More Heroes
I’m convinced this season (and last season?) of Heroes is just a convenient way of writing stories about heroes and villains fighting each other, without all those pesky character development or logical conclusions getting in the way. Hey, let’s just write every single season to be an apocalypse from the future!!! situation.
I love Sylar being wacky, don’t get me wrong. But the writers just switched Peter and Sylar’s roles for no reason other than dramatic purposes. Peter, maybe, but Sylar? Sylar is fucking evil. Sylar does not spend a day in a cell and magically come to the conclusion that he’s going to be a better person.
Another thing about Sylar: In the future, he apparently is still good and being a better-blah blah and then he paints some shit and BOOM he explodes a city. He got these powers, as it is implied, from Isaac Mendez and Ted Sprague. HERE’S THE THING, though, that the writers mentioned not even two weeks before in an interview: Sylar lost all his pre-Shanti virus powers even after he recovered, besides telekinesis and his original power, FOREVER. So how, in the future, does he use these powers? I don’t know. The writers don’t care, obviously. He just has THE HUNGERTM and nothing else matters.
Every story involving Parkman and a turtle needs to be ascended to godhood. I’d watch a full hour of Parkman following a turtle and trying to read its mind. Thank you, turtle! At least Parkman being an idiot and just doing whatever people tell him is generally in character…
I find contradictions every time I watch Heroes. That’s why I stopped watching it a long time ago. I’m into Fringe right now. Now that show is creative and interesting!
I’m getting the feeling that Heroes is trying to develop an alternate universe rather than a future one. They (the writers) haven’t revealed where the branch occurs, but it may have even ocurred in the ‘proper’ universe’s past, and progressed beyond the ‘now’ in that universe, so things that don’t make sense from a split in the ‘present’ would if things hadn’t just progressed as they did from last season.
I just heros season two. I hope it’s better than what I read here.
As soon as I saw in season two that there was going to be another apocalypse, I was very disappointed. I believe whatever you heard about that Sylar thing, but I thought he had just lost some of his powers. Even if that isn’t the case, it seems that several people’s powers overlap (like, having several different guys who can paint the future… so I guess there could be more nuclear esplodey guys out there).
There’s no avoiding the fact that lots of it is pulled out of somebody’s ass, though. That basically hits you right in the face whenever Dr. Sharesh (is that his name?) does any of his narrations.