Comments on: ‘Heroes’: What if Mohinder and Co. had been a limited series?

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:09:20 +0000

grow a brain, What are you talking about? Heroes doesn’t require the viewers to follow a complex story line. Heroes requires it’s viewers to follow a stupid story line. The ratings are low because people are tired of having their intelligence insulted every time they watch an episode. If we wanted to watch something dumb we already have plenty of reality shows available.

By: melbye

melbye — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:05:11 +0000

Heroes is not Prison Break or LOST which has limited story to tell, it’s more like a live-action comic book, the potential is endless just like the Spider-Man or X-Men comics. As for other heavily serialized shows like the two shows i mentioned above they should have a end-date from day one. Prison Break got really stale after the second season, and should have been a 22 episode series.

By: Huvan

Huvan — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:40:28 +0000

Heroes would have been better if they put more effort in story and not character(cos they so screwed that one up) and made the volumes more comic-like so they could maybe have done a few volumes like “Volume: 5 Years Gone” so that they’d have an endgame and take more chances

By: izikavazo

izikavazo — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:35:03 +0000

I’ve been saying this forever. Heroes should have changed characters every season. The original actors could come back once in a while. It would be way more sustainable. And that way if they had a bad season it would be easy to forget.

By: grow a brain

grow a brain — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:03:57 +0000

Low ratings for Heroes further proves how STUPID the American public still is. Just because you are too stupid to follow a complex story line DOES not mean that a show is NOT good. please go back to inbreeding….
i could go on..but you probably can’t follow
you all fail at life..

By: Kevin J

Kevin J — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:58:34 +0000

Well duh.

By: skins

skins — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:31:50 +0000

It is kind of like Skins except Skins isn’t sci-fi. They dropped the entire regular cast and only kept on a couple of small supporting players. Fantastic idea

By: Nix

Nix — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:04:03 +0000

Actually, “Heroes” could have (still could?) work as a regular series, because its original concept was character-driven. Every season or half-season had a “plot”, but what was supposed to be interesting was the characters. Seems like that hasn’t worked out. Now, NBC’s “Kings” and other concept-heavy, plot-driven stories definitely should have a firm end date. They’re written as epics, and epics should have climaxes. A satisfying limited series is much more memorable and engrossing than a series that just drags on and on and on.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:46:59 +0000

Heroes should love long ago pulled a Lost/Prison Break and set an end date. Lost became so good once they set the end date, because they could tell a full story. Heroes was good in season 1, okay in season 2 and now it sucks sucks sucks! Heroes needs an End Date. Badly!!! And yes, they have been doing it in other countries for years. Like with Extras, for example.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:44:44 +0000

@Kaiulani: thanks for The Nine shout-out!! I loved that show. I didn’t know anyone else watched it. I’m still wondering what happened to them…