My sister turned me onto Heroes during its first season, which I downloaded and dug quite nicely.
It was cool to see comics on television, and superheroes stretching out their powers to the benefit, and detriment, of those around them. But the show’s tropes, plots and conceits have worn down, and Heroes is desperately in need of a rewrite and a rethink.
I explained the problem on Wired yesterday, and it was a stone-cold hit.
Dropping Heroes’ Dead Weight Could Shock Show Out of Slump
After taking hits for flip-flopping its heroes and villains and for pressing the rewind button too often, Heroes’ third season is now under attack from its own characters.
The NBC show took a particularly revealing stab in the heart from its comic relievers, Ando and Hiro (pictured above), in last week’s episode, “Angels and Monsters”:
Hiro: Every hero hits a slump now and then.
Ando: Slump? Are you kidding? We are the worst heroes ever.
He said it, we didn’t. But he’s right: The heroes in Heroes are the worst heroes ever. MORE @ WIRED