Comments on: Heroes dead, replaced by The Cape

By: K Stevens

K Stevens — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:41:05 +0000

Not completly suprised by the news. Even since the WGA strike during it’s second season, everything went to hell.

By: Joe_Kach

Joe_Kach — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:12:14 +0000

The lesson here is that you can only rip off comic book storylines from the 80s & 90s for so long until your show becomes redundant & stupid.

That being said, I did enjoy season 1.

Not sure about the quote Shaun referenced considering Jeph Loeb wrote a bunch of episodes, as did people who worked on Marvel’s Ultimate line.

–J.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:30:23 +0000

Good riddance to the craptacular Heroes… I read a quote somewhere that the show came off as a “comic book show” written by people who hate comic books, or perhaps had never read one in their lives. That kinda sums it all up for me.

And no, the show wasn’t “fantastic” even in its first season. It was watchable, and there were a handful or strong episodes that made me come back for more, but the season finale was the pits, and it never got any better. In fact, it got much worse. I finally gave up in season 2. A shame, since the show had loads of potential. It just never realized that potential.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:23:58 +0000

Heroes was never fantastic. It averaged out to pretty good at its best. You have to consider the handful of actual cool moments against the wealth of boring moments, and smattering of really bad ones.

By: Simon DelMonte

Simon DelMonte — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:17:07 +0000

That blurb for The Cape leaves out that the show features Keith David, best known for both his work on Broadway and his voice work in things like Gargoyles; and Summer Glau.

Just to see those two, I will try this show if and when it airs. (NBC planned to run Day One as a midseason series, after all, and it was downsized to miniseries and then TV film, and might never air.)

And yes, this does sound silly, but it also sounds better than anything else NBC is adding to the fall lineup. I can see why they wanted to go with Leno, given the blandness of the 10 pm shows. (Law and Order LA? Seriously?)