Heroes Season 4 Limps to the Starting Gate: It is Loathsome and Offensive, Yet I Can’t Look Away
I waffled on whether I was going to give up Heroes after the end the season 3 finale. Don’t get me wrong, I thought it actually went out pretty strong relative to how all of season 2 and the first three quarters of season 3 went, but it was still light years behind how incredible of a show this was during it’s first year. I make no bones about the fact that I honestly believe that Heroes demonstrates the most rapid and inexplicable drop in quality I’ve ever seen in any television drama of any type I’ve ever seen. As much as I tried not to give up hope that this thing was repairable, I’ve pretty much lost hope. I may continue watching, but I long ago quite caring. The best thing I can say about the season 4 two-episode opener Orientation and Jump, Push, Fall is that it was relatively dull, which is a heck of a lot better than outlandish, ridiculous, inconsistent and sloppy, which describes the bulk of last two seasons.
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Heroes: An Invisible Thread. Take the Fork Out? Maybe This Show Isn’t Quite Done Yet.
I have mixed feelings about the season finale of Heroes, An Invisible Thread. While I certainly think that the show has been on a major course correction since even before Bryan Fuller came back on board, it’s still a long way from having all the pieces put back together. That being said, I was happy and shocked at the size of the testicles this program managed to grow in the closing moments of the season closer. Not only shocked, but almost a bit delighted.
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Lost: Dead is Dead & Heroes: Turn and Face the Stranger. Two Reviews Shortchanged in One Brief Article!
Since my life this past week has plunged into the twilight world of an intriguing bargain bin Nintendo Wii game, playing the XBOX Live Arcade download of Robotron 2084 until my eyes have started bleeding and pounding down some time with our Nintendo DSi I have had not much time to reflect on this week’s episodes of Heroes and Lost. 
This is actually a tragedy since between both of these programs provided some decent entertainment this week. If you watch both programs, hear me rant for a few paragraphs. If you watch one or the other you can skip the parts you don’t care about.
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Heroes: Into Asylum - Just When We Almost Forgot What Good “Heroes” Was Like…
I’m going to commit a rare crime today, so I’ll cut to the chase immediately. I unashamedly admit that I thoroughly enjoyed Into Asylum and it didn’t take much reflection for me to realize that I had watched the best episode of Heroes by since the first season. I even hesitate to call it a fluke since it really does seem that the trend has been up recently. Into Asylum hopefully plants a seed for what could make this show successful again.
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Heroes Gets an “Oh Snap!” for Cold Snap
Cold Snap is Bryan Fuller’s first full writing credit since his return to Heroes this season. He’s on the rebound since his show Pushing Daisies was put six feet under. Fuller’s influence was apparent with the multitude of Star Trek references. However, fans hoping for an overnight cure for bad and mediocre Heroes for the last two years are a little overly optimistic. Fortunately, the show has been slowly showing some signs of life more recently and while Fuller’s return is welcome I’m certainly not hanging the hopes of the show on one man. I do feel that in the course of the show, Fuller has demonstrated that he understands many of the elements that made the show so succesful early in it’s run, perhaps even more so than creator Tim Kring himself.
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Heroes: Shades of Gray - Bryan Fuller Tries to Stop the Bleeding.
Last Monday, I was simply too apathetic to say anything worthwhile about Heroes. I guess the only thing less inspiring than watching an inexplicably terrible new episode of Heroes each week was watching a totally mediocre episode. I guess if you don’t hate it and you don’t love it, it’s hard to muster enough motivation to even discuss it. I’m not going to wax poetic about Shades of Gray, the first episode on the books with Bryan Fuller back in the Heroes writers’ room, but I’m not going to tear it to pieces.
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Heroes - Building 26: Stop That Wedding! Why?
I’m slightly pleased to announce that I did not hate this week’s episode of Heroes, Building 26. We’re still in ugly territory, but this episode had generally less suckage than about 80% of what we’ve seen so far this season. I know that I come across as a “hater,” but honestly I’m not. In this case, I call ‘em like I see ‘em. And the way I see it, if this series was a race horse, it would have been shot and sent to the glue factory about 4 episodes into this season.
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Heroes: Trust and Blood…Ramblings of a Constipated TV Critic about Microwaves and Cheerleaders
WARNING: THIS WEEK’S DEVIANTKNOWLEDGE.COM HEROES WRAP UP MAKES REFERENCES TO BOWEL MOVEMENTS THAT ARE NON-GRAPHIC IN NATURE, BUT MAY STILL BE DISTURBING TO SOME READERS.
I would characterize Heroes: Fugitives so far as demonstrating about the level of scripting prowess I would expect from a high school or college amateur film maker. The show is working on kind of a general concept level with lots of ideas and actions but not much substance. Again, I‘m in the position with Monday night’s episode Trust and Blood where it just kind of sits there on the screen. In 60 minutes we go from point A to point B to point C, but again very little character development or drama is happening in between beyond a cautiously intriguing storyline developing around Sylar and the newly introduced Microwave Boy character.
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Push: Hey, They Forgot to Film the Last 10 Pages of the Script!
Alright already, I picked on Push a month or so ago because the trailers bore a rather striking conceptual resemblance to the television show Heroes. I still stand by the assessment that I made in the article Push Movie Trailer: Didn’t This Used to Be a TV Series Called Heroes? In any case, for those that stay true to the current unbridled mess that is Heroes, I’ve spent the cash for you so you can maintain your integrity and not pay for Push if you don’t want to. Either unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your point of view, Push is generally better than what NBC is dishing up on Monday nights recently.
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Heroes - A Clear and Present Danger. It Has to Get Better from Here, Right?
I think we can safely say the most entertaining moments on television involving the cast of Heroes lately came in the form of a couple of cute promos during the Superbowl Sunday night. By the way, in the grand tradition of this past Friday’s Galactica, once again we end on a cliffhanger that is IMMEDIATAELY resolved as they launch into the following week’s preview that shows everyone survives the plane crash. THANKS, NBC!
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