There was a time when Heroes was a glittering star in the firmament of US television. By the end of the first season, almost everyone seemed to love it. Then the finale everyone was waiting for happened and we all felt just a hint of disappointment. “Oh, was that it? I was expecting something epic,” was the general reaction.
It’s almost all been downhill since then.
Then Volume Two/Season Two came along. It wasn’t bad, but it plodded and seemed to go nowhere. People started to turn off.
Then Volume Three came along, together with promises from the producers that it would be back to season one form. True, the show didn’t plod, but the characters all went through bizarre personality flops and no one stayed dead. Some of the plots were very stupid and way too sci-fi. People started to dislike Heroes for straying too far from the ‘real-life’ world depicted in the first season.
Volume Four arrived, together with promises from the producers that it would be back to season one form. Those still watching thought it was actually pretty good. Maybe the producers were telling the truth this time.
We’re on Volume Five now and Heroes appears to be on its last legs. It got fewer than four million viewers for its latest episode, an all-time low. Budget cuts and a “return to character-based stories” have meant nothing exciting has been happening, bar a few isolated outbreaks.
So this week’s question is in two parts:
Will Heroes be cancelled soon? Should it be cancelled?
Discussion after the jump, because these aren’t necessarily easy questions.
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