Poll: Heroes: Do you like it?

[effilctar]

Seeing as its superhero/power week here on the Escapist, I'm going to remain faithful to the theme and post a poll on the TV show Heroes. I have Series 1 on DVD and am planning to watch it, but I want to know your opinion first.

 

[Torque669]

I thought the first series was Genius. It was different, fun and it had fantastic characters. However since then it has been horrid. Its got Lost Syndrome with all the twists and turns and Pokemon syndrome with the huge amount of characters so you cant remember half of them.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I watched season 1. missed parts of season 2 so I stopped -_-
I'm waiting for a chance to buy the box set so I can actually watch it

 

[benwins]

Season 1 is awesome. season 2 is really boring, nothing heppens and season 3 was random but good. a bit of a mixed bag but overall i likes it.

and Noah is awesome

 

[ghalkhsdkssakgh]

I still really love it. At least half of this love is for Hiro. You'll know what I mean when you watch it.
Yah-Ta!

 

[Kajt]

It's okay, I don't watch it though.

 

[TimeLord]

I love it

 

[Wilfy]

Season 1 was incredible.
Season 2 went downhill a bit, but picked up at the end of the final episode.
Season 3 was split into 2 parts, with the second being much better than the first as some of the characters reverted to what they were like in the first season.

This is all my opinion though, you might think totally different.

 

[baratona]

i love it personally, the show and characters have been thought out really well even if there where a few plot holes due to messing with time travel

sometimes the online comics are better than the show so if heroes bombs due to budget cuts and people losing interest in the show they could definetly market it in comic form

i know i'd buy it

 

[fix-the-spade]

I can't stand it.

It has the same problem as most 'hit US TV dramas' in that it's the middle of story prolonged infinitely.

It suffers horribly from the same lack of direction that Lost has, the writers are just coming up with ever more contrived problems to solve and there's no 'end' in sight until an equally contrived plot point is reached (specifically, viewer numbers drop) and suddenly an end game begins that could have been written in at any point in the last x years.
24 (the first series at least) was great in this respect as you knew regardless that everything would be over in 24 episodes and that would be that, no staring into the infinite bollocks.

So no, I don't like it.

 

[Jirlond]

Season 1: Excellent
Season 2: Meh
Season 3: Half excellent, half meh!

 

[Blaghman]

Season 1 was great, and I choose to regard the other 2 seasons as being part of a different tv show altogether, which makes them far more watchable.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I agree the first season was the best one with the second being the worst. I'm glad I stuck through till the 3rd season as it got better. The plot is too twisted in the later seasons, and some parts are really predictable; I mean was there anyone who didn't figure who Rebel was after the first episode? I was actually surprised when it was revealed as I had convinced myself that it was too obvious. If you cut out the second series then the show is better on the whole.

P.S. I love it by the way as, thematically, it brings tv superheroes up to speed with what comics have explored since Watchmen

 

[CLEVERSLEAZOID]

24 (the first series at least) was great in this respect as you knew regardless that everything would be over in 24 episodes and that would be that, no staring into the infinite bollocks.

Thats laughable, considering 24 is now on its 8th season, whereas LOST has been confirmed as ending after season 6, something confirmed during season 3.

I consider Heroes' to be a watered down LOST with some X-Men thrown in :3 I personally never found the plot to grip me, and they'd do the whole LOST thing of sparking up a mystery... and then giving you an answer next episode. I actually like being left to think about it for a while.

 

[WolfThomas]

It suffers horribly from the same lack of direction that Lost has, the writers are just coming up with ever more contrived problems to solve and there's no 'end' in sight until an equally contrived plot point is reached (specifically, viewer numbers drop) and suddenly an end game begins that could have been written in at any point in the last x years.

Honestly I think its quite different to lost in narrative style. Rather than there being no end in sight, they've a lot of endings, each season they set up a goal or two and then achieve it:

1st season: Save the Cheerleader (saved 9 episodes in), save the world (saved at the end)
2nd: Convoluted goals because of the writer's strike, but they stopped a virus from killing 93% of the population
3rd: Volume 1 destroy the formula to create specials and defeat the villain (achieved) Volume 2 prevent the persecution of specials (achieved)

 

[high_castle]

I adored season one and thought it was one of the best shows on television. Season two started out pretty good, but became suddenly weaker as it went on. Part of this can be attributed to the writer's strike and having to finish the plot in compressed time. But season three has no excuses. It was just awful. I've never stopped watching a show midseason before, but I stopped with Heroes. I just couldn't take the breaks in character and the contrived plots. It was like they scrapped their old writers and brought in some fanfiction guys with no experience. Terrible.

 

[Trivun]

Season 1 was incredible.
Season 2 went downhill a bit, but picked up at the end of the final episode.
Season 3 was split into 2 parts, with the second being much better than the first as some of the characters reverted to what they were like in the first season.

This is all my opinion though, you might think totally different.

I agree almost completely with this, except that I don't think Season 2 was as bad as people say it was. Fine, it did go downhill a bit, it sure wasn't as good as Season 1, but Season 2 was still pretty damn epic and I still loved it. Volume 3 was a bit better, it showed they were getting back on form, and then Volume 4 was just amazing. I like how it isn't becoming too comic book-esque in that you can still understand the story without knowing all the back details (like, if you read a Marvel or DC comic you usually can't understand unless you trawl through decades of comics that give a massive background to characters and events, which is boring to me). However, as I say, Volume 4 was just brilliant. Agreed, the characters are reverting in a way back to what made them great, but in addition, they still have the personality quirks and so on that they developed through the other seasons which makes them each more deep and complex. For example, back in Season 1, Hiro was just a quirky geek who found he had this power and decided to do some good. Now, he's still like that, but he also has more reason and motive for doing what he does thanks to the whole story with his dad and Primatech. Plus, his new friendly rivalry with Ando adds another layer to his character. And it's things like that which help keep the show great.

P.S. Sorry for the Wall'o'Text.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

The first season was brilliant. Absolute gold, go watch it straight away.

The second season was alright, but not nearly as good as the first.

I can't speak for any other seasons, since I missed them.

 

[Professor M]

Season 1 was incredible.
Season 2 went downhill a bit, but picked up at the end of the final episode.
Season 3 was split into 2 parts, with the second being much better than the first as some of the characters reverted to what they were like in the first season.

This is all my opinion though, you might think totally different.

Genius summary there, totally agree

 

[Hutchy_Bear]

Season 1 was incredible.
Season 2 went downhill a bit, but picked up at the end of the final episode.
Season 3 was split into 2 parts, with the second being much better than the first as some of the characters reverted to what they were like in the first season.

This is all my opinion though, you might think totally different.

Pretty much this. I just didn't like the fact that they decided that everyone should have a power for some strange reasons.