GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

tapio_hietamaki I watched seasons 1 and 2 of 'Heroes'. I liked the first season and disliked the second season, so much so that I barely remember anything about the latter and didn't feel inclined to watch any more.However, the first season pretty much works on its own as a story about emerging superheroes coming together in various ways to fight an evil adversary. I haven't watched any of the Netflix Marvel superhero TV shows so I don't know how those compare to 'Heroes' but I think that this show still holds up pretty well despite being over ten years old already.'Heroes' is not about any costume-wearing comic book heroes. It's got its own cast of original characters, each getting an origin story and starting its own franchise (not that much came of it). There's the self-regenerating cheerleader (Hayden Panettiere), the time-travelling Japanese office worker, the super-strong schizophrenic stripper, and the power-replicating nurse (Milo Ventimiglia from 'Gilmore Girls'). All these fates end up tying together in a very satisfying manner.

ElessarAndurilS Heroes started off great with a lot of potential, but as the seasons progressed it lost its way. I find that the episode "Villains" in Season 3 is a great place where we see the manifestations of much of what went wrong with the flow of the shows story lines and its writing. We start off with the human race at the brink of an evolutionary breakthrough, people who have a set of genetic characteristics in common who start developing super human traits giving them the ability to be super human. As such they can use those powers to do good or evil. Of course even us regular people are faced with the same thing, we don't have to be able to fly, move things with our minds, control others actions or have any other super human capabilities to be evil or good. From the beginning of time we have had the good guys and the bad guys, Heroes just introduces us to a point in time where they do so with special powers. Kind of a ripoff of x-men and definitely borrowing from marvel and their collection of heroes and villains. The problem with the show was captured in that episode because as our time traveling hero goes on an unguided spirit walk (which is never explained why him and only him gets slammed with this because of not taken a guided one) and takes us back in time to when those with the super powers made the critical decisions in their lives to do good or evil. But in the episode they go back a various amount of time in the lives and don't bother to cross check with the story that has happened to date making the events of the episode conflict with the story to date. For example, Sylar is taken back a year to when he stole his first power starting his path down the evil serial killer of super humans to collect their powers so he could have the ultimate arsenal. Problem is a year earlier he was already an established serial killer being a pain in the FBI's butt. Take this and compare it to the show and you have a summary of the problem with the story, it lost its way. Story lines aren't just non-linear and disconnected they lead nowhere coming from somewhere that looked to be interesting but along the way threw in so much junk that by the time we get to the end of season 3 you don't really care anymore. There are no real good guys who are saving the world and fighting bad guys. There are a group of people who are dysfunctional with super powers who keep changing sides and on the way the set of story lines they are important to. The show could have been great, an x-men series but with consistency. But instead it lost its way. I liked the show and thought it had great potential, just potential that got squandered. With Heroes Reborn I was hoping things would go a better way, but after 10 episodes I doubt it. To much of a disconnect from the original series, no bothering to close off any (not asking to resolve everything, but they could have at least handled a few of the group from the original gang to bring some continuity). But this is about Heroes. A show which lost its way. I see so many shows with great potential that are written well and have a great story just getting dropped these days (in the Sci Fi genre at least). Here we have a show that could have been great, started great but lost its way. Some people just don't learn their lessons. Worth watching on Netflix but by the end you'll stop caring. So when you reach that point before the end save yourself the time and just stop watching because they aren't going to fix anything. It just gets further lost.

TvTobbe This must by far be the worst butchering of a TV series ever. It is almost impressive how they totally trash a tremendous show along the way until only a burning wreck remains. The writers responsible should quit their jobs and live in shame for the rest of their lives. This is a painful display of inconsistency and incompetent writing. I was actually excited when I heard about "heroes reborn" but now that I have just finished s4 I am not so sure anymore. Maybe I will watch it out of pure curiosity and I am telling myself that it can not get any worse. This show desperately needs Hiro to go back to the start of s2 and bitchslap everyone around the writingtable.

liz_reilly Honestly the only thing that wasn't so good about this show apart from a lack of comic relief when Hiro and Ando weren't around, was that there wasn't a defined story arc or villain for each season, and that made each season less conclusive and would have caused a lot of people to lose interest despite liking the characters and the narrative. You just lose a bit of investment when you don't have closure at the right times. In this way season 4 is actually the best season next to season 1 because it has an interesting villain that comes in at the start of the season and remains to the end of the season. AND we empathise with Samuel while still wanting him to be stopped. It was also kind of sad when interesting characters weren't around for very long, but didn't actually die. It was similar to Buffy in giving these kind of epic, unexpected deaths, like Issac, and that kleptomaniac chick in season 1 who I forgot the name of. And then the really drawn out, confusing-in-a-good-way death of Nathan. But then there were all these characters who left without dying, or with any closure really. And that kind of thing just makes you automatically think 'are they gonna show up again?', 'what's the deal with that dude?' A lot of other shows do that in a much worse way though- at least in Heroes, it actually made sense and the narrative was interesting enough that it was easy to move on from those other characters.