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Heroes is probably one of those shows that will go down in history as starting strong and then going out with a whimper. By the time the fourth and final season aired in 2010, viewers were becoming increasingly confused and frustrated with the multiple storylines, character arcs and general doom and gloom that pervaded the series. The first season was plotted elegantly with each character truly fleshed out to the point that they felt like everyday people.
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The show did feel a lot like an internet marketing advert on many occasions. There were so many characters to keep track of and new storylines being laid on top of one another that you have expected a ‘click here to find out more'button appear on your screen. As the show was designed to mimic traditional convoluted comic book territory, viewers shouldn’t have been so surprised that the stories became every more complicated and confusing.
The first season had balanced everything so perfectly that perhaps it shouldn’t feel so much of a surprise that the quality dipped so early into the second season. The writers, perhaps over confident with the success of the first season took a few too many chances and ended up alienating many viewers halfway through the second. Whilst characters like Hiro and Claire proved to be consistently watchable, others like Sylar – who was brilliant in the first season – began to get a little over exposed. This was a mistake as the joy of Heroes was in the general feeling of the unknown. We didn’t want to know too much about Sylar because his true menace remained in not knowing exactly what his motives were – aside from stealing everyone’s powers.
Staggering into the darkness
By the time the show entered its third season, a lot of damage had been done causing viewers to switch off in their droves. It became an endurance test for those that had been left behind. It might very well have been like playing a computer game with instructions to ‘click here to see what Sylar does next'dotted all over the place throughout the season. Many threads that were left hanging from the second season were either truncated badly or completely ignored – why did Sylar suddenly become like Norman Bates? It was a portent of the end for Heroes and already NBC executives were becoming concerned over the steady decline in viewing figures. Like Star Trek Enterprise before it, Heroes would move into its fourth and final season like a bleeding soldier knowing that it’s doomed but still willing to fight for survival
The Fourth and Beyond
And it was the fourth season that suddenly found the show finding its wonderful first season feet again! Hitting the brakes on all the convoluted plot arcs, twists and random characters who would disappear after a few episodes, season four suddenly focused the show again. The only problem with fewer stories was that the writers saw fit to overindulge in them making some of the arcs a little long winded and in one case utterly pointless. Sylar by this point had been explored thoroughly almost making him a redundant character. We knew everything about Hiro but there was still more to learn and he had become much more like he was in the first season – wondrous and not annoying.
Overall the ‘click here to see what happens next'formula that Heroes dropped into during the second and third seasons proved to be its undoing. Despite the show striding forward confidently during the fourth season, NBC executives made the decision not to renew the series, unfortunately leaving us all with a great cliff hanger that now may never have a resolution.
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