Heroes Returns – Cast Your Vote on if it will be any Good

January 29, 2009 at 8:31 am | In John J. Joex, Previews, Schedule | 1 Comment
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Much reviled since the downward spiral in quality which began with its second season (the show is even in the finals for Worst Scripted Television in the Hulu Awards), Heroes hopes to kick off with a fresh start when it returns on Monday with Volume 4 – Fugitives.  This volume, which will span across twelve episodes, has the main characters on the run as Nathan Petrelli has set up a task force to hunt down and capture all people with abilities.  Also, evil-to-good-to-evil Sylar will be searching for his true biological parents (apparently Angela Petrelli’s deceptions stirred up his nostalgia for his family tree).

Bryan Fuller, fresh off the recently cancelled Pushing Daisies (curse you ABC), returns to the series he worked closely with during its first and best season.  And series creator Tim Kring has claimed that the current volume will act as a bit of a reboot for Heroes and that new viewers will not have to be familiar with the show’s mythology to jump on board.

I’m looking forward to the new episodes and hope to see the show get back on track.  I am not as down on the show as many others are, but I do admit it started to get on my nerves during the first half of the current season.  The constant zipping around in time and killing off characters only to see them return in short term dragged down the quality of the episodes (and did I miss it or did they not resolve the Harvey-Linderman storyline?).  Still, I have fond memories of this show’s stellar first season and hope that it can return to form.  And while Heroes is most likely safe for a fourth season (NBC’s head of Prime Time has said it is secure), if its ratings continue to dwindle, its status may become a bit more tenuous.

Leading off the night is the return of Chuck for the second half of its sophomore season.  As a tie in with the Super Bowl which airs on NBC the night before, Monday’s episode will be in 3-D.  NBC has a list of locations where you can get your 3-D glasses here:  www.nbc.com/Chuck/about/news/

Also, if you are jonesing for Heroes in the meantime, you can check out The Recruit webseries: www.nbc.com/Heroes/video/categories/the-recruit/873822/

-JJJ

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  1. [...] Heroes (“A Clear and Present Danger”) – So Volume 4 of Heroes has finally arrived and everybody wants to know: does it suck?  Well, I’m here to tell you that the first episode definitely looks promising.  No time travel, no apocalyptic end-of-the-world visions, and nobody died only to come back to by episode’s end.  Instead, as Tim Kring promised, this episode delivered a return to the basics as the heroes are now on the run from a task force set up by Nathan Petrelli, now a Senator, to detain all people with abilities.  Three characters, Nathan, HRG, and Sylar, have all reset to the sinister nature that we saw in the first season while the other principals look like they will become a dissident group fighting against Nathan’s subjugations.  Yeah, we’ve already seen much of this in the X-Men movies and comics and other places as well, but Heroes looks to give its own spin on the concept and I like what I see so far.   (Vote on whether you think Heroes Volume 4 will suck.) [...]

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