One of the best shows to come out of the small screen today is definitely Tim Kring’s Heroes. Strangers all over the world find out that they have one thing in common: they all possess a unique ability that makes them extraordinary people.
It started out great. People all over the world tuned in every week to find out what has happened to their favorite hero. They discuss the show with their friends, offline and online, and try to analyze the stories of the different heroes.
But somewhere along the way, something went wrong. It became too much too fast. People couldn’t keep up and suddenly, they disappeared. What happened? Was Heroes a victim of the sophomore slump? Why did they go from extraordinary to ordinary?
Season 1
Season 1 started out great. Here was this show that one would think was about ordinary people living ordinary lives. The same old boring stuff we see on TV everyday. But then we find out that they’re not ordinary people but people who have been gifted with extraordinary powers. What should they do with these powers? Use them to control people? Ignore them? Or use them to help others? No one could understand why they are the way they are. No one could understand how they got their powers.
The season ended great. In fact, it ended too great because that’s when the problem started. How do you top off your best work?
Season 2
The creators and writers decided to start with the beginning in this season of Heroes. What happened? How did they become who they are? How did they get their powers?
They transported Hiro Nakamura to the past, to the guy that started it all: Takezo Kensei, an English guy who does not even know he possesses any kind of power. Hiro then struggles to help Kensei use his powers to pave the way for the “future Heroes”.
Meanwhile, everyone else in the present times are confused and do not know how to try and live their lives after defeating the evil that was Sylar. At this point, we find out more about the company that studies their powers and the people responsible behind it.
During this time, the Writer’s Guild Strike was about to happen and could have been the cause of distraction for all the writers. They stopped writing the season after 8 episodes and left us halfway before the season was supposed to end.
In this season, they introduced new characters that could be pivotal to future stories but were honestly just annoying and distracting. We wanted to know what happened to the heroes, and they didn’t really give us that.
The season ends and everyone tries to forget about Season 2.
Season 3
By this time, people are wary. Will it be better this time around or will the slump of season 2 continue in this latest season? A lot of questions were asked and answered. Our favorite characters came back, and we found out more about them.
But primarily, the season hasn’t been off to a good start. There are still too many characters that the writers don’t know where to place. Story lines are good but underdeveloped. I don’t blame them. It’s hard to work on one story when you have to work on 10 others.
On that note, I honestly believe that the writers should stop introducing more and more characters every week. They should concentrate on a few and just shuffle back and forth between them, just like what they did in the first season.
