| Heroes is one of the shows that belonged to the | | | | However, trouble started by the end of first season. |
| "Golden Era of American Television." Rightfully so, their | | | | They whole season was setting up for the unthinkable |
| show is one with a unique twist on a plot that has | | | | blowing up of New York City. And then they didn't. |
| been told and re-told one too many times. | | | | When a show is too coward to pursue an original idea |
| When they did their pilot last four seasons ago, it | | | | that made the show exciting anyway, it is surely as |
| signaled not just the new found ability of writers and | | | | sign that they are not willing to take risks. Risks are |
| creators to come up with exciting ways to produce | | | | what make a show great. |
| great drama but also of the market's preparedness to | | | | Then the writers' strike happen. The show found itself |
| embrace storylines that are not necessarily common. It | | | | without the original writer who made came up with the |
| was really going well for Heroes, the ratings, the fad, | | | | characterizations and all. The raw idea fell out. The |
| the trend they seemed to have started all signaled that | | | | character found itself moving around a situation which |
| their shows is bound to be one of those that will be | | | | they didn't create nor influenced. The heroes suddenly |
| remembered decades and decades after it folds. | | | | became victims. They started gaining their powers, |
| Just as a recap, the show is about seemingly | | | | then losing them, then changing them, as if the writers |
| unconnected ordinary joes that had one thing in | | | | couldn't quite decide what to do with them. |
| common - a genetic mutation that gave them extra | | | | Worse, there was no plot. You don't know what you |
| ordinary abilities. It sounds like X-men. The difference is | | | | are waiting for and found no sense in watching them. |
| that they didn't have a professor X that knew all the | | | | Some reports says that the network is thinking of a |
| answers to their questions and is ready to guide them. | | | | shortened final season to wrap up the serialized show |
| They all were imperfect living in an imperfect world in | | | | but nothing is final yet. |
| imperfect circumstances. | | | | |