Today I'm going to review the latest season of Heroes. As I'm writing this now, the latest season of Heroes is about to air its finale next week. Initially I thought of waiting until I've seen the final episode to give my review. However after watching the entire series up to this point, I've come to the conclusion that whatever happens in the finale won't change the overall outcome of my review.
Before I begin though, let me warn you: This review comes with spoilers; if you haven't watched the latest season of Heroes and don't want to find out what happens, then just go somewhere else and wait for my next review. Ok let's get to it: For those not in the know, Heroes is a television series about a group of individuals who discover they have superpowers. The series focuses on what they do with these powers and how other people are affected by their using them. For this third season in the series they entitled it "Volume III: Villains" and basically tells about bad guys running loose, wreaking havoc. One particular bad guy, presumed dead in the beginning of Heroes season 1, appears in Season 3 and hatches a "sinister plot" that involves giving normal people superpowers. As to how evil is that (Is it really evil having superpowers?), let's just say it changes the future and the heroes here are trying to prevent that future from happening.
Okay I'll go straight to the point: this season is totally messed up. Let me tell you why: First, the story. Everything I've come to know, understand and love about Heroes since season 1 was completely mangled and distorted by season 3. I'll give one example: Sylar. Sylar was the badass bad guy in Heroes: he's twisted, he's merciless, he has no compunction on killing anyone just so he could steal their powers. He was so bad you ask anyone on the street who their top 10 villains are and chances are, his name is on that list. Sure he lost his powers in season 2 but when he got his powers back at the end of that season, there was a tinge of excitement in the air as to what he's gonna do next. Then in season 3, everything changes: from badass villain, Sylar becomes a good guy, even helping out the same company who tried to destroy him in previous seasons. Then in the future he becomes a doting, caring father, and there's one time he even sleeps with the former company boss' daughter. It was so confusing even Sylar was confused. And that's just Sylar; I won't have to go into details with Peter, Claire, Hiro and the others. I just want to mention that they too were not spared this utter madness.
The second thing I didn't like about this season is there's no new powers! When season 1 of Heroes started it was original in that everyone had a different power. One person could fly, 1 can paint the future, 1 can heal. By season 2, we find out there's more than 1 person who could fly and who could heal himself. But they still had the girl with copycat ability and that was cool. By season 3, there's nothing unique anymore. Sure we got a speedster, a flame thrower, a leech and a beast like superpower but they look dull and uninspiring. The only new character that I felt was interesting was this fat villain with the power to control people like puppets in a string and he was there for like 2 or 3 episodes only.
Speaking of original, my third gripe about the series was that they haven't done anything original this third season. Whether it be traveling to the past or to the future, seeing the Apocalypse, warping one's mind, teleporting or whatever - anything they did in season 3 they've done it already in seasons 1 and 2. And it's not just the plot or the powers - even the visuals and the music isn't original anymore and could not hold our attention span long enough.
In the end I'm sorry to say but with the way things are going for this series I don't expect it to last any longer. Which is sadly ironic: the one thing that will do this series in are not the villains or the end of the world but the series' writers and their poor plots and the studio execs who see what was a great series gone to waste!
Grading (I've made some changes with the grading; this may stick for all my reviews):
Heroes season 3
Classification: Action/Adventure series
Rating: PG-13 (due to some scenes involving women in provocative lingerie and scenes which show decapitated heads)
Story: D
Characterization: D
Visuals: D
Soundtrack: D
Final Grade: D
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