Is this the end for Heroes?

[The Curmudgeon]

I've never made it secret that I'm bitterly, bitterly disappointed in Heroes.

An intelligent, well acted drama about fucking SUPERHEROES? How could that be anything BUT amazing?

Well, the people behind Heroes certainly found a way. And that's by making (almost) every character bland, two dimensional bores and have the show wrapped up in its own Po-faced self-importance.

Season Two was a train wreck. He's dead! No he's not. She's bad! No she isn't. Awful. But I guess we've got the writer's strike to thank for that.

And things don't seem to be picking up in Season 3 (although, to be fair, I did enjoy a couple of episodes - the bank robbery one, in particular), but this whole "time travel" thing has basically fucked up the entire show.

And now it seems two of the main writers have been sacked and viewing figures are at an all time low.

So is this the end for Heroes? And does anyone out there really care?

[trashcanman]

I like Heroes because there is nothing else like it on the air. All of the criticisms are valid and I've got plenty of my own, but I still watch and enjoy. BSG took three seasons to develop the cumbersome pretentiousness that Heroes was seemingly born into. What they need to do is stop with the multiple story lines in every episode spread out over an entire season and do individual episodes about Claire, one about Hiro, one about Sylar and so on so that the stories can actually progress within each episode rather than being perpetually waylaid by what every other character is doing. Then they can all intersect at the end and tie it all up. With the plots being so convoluted, I literally forget what the hell is going on from week to week. Each character has little more than an episode or two of story for each season and spreading it out over months and months just makes it grow stale. I'm sure watching it on DVD is much better, but I haven't the time or the will to do so right now.