Post by Temporal Death on Jun 11, 2010 14:30:03 GMT 1
The teaserline for Volume Three was "Because In Every Hero, There Could Be A Villain."
This saying and the converse were both attempted to be potrayed though the characters this volume, showing that some of our good guys have a dark side to them, and some of the new baddies do have a heart.
This was a really solid theme the show could have developed, but the character development and writing were all over the place. I don't know where to start. Sylar was quite bipolar, switching his decision every episode or so. Let's not even get me started with the Petrelli brothers this volume. I have no idea why on Earth they were doing what they did. It seemed too forced, as was done with Claire.
The season started out with alot of promise:
Claire losing her response to pain and hence questioning her humanity. Sylar, finding family in Angela Petrelli, a reason for him to do "good" by her. Then there's Angela herself, who lets him feed on a Company agent to suit her needs. HRG, who, characteristically tries to kill Sylar, and then there are a couple of villains such as Doyle and that blackhole guy whose motives I really loved. Even Tracy, her character was new, yet similar to that of Niki's. I loved that line of hers "You don't pay me for sex, Governer. What you do pay me for is my advice, the sex comes free."
I hated the addition of Arthur and the whole deal with "The Formula" in this season. It really took away the meaning of these Specials. I hated the fact that some of them, Nathan and Niki included, were not born into their powers, and Daphne and Matt falling in love in a few days' time just because the future showed Matt it was so. And wow, anyone can see the future now, all you have to do is drink some African poop liquid. All of that along with the game-changing, spit-in-the-face episode "The Eclipse, Part Two".
I'll be back to discuss more later, as there are pages I could write on this topic, but do not have the time at the moment. So, what did you guys like/dislike about the characters in this volume? Could you keep up with the lightning speeds at which the characters developed/regressed?
I personally feel that the story and development of this volume would have been better appriciated had it spanned the length of 20 episodes or so, and the show would actually focus on exploring the multitude of characters they introduced, instead of the haphazard plot.
This saying and the converse were both attempted to be potrayed though the characters this volume, showing that some of our good guys have a dark side to them, and some of the new baddies do have a heart.
This was a really solid theme the show could have developed, but the character development and writing were all over the place. I don't know where to start. Sylar was quite bipolar, switching his decision every episode or so. Let's not even get me started with the Petrelli brothers this volume. I have no idea why on Earth they were doing what they did. It seemed too forced, as was done with Claire.
The season started out with alot of promise:
Claire losing her response to pain and hence questioning her humanity. Sylar, finding family in Angela Petrelli, a reason for him to do "good" by her. Then there's Angela herself, who lets him feed on a Company agent to suit her needs. HRG, who, characteristically tries to kill Sylar, and then there are a couple of villains such as Doyle and that blackhole guy whose motives I really loved. Even Tracy, her character was new, yet similar to that of Niki's. I loved that line of hers "You don't pay me for sex, Governer. What you do pay me for is my advice, the sex comes free."
I hated the addition of Arthur and the whole deal with "The Formula" in this season. It really took away the meaning of these Specials. I hated the fact that some of them, Nathan and Niki included, were not born into their powers, and Daphne and Matt falling in love in a few days' time just because the future showed Matt it was so. And wow, anyone can see the future now, all you have to do is drink some African poop liquid. All of that along with the game-changing, spit-in-the-face episode "The Eclipse, Part Two".
I'll be back to discuss more later, as there are pages I could write on this topic, but do not have the time at the moment. So, what did you guys like/dislike about the characters in this volume? Could you keep up with the lightning speeds at which the characters developed/regressed?
I personally feel that the story and development of this volume would have been better appriciated had it spanned the length of 20 episodes or so, and the show would actually focus on exploring the multitude of characters they introduced, instead of the haphazard plot.
