Heroes

I am starting to wonder if Heroes should have continued after the first season. I really enjoyed the first season, and the second season was okay. After seeing the DVD, I think it would have made a LOT more sense if they could have followed the original story arc. Stupid writers’ strike. But I digress.

This season just has me alternately yawning, and saying “WTF” repeatedly. I’m kind of wondering if the writers have run out of ideas, or if they have any clue where they’re taking all this in the long run. If there is a long run… I mean, the show is getting its ass kicked in the ratings by Dancing With the Stars. Seriously.

ZOMG SPOILERZ!

If you’ve never watched Heroes, then by all means, don’t read the following rant. It will give away every plot device detail ever used by the series ever.

Something “really bad” is going to happen, which may or may not be the fault of someone with or without “abilities”. These abilities are the result of evolution, unless they were artificially created. Anyway, the good guys have to stop the bad something, while the bad guys try to convince them that the bad something is actually a good something. Someone travels through time and/or has a vision of the future or past that changes everything.

The bad people turn out to be good people, and the good people just turn out to be regular people. The person you thought was in charge turns out to be manipulated by someone even more powerful than the last season. Then, there is an eclipse or something, and all the good guys and bad guys and everyone gets together to thwart whatever plan the newest most powerful person had in mind. Then, they get a few months, or sometimes just a few minutes until the next powerful dude reveals he or she has actually been pulling the strings all along.

So, yeah… the show is not only repeating itself, but keeps re-inventing itself all the time in quest of that next big “revolution” that will get people to stop watching washed up stars ballroom dancing and talking about Heroes again. I’m really trying to remain a die-hard fan, but throw me a bone here.

This show started out with a cool idea — that super heroes could just be regular people, and if they were, what would they do? I think the show would be a lot more interesting if they stopped trying to be so epic all the time, dialed back the destiny bullsh*t, and got back to telling stories about the people. People are cool.