One of my favourite shows last year was Heroes on NBC. I enjoyed it alot, no show is perfect, but they did a fair amount of things right (owing much to shows like 24 and lost).
This second season has been a bit of a disappointment; there are so many stories lines they try to fit into each episode that there is little time to advance any single story. the show struggled with this last season (especially the nikki/dl/micah storyline) and i really thought that they would learn from their mistakes. I'll still watch the show this season, but I hope they can turn things around. here is a list of the things i would have done differently this season (in no particular order):
- not bring back sylar. i know he was a great villain, but it took so much of the strength out of the season finale to find out he survived. at least they could have saved him until midway through the second season and brought him back as a surprise. this would allow the writers to...
- drop the maya/alejandro story and characters. they are not compelling characters and they have the same thing happen to them every week. i understand the need to create new characters to keep things fresh, but they are taking valuable time away from the stories we actually care about.
- stop the "ando reads the story of the past from a note left from hiro" storytelling device. it just slows hiro's story down and it's not believable that hiro would have all this time to write these notes, but not use his ability to travel to the time when he left. if they really need to keep ando, they should figure out another way to keep him around [he gets a job at "the company", but doesn't realize who he's working for... eh?]
- kill some more people. i'm not trying to promote violence, but there seems to be nothing at stake this season. we felt that new york city was on the brink of imminent disaster last year; we need to get that feeling back. it looks like the latest episode might be providing this type of tension, i just hope they don't recycle the same story.
what would you change about one of the shows you follow?
1 comment:
That's my boy -- kill more people. That would help just about any show -- especially '24' which veered into episodes that played more like a soap opera than an intense thriller.
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