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The character was so unbearably horrible that they, and anyone else around them, have been cut from the third season.Other than that, the main villian of the show is absent for most of the episodes while a big portion of it occurs in ancient japan.Honestly, if you are not already a die hard fan of the show I wouldn't pick this up unless you want to laugh at it. Sadly, the writer's strike cut this season off short. Or perhaps mercifully.That didn't stop it from including a horrible storyline about a girl from New Orleans who learns wrestling moves from an ipod and daydreams about hurricane Katrina.
season 2's only problem was, because it was made during the writers strike it was WAAAYYY too short
The set was in perfect condition. I had absolutely no problems. Great Seller. I received the DVD so quickly. I was really surprised at how fast it got to me.
If it doesn't improve soon and begin attracting back its old viewers, it has little chance for a Season Four. There are markers and signs that they think they have a story to tell, but things remain dark and murky. There are no clearly demarcated good guys and no clearly delineated bad guys. And never has a series so completely belied its name.The fundamental problem with HEROES is that there are no heroes. So the first major problem with HEROES in Season Two was the failure to move the story forward. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER clearly and inevitably told a series of stories.
Watching the show in Season One I assumed that the show was showing how a group of people with remarkable abilities was going to come together, perhaps to team together for good. Though Tim Kring insisted that all the writers worked on all episodes, I can't help but feel that it isn't an accident that Fuller was given writer's credit for what is hands down the best HEROES episode to date, "Company Man." But if HEROES is to be saved, they first need to have the characters live up to the title, which at this point is more ironic than descriptive. The best long narrative shows of recent years (and HEROES apparently bills itself as a long narrative show) continuously and clearly moves the story alone. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA clearly and brilliantly tells a story. But even well into Season Three it isn't clear that HEROES has a story to tell. Instead, they essentially did a reset and put thing back to where it was in Season One. Even Sylar might slip back to his evil, evil ways. NBC is very slow to give up on shows.
I'm not sure that the show can be saved at this point. But at this point in the series no one seems to really be finding their way. The second major problem is that too much of the season was spent on new characters, instead of developing the stories of established characters. The show's viewership is now less than half of what it was in Season One.
Not since Season Two of TWIN PEAKS has a good show fallen so sharply off in quality as HEROES in Season Two (and unfortunately, as of this day, Season Three). ABC has stupidly canceled one of the finest shows on TV, PUSHING DAISIES. Can Fuller turn the show around. First, it fails to build on the promise of Season One. All the work of Season One seemed for naught.
Frankly, at this point I don't have much hope for the show, though out of habit I've made myself keep up. There are people with super abilities, but no one acts especially heroic. Secondly, they need to force the story to start going somewhere. Apart, possibly, for Sylar, we've had no such narratives in HEROES. Sadly and tragically the show will certainly get some major help in the near future. I was happy to see Veronica Mars herself, Kristen Bell, join the show as the electrifying (literally) Elle, but there were simply too many new characters, several of them pretty unpleasant. The only -- and I don't see this as much of a consolation prize given the loss of one of the most exhilarating shows in the history of TV -- upside to this abominable decision is that Bryan Fuller is now free to return to HEROES. On ABC or CBS or FOX there is little question that HEROES would have been cancelled by now.
In other words, the fundamental conception of the show is just a mess.The problem with Season Two is twofold. No one is becoming truly heroic. One can only hope. Instead, characters are apparently good for a while and then apparently bad. We had a number of characters from Season One who were simply neglected to deal with the new characters. One thin that truly great shows like BATTLESTAR GALATICA and LOST and BUFFY have in common is individual narratives of responsibility and redemption. LOST (the draggy Season Two aside) tells a story. Few have had epiphanies.
Loved the show and this is an easy way to view the series without having to sit down at a certain time, taping it or putting up with the commercials, which I hate.It is done well and I'm able to go directly to the show I want to see.
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