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thetonestarr on 09 July 2012

I watched faithfully through the whole thing, but yeah, they did a lot of awful things that really destroyed the show. It wasn't that good after the beginning, and only got worse.



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TruckOSaurus on 09 July 2012

Season One was really really good, well crafted with mysteries ("Save the cheerleader, save the world", Lindeman, etc...), Season Two was still enjoyable but not as well written and Season Three was a complete mess (with Sylar going from bad to good to bad to good to mama's boy to who cares anymore) and that's where I stopped watching.



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Boutros on 09 July 2012

Season 3 totally blew.



Runa216 on 09 July 2012

not a lot more to say, Season 1 was awesome, season 2 faltered thanks to the writers strike, season 3 was nothing but a scramble to fix the show that failed, and season 4 was too little too late. I enjoyed it right up to the end, but there's no denying where it went wrong. it was better when the show focused on a few heroes and a few villains, not a dozen on each side with new ones coming and going every few episodes.

Also didn't help that their best villain (syler) couldn't decide if he was good, bad, or some weird and creepy momma's boy.



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Roma on 09 July 2012

season one was amazing! but then it just got worse... =(



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Chris Hu on 09 July 2012

Watched most of season one but lost interest in season two and stoped watching it. Also this show got hurt a lot by the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007-2008 since season two was shorted by it to 11 episodes instead of the planned 24.



Soleron on 09 July 2012

They had no idea how to end anything. They'd show a vision of the future that looked like a really cool series ending then the final episode would be very flat.

What did it for me is they set up a huge Peter - Sylar battle, exactly what people wanted as a finale, then they literally pulled the camera away and shut the door. Nothing of it was shown.

I agree with this thread, the writing quality faded until no one cared if it was cancelled.



homer on 09 July 2012

I blame the writer's stike. Because of that, they had to shorten the season. not even one of the coolest villains of all time(Adam aka Takenzo Kensei) could save the show. He was so cool. So was Sylar and Hiro and season 1 Peter and HRG and the Haitian and Samuel. So many good characters. I wish it would continue.



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mushroomboy5 on 09 July 2012
spurgeonryan said:
mushroomboy5 said:
spurgeonryan said:
It was not most popular, just popular enough for NBC to not cancel it. It sold really well on DVD so they kept it around for a while like they do with the show Community. But then not even DVD could save it and they cancelled it.

I only watched the first season. Loved it.


er...not true. Season one was, as they say, phenominally popular, (around 16 million viewers in the us at its peak which is actually very good. There was even a planned spinoff series that never saw the light of day), season two (which was kinda dull compared to season one in many peoples opinions) dipped slightly in the ratings (11-12 million at it's peak, still pretty good).

Series creator Timothy Kring then had to appear at conventions in an attempt to smooth the crowds of angry fans over, admitting they screwed up with series 2, and promising fans that things would be back on track with season 3. Does nobody here remember this???? Season 3 arrived, ratings dipped again, and many hailed the show as a desperate mess, a mere shadow of it's former self etc. As I recall the second half of season 3 (I think it was the 'Fugitives' storyline) was actually pretty decent, but it was obviously too little too late, as the ratings continued to fall with each new episode. This continued throughout season 4 until nbc pulled the plug. At the time I remember reading interviews with Kring where he was saying:'I'm pretty confident they'll let me make a tv movie to finish the series', but alas they never did.

I worked in a comic shop at the time of season one and two's release and I remember it seemed like the biggest damn thing out there at the time but by mid season 3 hardly anyone was talking about it at all. There was barely any notice of it's cancellation as many people didn't even realise it was still running.

In my opinion Heroes died a slow painful death as a result of (possibly justified) angry fanboy backlash... but maybe I'm wrong. Shame, season one was pretty damn good.

Haha most of what I just said is covered in the graph posted previously.

So you agree that it was popular, but not as popular as many other shows are, and then it slowly waned in popularity. Which is to say that not even the DVDs could save it. Like I said, season one was good, and then I lost interest. We are saying the same thing, except you are being more precise and intricate with your explaination.


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d21lewis on 09 July 2012

I loved the first season. I used to have in depth discussions with people about "what did this mean?" or "who could that be?" Then, Hiro got sent back to medieval times, that chick who could see her evil reflection died, and the whole story just turned into an unfocussed pile of ass. I quit watching. Hell, I had it on my DVR and I quit recording it. It was horrible. I was their target. I was dying to see a live action comic book TV show done right. They dropped the ball. If we weren't going to stay with the show, the rest of the world never stood a chance.