'Heroes' might get one last hurrah

good riddance!

I like the way nobody wants to put their name on a rubbish comment. I like that Heroes might be able to plan for a good series finale. I hope Tim Kring finally learns to write about something he know about next time.

The first season was excellent but the show went downhill from there. I watched every episode but this season I would record it and watch it AFTER all my other shows. I won't miss it.

Considering the improvement Flashforward has shown since returning, I'm a little more upset that it won't be renewed. I guess FF should've moved the plot along in the first half rather that treading water and alienating viewers.

The cancellation is overdue, but Heroes made money in the international market and the DVDs sold strongly. I guess NBC got to the point where even those revenues weren't enough to offset losses so it's done.

Too bad. First season was brilliant and the 2nd might have been as well if not for the writers strike (check out S2 DVD to see what might have been).

Remember this show was so massive that 1 or 2 spinoffs were being developed. Producers got complacent and jammed in too many characters and repetitive storylines. But I actually would like to see a formal wrapup for the series.

As a former Heroes apologist, I really encourage anyone who talks about how great the first season was to go back and re-watch it. Not just 'Company Man' or the other strong, late season episodes. Review the subplot about Hiro and Ando trying to steal money from the hooker. Watch some more of Claire's whining and pining. Get bogged down in the faux-drama of Nikki/Jessica/whoever's relationship with her creepy dad and ex-husband. Realize how much filler there really was, and how good the last few weeks were to make us all forget about them.

It might have made money in the international market and from DVDs but it sure wasn't going to KEEP making money. The ratings didn't just tank in the United States. If NBC had renewed it, foreign sales would have been way down.

I think HEROES would have worked out better if they had stuck to the revolving characters plan. I remember Tim Kring saying that there would not be a set core cast of characters every season...that they would come and go like on ER. But something happened because season after season there was Clair and her bag of BS, Sylar and his bag of BS, Peter and his bag of BS,
Hiro and his bag of BS, Nikki/Jessica/Traci and their bags of BS...and on and on. They would bring new interesting characters but usually killed them off in the same episode. Plus the plots were repetitive and dry.

Honestly, season 4 would have been better without the whole Samuel storyline. Season 2 really was good if you could appreciate the whole twists of moral ambiguity, and then both Arthur Petrelli and Danko were respectable villains in the two chapters of season 3. But if they were going to call season 4 "Redemption," they should have made it about, well, redemption.

Still, I would have loved to see what they had in mind when Claire finally exposes people with abilities to the public. Even with the extremely weak fourth season, there's nothing more agonizing with your favorite show than to see it cancelled with an unresolved cliffhanger.

Do a movie, please. Forget the carnival ever happened. Take it back the core of season 1, those characters. Give Peter back his original ability and SHOW SOME RESPECT to this amazing superhero character and concept they developed, then ruined.

I WANT HEROES TO STAY.