A British View.My thoughts on the TV show “Heroes” has truly been a ride of ups and downs. It started off great, I watched the first season as it aired in America and thought it was great. By the time it reached England I was over it and having to wait so long for season two, which didn’t live up to expectations, kinda killed it for me. I forced myself to watch season three and four. It got better and it got worse but it never really grabbed me as an amazing show.
It’s been coming since season two but finally Heroes has been cancelled! Unlike Claire Bennet the show is finally dead and bar chatter of a final straight-to-TV film (designed to tie off most of the stories) it won’t be coming back. The ratings have dropped ridiculously and looking at the numbers I’m really surprised it even got a fourth season.
Personally, I hate the characters. Claire is an annoying whiny brat, Hiro isn’t nearly as interesting as you first thought and Peter, when not being an emo, just stupidly runs into danger without thought. The only character I wanted to find out more about was the invisible man and due to various off-screen problems it was clear the chances of him coming back were extremely slim. I feel that the main success of the show came from trying to figure out these characters and how they’ll each use their powers. Once the audience knew exactly who everyone was and what their goals were, they got bored. The conflict was usually silly, characters flipped from good to bad too often and the amount of dramatic irony was literally off the charts.
I usually don’t include charts and things in my stuff but I thought this was important. This really backs up what people are saying about the show. It’s kinda surprising really, I thought it was doing better and I’m confused about the lack of advertising after season three. You would think that with the continuously diminishing numbers NBC would have either cancel it there and then or release a pretty substantial advertising campaign to re-establish a strong viewer ship for season four.
