Heroes: Season 2

Manufacturer: Universal Studios List Price: $39.98 Our Price: $24.99

This so called 'Science Fiction' that needed more work has blundered more, June 4, 2008 They thought they were like everyone else... until they woke with incredible abilities. My Review: What's that you hear? "A show based on humans with superpowers?" "Hasn't this been done before?" Well, yes; a new show created by producer and writer Tim Kring sees people all over the world discovering their newfound abilities in their own ways, more like X-Men for the common folk. Course with that being said, the characters are...well...common folk. With several interesting plots that only seem to compare to the 'The 4400' which bares the story of people who are genetically enhanced and sent time-travelling to a specific place in time to alter history, it's fair to say that Heroes does neither of this, or travel in any direction in any shape or form. The show itself has several interesting features that try to distinguish itself from other Sci-Fi orientated shows, with that in mind it plays along the lines of a comic book. It shoots in panoramic, comic book Neo-Dickenson visuals, all the while giving off a false sense of satisfaction. You don't feel hyped or excited by the scene, but a sense of need seems to surround it, a feeling of basic display and no colour; just to pass off a particular story section for the need to get to the next. Loose sardonic values lace the screen time, with great belligerence that encompasses each episode with it trying to rival hard hitting drama like '24' or the recently successful 'Lost'. The score is unimpressive and feels downtrodden. It seems to play on depression; the characters themselves are not worth invested time as they don't have anything to connect with an audience with. They play on simple domestic, melodramatic exertion and struggles, far too two dimensional and that's with a big fat '2'. The overall themes are asinine and very juvenile, some cases it tries to push that boundary but untimely falls back into the skim of things. With that also being said, the show has interesting CGI special effects the never really get the boot to amazing. The episodic structure fills the time with multiple story arcs of various characters; however it becomes a bit misconstrued as you seem to forget where the characters story left off when starting on a following episode. Some powers of the characters seem original, but focus is veered away on the idea on them dealing with a greater individuality and purpose on how they should face that fact that they are different; them adjusting, not on how they are different. The stories are so bleak that they become spread across multiple episodes for filler value and farther spread than tiny amounts of butter on toast. There is nothing to clench, no particular purpose when literally nothing happens in the episodes. True that like most realistic stories; usually nothing happens, but it seems to reinforce that belief further and further. The main problem is hype, or the constant overbearing need this show has to bare its need for audience. There and never enough questions, or any pondering, in fact in some cases you just don't care about "Who killed who?" or "Why did he do that?" Verdict: Colourful, lacks visual beguilement, entertaining pop corn show, with a side order of dementia that you wouldn't mind having after each episode. Enjoy it while it lasts, savour it before it becomes tasteless. 7/10. Even Tim Kring.... If Season Two was allegedly so great, why did creator Tim Kring feel the need to publicly apologize for the first five episodes? Nothing happened. No plot. As obtuse as Lost. It was like watching paint dry. Thank God for "24". It gets an extra star as a wedding present for George Takei and Brad. They got the price right. But the season was terrible. I loved the first season. But the second was a huge let down. However... it's still better than most other television shows (except for Lost). On the plus side, Unlike the Lost S4 DVD, they actually LOWERED the price on the Heroes S2 DVD since the Season was shortened. Not the total waste that some fans call it Heroes season 2 I think was pretty good considering that they cut it down due to that uselesss writer's strike. I mean the strike was useless, not the writers themselves. It left us with nothing but crappy reality shows through-out most of the year. Heroes season 2 told as good of a story as it could've due to the short time. It does start out a bit better than it ends though. Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka) still steals the show. Him in ancient China where he meets his childhood hero Takezo Kensei (an excellent David Anders of Alias) led to some of the more engaging stuff of the season. Parkman (Greg Grunberg) finding out that his father is infact Molly's nightmareman was a little disappointing I admit. However the nightmare scenes were done well enough that I didn't care after awhile. I just wish that their was more of him since he was one of the fresher things about this season. He also was a little creepy. Speaking of creepy, Sylar (Zachary Quinto) is back but powerless. He shows that he's dangerous even without his powers though. He meets a woman with a dangerous power that kills everyone around her when her eyes turn black and bleed. She's a good person but her powers kill people and only her brother's power can control her power if that makes sense. Sylar gets in her head and makes her think that he's a good person that wants to help her. When he's really just fascinated by her power and wants it for himself. Well when he gets his back that is and he thinks Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy) can help him get them back. While Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) mysteriously lost his memory and doesn't remember his brother Nathan or even having powers. He falls for a women who's brother says he can help him remmember. He wants him to use his powers for bad though before he'll help him. While Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman) moves his daughter Claire (Hayden Panettiere) somewhere to protect her from the company. He tells her to stay low. That's easier said than done when a kid there sees that she has powers. It's ok with him though since he can...fly. I was entertained by the season. It has many twists and turns. Does it all lead up to something great though in the end ? No, I can't really say that. Instead of NY being threatened by a bomb it's now threatened by a virus. While instead of Hiro seeing the future and seeing that NY is doomed, Peter does instead. So they could've been more original, it was too familiar to what we already seen in season 1. While Ali Larter has shown she can act as Nikki, she's wasted in this season with little to do.It also bugged me that some new heroes have powers that we have already seen. Such as, one can fly "like Nathan", while another can heal "like Claire". However those were probably my only problems with the season. Other than that they did what they could due to the strike and it could have been worse.