I think that they're working on having Peter beat The Hunger... then start realising he doesn't want all the abilities. Seeing how he can't control is, I think, going to lead to him wanting a lot of them gone. That, and I think Nathan's going to get a second 'genetic' ability.
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Though I suspect the Agent Walker with The Rabbit Teeth plays for the other team in real life, if you know what I mean...still...
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Is EXACTLEY what the show needs, but in real life. Clean fucking house already. Up the stakes. The show's biggest problem is cowardice. But then again, we know, if a show is brave it'll get canceled (pick your example.) So maybe showing the same repetitive crap ep after ep is the smartest thing a show can do.
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And you chaps finally got a Peter-Sylar smackdown, in which Peter FUCKED Sylar up. But I guess that didn't happen...
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Um, great effing handle. That's all I wanted to say. Now turn up the thermostat and get out the milk.
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Ando is dead and Maya and Adam are going to. "The Black Hole" sucked himself. Noah tried to get Sylar killed. Peter and Mohinder have gone bad. Were Niki and her two other versions triplets or clones? Does Daphne/Speedster have the worst haircut on TV? If there's no Heroes talkback next week will anyone complain? Why can't they get Grant Morrison and Garth Ennis to write Heroes and Quentin Tarantino to direct it and give it a five million dollar per episode special effects budget? Why do people who complain that every dies comes back then refuse to believe it when anyone dies? Hiro saw the future where ando killed him, he came back to prevent it, killed Ando - mission accomplished. (Yeah, I know, I find it hard to believe they really killed Ando too. but Linderman: NOT a returned dead character, not a zombie, not a ghost - merely an illusion projected by a telepath. DL pulled out a chunk of the Linderbrain and kilt him and he stayed daid. And whether she can act or not, Hayden Pantyarea really got hot now that she's nearly 19; being legal and screwing around has really had a good effect on her. "Can you do this?" - yeah right, bio-mom, like setting your palm on fire is a really useful ability in a fight. Blackhole would have snuffed her like a birthday candle.
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I'm assuming you're making a quip about how idiotic the haters with their 'oh, let's up the budget' and 'Niki/Barb/Tracy may be clones' comments, when the former won't happen and the latter was mentioned on the show 'no, they are triplets.'
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I don't know, but considering that Nathan was doing the narration this episode, Mohinder can't be long for this world.
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I still think this is the best series on tv right now. Not sure why the decline in ratings or fans here. But I am sure it's solid for another few seasons at least.
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Why do so many of you dislike this show? Why is it reviewed on this site, if nobody likes it?
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Something I don't get: Wasn't Jessica a real sister of Niki, who died and somehow her spirit lived inside Niki? Or am I misremembering? Because if so, why isn't she one of the triplets/quadruplets?
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She was born a few years after Niki. I think we're to assume that she's not a blood relation of Niki, as Niki's parents died early on in her life. Jessica has no powers, Niki just had a split-personality disorder.
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Where the heck are Nathan's wife an kids?
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Off-screen village. Like Matt's ex-wife. Assume that he DOES talk with them, but also assume that they don't really factor into the overall storyline... and a lot of people bitched at a single second removed from the overall storyline.
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Also, in the scene where Nathan is asking Ali L's character (it's sad when you can't even remember characters' name) to tell him her story. She turns around and asks him his !!???!!! His shooting was on national news that is the reason she and her boss the governor selected Nathan in the first place! She knows everything about Nathan except the superpower part. Sloppy, sloppy writing.
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Shrug, I can't defend that. Nor can I defend Ando going 'There's another part of the formula' when he was told a week earlier that there was on. See haters, I (a fanboy) can acknowledge flaws and discrepencies.
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I don't even know why I'm watching this train wreck anymore. I suppose because it IS a train wreck and sometimes you can't help but look. I don't even bother myself in trying to understand the plot or the story-arc (if there is one).
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It's not that difficult to understand, sir. The Company can give people abilities, another company (Pinehearst) stole the formula; several dangerous Villains are on the loose, must be tracked down.
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Have they ever explained how Level 5 is able to contain the people with powers? They've never mentioned anything about a negator like The Hatian constantly hanging around, and usually it seems like the powered individuals can still use their powers inside their cells.
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I really like where they are going this season. Sure they can probably do better (can't just about any show?), but I like the theme this time around. I like the idea of a blurred line between good and evil, hero and villain. It's much like it is in real life. Sometimes we think we are doing good, but it only takes one thing to send us down the wrong path. And for villains to turn good (i.e. Sylar), it shows that people can be redeemed. And then there's the idea that they brought up with the vortex guy of judging people and putting them in a hero or villain category when there is more to the story. The guy killed someone, yes. But it was more than likely an accident. He may have not even known about his power. But because the company knew about it, they automatically saw him as a threat and put him in level 5. They saw him as a villain just because he killed one person, instead of getting to know the situation and possibly turning him into a hero. Now Mama Petrelli is trying to do that with Sylar, to utilize his powers for good instead of evil. Though her actions have been a bit questionable, she seems to be doing everything to lead toward a better good, which brings us back to that blurred line. It's a concept that's been used in comic books all the time. Batman has been on the edge many times. Lex Luthor has done evil believing he was doing good, only to be redeemed. Even many of Batman's villains have origins that make you understand how they became the villain they became(i.e. Mr. Freeze). Magneto went back and forth between fighting and helping the X-Men (which is what I believe they are doing with Sylar, now). It's pretty interesting to see the paths that the characters are taking this season. Those who were the ultimate heroes in season 1 are now finding themselves on paths that may be questionable or straight up even toward villainy. Those we believed to be villains are maybe not as evil as we once thought (Mama Petrelli's motives) or starting to become more understandable (Sylar's hunger). The fact that Peter now has Sylar's power will make him more understanding of Sylar. I wouldn't doubt that Sylar could become Peter's saving grace by learning how to resist his hunger (as he seems to be doing) and helping Peter do the same. Now how big of a twist from season 1 will that be? That shows that we can't always trust what will come of the characters, thus the character development that everyone is complaining we don't have.
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I really like where they are going this season. Sure they can probably do better (can't just about any show?), but I like the theme this time around. I like the idea of a blurred line between good and evil, hero and villain. It's much like it is in real life. Sometimes we think we are doing good, but it only takes one thing to send us down the wrong path. And for villains to turn good (i.e. Sylar), it shows that people can be redeemed. And then there's the idea that they brought up with the vortex guy of judging people and putting them in a hero or villain category when there is more to the story. The guy killed someone, yes. But it was more than likely an accident. He may have not even known about his power. But because the company knew about it, they automatically saw him as a threat and put him in level 5. They saw him as a villain just because he killed one person, instead of getting to know the situation and possibly turning him into a hero. Now Mama Petrelli is trying to do that with Sylar, to utilize his powers for good instead of evil. Though her actions have been a bit questionable, she seems to be doing everything to lead toward a better good, which brings us back to that blurred line. It's a concept that's been used in comic books all the time. Batman has been on the edge many times. Lex Luthor has done evil believing he was doing good, only to be redeemed. Even many of Batman's villains have origins that make you understand how they became the villain they became(i.e. Mr. Freeze). Magneto went back and forth between fighting and helping the X-Men (which is what I believe they are doing with Sylar, now). It's pretty interesting to see the paths that the characters are taking this season. Those who were the ultimate heroes in season 1 are now finding themselves on paths that may be questionable or straight up even toward villainy. Those we believed to be villains are maybe not as evil as we once thought (Mama Petrelli's motives) or starting to become more understandable (Sylar's hunger). The fact that Peter now has Sylar's power will make him more understanding of Sylar. I wouldn't doubt that Sylar could become Peter's saving grace by learning how to resist his hunger (as he seems to be doing) and helping Peter do the same. Now how big of a twist from season 1 will that be? That shows that we can't always trust what will come of the characters, thus the character development that everyone is complaining we don't have.
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I accidentally double-clicked the button and posted twice. Sorry about that.
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WTF-Murder is "a bit questionable" to you? I feel sorry for anyone near you in real life.
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Cells are catered to the occupants. Flint's had reinforced glass that he couldn't burn through, Knox was in a straight jacket and surrounded by mirrors etc.
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One thing I love - The Company founders interacting. Previously onscreen, we've only seen Angela and Kaito/Angela and Charles interact... now we've got Arthur and Angela interacting, Arthur and Maury - that's cool. And next week, we might get Adam, Arthur and Maury in the same room. Awesome.
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Dude, why are you watching this show if you have such anger towards it?
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I tell ya, Anders kicks ass as Adam Monroe - I love that little 'I'm evil, but I'm not THAT evil' delivery.
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No offence sir, but if you can sit through the incredibly awful Smallville S4, Heroes shouldn't be a problem. You want bad TV? Go watch that episode where Lana, Lois and Chloe turn into witches.
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Um, whuh? What cliffhangers were telegraphed?
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Your anger leads to hate, which leads to the dark side. Hmm!
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I haven't given up yet, but I'm episode to episode now. I may just stop watching and tune in for the season finale just to see what preposterous plot they come up with to end it.
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The only one of those that is a cliffhanger is Papa Petrelli, and that was less telegraphed than spoiled outright. All the rest aren't cliffhangers at all, particularly HRG - he told us he was going to kill Sylar as a cliffhanger for pete's sake. Besides which, I doubt you saw the end of 3x02 coming, which was the 'S1 level cliffhanger' that came out of nowhere,
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Predictable isn't bad. It's called set-up and pay-off. Like how in S1 Claire was adopted, searched for her parents, found out Nathan was her Father. It worked because it was built up to a cliffhanger, it didn't come out of nowhere. The same with Papa Petrelli, since 3x01 someone has been attacking The Company. Now we find out that it was Papa Petrelli, and he's immobilised Angela - so the questions have changed from 'who?' and 'why?' to 'How does someone bedridden manage to paralyse a healthy middle-aged woman?'
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Besides the obvious time travel plot points. Some things I love and hate about season 3.
I like Sylar and HRG teaming up MIB style, in my opinion these two are the biggest, smartest badasses on the show and could probably wipe out most of everyone on the show if they wanted to.
I like the concept of a team of villians forming. I dislike that the writers will botch up a cool concept.
As I type I realize I have a lot more dislikes.
First, I hate Mohinder. I hate everything about him. I hate Maya his slutty (I also gained the power the make my boobs bigger) girlfriend.
Why is Mohinder turning into a bug/reptile? Also Maya should still be able to open her eyes and kill Mohinder, but she"ll probably just try and talk to him reasonably.
I also am growing weary of Mama Petrelli.
Also as far as the speedster chic goes. If she runs everywhere, why does she have such a fat ass? Just wondering.
Here's also an idea. Instead of introducing more characters for us to follow. Why not resolve past characters storylines first? Like the flying emo kid? Michah's cousin that is able to copy whatever she sees? I didn't care for her character all that much, but I thought she had potential.
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Ali Larter's character has a sister named Barbie. Perhaps she will appear next season? The whole Claire thing is confusing on many levels. I think she is the worst written character's of the bunch.
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My wife and I loved the first season of Heroes. We tolerated the 2nd season, and are losing interest in the 3rd. I think Heroes has been messed up by making each season about saving the world, but in a different way. The first season was good as an introduction to the universe of Heroes, but they are trying to make it too complex now. If I wanted to watch Lost, I would watch Lost! I don't think there is anything wrong with a big picture kind of plot, but it needs to be simplified so the episodes can be stand alones and not part of some big jigsaw puzzle that will end up sucking on episode 22. The twists and turns this season are making it too long and drawn out, which in the end, makes it feel cluttered and ultimately boring. SIMPLY the show dammit! The complexity isn't making it more compelling or deep...it's just making it crap!
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HRG and Sylar act like they can't leave the house to search for him. "He walked out of the door!" "Ohhh shit, he's gone then!" Same bullshit with Adam and Ando and Hiro. Adam leaves the bar, so he's splitsville, man.
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"If she runs everywhere, why does she have such a fat ass?" ROFLMGAO, Thank you SINCERELY, friend (*_^)
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Highlights: 1) Peter breaking Sylar's neck and going after mommy 2) Hiro's comment about the cantina 3)The creepy puppetmaster 4) Robert Forrester able to scare the crap out of you with just a glare 5) Ando skewered (who cares if it ain't real?)
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Do we know that? Did Hiro check the body for vital signs? I believe that was a scene of obvious misdirection. I don't remember any verification of future Hiro's death. Even if he was dead, the scene could still be misdirection.
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Some of you defenders are trying to find any reason to defend the stupidity and baseless character behavior that has gone on since the first season ended. Maybe you just like Michael Bay movies you do not care about rationality, but the plot and characters should all be reasonable in hindsight.
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If a real human being ran at superspeed... they'd go blind from embedding dirt or bugs in their eyes. Their heart would burst. They would break out into a profuse, body soaking sweat. they would cough and gasp for breath, or collapse from exhaustion and pass out, or become dehydrated. IF they could survive it, they would go the Flash route, at first needing to consume mass quantities of food immediately after using their power in order to replace the calories they burned off, then eventually developing massive body-builder muscles from the huge amount of exertion they perform in a limited amount of time. That's if they didn't blow out their knees and hip joints, rip their muscles and sprain or tear their tendons and ligaments. And that's assuming their their eyesight, brain processes and reflexes were all enhanced enough to prevent them from killing themselves by running into something or tripping over something at superspeed. Face it, if you run at 100 MPH and fall down, that's as bad as wiping out on a motorcycle except you're not wearing gloves or a helmet. All that is IF you want to apply "real world" physics to the situation.Now if you remember that this is a comic book inspired series, then Speedster has what's known as a superpower. Her eyes and lungs are protected when she runs, she doesn't bump into things or slip. She's not exhausted or out of breath after using her power. And, quite likely, her metabolism is incredibly efficient to keep her from using up all her energy, burning up all her calories from fuel, and either starving or becoming emaciated.Do we have any overweight people here? I though so. Anyone's who's ever tried to diet can tell you, the hardest parts to take weight off the body are, in this order, the hard visceral fat from the belly, the face (double chin, jowls - that's why so many rich women who diet also get face lifts) and then the ass (Hence liposuction).Was Daphne born with super-speed, did she develop it at adolescence or was she given it artificially? Maybe she had a nice big butt before she got her powers and now no amount of exercise will burn it off BECAUSE OF her superpower and her enhanced metabolism."If she runs everywhere, why is her ass fat?" is a cute quip, but I hope I've cleared that little mystery up for you.Besides, fashion designers like models with boyish figures, flat chests and narrow hips because they make good clothes-hangers; straight guys like women with curves, hips, thighs and asses. It's part of some sort of biological imperative dealing with looking for potential mother material. But that's a whole 'nother lesson.
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BTW, did we get a reason why Mohinder specifically kidnapped the drug dealer, or was that just to make a point that he's driven by a hunger, sort of like an addict? Sort of stupid if the last thing's the case. But nothing surprising in the writing being stupid and overtly symbolic on this show, is there? Still, Bubbles was good, and Petrelli sr. looks like a potentially intriguing villainous mastermind, and Forster is a great casting choice. Maybe he has the ability to teach Milo to act.
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Doors easily conceal people and make them disappear! OOOOOOH!
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Needs to be tapped. To the extent that she would be walking funny the next day. Now... the real question is, would that have an effect on her super speed and ability to corner?
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Jokes that require an explanation cease to be funny you rere. (j/K.....mostly)
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was actually a 'villain' in that s1ep5 scene on the train. Looks like I'm on the right track. Ando stabs Hiro in the future because like many, Hiro has gone bad without realizing it, simply due to complex circumstances that do not comform to black and white 'good or evil' ideals. You guys sure you don't want to take bets on the Sylar appearance from s1e3 actually being Future Peter coming back to find Molly in his spiraling-out-of-control attempts to right wrongs with wrongs?
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Released today:
‘HEROES’ JUMPS BY 20 PERCENT, LEADS A PACK OF NINE NBC SHOWS THAT INCREASE BY DOUBLE-DIGIT PERCENTAGES IN 18-49 RATING GOING FROM ‘LIVE PLUS SAME DAY’ TO ‘LIVE PLUS SEVEN DAY’ NIELSENS, MOST FOR ANY MAJOR NET
NBC’S PRIMETIME LINEUP ADVANCES 0.4 OF A RATING POINT IN 18-49 RATING, TO A 3.7 FROM A 3.3, IN THE TRANSITION TO ‘LIVE PLUS SEVEN DAY’ RESULTS
NBC ALSO DELIVERS THE BIGGEST GAIN IN ADULTS 18-34, TO WIN PREMIERE WEEK OUTRIGHT IN THAT VALUABLE DEMO
BURBANK, Calif. – October 13, 2008 – NBC has increased its premiere-week adult 18-49 rating by 0.4 of a rating point or 12 percent in “live plus seven day” in-home viewing data released today by Nielsen Media Research versus the previously reported “live plus same day” figures. The new results include DVR playback for seven days after a show’s initial airing while the “live plus same day” figures limited DVR playback to the night of the telecast through 3 a.m.
The NBC increase of 0.4 of a rating point or 12 percent (to a 3.7 rating from a 3.3) is the biggest among the major networks for this season’s premiere week of September 22-28. NBC was also up by 13 percent or 0.4 of a point among adults 18-34 in the transition to “live plus seven” averages from “live plus same day” for premiere week (3.5 vs. 3.1). That boosted NBC to a finish of #1 outright among adults 18-34 for premiere week, up from a tie with ABC in “live plus same day” results. Other NBC gains were 11 percent in adults 25-54 (to a 4.0 from a 3.6) and 8 percent in overall total viewers (9.0 million vs. 8.3 million).
NBC’s biggest gainer in the transition to “live plus seven” was “Heroes,” which saw its adult 18-49 rating jump by 20 percent (to a 6.05 rating from a 5.05). Other NBC telecasts that increased by double digits in premiere week included “The Office” (+18%, to a 5.83 rating from a 4.92), “ER” (+17%, 3.85 vs. 3.28), “Lipstick Jungle” (+16%, 2.78 vs. 2.40), “Law & Order: SVU” (+14%, 4.32 vs. 3.80), “My Name is Earl” (+14%, 3.10 vs. 2.71), “Knight Rider” (+13%, 2.81 vs. 2.48), “Heroes: Countdown to the Premiere” (+11%, 2.94 vs. 2.66) and “America’s Toughest Jobs” (+10%, 1.30 vs. 1.18).
In all, NBC had nine primetime telecasts that week that generated double-digit gains in 18-49 rating going from “live plus same day” to “live plus seven,” the most for any major network ahead of Fox (eight), CBS (seven) and ABC (four).
Among the NBC premiere-week shows that added more than 1 million total viewers in this transition were “Heroes” (12.018 million vs. 10.150 million, an increase of 1.868 million), “The Office” (10.914 million vs. 9.393 million, an increase of 1.521 million), “ER” (9.317 million vs. 8.057 million, an increase of 1.260 million) and “Law & Order: SVU” (10.902 million vs. 9.698 million, an increase of 1.204 million).
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No, it ended at 10:00 pm est on Monday. It will be on again next Monday between 9:00 and 10:00 pm est, or you can watch it any time on Hulu or NBC dot com.
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1. What is Nathan Petrelli doing? He was a political figure, but now he’s doing nothing.
Just finding God, becoming a junior Senator, being manipulated by head-Linderman (actually Maury), falling in love with Tracey, and trying to uncover the secrets of the Company’s genetic experiments. Nothing much, really.
2. Where the heck are Nathan's wife an kids?
Nathan is so divorced, it’s not even funny.
3. What is this crap with Hiro and Ando, why can't he reach out to his other hero friends if this quest is so important.
Who exactly? Everyone is either missing, incapacitated, or on their way to becoming evil. Anyway, his plan now is to infiltrate the bad guys.
4. Why is Hiro now comic relief?
Um… because he’s funny, and has generally played this role throughout the series. The idea of a loser comic book geek who gains incredible powers over time and space is kind of central to the show, and rather whimsical, don’t you think? I’m sure things will get more serious for him as “time” goes on.
5. Why is Ali Larter even in the show? Because she’s hot?
For some, yes, this is true. Glad her character no longer carries the burden of ye olde split personalities (one good, the other evil). Of course, we haven’t met the third sister yet, and something tells me she will be a raging bay-atch.
6. What has she contributed from the beginning up until this point that has mattered to anyone?
Well, Micah loved her as Mom. Nathan loved boning her. She and her sisters are the sexiest guinea pigs in town.
7. How easily Noah goes along with being Sylar's partner?
Only to try and find his weakness, and kill him, or make someone else kill him, as soon as he possibly can and get away with it.
8. How did future Peter die with a f***ing gunshot wound?
The gunshot severed his cerebral cortex, which is apparently an Achilles Heel. The Haitian was also there, rendering his other powers useless. Again, he may have also allowed himself to be killed, knowing that he had gone too far and doomed the earth, so was passing the buck back to his past, more “innocent” self.
9. How many times must we endure people drawing apocalyptic versions of the future or seeing the future just before the apocalypse...for once I’d like there to be some mystery surrounding the big questions?
We’ll see it as many times as it takes for you to realize that this IS the big question: are we all doomed, or can we do anything about it and continue to evolve?
10. And seriously, did we really need cliché spiritual African man who makes Greg Grunberg walk his "spirit walk", refusing to answer any of his questions in anything but vague terms?
Before you and Parkman can learn what clichéd, but self-aware, African spiritual man can teach, he must teach you and Parkman how to learn.
11. What's with all the fist fighting?
That’s how the Future Clairebear Kids do. They gotta knock the other guys out or shoot them before they can do their things.
12. Wait a minute.... a guy who can create black holes?!!?!
Yeah, that’s ridiculous, black holes don’t really exist. (It always amazes me how theory is regarded as fact in this world.) If a so-called “quantum singularity” could be created out of thin air, it would quickly suck the entire Earth into it. He could really only create concentrated electromagnetic vortices with zero point energy.
13. "Why don't they just go back in time and fix it?" and especially since all the stories involve time travel in the first place. Unfortunately, they haven't done anything to explain why they don't go back in time.
Well, on the show I’ve been watching, they’ve gone out of their way to demonstrate time and time again that going back in time to “fix” things results in numerous unintended consequences, frequently far worse that the trouble you started with. Are you talking about the show Heroes?
14. What happened to the Irish Chick?
Once more, with feeling, she is trapped in an alternate future that no longer exists. In other words, dead… zilch, nada, she is an Ex-Irish Chick. Or, you might say that she exists only in the past. Peter has not had “time” to go back into the past to figure out how to retrieve her without undoing his stopping the plague from getting out, because he went from total amnesia to trying to save the world from the plague, to being duped by Adam, to seeing Nathan shot, to confronting his future self, to being trapped in another’s body, to going into the future and seeing the end of the world, to taking Sylar’s ability, to becoming a homicidal maniac, to being in a coma, all in short order, OK?
15. What happened to the flying boy Clare was dating, surely he still lives up the street from her?
Maybe, or, after his dealings with her and her crazy family, he’s gotten himself as far away for them as inhumanly possible. He’s definitely keeping his distance.
16. Why not resolve past characters storylines first?
All conclusions are forced.
17. Like the flying emo kid?
Like, why? So he can fly around and be emo some more? I’m hoping he’ll be back when he has something to advance the story.
18. Michah's cousin that is able to copy whatever she sees?
I think she learned the hard way that being a superhero is not as easy as it looks. Hopefully, we’ll see Michah, Copykat, and Uhuhru again, when they have something to add to the story again. It might be kind of nice for him if he could hang out with Tracey some more, or would it?
19. If Speed-Gyrl runs everywhere, why does she have such a fat ass?
It’s a big’n, but it ain’t fat. That can can crush cans!
20. Have they ever explained how Level 5 is able to contain the people with powers?
No, I don’t think so, but it seems to be electrically powered. When Elle discharged, she knocked out the system.
21. Does Sylar have the powers from before he lost his or only the powers he's gotten since then?
It would seem from Peter’s visit to the future, that they all do come back, but Sylar’s current obsession is self-discovery. You see, Sylar’s particular gift is figuring out how things work, and Angela gave him the perfect puzzle to keep him occupied: himself.
22. Just because we didn't hear Sylar hearing HRG doesn't mean he didn't hear him?
I think Sylar just figured out was going on, as always.
23. Hiro kills Ando? I thought Hiro was trying to get the formula back? Why is he working for the people who stole it from him? And why would they want him to join?
Perhaps Hiro plans on finding out who the chief bad guy is and, then, returning to the past to save Ando from himself. But is this a good plan? Not sure that he even knows about Claire or Adam’s “magic blood.”
24. Blackhole guy doesn't need to be dead. He controls his power, who's to say he can't create blackholes and use them to travel at will?
I doubt it; he would have just done this earlier. It was pretty clear that The Company had destroyed his life, would not let him live in peace, and that he had nothing to go on for.
25. I have to fanwank the whole Linderman thing considering Maury was in Level 5 when Linderman first came back…?
Or was he? Perhaps he just made everyone think that he was still in the stir.
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Peter breaks Sylar's neck. Sylar is regenerated and up on his feet in about 10 seconds. Sylar force-pushes Peter into a window where he bangs his head a little. This, unlike breaking someone's neck, completely incapacitates him for the foreseeable future. Huh? Next: Hiro needs to work on his freaking reflexes. For someone with self-described "control of time and space", he seems to get hit A LOT. If I had the ability to freeze time, you better freakin' believe that anytime I sense the slightest bit of danger I'm hitting PAUSE and scoping out the situation. Also, if he can control time and space... When he gets hit and knocked out, can't he just timeshift to about 5 minutes before, spaceshift to outside, and then sneak attack whoever it is that's trying to escape? Would have been a great way to catch Speedster, Adam, ANYONE, ANYWHERE, AT ANY TIME, BECAUSE HE CONTROLS TIME AND SPACE. The Sylar hearing thing... Yes, he has ALL HIS POWERS. If he didn't have his old powers, he WOULDN'T HAVE FREAKING TELEKINESIS. They didn't make a point of 'showing' us that Sylar could overhear the conversation, so that means they wanted you to 'not know' he overheard them, or expected you to go 'OH YOU THINK HE DOESN'T HEAR THEM BUT I KNOW HE DOES CUZ I WATCH THE SHOW AND NEW PEOPLE WOULDN'T KNOW HE HAS SUPERHEARING SO ITS LIKE A LITTLE EASTER EGG JUST FOR MEEEEE.' It's vague at the end as to whether Sylar 'heard' them or just deduced HRG's plan because he actually is the only intelligent character in the series, which means they're either ignoring Sylar's old powers or they just don't know enough to use them properly. And Claire. STUPID STUPID STUPID CLAIRE. "Oh I have a taser, I'm super hardcore, I gotcha! Oh wait, I'm actually totally useless and I'm against the one person who could actually kill me and I have NO DEFENSES WHATSOEVER. But it's ok, because he's not really a badguy, but we don't get to see that, because he offs himself. Which is odd, since the first time he created a MASSIVE BLACK HOLE he was completely immune to it.
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I'm sure this has obviously been proposed, but somewhere along the line, Peter realizes he can REMOVE his powers. He has a scar. Claire's bullets kill him in the future. Now that he has Sylar's power, maybe he can take apart his OWN brain and get rid of some shit. Ultimately, I'm intrigued, and far more pleased than last season. And the best part? The creepiness of Mohinder and how they are not quite letting on what the hell is going on with him. Way to remember the SLOW BURN, Heroes. That's what helped you in S1.
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13. The reason we were led to believe the past can't be changed was because Hiro went back to save Coffee Shop Waitress (1-star ;D) and it turned out he had already been there all along, which means the past is unchangeable since when you go back you were actually already there. Except that since then, Hiro and Peter have changed the future by going into the past, what... 3 times now? By the original show logic, Future Peter would have ALWAYS been there to shoot Nathan, therefore whatever 'Future' that FuturePeter took PresentPeter to would be what is going to happen REGARDLESS of anything they try to do, since they've already done it, since you can't change the past. But apparently you CAN change the past, because tripping African finger painter says so.
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Uhm... If you don't realize what's happening to Mohinder, I guess you've never seen "The Fly".
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4. I love Hiro as 'comic-relief', because he IS the geek in all of us. I'm pissed off that they took all the wisdom and badassery they built up from last season and turned him into an idiot. Maybe instead of learning to swordfight, he should have learned to anticipate a punch. I do like the idea of him going back in time later on to replace the formula in the safe with a fake copy, except that it negates the original "time travel can't fix things" dilemma, and I don't think the writers are that clever.
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why the hell didn't they just destroy this terrible terrible formula that could only lead to further terribleness? or, i mean, if thats too easy, why not separate it into more than two pieces? or why not... destroy it? its a piece of paper. gimme, ill do it, and with a bic lighter, no powers necessary. oh yeah and everyone on the show's a putz. but i cant stop watching...
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Since Mohinder is the one that created the serum that gives powers in FuturePeter's future. So... who cares? Also, was the future that FuturePeter showed PresentPeter the same as the original future he came back from, because shouldn't shooting Nathan have changed SOMETHING, since going back in time either A) doesn't fix things or B) changes things for the worse (by the show's own logic). So that means that shooting Nathan accomplished NOTHING, which means that FuturePeter is just as freaking stupid as PresentPeter. But by the original show logic, Nathan would have ALWAYS been shot by FuturePeter in FuturePeter's timeline since you can't actually change the past and that means that he would have already known that Nathan was shot during the press conference and didn't die, which means he did it on purpose. Which would actually be way cooler. FuturePeter deceives PresentPeter into becoming the villian that he already is? Was FuturePeter just screwing with everyone? The only way this can work logically is if in Season 5 we see VillianPeter realize that he needs to be the one to go back in time and shoot Nathan and put his past self into Screamer, ultimately resulting in his own death which he already watched happen. But that would require keeping the same timeline for more than one season, and we can't have THAT. MORE DYSTOPIAN VISIONS OF THE FUTURE! That's what they need! Viruses! Everyone has superpowers! Next, a future where the government hunts down the supers with giant robots!
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Very annoying that there's no concrete explanation for whether Sylar DOES or DOES NOT have all of his powers. You have some people who think "he obviously has them all back", some thinking "he only lost everything but TK and his Intuitive Aptitude and will slowly regain the others over time".
Now, after looking at another forum, I think that Kring and the writers have said this:
1)Sylar lost everything but TK and Intuitive Aptitude, the first power he stole.
2)The reason we see Sylar with the radiation and future-painting powers in the future is because... get this... "Sylar probably ran across some other powered individuals in the future and stole those abilities".
I can't provide a link to this, but if true, personally, I think this is a weak explanation. But whatever... it's a future thing so it doesn't mean jack in the grand scheme of things because the future plotlines seem to be a one-shot anyway. -
Relax and enjoy it!!
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I mean it, I'm still liking the show, even if I'm still waiting for them to properly kill the last telemundo twin. I guess I have a greater capacity to suspend disbelief than most people.
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Have a guy who's talent is that he can't ever be harmed by other people's talents. He's immune...and by his very fact, he becomes one of the most powerful...yet his talent may act in unexpected ways in how it protects him...so he has to keep it secret. Oh, and his name could be Bink.
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of Speedy-Girls ass ... and speedy girl in general. She looks just like a chick I pulled one night in college, and have been withdrawing from the spank bank ever since.
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http://tinyurl.com/6ymyp9
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I called that Maury was causing Nathan to see Linderman after the 2nd or 3rd episode in the talkback!
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always love how u turds get "annoyed" when things arent explained in detail to u.. as for the formula, its been established in some form that mohinders serum dont work...the formula that hiro and ando have been chasing is THE formula...established by angela petrelli in mondays episode...how do i know this ? because i actually watch and enjoy each episode instead of nitpicking it to death...
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Also, bring back Vortex Guy. He was cool.
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Who actually thinks that Hiro would just kill Ando like that? It's obviously some kind of trick.
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with a sword, allowing his blood to fall out. Because Ando cannot live without blood in his circulatory system, this brought about his death.Naw, I don't believe it either. Asians on popular TV shows can't die; it's the Jin Kwon rule.
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Hmm...and HOW flat is the planet you live on again?
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I see a Dallas style, "It was all just a dream", do over for next season.
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