This episode marks the last Heroes episode I'll watch. I rarely comment on here, but I'll make an exception for this one. Season 1 was beyond awesome and established an interesting story. Season 2, despite the criticism, I thought wasn't too bad, just rushed into less episodes.
Season 3 started off weird. To be honest I was googling around trying to find out what I had missed, because it looked like they skipped over 5 episodes of additional content, but I swallowed it anyway.
Here we are now, 4 episodes into season 3. And oh boy.. Nikki dies in season 3 and is conveniently replaced with a twin sister with powers that are easier to use in the storyline.
4 years into the future, everyone decides to just change factions. Sylar goes from being a pure evil villain to being a housedad with a son that's clearly older than 4. Peter is considered the cause of Armageddon and is hated and wanted. Claire is suddenly evil, but they forgot to tell the actress that trying to angry in every sentence doesn't make you believable.
Even the non-future parts are ridiculous. Peter's mom goes from mysterious to pure insane as she feeds a woman to Sylar. Sylar is released, kills someone, then just decides to return to captivity to be with his new mother. Parker is dropped in the desert for no reason and meets someone with the ability to paint the future (I know! original right!). Claire gets a weird subplot where she wants to learn how to fight, that ultimately accomplishes nothing. Claire's mother is reintroduced, and instead of saying Hi like a normal human, she greets her daughter by creating a fire in her hands. And Mohinder? Well obviously it only takes 1 episode for him to turn from a thinking scientist into someone who suddenly decides to inject himself with an untested formula because well, he wants a power too. It is of course completely acceptable that he and Maya are declared lovers 5 minutes afterwards.
And let's not forget about Hiro, an interesting character who's currently more focused on trying to be funny than anything else.
I don't know where to begin. This is a rant, and nothing more, but it's all I can come up with. I loved Heroes as a series, and it's absolutely sickening to look at what it's become. It's like they're just throwing together tons of superpowers to create cool looking effects, and have to create at least 3 plot twists every 10 minutes to keep things interesting. But they're destroying the world that took them 2 seasons to create. 4 episodes in and they've done a pretty good job already of changing every single character. I don't think there's a single character that did not switch sides in these 4 episodes.
So I'll end now. I gave it a shot. 4 shots actually, but I can't take much more. I'll end Heroes at season 2, and pretend that it continued like it started - strong and promising.
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