HEROES is back!

[Nikolai]

Well, I'm seriously disappointed in Mohinder. Going dark(him of all!!!) and letting himself be used AGAIN. As for Peter....things might not be as it seem. He survived the fall. Was it because Sylar is not what he seems, or has Peter not lost his powers completely, as was the case in the previous season? His power is a mighty one after all...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, but this time he KNOWS he's being used and doesn't care. Usually he thinks he's doing things for the noble good and doesn't realize his boss has another motive.

Was it because Sylar is not what he seems

This. I believe.

[Lazerus]

Guess i'll find out what you guys are talking about in a few hours when it's on here
How'd matts dad get woken up anyways ? iirc he was trapped in a nightmare ? I'm assuming peters dad did it and will probably be shown tonight though

[Nikolai]

Matt's dad? Hmmm....

[DrSpike]

I was really disappointed with season 2, and haven't got around to season 3 yet as the early reviews seemed to suggest it was more dross.

Lots of my favourite shows seem to going downhill actually. BSG has gone from one of the best sci-fi shows ever to something I am actually embarrassed to watch, and other great shows like Prison Break seem past their prime. Maybe I am just getting fussier.

[Nikolai]

BSG is great. I'm in the middle of the fourth season right now, it's great fun. Season 3 was the worst IMO. Heroes S03 is much better than S02 btw, you should check it out. You can aquire it(which you like very much, I know) on several real cheap places, like mininova and TPB.

[Solver]

I like season 3 so far. Seems to me that they've learned from the main mistakes of season 2. There's a known threat again, all the story lines are interconnected and the story generally moves at a good pace. At the same time I think it's easier to follow than, say, Lost.

And in season 2 one of the big problems was actually not properly having the many-powered characters in it. Sylar was with no powers in season 2, while Peter had very little control over them for almost the entire season. Season 3 again has a very powerful Sylar and an even more powerful Peter (or now Arthur instead).

[Xorbon]

Originally posted by Nikolai
Well, I'm seriously disappointed in Mohinder. Going dark(him of all!!!) and letting himself be used AGAIN.

I very strongly agree with you about Mohinder. It seemed so out of character for him to be so reckless and take that serum. And now he's become the stereotypical "mad scientist".

And Sylar's also acting out of character. He's now trying to be good, and it turns out he killed people out of a "hunger" to learn how their powers worked. Meanwhile, last season he lost his powers - which should have meant he lost his "hunger" to kill - but he still murdered two people, and desired to kill more. It a big plot hole, IMO. Other than that, I don't mind him trying to be good.

[Lazerus]

heh Peters dad is gonna be tough with that ability to just suck out somebodies power at touch. Is Peter now fully normal or does he have to go around with the empath ability acquiring all them powers again ?

And Sylar's also acting out of character. He's now trying to be good, and it turns out he killed people out of a "hunger" to learn how their powers worked. Meanwhile, last season he lost his powers - which should have meant he lost his "hunger" to kill - but he still murdered two people, and desired to kill more. It a big plot hole, IMO. Other than that, I don't mind him trying to be good.

I think that was more just wanting his powers back in a megalomaniac rather then addict sense

[OzzyKP]

I'm not really digging this season. Too many twists and turns. Instead of building up to something big and shocking, they just throw two or three things at you every episode. You don't get much time to really appreciate the moment.

I agree with Nikolai about BSG though, I finally got caught up with it and no disappointment with it at all.

[Japher]

Peter is powerless, if he had the empathic thing going he would of healed after "falling" out of the building and into Claire. IMO, though, he'll get them back.

I like this season. Well, I will like it as long as at is developing something and not just shuffling the deck so to speak.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Nikolai
Well, I'm seriously disappointed in Mohinder. Going dark(him of all!!!) and letting himself be used AGAIN.

Herein lies a couple of the major problems with the show. Most characters are utterly inconsistent--Mohinder going "mad scientist", Nathan going born-again, etc. And, almost paradoxically, some characters never learn from their previous experiences--Mohinder making the same mistakes of trust over and over again, Hiro's constant ****ing up of the timeline, etc.


Even when characters do evolve, such as Sylar, it isn't even remotely realistic or satisfying (so the serial killer is a good guy now?!), and has to be ret-conned to be remotely palatable (he has a "hunger" as part of his baseline power, and thus it is not his fault).

As for Peter....things might not be as it seem. He survived the fall. Was it because Sylar is not what he seems, or has Peter not lost his powers completely, as was the case in the previous season?

And here's another problem--they spelled it out for us that Sylar cushioned Peter's fall. A better show would have let us wondering. A better show wouldn't have even had Claire ask Peter how he survived, let alone have Peter come out and say Sylar saved him.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by Guynemer
And here's another problem--they spelled it out for us that Sylar cushioned Peter's fall. A better show would have let us wondering. A better show wouldn't have even had Claire ask Peter how he survived, let alone have Peter come out and say Sylar saved him.

Saved for future reference.

[Guynemer]

Dude, seriously? You seriously think, given all the other bull**** they've pulled this season regarding Sylar, that he wasn't responsible for cushioning his fall?

Okay. Avatar/signature bet?


Another problem, particularly this season: they've introduced several interesting characters--or at least characters with interesting powers--and gotten rid of them within the same friggen episode! The soundwave guy, the singularity/vortex guy, the puppet master... if they're gonna make Sylar into a good guy, they need some more interesting villians, and while Knox and Arthur are pretty good, they need more. Especially since they killed off two of the better villians already this season.

And I friggen hate that speedy pixie tramp.

[OzzyKP]

I like the speedy tramp.

Everything else you said though is spot-on.