Jaye Waye - Heroes the TV show

12:51 pm - Heroes the TV show

Ok so Heroes basically starts and ends the same every volume -- you can't even say season anymore.

1. They kill Sylar (except in volume 2 where he actually gets his powers back)
2. Nathan Petrelli starts out bad, but soon becomes the good guy
3. Clarie hates her daddy, then loves her daddy
4. Parkman gains self-confidence and stands his ground
5. Noah joins "the company" and his secrets are all revealed and he's not actually the bad guy you all might have thought
6. Noah makes more secrets
7. Ali Larter Dies
8. Ali Larter screws Nathan Petrelli (not in volume 4)
9. A different pretty blonde dies (Elle, Daphne, waitress Camille, Claire's biological mom)
10. Sylar finds out about his real parents
11. People lose or simply forget their powers (you know for when the story calls for it)
12. Peter Petrelli fights with his mom and brother, gets all confused, and has some really uncomfortable moments with his niece
13. Hiro and Ando end up road tripping
14. The producers fail to capture your interest with their new attractive Hero
15. Parkman gets a child (you'd think that he'd be driving a mini-van by now)
16. Nathan Petrelli almost dies or in fact does die
17. Peter Petrelli saves the day
18. Very un-epic final battle scene


Anyhow, the show is one big repeat after the another. Which is funny considering they changed the writing staff at least once.


But I should add that the show sometimes does really interesting things. Sending Hiro back in time to meet and ultimately become his childhood hero. That's good stuff. However, the show seems to always fall short of doing it justice. Take for example the ending of the most recent volume, volume 4.

Sylar kills Nathan Petrelli, in a pretty unimpressive epic final fight (another common theme, I'm adding that to the list above). He is then captured by Peter with a clever switch-a-roo trick. Which was pretty good, if you consider that to do this Peter and the rest knew they were going to let someone close to the President die.

So to resolve the situation (and possibly also to resolve Zachary Quinto leaving the show, he is a big movie star now) Angela Petrelli, Noah and Parkman decide that Sylar will replace Nathan.

You see earlier in the season Sylar gained the ability to shape shift and even earlier than that he learn how to get a person's memory/life story. So Parkman wakes up Sylar and controls his mind to make him believe that Sylar no longer exists and that he is now Nathan. So now the Senator is alive, Sylar is basically dead, a mother has her son, and the heroes have a person in DC who will fight for their rights.

Leaving Noah, Angela, and Parkman with one big secret and Nathan Petrelli is now just a suit that Sylar unknowingly wears.

You see this is good story with a lot of awesome scenarios possible. But I imagine the good people at NBC are just going to fall short on this one. For example they already failed to realize that this premise is based on really stupid logic. Why? Because Nathan didn't actually have to stay dead. You see they've already showed us that Clarie's blood can heal people even after death. This I believe happens twice in the series, once with her dead father Noah. Something Noah is aware of, but just happens to forget at this very moment.

So the people in the room decide that the best course of action is to turn Sylar into Nathan? Not get Clarie --who is rooms away-- to sprinkle a little blood on her dead biological dad's corpse? Seriously people!

Oh and dead Ali Larter is back. And I'm not sure, but I think she's pissed. It is sort of challenging to figure out what her motives are, considering she's naked and smirking 50% of her screen time.

Now I'm no writer, but I think I get this one simple concept. When telling the further adventures of ______, you don't repeat the same struggles/story. You give the characters new challenges, new ways to grow. This show fails that on every level.

Parkman is a very good example of that. First season Parkman was very easy to relate to. And as Parkman grows, so do we the audience. So next season, you tell a different story and put Parkman through different challenges. You see, we the audience aren't the same, we also grew and matured. So should your characters.



/end rant