Heroes’ Season Premiere this Monday included two episodes: E01-Orientation & E02-Jump, Push, Fall. The reason i’m watching Season 4 of Heroes is for Robert Knepper. Who played Theodore Bagwell in FOX’s “Prison Break”. I think he’ll bring about a darker mood to the peppy teenage tv series. Zachary Quinto is also a driving factor for this series. Without his tremendous presence throughout the series, the show would have caved in. Unfortunately we still have to take in more of Hayden Panettiere’s garbage. Why doesn’t NBC kill her already.

This episode was very poor, in direction and writing. Script was pathetic, i nearly fell asleep while watching the premiere. Tom Kring the creator, wielded the megaphone & script. Everytime he picks up the pen, the episode keeps getting worse. We are introduced to a new group of people with powers. It appears they are trying to fix something from their past. We also learn that there are more than one time travelers. Hiro, Nathan & Peter Petrelli are being hunted.

Hiro Nakamura selflessly risks his life to save the world. He chose to save the world, rather than save his own skin. When he did go back in time he set the record straight between Ando and his sister. Hiro has changed the future in the past. All-in-all very lame premiere, i’ve just added FlashForward to the list of shows i’m watching. Overtime i’m going to discontinue Heroes.

This episode was truly a bundle of joy, arguably the best 40 minutes of Heroes this entire Season. We end Volume IV, to begin Volume V, ‘ Redemption’. The preview for the next volume didn’t impact me as well as the one for Volume IV, but it looks like there going to be back at the same place. We also get repercussions for having powers through Hiro!

Speaking of Hiro Nakamura, the writers have finally come around to show Human side-effects for having abilities. As far as i remember Dr. Suresh had side-effects with his strength ability. But never was he told that when he’d use his power again he would die. Hiro Nakamura was given an unsightly fate, and it might mean we won’t be seeing much of Hiro next season. Or Dr. Suresh or maybe the company might make a magic potion to help Hiro. Who knows? Maybe there might be another time traveller? If peter touches Hiro, he will inherit his powers, or atleast know how it works because he now has Sylar’s power.

The final showdown between Sylar and Nathan Petrelli ended in a unilateral blood bath. When your going against Sylar you need more fire power than just the ability of flight. Even if your travelling at mach speed, Sylar can probably move out of the way. So we see the last of Nathan Petrelli? Oh no. The producers really like Adrian Pasdar so they got Matt Parkman to change Sylar into Nathan. To what end? I mean there is a significance, i think that if Sylar finds that constant or that crystal ball, which his mother gave him. That he’ll go back to being Sylar. It’s confusing, because we don’t know how developped Matt Parkman’s ability is. Can Matt Parkman really do this? I think we need the Haitian to really erase Sylar’s memories. But knowing Sylar, he might overcome that and piece together random things together.

Dr. Suresh’s narrative at the end is true, we are really made up of disjointed memories and experiences. Thats who we truly are, taking upon another host body or trying to be someone else won’t do it. You need their memories, but you also need to loose your own. I just remembered something! Sylar tried to start a relationship with Claire, and i remember in a previous season where he lived in the same house. This time Sylar was good, so maybe they do end up together. But it would be a sort of incest if Sylar was in Nathan’s body? I doubt it, anyways we also have to check out the return of Tracy Strauss. She also reminds of a character in x-men mutant cartoon, i just can’t recall. So it’s going to be interesting season 4? Maybe, but they need to stop putting these fillers and give the audiences more substance!

I cut and pasted a few different pictures, and merged them into the poster above. I’ll be using this from now on. But tonight is the season finale of Heroes so there won’t be much updates on Heroes.

A brief recap of Heroes is in order. So were at Season 3, i started following Heroes on TV from Season 3. The previous 2 seasons i watched re-encodes of HDTV captures. With season 1 we had a solid story, and a plausible plot. What kept the show running was Hiro Nakamura and his interesting subplots. With Season 2, i don’t really remember but it was all about Sylar and his need to take everyone’s powers. Season 3 really fell apart after the first few episodes, they started with this powerful way by using ‘The Second Coming’. The season premiere was epic,  but it went down hill from there on end.

The unnecessary relationship between Sylar and Elle dragged on for atleast 5 episodes, pushing my patience to the next level. After this i stopped following Heroes religiously and sat back to watched the show much more slowly. I prioritized Lost and other shows over Heroes at this point. The recent episode 23 – 1961, really drove me insane because it was a complete and utter filler episode. Heroes has become more and more improvised, their tieing up wierd ends, and i really don’t know where there going with Heroes. They’ve dumped so many characters, and there revisiting certain elements like:

• Why Angela stole socks in Season 1?
• Angela let Sylar kill someone to gain the power so that he knows the history of everything he touches.

It’s as if the writer just remembered these things, and are randomly bringing them back. Lost has it’s own website called Lostpedia, i visit this site after every episode to find out some tid bits and bloopers. But Heroes has absolutely nothing, it’s mundane and just a continuing story with no goal or ending. I’m more lost watching Heroes than Lost, because Heroes there is no end, the producers are giving a very vague picture.

What makes Heroes sell? The fact that Heroes started recently means that it has the support of the younger audience, whereas the Lost, 24 and House audiences are much older. Heroes has the audience, but they also have comic book audience, who loves superheroes. The Smallville and maybe Marvel/DCComic audience might also appreciate Heroes for what it’s worth. Many of the audience feels a connection to specific characters, in some way, shape or form.

One more review for me, and it’s the end of the road for Heroes. I guess i’ll be writing about Heroes in a few months, if i choose this blog alive. It’s time consuming but it allows me to get somethings off my mind. And i might re-read it some day.