Why Heroes Sucks

[Warning, I feel strongly about this, so it might be a long post.]

It isn’t a question. It’s a fact. If you haven’t been watching Heroes, don’t start now.

Well, maybe you’d like it if you hadn’t been watching before and seen how good it could have been.

Let’s start with the dissection of why it was good in Season 1, so that we can all be on the same page. Season 1 started with a ton of interesting characters. Peter, Hiro, Claire, Mohinder, Nathan, Ando, and, my favorite, Sylar. (There’s more, but… well, we’ll get to everyone.)

The show interested people because it related to real life, and adjusting to having a power. The characters were three-dimensional, showing real emotions and motivations for their actions. Not only that, though. There was a common thread that tied every hero in the show together. This feeling that they needed to save a cheerleader, Claire, in order to save the world. This common thread continued throughout the show, and Sylar was the bad guy and everything was awesome. Then there came a twist where there was this company that was controlling and following people with powers, and you were concerned for your favorites. There’s a glimpse into the future and it’s amazing because Peter’s not whiny anymore, but cool and with tons of awesome powers.

And, to top it off, it had a great season finale where all of the Heroes came together, like destiny had sewn them together. Oh, and Peter blows up… with Nathan.

Then there was a huge break and when Season 2 started out, they began 6 months into the future. Which I believe is a problem with Heroes because of the obligatory “flashback” episode that has to happen.

6 Months into the future, Nathan looks perfectly healthy, is divorced, and Peter’s gone. Hiro’s in feudal Japan. Everyone else is separated again and not really interesting.

It’s at this point where we learn that someone is killing the founders of “The Company.” Which, most of us might have cared more about if it was still being run by someone cool, but it isn’t. It’s a guy with the power of Midas and turns stuff to gold… Whoopdy-doo. BUT, he’s got a hot daughter with a thing for electracuting people, and that’s awesome…

Oh, and Peter’s back, but he’s got amnesia and doesn’t remember that he’s the coolest character anymore, so he isn’t.

And the character you thought was pretty cool in Season 1 (Claire) who was so important to the plot, is just ANNOYING to the max for the entire season. With her WB Smallville romance and retard-reasoning… ugh.

Oh, and Ali Larter gets blown up… Which is so stupid.

THEN, the Writer’s Strike happened and the poop just misses the fan for the finale. They end the season on episode 13 with a very quick, “Oh crap, lets try to wrap up every loose end we have tonight” kind of episode. With a “cliff-hanger” ending that fans have to wait 1.5 years for.

Season 3 started in the future, like big time future, and then goes back in time to the finale of last season. Where Peter is cool, but he’s trying to “fix” everything. We never quite find out what he “fixed” but he shot his brother to keep him from telling the world about the people with powers. Uh, okay?

Then, we find out that “everything is ruined now.” Which is basically code for, “we don’t know where this season’s going.”

Then a bunch of people that are the “worst of the worst” from Section 5 get out. But, they all get caught again pretty quick. Then there’s a formula or something. Hiro’s ANNOYING and like a 13 year old.

There’s another company that’s run by Peter and Nathan’s dead father… guess what? He’s not so dead. But, he seems to round up all the bad guys and take care of most of them. Then the formula gives Ando powers, but Peter’s dad takes everyone’s powers away.

An eclipse (just like in Season 1) happens, but this time, it lasts for a whole day and takes away everyone’s powers. For ONE STUPID EPISODE. Then they’re all back to normal. This was the ultimate turning point for this show because it is the time when you realize, once-and-for-all, that Heroes is craptacular, and will never again be good. Yep, that’s right. It all built up to this episode in my opinion.

That episode proved that all the characters are just serving the purposes of filling in the plot that the writer’s have set up, and don’t have real emotions or motivations. Just plot, and a dumb one at that.

Nathan’s a bad guy now. No build up to the turn. No remorse, just a quick judgment, and he’s a bad guy and Peter hates him and wants to kill him. What?!

Oh, but Peter doesn’t have his powers, but then he gets them back… sort of. End of chapter.

We start in the future again. Midseason. Nathan has gotten the government to hunt/capture the people with powers (hiding his own powers) and giving some get out of jail free cards to Claire and a bit of one for Peter. Doesn’t make much sense, but okay.

This is when we find out that Peter no longer has the power to absorb every power he comes in contact with that was going to turn him into an awesome hero, but instead can only get one power at a time… boring.

So, that leaves Sylar as the coolest character on the show. And, the only one that seems to have some semblance of real emotions and motivations. He’s still got all of his powers, and therefore is the best “hero” of them all at this point.

For those that haven’t been watching, the main idea that you get from Season 1 is that Sylar and Peter are archenemies and there’s going to be a showdown of epic proportions. That’s the idea you get. It never happens. We almost see it happen in Season 1′s future, but at this rate, Peter’s not going to get anything done. Sylar’s got no competition at this point, and we still don’t know how he got out of a burning building with a knife in the brain…

To recap: Ugh. Frankly, Heroe’s has got until the end of this season to re-hook me. Then, I’d gladly take one less show to watch. Although, there is a rumor that LOST and Heroes simply can’t be good at the same time. Like they’re polarity causes one to be negative whilst the other is positive. Seems right, because Season 3 of LOST sucked, but that was Season 1 of Heroes… And now, LOST is kicking some serious butt. Answering questions, and stuff. Yep, and Heroes sucks. Interesting theory.

What do you think of Heroes? Do you still like it in the midst of it being so utterly buried in garbage? One man’s trash is another man’s treasure I guess. Let me know!