I’m (Probably) Done Watching “Heroes”

The show “Heroes” started out as a fun but deriv­a­tive con­cept — the hero ori­gin story. More point­edly, “Heroes” is a take on the X-Men. You’ve got your mind reader (Pro­fes­sor X), the guy who can fly (Angel), the girl who can regen­er­ate (Wolver­ine), the girl who can look like any­thing (Mys­tique) and a bunch of oth­ers, but it was fun at the begin­ning since every­body loves the “ori­gin” story. It’s fun to watch peo­ple get new pow­ers and then learn how to use them as well as their lim­i­ta­tions. It’s plain ol’ good vs. evil.

The evil on the show is Gabriel Gray, a nerdy watch repair­man who took the lame moniker of Sylar from one of the brands of watches he fixed. He is able to acquire other pow­ers by (he thinks, but I’m not so sure) eat­ing other hero-type people’s brains. Lovely.

The first sea­son was fun and I stuck around to see if New York would indeed be destroyed by the man who can’t con­trol his pow­ers, Peter Petrelli. Peter had acquired nuclear capa­bil­i­ties from Ted Sprague. Peter, unlike Sylar, gets pow­ers by being around peo­ple who already have the power he will develop. I think Sylar oper­ates the same way but he just doesn’t know it.

Half the joy of sea­son one was watch­ing Hiro, the time-traveling Japan­ese office worker, dis­cover his abil­ity and then real­ize that it can be fun as well as pow­er­ful. His jour­ney, of all of them, has been the most enjoy­able to watch as he grows.

Any­way, there was this “mas­ter­mind” named Daniel Lin­der­man (he has pow­ers too — regen­er­a­tion) who was going to bring about a new age by hav­ing Peter Petrelli destroy New York with his nuclear capa­bil­i­ties and then get Peter’s brother Nathan elected pres­i­dent. Nathan helped Peter get out of the city by fly­ing up into the stratos­phere before explod­ing. In the “destroy NY” show Lin­der­man is shot to death, right through the head, and can’t regen­er­ate. He’s dead. Really dead.

Which brings me around to now. Ain’t It Cool News is link­ing to a story where some­one from the BBC is giv­ing away what’s in a sea­son 3 ‘Heroes’ promo. I’m talk­ing spoil­ers, so if you care and watch the show, skip the next paragraph.

LINDERMAN IS BACK?

What?! Why can’t they kill any­one on this show and not have them stay dead?! Why can’t some­one just die and be really dead?! The freak­ing guy was SHOT IN THE HEAD. Kill him! Kill him! Have him be dead, really dead! Bad guys, even SUPER BAD GUYS, die! Come on, man, just kill some­one off of this show and have him be gone! He wasn’t that cool or any­thing. Even his name is lame. He was even lamer than the guy that could paint the future.((Don’t even get me started on how cool it would have been to have Hiro fight­ing a Tyran­nosaurus. That would have rökked.)) Jeez.

And man, I’ve hung on even through the lame new char­ac­ters they tried to intro­duce last sea­son where all I wanted was for the girl who’s eyes turn black to die. The sweet release of her death would have been a high point of last sea­son, but no, they had to have her “fall in love” with Sylar. She’s as lame as Nikki and Paulo on “Lost” were and the cre­ators of “Lost” were smart enough to kill them off! Kill Black Eyed Girl! Kill her as soon as possible!

The list of peo­ple on the show with pow­ers just keeps grow­ing. Nikki, who sup­pos­edly died in an explo­sion, I’m sure will turn up alive. Nathan, who was shot at the end of last sea­son right before he “came out” about his fly­ing power, I’m sure will be back too. Claire’s dad, who’s death was very pow­er­ful on the show, was res­ur­rected. Sylar him­self prob­a­bly was dead but they’ve brought him back to annoy us with his “my-head-is-down-but-I’m-looking-at-you” eyes and stu­pid way of talk­ing again. And Hiro can’t even kill a bad guy; he has to bury him in a cof­fin alive. The guy he buried is immor­tal so I’m sure he’ll turn up again, as usual.

The only one that I really am glad is back is Hiro’s friend Ando. Ando is one of the few peo­ple on the ros­ter with­out pow­ers which is prob­a­bly why I like him so much. Can’t we have fewer peo­ple with pow­ers? To see their per­spec­tive on those with pow­ers? And can’t this freak­ing show thin the ranks a lit­tle bit before the whole planet is on the show because, you know, they ALL have powers?