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heroes stinks
by Quin the Eskimo
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:30:26 PM
bring on the fuller star trek show
First?
by durikaj
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:30:38 PM
Bryan Fuller...stay put!
Quinnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
by durikaj
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:31:26 PM
Beat me by 12 seconds!
If it's true, then Heroes is fucking sunk
by newc0253
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:32:25 PM
Besides the nubile Ms Panetierre, Fuller was pretty much the only thing that show had going for it.

But good news if he gets something on air elsewhere.

Wouldn't You Discard This Anchor?
by Aquatarkusman
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:33:05 PM
I mean, before it goes from really really really stupid to really really really really really stupid.
Is this show really still on? Still?
by JuanSanchez
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:34:07 PM
Perhaps...
by topfivevideo
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:34:09 PM
The manatees from Family Guy are available???
what's that i hear?
by bourbonwithice
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:34:58 PM
The final death knell for heroes.
YESS
by TeenAngst73
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:35:18 PM
Now Fuller can go back and create good tv shows. Heroes blooooows.
As long as Fuller has something on TV
by NoodlesHahn
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:37:07 PM
TV will be better for it.

Heroes got a lot better with his episodes but it's still not close to where it should be.

LET THIS BE TRUE. HE'S TOO TALENTED FOR ZEROES.
by HoboCode
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:41:38 PM
life is too short for crap TV
by Col. Tigh-Fighter
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:45:49 PM
So Heroes has been dropped from this dojo! After BSG, there is no time for mediocrity.
That show = the biggest disappointment on TV
by turketron_2
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:49:19 PM
Before someone comes in and says, "Heroes is better than 90% of the crap on TV" I'd like to say, yeah, that may be true but it doesn't make a bit of difference when you realize how good the show *could* be in competent hands. If I were Fuller, I'd jump shit too. That's right - shit, not ship.
Heroes
by kwisatzhaderach
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:51:52 PM
hasn't been good since about 3 episodes before the end of season 1.
!!!!!
by topfivevideo
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:52:10 PM
Couldn't we just cancel Heroes and air reruns of The Shield starting from season 1????
meh
by Eats_sandwich_gets_laid.
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:52:14 PM
I didn't notice it getting any better when Fuller came back last season. I think this show is beyond saving and has been since halfway through season two. Even someone of Fuller's stature can't convince me that gold plating makes a turd less of a turd.
Jeez, you guys are a tough room.
by SmokingRobot
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:53:54 PM
It's not like Heroes raped your childhood or anything.
Heroes is still on?
by Series7
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:56:10 PM
I thought just like all things in his life, Milo Ventimiglia and heroes are just in different places right now.
If true...
by Booster Gold Lives
Jun 22nd, 2009
02:59:14 PM
I bet it was a mutual agreement. NBC wanted Fuller to shepherd something else without getting dragged down by what's likely to be Heroes' last season; Fuller didn't want to get gutteralled by Heroes' last season, so he approached NBC with an arrangement. Or something along those lines. But if either is true, it's the death knell for Heroes -- if the guy who helped make the show a hit doesn't want to try to bring it back, just how far off the rails has it gone?
Looks More Like A Tombstone
by Frodo T. Baggins
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:01:26 PM
If that's true...
by Henry Fool
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:12:06 PM
I'm officially removing "Heroes" from my DVR. The show hasn't a chance in Hell without him. If only they'd hired someone like Jane Espenson after he left. She could have saved the show. I've never seen a show go from great to terrible the way Heroes did in Season Two. Lost recovered nicely from a rocky Season Two, gradually evolving from a "stranded in a strange" scenario to a time travel story. Buffy was another great show that evolved by always having the magic be metaphorical for the issues people face at different stages of youth. Heroes never had a course of evolution or a theme, just clever powers. If Fuller's out, so am I...
Maybe
by IForgotAbout19
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:12:39 PM
the dude's just carpooling
Stick a fork in it
by wash
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:15:07 PM
I'll never understand the people in these Talkbacks...
by rfid
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:16:46 PM
There's so much hate for Heroes, one of the best genre shows in years, even with its weak points, and yet horrid writing like that in Harry Knowles' articles has fans. I'm willing to bet that many of the same people who enjoy Harry's writing are the same people who trash Heroes--and both of those facts say a lot about them.

























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has BRYAN FULLER
by idrinkyourmilkshake
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:19:23 PM
given himself ANOTEHR long look in the mirror and felt disguested? well bravo Bryan, this show is a turkey! I USED to LOOOVE this show, then season 2 rolled round, and my jaw dropped.Then season 3 rolled round, and my pants dropped(literally...but BRYAN FULLER was nice enough to put them back on for me0
stick a penis in it
by Quin the Eskimo
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:22:50 PM
it's fucked
Heroes was NEVER good.
by A G
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:22:57 PM
Think about it.
lol, I hate Harrys writing and I hate Heroes
by Col. Tigh-Fighter
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:24:10 PM
And Ive given both plenty to opertunities to improve lol
Fuck Heroes.....
by Psynapse
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:24:49 PM
Fuck it up its stupid ass.

How's that for an ancient AICN-ism?

Can someone confirm if...
by MichaelonBass
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:33:48 PM
Heroes DID improve after Fuller came back? I stopped watching it sooo many times but kept coming back because I was told it was getting better but it just never happened.
good for fuller
by ackack
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:37:03 PM
The show got even worse when he returned
by ThrowMeTheIdol
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:38:15 PM
I used to think him leaving was what made it start to suck but nope that wasn't it judging by the crapfest after he came back.
MichaelonBass...
by ArtisticGrief
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:40:57 PM
Yes it did get better. There were a couple episodes I thought were spectacular, especially the one Fuller wrote. The problem though is that Fuller jumped back in to a story arc that I didn't really think was that interesting. Overall, "Fugitives" was a dry story done well.
If true...
by ArtisticGrief
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:43:08 PM
I'll be one of those that stops watching Heroes. I've been reading the talkbacks of people on this site abandoning this show for a couple years now, and I never thought it would be me. But at this point, I'm only holding out to see if Fuller can make the show great again. If he's left, I think I'll join the ranks of those finding something else to do on Monday nights.
PLEASE NO!
by DC Films
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:46:04 PM
No more Trek series.

The movie was great. Please lets have a few more of those before we head back down the road of TV Trek mediocrity.

Please.

Mike Ausiello & others r confirming its true
by The Superior
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:46:05 PM
Just gives me a reason to stop watching
as of 6-12 it looks like he wasn't gone yet
by thedude2010
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:50:12 PM
http://scifiwire.com/2009/06/w hy-bryan-fuller-thinks-h.php
As quickly as series get dumped these days..
by Jaka
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:54:22 PM
...how in the world is this one still on? Do that many people REALLY still watch this show? It hasn't been good, let alone great, for two years. At least Lost got better (sometimes WAY better) after it had a low point. Heroes has just been hovering in the same shallow pool for what seems like an eternity. I've tried multiple times to get back into it but it's just the same awful mess repeated ad nauseum. They just keep doing the same crap over and over - to THEMSELVES no less. Plus, they killed one of the best characters off and focus way too much on some lame convoluted story about the previous generation that AGAIN never goes anywhere. I hope he left because he realized it was pointless. As much as I hate the Abrams "Trek Universe", I'd be 1000 times more interested in seeing what Fuller could do there than in watching him drown in the shallow pool.
if the exec's can't
by orange cinema
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:56:17 PM
recognize the fact that Fuller is the only hope this show has - and they don't do WHATEVER IT TAKES to keep him - then fuck em. they deserve to loose him, and they deserve to finish letting this show crumble. sad, consider it had unimaginable potential. no sympathy here, and i guess we're left to the same rollercoaster ride of hope, for quality episodes that we've had for the past few years.
And we...
by Dead_Geek
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:57:49 PM
... Should care. Why? HEROES is D.O.A
Hire JMS.
by cookylamoo
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:58:07 PM
And then laugh your way to the bank.
Creative Differences?
by Yeti
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:58:19 PM
If this is the case then I think I'm dunzo as far as Heroes is concerned.
@ col tigh-fighter...
by orange cinema
Jun 22nd, 2009
03:59:58 PM
i'm curious why you're talking about harry's writing, as this is a hercules written article. i get why you hate heroes - sadly i completely agree with you - but is there something i'm missing that connects harry, heroes, & hercules? not trolling at all, just curious.
by the way
by idrinkyourmilkshake
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:02:04 PM
mr.zedemore is a bitch.wrap him up in seaaon 2 script of Heroes, and you have one big-ass shit burrito
People still watch this show?
by landosystem
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:03:19 PM
I love superheros and I couldn't get through the first 4 episodes of season 2.
Idiot.
by StarWarsRedux
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:03:26 PM
I hope Fuller enjoys himself when his next fan-adored show gets cancelled. Jesus.
Beautiful. Now take Robert Knepper with him.
by Johnny Smith
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:04:20 PM
Tommy Dolan/Theodore Bagwell doesn't need this show to eat. Somebody set him up with a real job, please.
Sweet. Now I can delete the eps on the DVR
by DeathShrike
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:05:12 PM
Finally. I was dreading slogging through that shit just to get to some good stuff.
by the way
by idrinkyourmilkshake
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:05:29 PM
i WILL admit that I TUNED IN on season 3-when fuller came abck, and had a fully scripted episode by him, and it ROCKED! but then, in the very epsiode-the shitty writing came back.I'D LOVE for this show to be good again, but it doesn't look good. I SAY keep Peter PETRELLI,sylar,and maybe 1-2 other bad guys-and just jetison the rest. I friggin hate anything with the cheerleader and her dad-that shit is JUST LAME and repetitive.And Mohinmder-they screwed the pooch on his character.just KILL EVERYONE-except peterelli and sylar-and make it work. Petrelli/sylar throwdown is something we ALL still want...so give it to us.Oh yeah, Hiro is cool, he can stay-but do something with him.
Not surprised. Heroes is just a mess now.
by wowsah156
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:08:06 PM
Heroes needed to have a stable plotline, but we ended up with a mess. And. still no explanation for what happened to Copycat over a season ago. Stupid Stupid Stupid.
I wonder if Fuller is jumping from a sinking ship
by Rob0729
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:14:15 PM
The show itself seems to be a mess. They seem to be rudderless with a lack of direction for the show. They kill and unkill characters all the time (especially Niki and her sisters and Nathan). There seems to be a lot of behind the scenes drama with actors wanting to leave and former lovers refusing to work together. Other than Grey's Anatomy, there doesn't seem to be a show with less behind the scenes drama.

Based on the upfronts, it seems that the Heroes heads convinced the network that their decline in ratings is because a poor lead in by Chuck. The problem is they are moving to 8PM against similiar demo shows like House and How I Met Your Mother. Two and a Half Men is more of a ratings giant than HIMYM, but I think the demo skewed a bit older than Heroes does. I think Heroes may be entering it's last season especially with the pricetag and Fuller didn't want to be associated with being the guy who brought it down.
Cancel that crap right now.
by AlwaysThere
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:17:07 PM
It's the right thing to do.
View public leaves Heros
by harrys_site_sucks
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:19:05 PM
nuff said
LOST vs. Heroes
by maxwell's hammer
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:27:34 PM
When LOST came out, I refused to watch it because of so much hype. Enough people I trusted liked it, so I gave season 1 a shot when it came out on DVD. it fucking blew my brains out. Final Thought: A show I didn't give any credence to proved my ass wrong, and never stopped kicking my ass.

When Heroes came out, it was something a lot of us looked forward to: a prime-time, relatively well-produced tv show about super-heroes. Geek heaven. From episode 1, however, the writing was weak, the plotting kind of corny, the production values mediocre at best. Final thought: a show that could have been good that wasn't so much, but everyone wanted to like it so much, they gave it a pass.

Its demise is long overdue.
@ Orange Cinema, I was replying to post by rfid
by Col. Tigh-Fighter
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:27:48 PM
"I'll never understand the people in these Talkbacks... by rfid Jun 22nd, 2009 03:16:46 PM There's so much hate for Heroes, one of the best genre shows in years, even with its weak points, and yet horrid writing like that in Harry Knowles' articles has fans. I'm willing to bet that many of the same people who enjoy Harry's writing are the same people who trash Heroes--and both of those facts say a lot about them. "

STICK A FORK IN THIS TURKEY...
by BILLY_BOOMSTICK
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:30:41 PM
IT IS OFFICIALLY DONE! WHO THE HELL IS RUNNING THIS SHOW ANYWAYS? I PREDICT A CANCELLATION BY DECEMBER OF THIS YEAR.
Mr Zeddemore.
by Hint_of_Smegma
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:31:58 PM
I've never commented on Heroes before but your daft comment on the haters here continually getting what they asked for, then hating it, is ridiculous. Season 1 was a great series. Not exactly too clever, but a brilliant, enjoyable story with a great ending. And frankly, if we'd known watching that final episode of season 1 what the show was to sink to immediately in season 2, I reckon most people here would rather it had been cancelled then and there - because it has sucked balls ever since. You might want that to be different, but even you know it to be true so it's a bit much of you to expect us all not to bitch about the massive drop in quality.
MESSAGE TO THE NEW GUY
by EDGARWRIGHTS_TESTICLESOBSESSION
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:34:27 PM
Have a hero who frequently reveals his testicles. Is that too much to ask? I love big testicles. I can't get enough of them. I'm addicted to other men's testicles.
rfid - how did you make all that white space?
by JuanSanchez
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:37:04 PM
HEROES WITH ADDED TESTICLES!
by EDGARWRIGHTS_TESTICLESOBSESSION
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:39:25 PM
Now that's something I can get behind.
Cancel Heroes Now!
by RobotKing
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:39:40 PM
There's no hope left for this show. Any chance for survival left with Fuller. But even if he does develop some pilots, will they even be picked up? NBC pretty much screwed over scripted shows when they gave that hack Leno the 10pm timeslot.
Actually that's Buckminister Fuller's parking space
by tangcameo
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:41:44 PM
...right outside the geodesic dome on the NBC lot.
Bryan Fuller too talented for Heroes!
by zooch
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:45:18 PM
Bryan Fuller has too much talent and ambition to work for a creatively bankrupt show.
I Enjoyed the Non-Fuller Heroes Episodes
by kevinwillis.net
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:46:57 PM
Enjoyed 'em plenty. I like both Lost and Heroes. Heroes is more comic-booky--surprise, surprise--and shows the sort of abrupt switches in tone and direction and manifest re-written rules and history . . . just like most comic books I ever used to read regularly. I love the shout-outs to the geek world. George Takei? Robert Forster? Nichelle Nichols? Unadulterated awesomeness. Yes, lots of inconsistent silliness, but if you watch it like you might read the various runs of a comic book, it tends to work very well.
"Ya I'm too busy writing a dozen other pilots..."
by tangcameo
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:47:53 PM
"...all of which will suck as soon as I hand them over to someone else."
Watched the Last Daisy the other night & R.I.P. HEROES!
by ToMonicker
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:48:13 PM
I finally caught the last episode of Pushing Daisies the other night, and despite being a rather rushed affair, it had at least some closure. Now, with more retrospection, I think Pushing Daisies should have had a planned end date. It never failed to amuse me, but the last episodes were a little blah. I'm hopeful that Bryan Fuller is ditching HEROES, as I ditched it last Season, and did not even bother to see what he did with that MESS! It's just unrecoverable, it's a suicide ZERO about to hit the deck, sooner or later. HEROES was a mirage; nothing of substance.
Wow, he finally had to admit that this show was shit!
by HollywoodHellraiser
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:49:27 PM
And there was nothing he could do to save it!

Seems somebody jumped off the Titanic before it was too late!

Regurgitate season 1 again like season 3.
by Damien Chowder
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:49:42 PM
Great News!!!
by zombie_buffet
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:50:29 PM
Now Fuller can focus his attention on something worthwhile.
In a related story, audience for "Heroes" leaves with him...
by Zardoz
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:51:25 PM
Mr Zeddemore
by Hint_of_Smegma
Jun 22nd, 2009
04:58:13 PM
I'll agree the level of debate here is almost non-existent, but there are those willing to talk about pro's and con's without the usual denigrating comments. I simply have a different view to you - in that what could have been a superb show - and indeed what was a superb show for its first season - degenerated into a badly written, weakly characterised mess seemingly in the hiatus between seasons 1 and 2. It's only gotten worse since then, and I don't see where we - the haters - were ever given what we 'asked for' by the producers. We asked for an increase in quality, not a 'throw everything in plus the kitchen sink' approach to save the show. It wouldn't have needed saving if they'd put a bit more quality writing into series 2 from the start. I personally think we're going through a great time for television - all the awful reality shows and general cheapness in quality aside of the bulk, we're getting more high quality and consistently great shows popping up here and there than ever before - plus the stigma of television for 'actors' is diminishing due to that, and as such we're getting more and more quality actors hitting the small screen. Carnivale, BSG, Deadwood, The Shield, True Blood, Lost, Jericho, Generation Kill, Band of Brothers and so on are just of the last decade that mark a real shift in quality, and Heroes looked like it might have been up there too.....I think it's a real shame the producers flushed it down the U-bend the way they did. They've got no excuse for it being so poor right now, and it's certainly not the fault of those of us critiquing it.
LOL Ash0k! I agree!
by HollywoodHellraiser
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:04:16 PM
I remember the forum that used to say Lost was a GONER and all that bullshit!

Well look who laughing now!

Poor NBC Leno maybe your last hope...NOT!

This show is probably over.
by iamnicksaicnsn
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:07:14 PM
Fuck.
RIP Heroes
by Jordo
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:09:15 PM
When Fuller was still on board, I was only committed to watching the season premiere to decide if I will continue watching this show. Now I'll just decide based on Herc's review. It's looking like this show is dead to me.
crap.
by BadMrWonka
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:14:18 PM
I haz it.
Lost still sucks, Heroes going down the tube doesn't change that
by BadMrWonka
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:17:07 PM
Lost is crack, you have to keep going back because you're addicted, not because the show is good in any meaningful way.

face it, you would suck dick for Lost. The West Wing was a great show. Seinfeld was a great show. Lost is just a gimmick that keeps getting people with addictive personalities to come back every week and buy the DVD's.

I bet you all like Crash, too, right? Crash is the Lost of the movie world. there's no there there.

sorry fellas
by idrinkyourmilkshake
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:24:07 PM
buty zedemore-we're all here to post O P I N I O N S. I fucking HATE the show NOW-and i guess even overall.I'ts GREAT to have a show about superheroes...in the realworlds.GREAT.But its fucking TORTURE to have that one show suck ass.And Heroes used to GREAT.season 1 is ALMOST perfect. But beginning with Sylar zapping a can of spinach at the onset of volume 2....well..i died a lil that day..and so did heroes. IT'S progressively gotten worse.It's like watching a reeeeal sloooow car accident.it's there, but we just can't do shit bout it.yata motherfucker!
Is he still doing the Pushing Daisies comic series?
by Squashua
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:31:24 PM
Hope he still goes through with that.
Furthermore...
by rfid
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:32:19 PM

























































































































































































the star writer-producer?
by The Funketeer
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:36:14 PM
Herc, there's a big difference between a STAR and someone you like. Try this on for size, the star writer-producer of such canceled series as Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls along with the little seen cable drama, Dead Like Me. That sounds like a star to me.
Script Girl is pretty.
by DamnMichaelBay
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:38:22 PM
Script Girl is pretty.
"Company Man" was a shamless LOST rip-off
by Tall_Boy66
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:38:34 PM
Yes, Lost did not invent the flashback/flashforward structure in fiction, but "Company Man" came along with a very similar vibe to Lost. And it worked great, it was a great, emotional episode, but you can clearly see where the genesis of it is. Besides, all this yakity yak about Fuller's great "Pushing Daises" and "Wonderfalls" and "Saving Heroes" and yadda is missing what is, truly, his BEST script: Voyager's "Bride of Chaotica!"
Good.
by seibei iguchi
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:43:34 PM
Heroes is crap anyway.
LOST Season 2-3
by maxwell's hammer
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:49:00 PM
There were definitely some stalling episodes in those two seasons, but watching them straight through on DVD shows that the seasons actually hold up quite well. LOST really works better as a really long movie to watch in one or two sittings than it does as a tv series to watch over the course of 20 or so weeks.
Mr Smegma, Mr Zeddemore...
by cool_britannia79
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:49:08 PM
good debate fellas. The main gripe I have with heroes is that it SHOULD have me enthralled every week. It's basically x-men with hot cheerleaders, hot vegas chicks who are real dirty, and (in season 1 at least) a villain that was a classic from the get-go. But, I stopped watching when some Irish geezers wanted their eye-pods. How did they fuck up a show with such a cast iron solid premise?
Mr Britannia79
by Hint_of_Smegma
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:58:41 PM
My gripe exactly. It really does amaze me quite how badly the show slipped, plenty of shows vary in quality over their runs but I've never seen one go from so good to so bad. Let alone so quickly.
Even crap Heroes is better than 80% of whats on.
by Damien Chowder
Jun 22nd, 2009
05:59:16 PM
24 is full of the most stupid terrorists equal by the same amount of idiotic special agents. And Jack Bauer can sell his B.O. in bottle and spray it it the face of terrorism. 7 times he has solved international terror cases in 24 hours the most stupidist notion in human history.
Please put this show out of it's misery.
by darthsynn
Jun 22nd, 2009
06:03:45 PM
We need something new to complain about.
rfid, it's true Harry's writing is often terrible.
by raw_bean
Jun 22nd, 2009
06:04:33 PM
Just like the writing most of the time on Heroes.
teh plan trailer
by RaveX
Jun 22nd, 2009
06:04:55 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =QYV7WeaDP_8
Cancel this show.
by Hey_Zeus
Jun 22nd, 2009
06:15:39 PM
give it one season and finish it for the love of god.
Cancel it please
by lockesbrokenleg
Jun 22nd, 2009
06:22:15 PM
There isn't even a panel for at comic con this year.
Heroes schmeros, Spectacular Spidey Season 2 on RIGHT NOW
by BrandLoyalist
Jun 22nd, 2009
06:26:22 PM
It's on Disney XD this very second, and possibly again at midnight? Guide info ambiguous. It's been a great Spidey toon so far. Two season 2 eps tonight, looks like.

I think I have posted incorrect premier dates and schedule info about The Spectacular Spider-Man under Herc's column here like 3 times :^/ but seeing is believing. Tip off was a Toon Zone post.
Lost crack, white space and generalizing..
by Jaka
Jun 22nd, 2009
06:51:36 PM
First, that white space is annoying, but you do it like this..

< br > but with no spaces. It's a "break".

Next, all good TV is crack. Nothing new about that. But Lost crack wasn't all that addicting. Many people actually stopped watching weekly during BOTH season 2 and 3 and waited to watch large chunks on DVD or DVRs. There is no way around the fact that the series is more enjoyable that way, especially during it's low/slow points. It's got an insane core audience, but as has been mentioned already, a lot of people gave up hope many times until S4 stepped it up again.

Too much generalizing by people who clearly didn't read the entire talkback before deciding bash people who don't use the talkback in a manner they approve of. Which is just as annoying and rude as the people who do use it to constantly bash. Ya know?
End this shit now
by performingmonkey
Jun 22nd, 2009
06:57:29 PM
Great and half-decent shows get canned and Heroes lives. Where's the fucking justice?
Ash0k
by Jaka
Jun 22nd, 2009
07:07:32 PM
It comparison to S2, S3 it was definitely better. Not sure I liked it quite as much as you, but it did move me to set the DVR to catch S4. I'd still put S3 below S1 and S4, though.
Everyone should be watching The Venture Brothers
by Col. Tigh-Fighter
Jun 22nd, 2009
07:08:54 PM
Why that show doesn't have a huge following I'll never know!

wittiest geek show I've ever seen. Watch it! Its like an animated Spaced with super scientists, villains and henchmen, James Bond, and a high body count :)

I drew a picture of rfid inside his white space
by BrandLoyalist
Jun 22nd, 2009
07:18:47 PM
Little Bo Peep outfit of course
lost quality guide. by me.
by RaveX
Jun 22nd, 2009
07:25:03 PM
amazing 1st season. imho, one of the 10, maybe even 5 best seasons on tv. evar. there may be people who saw the the pilot and didn't get hooked. but if you saw walkabout, you watched the rest of the season 1. it's that simple. the ending was sort of a letdown (mind you, not in the extend that heroes' 1st season finale was)

disappointing 2nd season: wasn't bad, but far from the greatness of s01. some great moments like desmond's introduction; "we're gonna need to watch that again"; henry motherfrakkin' gale and so on.

godawful beginning of 3rd season: first 7 episodes almost made me stop watching (and caused a lot of my friends to do so). but then came flashes before your eyes... and all was well with the world again. from then on, it just got better and stronger, with excellent s03 finale (the best one yet), and very strong seasons 04 & 05.

now, you could argue that lost jumped the shark (with or without dharma logo) with flashes before your eyes, and its intro to time travel. but you could also argue that, if writers haven't gone in that direction, we would get a few more episodes about marks on jack's body and an early cancellation.

Does it mean the show is...
by Orbots Commander
Jun 22nd, 2009
07:34:36 PM
...a figurative 'dead man walking'? I'd expect HEROES to have a mid-season replacement, and it'll be gone for good. What to watch for is where NBC moves it on their schedule. If you see it moving around, and then it lands on a Friday or Saturday night, it's toast.
Col. Tigh-Fighter; "and a high body count"
by RaveX
Jun 22nd, 2009
07:42:23 PM
twenty four! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

:(

Somebody in the TBs predicted this!
by Prof. Pop-Cult
Jun 22nd, 2009
07:49:09 PM
I distinctly remember a few months ago somebody in these Talkbacks said that the word in the industry was that Fuller was probably not going to stick through the entire 4th season. Looks like Fuller got out before the 4th season even begins.
TITBAG
by RaveX
Jun 22nd, 2009
08:20:40 PM
she's hanging around with caitlin, taskmaster girl, claires gay friends (john connor and flyboy), sylars brother and dr. who

word on the street is, they're having a blast.

Who cared? It's Burn Notice season!
by chrth
Jun 22nd, 2009
08:23:49 PM
BURN NOTICE!
*cares
by chrth
Jun 22nd, 2009
08:24:31 PM
I'm giving it 6 episodes next season
by Liberty Valance
Jun 22nd, 2009
08:29:02 PM
And if they don't have a servicable villian, a coherent plotline and a definitive goal for the season finale, I'm bailing on this motherfucker and never looking back.
"Buckminster Fuller"... hee, hee!
by Teddy Artery
Jun 22nd, 2009
08:40:04 PM
But semi-seriously, folks...
No Fuller? Man, "Heroes" is gonna suck. Wait...
by zacdilone
Jun 22nd, 2009
09:03:09 PM
...it's always sucked, with or without him. Nothing to see here, people, go about your business.
In DC for Invisible Children Lobby Days, and I'm stunned.
by PennsyDeux
Jun 22nd, 2009
09:04:03 PM
I didn't think he'd bail. But he didn't do any good anyways. 9 of the 10 lowest-rated episodes of Heroes were from Fugitives' arc, and Fuller's own episode ranks as #2 all time lowest.

Get the fork ready.

Is Brian Fuller that good
by Enderpilot
Jun 22nd, 2009
09:07:43 PM
I've watched both dead like me and pushing daisies. I really liked the shows. What I found more intriguing was the ideas and the mythologies behind the shows. As the shows kept going on, the characters got more out of character and mythology aspects yield less upon further examination. This is all to say that maybe Brian Fuller really can't deliver more than a handful of solid episodes. Not saying the Heroes is better without him. But maybe now Heroes can die by mid-season. Which will open the door for a better show along the same lines in the future.
I totally agree with Col. Tigh-Fighter
by tbransonlives
Jun 22nd, 2009
09:14:37 PM
How the hell does The Venture Brothers not have a massive following?

I love Lost, but the ever expanding Venture-verse is the most entertaining thing on tv. And how many other shows have failure as the central theme?

New episodes start in October, so there is plenty of time to catch up.

heroes has always sucked
by simondark
Jun 22nd, 2009
09:17:48 PM
its shitty and stupid
Fuck Heroes, Give him Star Trek!!!!
by j2talk
Jun 22nd, 2009
09:18:48 PM


by chrth

Jun 22nd, 2009
10:13:03 PM
BURN NOTICE!
This show died after the first season
by BewareOfDogPoo
Jun 22nd, 2009
10:35:37 PM
the first season was entertaining. the second season and on were a mutated living abortion.
Not just separating... they're getting divorced.
by Bob Loblaw Law Blog
Jun 22nd, 2009
10:52:37 PM
Not that I'm watching the episode... dammit.
Smallville was better in season EIGHT than Heroes was in season
by Nasty In The Pasty
Jun 22nd, 2009
10:52:42 PM
That's pretty fucking sad. Most genre shows are just hitting their creative stride by season 3, but Heroes blew it's wad at the end of its first season, and everything since has been progressively worse.
3
by Nasty In The Pasty
Jun 22nd, 2009
10:58:36 PM
It just me, or does the reserved parking sign look like a grave
by Ricyteach
Jun 22nd, 2009
11:36:16 PM
at least a first glance? strangely appropriate.
Brian Fuller: Writer of shows I never watch
by Falafalguy
Jun 22nd, 2009
11:50:25 PM
Just curious: has he written any episodes of 30 Rock, Samantah Who, or House?
CHUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Scoob1978
Jun 22nd, 2009
11:52:11 PM
Please let Heroes be completely cancelled and for Chuck to finally take over. Last season was spectacular and I don't want to wait until March for more of Sarah.
Good Riddance
by wampa_one
Jun 22nd, 2009
11:54:13 PM
The guy clearly can't make up his mind. The will he stay or will he go business is ridiculous.
Translation: I'm jumping off a sinking ship.
by HellKing
Jun 23rd, 2009
12:06:35 AM
I've been watching Heroes since the beginning. Even though I watch I thought the show was and is overhyped. To me this show has been the same since the beginning. So I don't what all this criticism that it has changed from the first season is all about. It's the same shit every time.
I Got Into Heroes Late, Watching Seaons 1-3
by kevinwillis.net
Jun 23rd, 2009
12:19:20 AM
Pretty much sequentially. And I just don't have the problems with it that most of the complainers here do, but that may be why. I also don't have the problems with lost, and have no objection, or preference, for any season over any other season. But then, I watched season 1-4 over the span of about a month, in a row, until I caught up with season 5.

Seriously, both heroes and Lost--but especially lost, which does indeed become addictive--work extremely well if you watch a whole lot of them in a row, and come into them cold. Seriously, I had never seen an episode of either show. Then I just watched every episode available.

House, which I had seen a lot of, worked pretty well watching every episode back-to-back, but eventually I O.D.'ed on the episodic House formula. Still love the show, I just have to take a break for a while.
Jon Plus Eight and Kate Plus Eight
by kevinwillis.net
Jun 23rd, 2009
12:21:39 AM
But At Different Times. All the pain and trouble of a divorce, but none of the benefits.
JON AND KATE JON GREW A BRAIN AND LEFT KATE
by lockesbrokenleg
Jun 23rd, 2009
12:55:57 AM
AND HE WENT TO A BAR AND PROBABLY HIT ON A LOT OF CHICKS.
Ricyteach! It does.
by gotilk
Jun 23rd, 2009
01:38:01 AM
Quick! Anyone who has access to the area go put flowers on his parking space.
Hey NBC...
by Galilee
Jun 23rd, 2009
01:55:11 AM
Why don't you pick up "Pushing Daisies"? Heroes is lost, and nobody cares about Chuck. Jay Leno? If you want only the 70-100 demographic, then sure, put him on at 10. I will make sure that neither of my DVR tuners have NBC on them at 10:00
90% of what's on TV was always better than Heroes
by reflecto
Jun 23rd, 2009
02:09:06 AM
Heroes has been mediocre since Day 1, so don't give me that bullshit line. You want to know what's "still better than 90% of what's on TV" even at a low point? Twin Peaks. The Wire. Buffy. Angel. Shows like THAT. Heroes was never in the same league, NEVER. maxwells_hammer is absolutely correct: "Final thought: a show that could have been good that wasn't so much, but everyone wanted to like it so much, they gave it a pass."
Poop becomes poop
by Eats_sandwich_gets_laid.
Jun 23rd, 2009
02:39:35 AM
and strangely stays poop.
And there goes any chance HEROES S4 had of being good
by D.Vader
Jun 23rd, 2009
02:39:38 AM
And by the way, fuck Kate Goselin.
And LOST S3 is fantastic
by D.Vader
Jun 23rd, 2009
02:46:34 AM
It just keeps building and building and tantalizing and revealing more and more as it progresses, leading all the way up to that fantastic finale.
season one
by brokenheadstuff
Jun 23rd, 2009
03:02:23 AM
was great because it was 10% superpowers 90% realworld mystery... then it just went batshit insane.
Another interesting cancelled show...
by pokadoo
Jun 23rd, 2009
03:07:01 AM
...is a better use of his talents, than trying to jump-start Heroes yet again. Look forward to any Pilot he's working on. And hope Star Trek happens, It would be a great time to spin off a new Kirk-era TV show, while the new movie series is doing well.
This still goes on, and nobody watches KINGS.
by David Cloverfield
Jun 23rd, 2009
03:16:02 AM
Makes me a sad Panda. Kings is awesome.
Oh dear
by photoboy
Jun 23rd, 2009
03:30:25 AM
Looks like it's going to be cancelled at some point next season then.

I only just finished watching season 3, I had all the episodes in backlog and I just couldn't be bothered to finish watching them. Sounds like season 4 will be the same.
NBC should cancel the ComicCon panel for Heroes
by Jim Jam Bongs
Jun 23rd, 2009
03:44:59 AM
It could become a PR nightmare for NBC. No joke.
Just blame the writer's strke
by magic_ninja
Jun 23rd, 2009
03:47:34 AM
You know, like everyone that worked on this piss poor show did. What happened to the Irish chick? "The writer's strike happened, we couldn't get to that" What happened to Monica? "The writer's strike happened, we couldn't get to that". Why did you kill off or wrote off everyone that appeared in season 2? "The writer's strke happened, and well...uh...we hoped everyone would forget about season 2. Hell, we sure as shit did."
I stopped watching lost after
by There_will_be_Dickblood
Jun 23rd, 2009
03:52:09 AM
the first 7 episodes of season 3 because it was utter crap. I think I will catch up with the seasons I missed on dvd before the last one.
Truly, that show must fucking die.
by V'Shael
Jun 23rd, 2009
04:24:55 AM
Fuller was its ONLY hope. If he's gone, then it's FUCKED.
Just cancel Heroes and get X-Men going
by vadakinX
Jun 23rd, 2009
04:39:50 AM
Heroes is a huge rip off of X-Men. We all know this. So just cancel Heroes and get an X-Men series going. The stories are already there in the form of the comics and one thing Heroes showed is that the powers can be done on the small screen.

Also, don't keep continuity with the movies. As much as I liked the first 2 films, I say start fresh.

Season 1 - introduce the characters and go up against Magneto.

Season 2 - Mutant Registration, Genosha and Sentinals.

Season 3 - Sinister.

Season 4 - Dark Phoenix

Season 5 - Apocalypse. and Legacy virus,

Rather than a full 22 eps, make it 13 per season...8 that focus on the main plot, 5 that focus on individual characters (a Wolverine episode, a Gambit episode during the Sinister arc etc);

Fox owns the movie rights so let them do what they want with that. But I think TV rights are retained by Marvel, so have at it.

heroes is done
by palewook
Jun 23rd, 2009
05:56:05 AM
matter of time now, the show will never have solid ratings again.

and they just lost any of the returning audience since we only came back to see if fuller could make the show watchable again.

Was always hoping for a Wildcards show.
by Orbots Commander
Jun 23rd, 2009
08:14:02 AM
I remember that a mini-series was in development at one point, but it never went anywhere.
As long as this show remains Tim Kring's baby
by turketron_2
Jun 23rd, 2009
08:33:10 AM
It will continue to be shit.
JOURNEYMAN
by twogunjames
Jun 23rd, 2009
08:38:14 AM
was ten thousand times better than heroes on it's best episode, and NBC took a massive shit on it. AND they keep this craptrain full of wet lumps rolling along shitting on other great shows like Chuck. Fuck these people.
"As quickly as series get dumped these days..
by Big Jim
Jun 23rd, 2009
09:06:11 AM
"...how in the world is this one still on?"

Just as quickly as a series is considered a failure and subsequently dumped, they can just as quickly be heralded as "the #1 new show on television" and get a full-season pick-up and ride that hype for another season or 2 (or 3).

Joel McHale called it!
by Big Jim
Jun 23rd, 2009
09:08:29 AM
When commenting on "Jon & Kate Plus Eight", and Jon's obvious misery, said to tune in next year for the spin-off "Jon Minus Nine".
Said it before, will say it again.
by The McPoyle Clan
Jun 23rd, 2009
09:58:51 AM
Fuller should be running his own show (hopefully original and not Trek v2), not trying to resuscitate Kring's. Glad to see that's happening.
Reflecto nailed it! that overplayed line about..
by HollywoodHellraiser
Jun 23rd, 2009
10:01:27 AM
"so-so show is still better than 90% of the shows on tv" is an excuse, especially where Heroes is involved.

Heroes was NEVER better than any percentage of shows on tv so that BS!

And yes NBC fucked up by cancelling Journeyman which had a growing fanbase ready for season 2 and then they fucking cancelled it!

Now look at the patehtic shape of NBC today! LOL

Y the Last Man tv show or Ex Machina tv show
by Miyamoto_Musashi
Jun 23rd, 2009
10:05:30 AM
Warners make some extra cash, get BKV to be showrunner, limited at 15 eps per season for 3 seasons.

Storytelling has been done for you, BKV knows how to write for TV, his Lost friends will need some work too.

HollywoodHellraiser
by gotilk
Jun 23rd, 2009
10:07:06 AM
I really rooted for Heroes, even when it was awful. But I have to agree with you. Journeyman never got the chance it deserved and could have developed into a classic series instead of just a missed opportunity with a great start and premature finish. Instead we have a network having a love affair with a failing show they keep throwing cash at. It's a good thing NBC doesn't run the country. They'd be spending billions making the same mistakes over and over hoping for different resul..... oops. Yeah, so more of the same.
Not a lot of promise for network tv once Lost finishes
by Miyamoto_Musashi
Jun 23rd, 2009
10:14:21 AM
RIP Heroes
by FastEddie8139
Jun 23rd, 2009
10:18:04 AM
Fuller being there was about the only thing they might have had going for themselves this season, although he didn't exactly make everything all better at the end of last season either. Clearly he's happier making new series that get canceled halfway through their initial order, so more power to him.
If Fuller touches Trek it will die
by jonsnow
Jun 23rd, 2009
10:32:50 AM
Please cancel this show, please. Likewise if Fuller takes over Trek. Trek belongs to writers and creators like J.J. and J.M.S who stick with their babies to the end. Let me guess the first episode will be entitled save the animalwoman save the world and in the second season he leaves to join the new hit "Fuller" tv show Buck Rogers.
After leaving a few "good" episode ideas of course...
by jonsnow
Jun 23rd, 2009
10:34:42 AM
Definetely don't need another trek tv series
by Miyamoto_Musashi
Jun 23rd, 2009
10:45:24 AM
need a few good movies first
Hopefully the creators realize the end is near...
by ShabbyBlue
Jun 23rd, 2009
11:11:55 AM
...and shape season 4 to wrap things up and bring as much closure as they can manage. Show some respect to the fans and try to wrap up some loose ends and not end it with a fucking cliffhanger that will never get resolved, as was done with other shows like Journeyman or Sarah Conner Chronicles, both of which were clearly not getting renewed at the time they wrote and filmed their "season finale". Heroes will be lucky to have a half season of 13 episodes to bring closure to the whole thing, so I hope they don't treat it like season 3 and give us an open-ended story arc for that first half with hopes of wrapping things up in a second half-season.
Damn shame.
by skydemon
Jun 23rd, 2009
11:22:28 AM
I feel bad for the HEROES cast and crews. They've been screwed by a crap writing staff. Overworked my ass, Fuller knew he better move on. What a shame, HEROES really could have been interesting had the writing been better all along.
I'm sure some of the cast are happy
by ShabbyBlue
Jun 23rd, 2009
11:25:18 AM
Hayden really wanted off this show so she can move on to her budding movie career (yeah right), and I think Zachary Quinto was getting tired of it too. He has a more promising future thanks not only to his popularity as Sylar, but also a well-received performance as Spock.
Fuller mouths sink ships
by spiceybiscuit
Jun 23rd, 2009
11:34:07 AM
Who cares..that show blows... Fuck NBC...can't wait for it to be canceled so they can do great programming like Night Rider and more 1/2 sitcoms that no one watches. Oh and cancel all the good shows at 10 so the Chin Leno can have a show that will tank in 6 weeks
"creators like J.J. and J.M.S who stick with their babies"
by turketron_2
Jun 23rd, 2009
12:25:56 PM
"creators like J.J. and J.M.S who stick with their babies to the end."

JJ? Um, excuse me sir have you ever heard of a show called Lost? And hell, was JJ even with Alias at the end of its run? Come on. I'm a fan of the guy but sticking with shows isn't exactly his MO nowadays.

I guess they finally found a way to
by DeCypher44
Jun 23rd, 2009
12:51:19 PM
kill Claire. Fuller's departure #2 is the final blow.
I like this show but still am amazed at how -
by MonkeyManReturns
Jun 23rd, 2009
01:23:39 PM
- they can screw it up. It is so easy to know how to save this show. Surely TV land has good writers other than Fuller?? Seriously...otherwise I'll take the job!
new trek show?!?!?!
by Mazzke
Jun 23rd, 2009
01:29:12 PM
How could they even have a trek TV show with the bizarre time travel thing they did in the movie? They'd either have to get the movie cast to do TV, which seems highly unlikely, or create a show about some other non-enterprise ship out there in that same time frame, which no one would care about since we never heard about ships as mythic as the Enterprise in the other "future" trek series. You can't move to a future "more current" time period given how Abrams' retarded "reboot" destroys what we know of the next few hundred years, and you can't use stuff from the old universe since it no longer exists. I don't get how a new TV show would work. If they could get the new cast to do TV, I'd watch that but that would be nearly impossible for at least a couple of the actors.

(And don't give me some nonsense about this is an alternate universe, so they can still use the old one. That spiel has already proven to be complete b.s. that they fudged to make people feel better. It has been shown that they just changed the timeline like the other 10 million star trek time travel stories before it. There's no goutee-universe, yesterday's enterprise, etc. alternate universe stuff going on.)
Fuller has already done some pretty good episodes
by Quin the Eskimo
Jun 23rd, 2009
02:15:07 PM
of trek spinoffs.
Balls
by Darkocity
Jun 23rd, 2009
02:18:52 PM
Wait, does this mean he's no longer at least a consultant?
Quality
by Toonol
Jun 23rd, 2009
02:59:22 PM
I think Heroes has maintained a fairly constant level of quality. The bulk of the 3rd season was about the same as the bulk of the 1st season; mediocre, with a few decent episodes.

The major problems with the 1st season weren't evident, because they were acceptable as part of a buildup; hanging plot threads, teases, unclear motivations. That can all be great as a precursor.

However, it soon became clear (mainly with the season 1 finally) that the show would never actually move to the next step. The characters would never man up. The teases and story hooks dropped would never be resolved, would never mean anything. There was no big arc, Heroes will only meander from point to point.

It's like if, in the Spider-man comic, the origin story stopped after the 'Peter tries to become a pro-wrestler' segment, and the remainder of the comic consisted of Peter trying to make money, date Betty Brant, and be occasionally conflicted about whether he was special or not.

What was wrong with Vol. 3 "Villians"
by Tall_Boy66
Jun 23rd, 2009
03:09:13 PM
the biggest fault in Vol. 3 - the characters jump motivation shamelessly from one cause to the next, mostly for the sake of twists. I get it, I GET IT! Lots of depowering, repowering, resurrections, deaths, etc. But, for crissakes, have any of you people who bitch actually sat down and read a comic book series for a long while? Or do you just go see Spider-Man and maybe have read The Dark Knight, once. The craziness and constant, unbelievable twists THAT is true to the comic book source, okay? Actually read comics instead of being a poser, then you'll know where the show is comming from.
what was wong?
by idrinkyourmilkshake
Jun 23rd, 2009
03:42:32 PM
toby wong? toby choo? toby choo, fucking charlie chan.Im sick of hearing it.I got madonna's big dick coming outa my left ear and toby-the-jap-i dont know who outta the other!
rfid
by Henry Fool
Jun 23rd, 2009
03:46:25 PM
I love how you left all that blank space in your post defending "Heroes". All that emptiness symbolizes exactly what sucks about the show now. Remember in Season One when the characters did things because they had motivation instead of because the story had to move forward?

Poetically, speaking the show hit its peak when Isaac died, a disturbing scene that was also strangely beautiful. A characteristic we saw all the time in shows like Buff and, Battlestar but NEVER see in Heroes anymore (except for Parkman's sky waltz in Cold Snap).

Honestly, I wish Heroes had been cancelled after its first year. Then we'd all be saying how great it would have been if only the network had had some vision and renewed it. Little we knew.

Similarly, I kind of wish Eddie Murphy had been murdered by a crazy fan in 1988, right before "Coming to America" came out. We'd all be saying, "Poor Eddie! He was so talented. Imagine how many great movies he'd have made if he'd lived."

Little we knew...
I could fix Heroes...
by BrannigansLaw
Jun 23rd, 2009
04:02:03 PM
... if I ever got the chance. In fact, fixing it is easy.

1. avoid dumb dialogue and things that normal people would NEVER say.

2. get rid of lame characters. Morehinder adds nothing to the overall story and is one of the greatest perpetrators of doing dumb shit that no human of even average intelligence would do.

3. don't hide the good shit! Battles that happen off-camera? LAME! If #2 is followed (salaries = biggest single expense), that would free up funds to focus more on the eye-candy... which is critical for such a high-concept show.

4. (now this is a biggie) WRITE BETTAH!! With less dumb characters there is room to focus on the remaining (and hopefully) best characters. One key is to write the stories as if there was no high-concept. For example, The Dark Knight is a very successfully executed maker; it works if you remove the costumes. In fact, Company Man is a good example; it was a solid story that could stand on its own without special effects.

There are other points, but those are the biggies. But alas... I will never get a shot at it...

Ed McMahon has passed. This is terrible...
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Jun 23rd, 2009
04:41:52 PM
http://tinyurl.com/mzr9k6
Mazzke
by FastEddie8139
Jun 23rd, 2009
05:03:25 PM
"That spiel has already proven to be complete b.s. that they fudged to make people feel better. It has been shown that they just changed the timeline like the other 10 million star trek time travel stories before it." Uh, how do you "prove" something to be true or untrue in a fictional universe?
What do I do?
by _Maltheus_
Jun 23rd, 2009
07:13:31 PM

I was going to stop watching this show, until I heard Fuller was coming back. So I shouldn't bother with S4. On the other hand, most of the shows I watch have been canceled in the last year, so beggars can't be choosers. So conflicted.

I think NBC should hire BrannigansLaw (or just about anyone on this TB) for quality control. Stupid, unrealistic characters drag this show down. And viewers have had blue balls ever since the S1 finale, so give us one decent fight already. I mean, just one. Is that so fucking hard? I would also add it's difficult to live vicariously through characters who just want to live like us schleps. Enough with whiny superheros who can't appreciate their good luck!

NickC has the scoop!
by TeenAngst73
Jun 23rd, 2009
07:36:15 PM
http://nickctv.wordpress.com/2 009/06/23/heroes-a-behind-the- screens-look-at-what-is-going- on-or-why-did-bryan-fuller-jum p-ship/#more-284
J.J. J.M.S. and Raimi
by jonsnow
Jun 23rd, 2009
07:55:17 PM
He did direct a few episodes as well as compose the intro music. I think J.M.S. script-writing, Sam Raimi directing and J.J. producing the next Trek TV series would be the obvious choice for the best in tems of quality. Raimi's Hercules show had that old Trek feeling to it. Perhaps because roman/greek mythology played a much greater role if any in the latter series. It should be filmed in New Zealand with the costume/set designers of Xena/Lord of the Rings to get that old earth look/feel that Enterprise seriously lacked.
Hereos is a mess.
by OutlawsDelejos
Jun 23rd, 2009
08:51:05 PM
I can't stands no more.
_Maltheus_, I agree...
by BrannigansLaw
Jun 23rd, 2009
09:11:54 PM
... about the whiny characters. They are impossible to relate to. Some say that there is no difference between the first season and the rest; they say we're just romanticizing the first season. Not true.

It was easier to relate to the characters in first season because they were, well... more relate-able. Their motivations were much clearer. For example, relating to Peter was easier because he had visions of flying and romanticized it, just as a normal human would. But in second season, he lost his memory (WTF?!) and, even so, acted outside the norms of what would be expected (E.G. if you discover you have a power and people are holding you captive, use your fuckin' power!!!). It became impossible to relate to the character, which greatly magnified the flaws that he already had.

Unfortunately, there are so many examples of missed opportunities with EVERY CHARACTER. In fact, the only character that seemed to perform consistently and inside the norms of expected behavior was Mr. Muggles!

Having said that, this show is fixable. I'd love to tackle this as a graphic novel to illustrate this point, but unfortunately, I don't have enough free time.

Fuller is overrated
by nicegoogly
Jun 23rd, 2009
09:49:14 PM
Just like Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies. Both original concepts, lost a lot of steam by the third and fourth episodes. Pushing Daisies I felt lost its charm because there was no real place to go.
"2. get rid of lame characters. Morehinder adds nothing...
by Big Jim
Jun 24th, 2009
09:31:18 AM
"...to the overall story and is one of the greatest perpetrators of doing dumb shit that no human of even average intelligence would do."

Like hang out for 3 years in your dead father's apartment and never once enquire if he might have had a storage area?

Sad news that Fuller left Heroes
by eagledmasters
Jun 24th, 2009
12:53:54 PM
I'm a fan of Fuller, but I know there are other good writers out there to keep Heroes going. And long live Heroes! It's awesome. I see a lot of Fuller praising on this site, and I'm about to watch Pushing Daisies for the first time. I have high expectations.
Fuller should just start
by thepoohguy
Jun 24th, 2009
01:34:03 PM
writing movies. That way, it's an hour and a half and done. Why does he stick to the small screen? To fix this show all you need to do is: 1.) Have Nathan turn into Sylar, He kills Peter and Claire and pretty much everyone, and then right when he goes to kill Angela, she wakes up in time a jail cell where Nathan comes to bail her out for stealing socks. We could start fresh.
No Fuller = No Watch
by Razorback
Jun 24th, 2009
04:26:20 PM
He was the only thing that could have made me care.
FastEddie8139
by Mazzke
Jun 25th, 2009
11:35:26 AM
Well, proven as far as these things can ever be proven, by consensus of opinions of folks who can be considered knowledgeable in the area of trek canon. The arguments for any sort of trek-style alternate dimensions were, at best, shallow and, at worst, retarded.

You're not a loser, Fast Eddie, you're a winner. Some men never get to feel that way about anything.
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