I love Heroes. I think it’s a good show, but one that really hasn’t been showing it’s potential in the later episodes. Despite what most internet bloggers say,  I had no problems with the season finale of the first season and I didn’t hate the second season as much as some have, but it was really flawed, and the series will really need some work if it’s going to survive another season.

First and foremost, they need to drop the meladrama. If there’s one thing that turns me off of hourlong primetime shows is the contant and pointless meladrama. And whats even worse than pointless meladrama? Teen-Angst meladrama! Seriously, Claire needs to grow up.  I can understand her issues from the first season. She has these powers and she doesn’t know how to confront people with them or who to tell or trust or evenwhat to do with them, but by now she would have learned to deal with them, right? Wrong. She might as well be screaming “Oh my life sucks! These super awesome superpowers are destroying my high school life!” I understand that she is still learning about what she can and can’t do, but she seriously needs to grow up and develop as a character. I spent the first season falling in love with her, and by the end of the second season, she had annoyed the living crap out of me.

Second, they need to cut the fluff. For example, in season 2, they dragged out Hiro’s time travel subplot to like 6 episodes, when it could have easily been 3 tops. They could have had him back by episode 4 to continue his story, which seemingly spent a lot of time going nowhere until the last few episodes where it starting building to something. The seasons need to start building from the first episode.  We don’t need three people travelling in a car for most of a season.

Third, they need to slow down on the new characters. We are only getting to the third season and we just barely know the original cast, and yet they keep cramming new people down our throat. Someone mentioned in our comments section on Heroes related post that they keep finding people who have powers, and it’s almost like too many people have powers. What I’m saying is that it’s too much too quick. And as far as most of these new characters go, I didn’t care for much of them.  I just wanted to see Hiro and Peter and the rest of the original gang, and maybe I didn’t give the new characters the chance they deserve, but I just didn’t care for them.

Fourth, everyone says this, but they really need to drop the love stories.  At our conversations at work, that is the one thing we all hated. It’s not that I’m a macho pig and “love is gay bring on the violence.” It’s just that ever since Dawson’s Creek and possibly even before that with the dawn of the soap opera, young love has been portrayed in television and in a lot of movies as: “I’m in love and it’s complicated and it hurts,” and it often comes off as meladramatic (there’s that word again), and stale and often even boring, and many times, unbelievable. I just don’t see a lot of the people falling in love actually even making it to the first kiss, and if it did it would be an awkward kiss, and thats how I feel about one or tow of the couples from the last season.

And lastly, there “Heroes!” Bring on the science fiction! Bring on the action and suspense! Hoefully, with the next season being called “Villians”, the heroes will be forced to team together to stop whatever obstace lies in there path. I knwo that maybe thats not what I should expect from this show, but it’s called “Heroes.” You have to admit that the title comes with an expectation? These characters shouldn’t have to be talked in to running into a burning building to save their own relative.

Anyways, thats my two cents. Let me know what you think. Are these points accurate? Do you even think Heroes needs “fixed?”