Heroes Nightmares

Ive finally caught up on Heroes. What with work and everything recently I had got a bit behind but now Im up to date - in terms of BBC terms (which I think is only a couple of episodes behind the US). First impressions? Im not sure to be honest. Season 2 took me a while to get used to, yet now I look back on it quite fondly as a thoughtful, ‘discussion’ based series. We got more depth to the characters and it provided a respite after the all-action series 1. Season 3, of which I am at episode 3, has done the same frustrating that that a lot of shows do ie Prison Break. Its dismissed and got rid of characters (admittedly who may return) for the sake of keeping the franchise fresh. Keeping in mind how far I am in the series and that this list may because defunct as the series progresses, heres my ‘niggles’ about what ive seen so far.

1. Matt Parkman and Mohinder Suresh were enjoying being new age dads throught series. Molly now serves no purpose so shes quickly dismissed early on with the line “shes somewhere safe”. How are we supposed to believe a characters emotions when they can change so dramatically ? Going from laying their life on the line to protect her, and “I’ll never leave you’, to getting rid of her in an instant?
2. When did Mohinder cross the line into Nutty Professor? He was always the voice of reason - within minutes of the first episode, hed lost the plot.
3. Along the same line as the Molly thing… Claire Bennett, so attached to West throughout series 2, has now forgotten him totally.
4. Nicky Sanders. (Im aware this story is still developing but it strikes me as this) Series 2, they had no clue what to do with the Nicky character. Her strength powers were boring and split personality thing confusing. Series 3, lets change her powers with a twin Nicky arriving. Asking a bit much of the audience that one. And what happened to the muscle mimic she rescued from the fire? Either way, if Nicky was going to die, she deserved a bigger send off than that. Poor Micah. Lets hope they keep him.
5. Sylar. I realise he will change and be an evil bastard again, but working with Noah? Come on!

My point here is that they seem, to me, have asked a lot of the audience. Not only are we being asked to forget characters we have invested time in, not only are we being asked to accept extreme character changes, but they then throw in a whole load of new characters in one go. Apparently being a Hero isnt that special anymore, it seems everyone can fire flames from their anus this series.

Thankfully they let Hiro and Ando return to series 1 form… and as annoying as it can sometimes be, at least their characters are consistent and likable still.

I really love Heroes, and Im sure by the end of this series I will think it has been fantastic. I just get annoyed at that moment when a new season begins, and the writers and producers expect the viewer to have a memory loss. Unfair.