It feels like a season finale. Peter goes to see Mohinder Suresh but Sylar attacks him upon arrival. Fighting him off, Peter becomes invisible, but Sylar foils the attempt at evasion by spraying glass shards everywhere, one of which strikes Peter in the back of the head, killing him. Still more focused on his campaign and his family, Nathan holds a press conference where he broaches the subject of depression.
He reveals that his father suffered from it, and that it eventually led to his death. Why did everybody need to lighten up? Well, io9 's Charlie Jane Anders probably hit the nail on the head when she wrote that with its third season, Heroes "was just trying so damn hard. The theme of the third season was "Villains," turning its more heroic characters into jerks and Sylar into a good guy. Once again, an apocalypse was introduced right away, this time the Earth exploding from the inside. They tried to rekindle the urgent suspense that permeated season 1, but it never materialized.
Rather than believing what they were watching was terribly important, viewers watched actors trying very hard to convince them that everything they said and did was terribly important Part of the reason Heroes failed to impress after its first season is that afterwards, the show never seemed to know what it wanted to be or what to do with itself. In Heroes ' first excellent season, its characters learned to cope with their new abilities.
Once they couldn't get any more from "How do we deal with these powers," they moved on to "how did we get these powers" by creating X-Files -esque conspiracy backstories for older characters like Angela Petrelli Cristine Rose and Hiro's father Kaito Nakamura George Takei. In other words , Heroes was a show about people with powers freaking out about the fact they had powers, and it never figured out how to be a show about anything but that.
Think of Marvel's Fantastic Four when they first emerged from their rocket crash back in , with each of the quartet panicking in their own unique way as their respective abilities emerged.
Now imagine if the entire narrative history of Fantastic Four was just those four characters still at the rocket site, freaking out about their powers — that's Heroes in its entirety. Ordinary people made extraordinary by superpowers and in a constant state of needing to chill out about it and move on.
A frustrating comic book trope is the flip-flopping of popular supervillains. One of the biggest superhero movies of — Venom , originally one of Spider-Man's darkest villains — is a perfect example. If a supervillain gets popular enough, the comic book companies either make them good guys, or at least make them straddle the fence between Justice League and Legion of Doom.
There's nothing inherently wrong with redeeming a villain, but when you make a villain become a hero, you risk eradicating exactly what's so engaging about the character.
Sylar became another unfortunate member of the funnybook flip-flopping fraternity. Zachary Quinto masterfully played the chilling and terrifying villain Sylar of Heroes ' first season, but his alliances became more fluid as of season 3.
When he was captured by the clandestine organization known as the Company, Angela Petrelli convinced Sylar she was his mother. After some road trips, Sylar went back to the dark side, only to then go back to the good guys again by the end of season 4, helping against Samuel Robert Knepper and his carnie villains.
By making Sylar flip-flop, the writers of Heroes gutted the proverbial goose of its golden egg. While Sylar was just straight-up bad, there was no scarier villain anywhere on television. Sometimes you've just got to keep the bad guys bad. Sylar may have been Heroes ' best bad guy most of the time , but when it came to the good guys, Masi Oka as the wide-eyed innocent Hiro was one of the best reasons to watch the show.
While most of the show's good guys came off as much as victims to their new abilities as they were beneficiaries, Hiro was the Billy Batson of Heroes — a boy though grown with his dreams of superpowers magically fulfilled.
Watching the first season of Heroes , viewers loved the sweet and lovable Hiro and couldn't wait to see him finally meet up with the show's other protagonists and prove himself against Sylar. During the battle against Sylar in the first season's finale, Hiro finally fulfilled the prophecy found in the pages of a comic book and ran Sylar through with his sword. NBC has opted to cancel it anyway. Heroes follows a group of ordinary humans who have developed extraordinary powers that end up affecting their lives in positive and negative ways.
The network had reportedly been considering three options to wrap up Heroes — a 13 episode order for mid-season, an order of four to six episodes that could be aired over a couple nights in the fall, or to just cancel the series outright.
The network has a large selection of new hour-long dramas to choose from and so, has decided to cut Heroes. On the bright side, NBC is supposedly working on a plan to wrap up the series. Right now, it sounds like there will be a two or four hour event that will air mid-season. My Next Tweet will explain!! What do you think? It's arguable that nothing was the same after that first, tightly plotted first season in which everything came together around one simple phrase, "Save the cheerleader, save the world".
Sadly, as the show progressed, it turned out that the near-perfect first season was something of an anomaly. From the disastrous amount of time Hiro spent trapped in ancient Japan to the increasingly ridiculous number of powers both Peter Petrelli and his nemesis, Sylar, managed to acquire, it became obvious that Heroes was a show buckling under the weight of its own mythology. Meanwhile, the tantalising hints of a dystopian future world where no one could be trusted turned out to be less than enticing once we realised that the writers had no idea how to get their Heroes there.
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