While I have serious issues with NBC’s “Heroes”, I still watch every week. As I have said repeatedly on Collider, if you put people with super powers on TV, I’ll tune in. I know I have a problem.
Anyway, each season I always think this will be the year “Heroes” gets it right. They’ll finally write the show with some intelligence and come up with an interesting storyline. But then the show premieres, and I get mad that I still watch. So will this be the year “Heroes” turns it around? Probably not. But they have added Robert Knepper and Ray Park, so they’ve at least done something right. Anyhow, NBC has just released the synopsis for the two hour premiere airing September 21st, so if you want to know what the premiere is about, click the jump. When NBC releases clips I’ll post them.
“HEROES”
“ORIENTATION / JUMP, PUSH, FALL”
09/21/2009 (08:00PM – 10:00PM) (Monday) : “VOLUME FIVE: REDEMPTION” MAKES A SPECIAL TWO-HOUR DEBUT WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF A MYSTERIOUS CARNIVAL CLAN WHOSE INTENTIONS ARE UNKNOWN, WHILE FAMILIAR FACES ADJUST TO NEW STAGES OF THEIR LIVES THAT WILL CHALLENGE THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF THE WORLD AND THEIR ABILITIES. ROBERT KNEPPER JOINS THE CAST. RAY PARK, ZELJKO IVANEK, MADELINE ZIMA, AND DAWN OLIVIERI GUEST STAR — Claire (Hayden Panettiere) struggles with adjusting to her new life in college when a mysterious death thrusts her into the spotlight once again. Elsewhere, Hiro (Masi Oka) and Ando (James Kyson Lee) continue their noble quest to help people by promoting their abilities. Angela (Cristine Rose) fears Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) will soon discover his true identity; while Matt (Greg Grunberg) is haunted by an unexpected visitor seeking something he has lost. Tracy Strauss (Ali Larter) and H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) join forces, looking for the key to unlock the motive behind a horrific crime. Meanwhile, Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) uses his abilities for good, but he is soon called upon to aid an old friend. While the heroes adjust to their new surroundings, a mysterious carnival clan, led by ringleader Samuel (Robert Knepper), sets their sights on familiar faces. James Kyson Lee and Zachary Quinto also star. Rachel Melvin, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Ashley Crow, Lisa Lackey, Assaf Cohen, and Saemi Nakamura also guest star.
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Yeah, I suppose I’ll still watch as well, despite a few disappointments last year. Frankly, as long as Ali Larter is on screen, I’ll watch no matter what.
By the way, during the season finale last year did anyone catch Sylar’s creepy come-on to Hayden Panetteire’s character? Isn’t she supposed to be 17? And he had her drink wine, too. And all this time I thought Sylar’s sin was just killing people.
Yeah, I suppose I’ll still watch as well, despite a few disappointments last year. Frankly, as long as Ali Larter is on screen, I’ll watch no matter what.
By the way, during the season finale last year did anyone catch Sylar’s creepy come-on to Hayden Panetteire’s character? Isn’t she supposed to be 17? And he had her drink wine, too. And all this time I thought Sylar’s sin was just killing people.
Yeah, I suppose I’ll still watch as well, despite a few disappointments last year. Frankly, as long as Ali Larter is on screen, I’ll watch no matter what.
By the way, during the season finale last year did anyone catch Sylar’s creepy come-on to Hayden Panetteire’s character? Isn’t she supposed to be 17? And he had her drink wine, too. And all this time I thought Sylar’s sin was just killing people.
Sadly this show will never be good, as evidenced by Tim Kring sending Bryan Fuller packing out of fear for his job being taken. I too watch, but what a waste of an hour.
Watching Heroes is like when I watch my home town Cubs, always have to say, Maybe next Year.
Sadly this show will never be good, as evidenced by Tim Kring sending Bryan Fuller packing out of fear for his job being taken. I too watch, but what a waste of an hour.
Watching Heroes is like when I watch my home town Cubs, always have to say, Maybe next Year.
I gave up on the show half-way through last year. Now that they’ve added Madeline Zima to the cast, though… I’m tempted to give it another shot.
The show would have been so much better if they had killed Claire off a couple years ago. She has to be the worst character (and actress) in television history.
I gave up on the show half-way through last year. Now that they’ve added Madeline Zima to the cast, though… I’m tempted to give it another shot.
The show would have been so much better if they had killed Claire off a couple years ago. She has to be the worst character (and actress) in television history.
I gave up on the show half-way through last year. Now that they’ve added Madeline Zima to the cast, though… I’m tempted to give it another shot.
The show would have been so much better if they had killed Claire off a couple years ago. She has to be the worst character (and actress) in television history.
Watching Heroes for me was like being in an abusive relationship.
Sure, the first 23 episodes were good. Not great, but I could look at the good times- Future Hiro’s first appearance and Company Man made me happy (Both Fuller scripted episodes if my memory serves…)… But then, the first season finale landed and I’d felt as if I’d been cheated on and then punched in the eye. Not only did it invalidate its own time travel rules and successfully rip off Days of Future Past and The Watchmen-but it also delivered the most underwhelming, anti-climactic battle in the history of television.
But then, Heroes promised that it’d get better. And for the first few episodes of season 2, I believed it.
However, episode after episode it continued to betray me- and suddenly, the good times in season 1 didn’t seem so good anymore by comparison.
I stuck with them through the horrible special effects throughout Claire’s flyboy twink boyfriend’s scenes. I bit my tongue as the time travel forming the backbone of the series continued to unravel itself into an incomprehensible mess. I pretended not to care whenever seemingly dead characters would come back along with a convenient reason for their return. Hell, I even stuck with Heroes as it spent more of its time focusing on the horribly written Telemundo twins to an anti-climactic and ultimately useless conclusion. Still remembering the good times, I sucked it up and wasted an hour each week, even though I knew deep down that Heroes wasn’t for me.
By mid-second-second season Heroes promised that it would get better. It’d change. It knew that it had made mistakes and was moving to correct them.
And, like a well-abused spouse hung up on the good times, I believed it.
However, Heroes didn’t learn from its mistakes, it simply made new ones in addition to its old trappings. Suddenly, characters began to completely act out of character, suiting the writer’s needs for that episodes. It began to crack at the seams and show that there was no grand design, no larger picture in mind. The writers were winging it (and doing a horrible job doing so).
Indeed, Tim Kring didn’t even have a show bible written until the summer between Seasons 2 and 3!
So, I quit. I left Heroes and almost never looked back.
Sure, there was that one drunken night that I heard that Bryan Fuller was back. Figuring maybe there was some good left in Heroes, I spent one more night with Heroes. For old times sake…
…And Heroes raped me.
It tied me to the radiator and raped me.
Right in the mouth.
And then, as a final act of evil, it took a shit on my floor before leaving.
So no more, Tim Kring. You’re a hack who tried to cash in on Superhero subculture without understanding how it works. You’re unoriginal, untalented and unable to admit your mistakes until they’re toppling down on you. To make matters worse, you’ve let several people far more talented than you (Jeph Loeb and Bryan Fuller to name a couple) fall on the grenade that YOU YOURSELF threw at Heroes- so that you could continue to f*ck it up and not have your ego bruised.
At this point, the only thing that could bring me back would be a full on hardcore rug-munching scene between Claire and her lesbian roommate.
With superpowers.
Watching Heroes for me was like being in an abusive relationship.
Sure, the first 23 episodes were good. Not great, but I could look at the good times- Future Hiro’s first appearance and Company Man made me happy (Both Fuller scripted episodes if my memory serves…)… But then, the first season finale landed and I’d felt as if I’d been cheated on and then punched in the eye. Not only did it invalidate its own time travel rules and successfully rip off Days of Future Past and The Watchmen-but it also delivered the most underwhelming, anti-climactic battle in the history of television.
But then, Heroes promised that it’d get better. And for the first few episodes of season 2, I believed it.
However, episode after episode it continued to betray me- and suddenly, the good times in season 1 didn’t seem so good anymore by comparison.
I stuck with them through the horrible special effects throughout Claire’s flyboy twink boyfriend’s scenes. I bit my tongue as the time travel forming the backbone of the series continued to unravel itself into an incomprehensible mess. I pretended not to care whenever seemingly dead characters would come back along with a convenient reason for their return. Hell, I even stuck with Heroes as it spent more of its time focusing on the horribly written Telemundo twins to an anti-climactic and ultimately useless conclusion. Still remembering the good times, I sucked it up and wasted an hour each week, even though I knew deep down that Heroes wasn’t for me.
By mid-second-second season Heroes promised that it would get better. It’d change. It knew that it had made mistakes and was moving to correct them.
And, like a well-abused spouse hung up on the good times, I believed it.
However, Heroes didn’t learn from its mistakes, it simply made new ones in addition to its old trappings. Suddenly, characters began to completely act out of character, suiting the writer’s needs for that episodes. It began to crack at the seams and show that there was no grand design, no larger picture in mind. The writers were winging it (and doing a horrible job doing so).
Indeed, Tim Kring didn’t even have a show bible written until the summer between Seasons 2 and 3!
So, I quit. I left Heroes and almost never looked back.
Sure, there was that one drunken night that I heard that Bryan Fuller was back. Figuring maybe there was some good left in Heroes, I spent one more night with Heroes. For old times sake…
…And Heroes raped me.
It tied me to the radiator and raped me.
Right in the mouth.
And then, as a final act of evil, it took a shit on my floor before leaving.
So no more, Tim Kring. You’re a hack who tried to cash in on Superhero subculture without understanding how it works. You’re unoriginal, untalented and unable to admit your mistakes until they’re toppling down on you. To make matters worse, you’ve let several people far more talented than you (Jeph Loeb and Bryan Fuller to name a couple) fall on the grenade that YOU YOURSELF threw at Heroes- so that you could continue to f*ck it up and not have your ego bruised.
At this point, the only thing that could bring me back would be a full on hardcore rug-munching scene between Claire and her lesbian roommate.
With superpowers.
Watching Heroes for me was like being in an abusive relationship.
Sure, the first 23 episodes were good. Not great, but I could look at the good times- Future Hiro’s first appearance and Company Man made me happy (Both Fuller scripted episodes if my memory serves…)… But then, the first season finale landed and I’d felt as if I’d been cheated on and then punched in the eye. Not only did it invalidate its own time travel rules and successfully rip off Days of Future Past and The Watchmen-but it also delivered the most underwhelming, anti-climactic battle in the history of television.
But then, Heroes promised that it’d get better. And for the first few episodes of season 2, I believed it.
However, episode after episode it continued to betray me- and suddenly, the good times in season 1 didn’t seem so good anymore by comparison.
I stuck with them through the horrible special effects throughout Claire’s flyboy twink boyfriend’s scenes. I bit my tongue as the time travel forming the backbone of the series continued to unravel itself into an incomprehensible mess. I pretended not to care whenever seemingly dead characters would come back along with a convenient reason for their return. Hell, I even stuck with Heroes as it spent more of its time focusing on the horribly written Telemundo twins to an anti-climactic and ultimately useless conclusion. Still remembering the good times, I sucked it up and wasted an hour each week, even though I knew deep down that Heroes wasn’t for me.
By mid-second-second season Heroes promised that it would get better. It’d change. It knew that it had made mistakes and was moving to correct them.
And, like a well-abused spouse hung up on the good times, I believed it.
However, Heroes didn’t learn from its mistakes, it simply made new ones in addition to its old trappings. Suddenly, characters began to completely act out of character, suiting the writer’s needs for that episodes. It began to crack at the seams and show that there was no grand design, no larger picture in mind. The writers were winging it (and doing a horrible job doing so).
Indeed, Tim Kring didn’t even have a show bible written until the summer between Seasons 2 and 3!
So, I quit. I left Heroes and almost never looked back.
Sure, there was that one drunken night that I heard that Bryan Fuller was back. Figuring maybe there was some good left in Heroes, I spent one more night with Heroes. For old times sake…
…And Heroes raped me.
It tied me to the radiator and raped me.
Right in the mouth.
And then, as a final act of evil, it took a shit on my floor before leaving.
So no more, Tim Kring. You’re a hack who tried to cash in on Superhero subculture without understanding how it works. You’re unoriginal, untalented and unable to admit your mistakes until they’re toppling down on you. To make matters worse, you’ve let several people far more talented than you (Jeph Loeb and Bryan Fuller to name a couple) fall on the grenade that YOU YOURSELF threw at Heroes- so that you could continue to f*ck it up and not have your ego bruised.
At this point, the only thing that could bring me back would be a full on hardcore rug-munching scene between Claire and her lesbian roommate.
With superpowers.
Amen. I watched until Angela, completely out of character, allowed Sylar to assume the identity of Nathan when Nathan died. Angela Petrelli would NEVER have allowed this travesty! After that, I had an anti-desire to watch the current season.
Amen. I watched until Angela, completely out of character, allowed Sylar to assume the identity of Nathan when Nathan died. Angela Petrelli would NEVER have allowed this travesty! After that, I had an anti-desire to watch the current season.