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Okay, I'm saying this outside spoiler-cut because some people on my flist asked about watching Heroes after I'd talked about the show in past posts -- as of about 2/3 of the way through season three, I'm just about done with the show. The only reason why I'm still watching is because my husband is still enjoying it and there are still a couple of characters that I like, but wow, they've done a stellar job of destroying nearly everything that I liked about the show in the first season. Basically it's degenerated into a confusing, nonsensical mess in which most of the characters are utterly unlikable ... in other words, it's Lost all over again, only with less sex.
Meh.
ETA: Heroes season 3 spoilers in comments.
Meh.
ETA: Heroes season 3 spoilers in comments.
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Yes! I couldn't agree more!
I stopped watching, and Brilliant Husband continued because he still liked it (a little). Wonderful man that he is, if there were good Hiro and Ando scenes, he would note them and then call me in to see just those on the TiVo before he deleted each episode. I was able to watch The Hiro and Ando Show significantly longer than I watched Heroes.
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SPOILER for later in Heroes
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I watched through season 2 and decided I had to stop. I watched the first ep of S3 and was just done. Like you said, they'd managed to destroy everything awesome about it.
In my mind, that show ended with the S1 finale.
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Since I'm already as far along as I am, I kinda want to push on to the end just to know what happens, but I'm increasingly just not caring.
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(Even though I'm not reading Homestuck - yet - that icon makes me grin every time you use it. :D)
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Heh, this icon cracks me up, it's why I use it! (given the context it's from in the comic, it's either hideously inappropriate or...hideously appropriate...)
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I think the big thing that's driving me crazy about Heroes right now is that they can't seem to pick a direction -- in terms of either story arc-ness or characterization -- and stick to it. It's total melodrama overload; EVERY EPISODE they are throwing brand-new giant earth-shattering revelations at us, or having good characters go bad and bad characters go good, and then it flip-flops or they somehow erase the effects of the Big Revelation Du Jour so that it never mattered at all. For example, and these are just a few examples from the last 10-12 episodes:
- Sylar turned out to be a long-lost Petrelli for about half the season, except it turned out Mom Petrelli was lying about that in order to manipulate him, so never mind.
- There was another eclipse, and a whole big foreshadowy thing about how EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE AT THE ECLIPSE!!!eleventy!!, except what actually happened is that everyone lost their powers for an episode, and then it reset back like it was before. (Though everyone losing their powers was pretty awesome, actually - it was probably my favorite episode this season just for the sheer hilarity of seeing everyone try to use their powers and failing and making their "WTF" faces, especially since a lot of them found out about it when they were in the middle of a fight or, in Nathan and Peter's case, in midair.)
- There was a whole long search for a top-secret formula that gives "normal" people mutant powers, which involved going back in time and some characters getting killed and finding all the missing pieces of the formula and then ... we were shuffled off to another storyline immediately, and I think the only overall effect of that particular storyline in the long term is that Nathan is now evil again for no particular reason.
- Nathan and Peter's father turned out to be alive! And was a Big Bad for a couple of episodes! But now he's dead. So never mind.
THE WHOLE SEASON HAS BEEN LIKE THIS. It's the most frustrating thing ever. It's constant sensory overload; every episode they're teetering on the verge of another apocalypse, or they're embarking on a search for the MOST IMPORTANT MAGUFFIN EVER, or they're about to go up against THE WORST BAD GUY OF ALL TIME. Change. Rinse. Repeat. I've lost track of how many apocalyptic futures we've seen at this point. (Although the one in which Peter traveled forward in time to fix things and then ended up getting Sylar's powers, blowing up California and killing most of the other characters was so hilariously over-the-top that we were cracking up throughout. "Okay! I just totally fucked up THIS future! Do-over! Do-over!")
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And that's the biggest problem of all, I guess -- they are so horribly inconsistent with the characters that I no longer believe in them as people. Very little of what they've done this season has made any kind of sense for actual human beings. They're turning into little plot icons being pushed around by the needs of the script. And I'm a character reader/viewer first and foremost -- if I can't root for the characters, and empathize with them, and believe in them, I'm not going to stick around for the rest of it.
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...Also I get annoyed with nonsensical time travel (don't get me wrong, I love a good twisty bit of timey-wimey, but time travel is an awfully volatile plot element and it's so easily screwed up, and the writers of Heroes did not have what it took, from what I saw...) OTOH I am fond of ridiculous apocalypses! (apocalypsi? XD) But from what you're saying, yeah, I think I made the right choice to quit...
...Though I'm still curious how it all turned out. Maybe I should turn to TwoP...!
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