Save the cheerleader...well, you know the rest.

[rogueslayer452]

Anyone remember Heroes? Seriously, what the fuck happened to that show?

I suddenly got the urge to marathon the first season (aka The Only Season That Matters) and seriously, what happened that made everything just go completely downhill after that? The show had much potential and it clearly shows that they had something going for them, but it got lost after the first season ended. I mean seriously, the mysteries kept you guessing, the characters and their stories were engaging and not stupidly annoying or overexposed as they became later on, and they actually had a plot, which was immediately retconned seasons after. Things actually made sense with the build-up they were doing rather than the actual reasoning they attempted to do in the following seasons. Which is why I consider S1 the Golden Season, since it truly is the only one that matters and I just block everything else that came after it. But seriously though, how could something that started off so good end up becoming so horribly bad and unwatchable? I just doesn't make sense.

Of course, this isn't news to anyone who has had me friended for a long while. I used to be a huge Heroes fan. Like, I fell in love instantly. I also fell out of that love just as fast. It's a reminder of how publicity and popularity can get to a creator's head, inflating it, thus ruining everything. I'm just happy that the actors have moved on, gaining their dignity back especially after how some were treated on that show. -___-

Still, the first season remains the best and I feel no shame in watching that like I do with the others. I just get pangs of nostalgia, wondering the what could have been with this show.

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and then Sendhil was left waiting for his character to have more than two seconds of screen time.

Can I discuss this for a second? Because I recall Sendhil wanting to do some side projects when he wasn't working on Heroes, unfortunately Tim Kring told him he couldn't because he was contractually bound to the show whenever they needed him. Except he wasn't even treated like a main character anymore. That really pissed me off learning about that, because they just wasted his character and his amazing acting ability as a whole for the crapfest they kept doing. Also, I think even Dania Ramirez had some not-so-kind things to say regarding the show and how they handled the role they gave her, although I can't be sure if that's true or not.

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I happy he got Covert Affairs too, that seems to be going great for him and he seems happier, at least based on how he talks about it and the differences between this job compared to Heroes.