‘Heroes’ season 3 premiere
I find it hard to understand how a TV show about people with super-human powers can be so frustrating. I was very disappointed by season 2 of ‘Heroes’ and it looks as if this one will be a let down as well.
Let’s start with the Peter Petrelli from the future. He travels to the past to stop his brother Nathan from telling the world about their superpowers. Of course by doing so he changes the future and makes things worse. But why didn’t he know that would happen? As a time traveler, didn’t he realize that any changes made in the past affect the future? Has he never seen ‘Back to the Future?’ In the future, why is he just running away from what appears to be an angry mob? Why doesn’t he just teleport, fly, turn invisible?
That brings me to another problem with this show. The characters never use their powers often enough. It is a show about people with super-human abilities but it comes off more like a soap opera on steroids. Especially with the revelation that Nathan and Peter’s mother is also the mother of the main villain Sylar. So now the two most powerful characters, Peter who is good and Sylar who is bad, are brothers!? How very Cain and Abel of the creators of the show.
Then there’s Mohinder, one of the characters I like the least on the show. I really only know a handful of people that like him at all. I think the writers finally realized the world’s dislike of Mohinder but instead of killing him off, they try to make him interesting by giving him superpowers. It wasn’t the lack of powers that made me hate the character. Ando has no powers and I think he is a very fun sidekick for Hiro. No, what makes Mohinder awful is his choices. Shooting Noah, injecting himself with that serum to give himself abilities, promising things he can’t actually follow up on, working for the bad guys. He just needs to go away and stop messing things up.
When they “killed” Nikki in the season 2 finale, I don’t think anyone actually thought she was dead. She was just too bad ass to be killed by a simple explosion. Season 3 plops her into the role of advisor for the New York governor. There is no explanation for how she got there. Then you start to think that she has amnesia. But wait, her superpower is different too. Then figment-of-Nathan’s-imagination-Linderman tells Nathan that she is not Nikki Saunders. This only leads me to believe that she is Nikki’s twin sister Jessica, who Nikki thought died a long time ago. This could mean that the Nikki character is truly dead, but has anyone managed to stay dead on this show?
This season appears to be following the all-too-familiar formula of the past two seasons: Hiro looks into the future and sees the end of the world, there is a quest for missing pieces of a puzzle, all the different characters play a role in a coming apocalypse, they band together to stop something bad, Sylar gets away. Hopefully they will break the mold, but the premiere wasn’t very promising.
What did you think of the ‘Heroes’ season 3 premiere? Was is what you expected? What do you hope to see happen this season?
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By Ann
October 27, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
I still find it far better than Season 2. Then again, I’ve always loved the whole good vs. evil within, good becomes bad, bad becomes good theme.By Neal
September 28, 2008 10:44 PM | Link to this
I have to agree with you on most of your points. There’s definitely something lacking in the “super-power logic” category. But as far as characters go, I think that only Mohinder really falls flat. Everyone else is at least sympathetic. Hiro and Ando feel like they’re part of a completely different show, and not in a bad way. Emo future-Peter and Sylar are interesting and Mom Petrelli is mysterious. I wasn’t wowed, but I’m going to give it a little more time.