More on Heroes Season 2

I was reading around today and yesterday and it appears that I am far from the only one who was disappointed with this season of Heroes. In fact, the overwhelming sentiment from fans is that it blew - and viewers are down a full 15% from last year!

Now, as to viewership, I believe the first season is largely to blame for that. It was uneven and drawn-out for no good reason. Like I said before, I think creators were worried it wouldn't take-off and got the order for the back 9 late in the season, so they had to draw things out a bit in order to give themselves enough time. But the finale simply didn't pay off and they did not have that excuse to lean back on this year; they simply blew it.

Heroes series creator, Tim Kring, said they used the first season to set up a way of telling stories (an excuse as to why the shows are so drawn out and never answer any of the thousands of questions they bring up in each new one), but that fans wanted a different approach and they did not respond well to that.

But it's more and I'll say it again because it needs to be said: the writing staff does not know comic books. Even though at least some of the writers are actually comics writers and many of the people involved in the overall production have comics experience, the guys who shepherd this show to the TV obviously do not know comic books. Either that or they're getting caught-up in the whole, "How do we translate this to TV" and all that crap. And it is just that: crap.

Motion picture is simply moving frames; you "translate" a comic book to film by allowing the film to show the motion in and between panels. Duh.

The real problem is that they don't know how to juggle such a large cast; they don't have enough good, solid storylines for the characters; and they simply don't know where they're going. It's just a fumbling, stumble-around show, and unless they pick things up and go back to the drawing board (no pun intended) with the whole thing, we may have just seen the next-to-last season.

Oh yeah, and since some other people mentioned it (I meant to, but forgot): the whole mentalism fight was just downright goofy.