Comments on: Heroes fires Alexander and Loeb

By: Rodney

Rodney — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:48:01 +0000

Sorry… Benology is just a forum lurker and has no reason to be involved in this.

Tell this Benology nobody to get an agent like everyone else in TV with a job.

By: Cory innes

Cory innes — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:43:30 +0000

I am a Benologist, just add Benology to the cast.

By: vargas

vargas — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:11:57 +0000

Heroes is fading fast, which is too bad because it used to be a badass show. maybe they ought to hand the whole thing over to J. Michael Strazynski. He’d know what to do with it.

By: SlashBeast

SlashBeast — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:21:41 +0000

The first season was amazing mostly because it was still new and could get away with not explaining things. The second season started the downspiral when the plot took forever to get going. The third season is a vast improvement over the second and is showing promise but who knows where it could go?
I think there are a few main problems with the series.
- Keeping around useless characters. Maya should have been killed off, she was so pointless and only stuck around because she was a nice piece of ass.
- No character growth. Hiro is the same dweeb, Matt still doesn’t know what he’s doing, the only character making any progress is Claire.
- Underused characters. Mr. Bennet is by far the most interesting character in the series yet he’s kept on the sidelines for most of the episodes. They also got rid of several characters such as the Haitian who was a very interesting character.
- Illogical powers. No attempt has been made to establish limits on powers or how explain how any of the powers work.
- Terrible writing. The writing for Heroes has become attrocious, leaving massive plot holes and characters speaking terrible dialogue. How does Sylar get his powers from brains, does he eat them? What happened to Matt’s wife and what’s the significance of the dream with her and the baby?
It’s issues like these which have been pestering me.

By: Danny V

Danny V — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:45:10 +0000

Yes I looked over “Season 3 Nathan shot Nathan”.
It seems fesiable.

By: Vid

Vid — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:00:26 +0000

The reason why this show has gone downhill is that they did not set clear limits on the characters with multiple abilities (ie Peter, Sylar) and gave these characters too many abilities in the first place. The writers conveniently forget many of the powers these characters have in order to suit the plot.

The writers have no idea how to handle time travel and again do whatever suits the plot.

Characters often make the dumbest decisions to suit the plot.

The writers seem to have started with a fixed ending in mind without any thought as to whether such an ending could naturally evolve with the set of characters they have. It’s the reason why Season 1 ended on such a down note. They made it too clear how it was going to end and then when they got to it they had effectively written themselves into a corner. They should drop the whole future prediction thing.

Every single “disaster” could be stopped if the Haitian were around.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:22:52 +0000

@Danny….. who exactly? Benology?

You are not talking about the message board fan who claims to have “a huge following” ?

By: Danny V

Danny V — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:14:47 +0000

I Hear Benology came up with Season three.
They should have stuck more to his Idea of season three.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:48:25 +0000

So everything with super powers is an XMen rippoff?

Clearly you have not watched Heroes, nor read XMen. Powers is the only similarity.

By: dani

dani — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:59:07 +0000

Meh, it’s like an X-men rip-off. I don’t get what’s the fuss about