Mercy Killing?
Here's a claim that Heroes is not doomed. Really? The ratings are way down, and they've been on a downward trend every year since the first. The show is expensive (though they seem to have cut down, just like Star Trek's third year), too. Why pick it up for a fifth year when things won't get better?
PS A friend says the show is big around the world, so it'll keep running. This makes some sense, since it has a multicultural cast and a lot of action. I'm sure it's bigger than a very American product like 30 Rock. The same friend says this season has picked up artistically. If it has, it's still not enough to go back in the "good" column.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:11 AM
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I haven't watched this week's episode yet, but last weeks was fun preciely because it took place during the first season (3 years ago when things were fun on the show). Sylar was the original Sylar, and Charlie was alive (didn't realize she's the same actress from Glee).
I feel like they are bit by bit erasing each of their worst mistakes following the first successful year (Charlie is alive, Nathan is now dead for good, Hiro can't travel in time without killing himself, etc.). Also the new carnival characters are pretty good.
But they never do anything! The show could be called "People with powers". The characters do indeed have powers. But why call it "Heroes"? Are any of them heroes? The whiny mind-reader? The self-absorbed time-traveller? The young and perky and invulnerable college girl? The whiny brother and his abrasive brother?
It's a good point - when the series started, I though it would about ordinary people becoming heroes in the traditional sense. Even in a non-traditional sense would have been good (I love the movie Unbreakable, for example).
Only Hiro has even thought about doing this in the past, and now he's dying. Peter is sort of doing it, but on a very small scale. It woul dbe nice to have the Heroes do something other than fight amongst themselves and defend themselves against the gov't.
They need a bigger battle to fight, but all the show has offered after the first year has been incoherent plots. How many weeks into the fourth season are we and we still don't know what those damn carnival folks, who already seem like refugees from HBO, want.
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