May
13
According to a report on Vulture, Heroes won’t be renewed for a fifth season. The NBC drama, which was once the network’s biggest hit in its 2006-07 heyday, has faded from the limelight over three increasingly tedious seasons. Vulture reports that while there may be the possibility of a TV movie/event miniseries to cap it all off, nothing is confirmed at this point.
To us, it’s justified. This isn’t the Angel or Firefly brand of cancellation, where you’re 100% convinced the show was cut down in its prime. Heroes’ ratings have reflected its declining quality with pinpoint accuracy and as such, I wouldn’t be sad to see it go.
So, where did it all go wrong? Well, Heroes started out as the fun show with a cool premise – ordinary people get superpowers, let’s see how that affects their lives. Even my mum watched it, having outright refused to watch anything sci-fi in over twenty years, such was its commercial appeal.
Then, however, it became a mess of time-travelling, government conspiracies and side-switching. The show became unnecessarily convoluted and the clearly one-dimensional characters weren’t interesting enough to support these drawn-out, boring arcs. Zachary Quinto’s eyebrows lost their scariness. The world has moved on.
NBC unveils its schedule on Monday. We’ll find out more about Heroes then.
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The beginning of Season 2 was slow but I hung in there. By the end of the season and the beginning of season 3 (which I never made it through) every one was acting so out of character it become a joke. The went from shocking you with good storylines to having the characters act completely different just for shock value. It was awful.
People never really gave it a chance. I for one loved season two more than season three and I reallly enjoyed season four. It’s a shame it’s not coming back for another season to tie everything up, but a miniseries or TV movie would be awesome… I’m still waiting on one for The Sarah Connor Chronicles too! :)
Im getting a bit pissed off with all the constant criticism and overgeneralisations from pretty much everyone in the genre that Heroes has been rubbish for the last 3 seasons. Season 2 was crippled by the writers strike but improved dramatically in its final episodes, and season 3 admittedly did try too hard to please everyone as a response to the criticism that season 2 was boring and slow paced, resulting in it losing focus and quality. But the end of season 3 and season 4 were actually pretty good, and those who have written it off as shit without actually watching these recent episodes would do well to perhaps watch them. It deserves an ending.
I’m fed up with the fanboys using the writers strike of *three* years ago as an excuse for the state of the show today. You know what else was affected by that strike ?
Every single dramatic show to come out of the US that year, everything from Lost to 30 Rock to Brothers & Sisters, yet they’re all consistently good to great, they win awards, gain viewers and improve. Heroes failed because of the sloppy writing and couldn’t-give-a-toss attitude to the original fans.
Heroes is one of the best tv shows, i have been watching since season one and still love it.