February 25, 2010

Where Did It All Go Wrong?

I just wanted to briefly go over some ideas I had that I felt would've lent itself to a longer run for this series. It seems once the writers realized they couldn't have every season involve the world being in peril they just lost their steam. The last two seasons on Heroes was very up and down, and I feel the following should've been changed to allow for a better experience (in no particular order):

1. In season 1 we were treated to Future Ninja Hiro. When he stopped time while Peter was on the train, speaking in perfect English, a badass samurai sword strapped to his back, who didn't let out a big Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure-ish "woah"? That would've made a great storyline for sure, but I'll go one further: the writers became confused how to deal with the difficulty of handling Hiro's power in the storyline - why couldn't they have totally wiped out his powers in a future storyline and simply had him run around as an excellent swordsman ninja? What was the point of Hiro's Dad teaching him how to be a samurai (I know, I know, it was to be able to fight Sylar, but you know what I mean).

2. The show needed a Legion Of Doom (for lack of a better term): The entire Samuel/Circus of Freaks storyline needed to be right after the whole "Heroes/Villains" storyline. The main difference was this time the fate of the world wasn't going to hang in the balance like it did when Arthur Petrelli attempted it. Just your average bunch of super powered evil people headed by a main villain with delusions of grandeur. This should've been the next logical progression going from "save the world" to something just as menacing but not as critical.

3. They really should've explored the whole arc of Nathan Petrelli/Tracey having their powers come from a scientist. That was really a game changer. There was a few avenues they could've persued from that one nugget alone. Never should've had Tracey kill him so quickly. Or, if she needed to kill him so quickly at least let him reveal he was just a small cog in a much larger project. Implications were huge. And it all went "poof" as soon as it was introduced. Furthermore, it would've done wonders for the show to simply have Ali Larter removed from the show when Nikki/Jessica died. From that point on she served no purpose on the show except for eye candy.

4. I touched on this before, but they should've made Micah evil. He could've been like Marlon Brando in Apocolype Now, only Micad would've been surrounded by robots and eletronics that he spoke to. An entire season could've been filled out with this plot alone. This way you have the entire cast of Heroes joining together to fight a common evil enemy, with various episodes consisting of Heroes fighting robots.

5. After season 1, Claire should have went to college and that should've been the last we saw of her. She was never as important as she was in season 1. From that point on she only got in the way. It became annoying to see this tiny girl whose only ability was to not get hurt think she could battle villains. This last season she was naive to the point of endangering others. And I expected more out of her lesbian friend. I thought that was going to go somewhere.

These were just a few ideas that could've squeaked out a few good season of Heroes.

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