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Ah, Heroes. As much as I love Milo Ventimiglia (Jess Mariano on Gilmore Girls), I’m pretty tempted to stop watching this show. Wow, way to not start off the season well! I’ve been pretty generous with this series so far – giving it multiple chances last season to get back my attention. Sometimes it did. I liked the character development. But this season, in attempting to “redeem” itself (so ironic given the Chapter is also Redemption), Heroes has introduced *way too many* new characters and I’m… not captivated.
We’re currently 4 episodes into the season and not much has happened. We’re still playing catch-up, it seems, with what all the characters (both old and new) are trying to achieve with their lives. Sometimes it’s boring (like with Claire – seriously seriously boring) and sometimes it’s repetitive (like with Hiro, played by Masi Oka who had a single guest-star appearance on Gilmore Girls ). But I can’t say there’s a single story-line I actually like right now. That’s not a good thing. Sure, I feel really sorry for Hiro. And everyone is struggling. But it feels so slow to me – what do you think?
The only thing that really captured my interest was the cliffhanger at the end of Monday’s episode, “Acceptance”, but at the same time… really? Isn’t that just re-using the same old plot line again?
What’s your assessment of Heroes so far this season? Are you going to continue to watch it?
Check out some more photos of Milo on Heroes after the jump!
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329 days ago
I got about 30 minutes into the first ep of the season and gave up. SO DULL.
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326 days ago
I had so many high hopes for this season, with the end of Volume 4 having the most rediculous plot hole ever, so big you could fit a Death Star in it, it was like watching a DC comic come to life.
And when I was watching the first episode of the new season all I could think was, ‘this is just Season 2 all over again, “oooo we’re all trying to have a normal life” et cetera, et cetera’ just the same tired refrain we’ve been having for so long. We know these characters, we’ve been through alot with these characters and now you’re trying to tell us they still think they can have a normal life?
It was only salvaged by Matt Parkman, trying to raise his kid, finally being back with the love of his life and basically telling Angela to fornicate herself with an iron stick.
but overal, I’ve given up on Heroes, they took it in a great direction but wrote themselves into a corner, and now they can’t clean up their own mess.
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295 days ago
we just got these eps in oz now so thought i would add my two cents worth – i like the stuff with matt and sylar but am getting a bit bored with the rest – SO agree with Dimbo, WHAT is the deal with claire? i dont mind the new characters tho, adds a bit of mystique. i kind of prefer the simpler plotlines, i thought season 3 was just nuts, they did more in each episode than other shows did in entire seasons (and there were SO many logic holes), and i think ended up wasting some great ideas which could have been fleshed out properly – i think the team could learn something about pacing from shows like buffy, which took a great concept and built each season’s storylines carefully. so again agree with Dimbo, they have run out of steam completely now it seems, but i’ll give it a few more weeks….
btw so not feeing the emma/pete thing…seriously that is his love interest??
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