Back in 2006 I was a busy man with lots of projects and working on a book when Heroes premiered on September 25 2006, so I didn’t catch it from the start.  But in early 2007 a friend started talking about a new show that sounded a lot like X-men… Since The X-men kick all kinds of ass I decided to check it out.

After watching all the episodes in the series thus far I got addicted.  I couldn’t stop watching the first season.  I watched the first six episodes 3 times each.  It was awesome, and had a formula of sucking you in like Id never seen.  With a bonanza of ads and marketers hitting up every message board on the internet, they hit the nerds first.  That’s always a good move, and with nerds aware of a new Sci-Fi show they had a great base. Then to attract the every day viewers and morons of pop culture they recruited pretty people to star in the show, and incorporated award winning special effects.  BAM! Ratings gold.  The first season’s 23 episodes hit an average of 14.3 million viewers in the U.S., receiving the highest rating for any NBC drama premiere in five years.  The American Film Institute, Writers Guild of America, Hollywood foreign Press association and more all licked the balls of Heroes calling it the best show, and series of the year.  It had great writing, good acting, and looked awesome in HD so I thought it was the best drama series I had seen on TV in a long time.

NOW COMES ALL THE BULLSHIT.  When season one ended I felt like I wanted to punch my TV.  It was like the whole season I was getting the most awesome blow job ever and then when I was about to finish up the lips were removed and I was punched in the face.  Very upsetting.  Everyone was waiting for a huge super power battle between Sylar and Peter, and anyone who wasn’t is a homo… That’s right I SAID IT.  That battle didn’t have to happen to appease me, but Jesus Christ, 22 and three quarters of awesome episodes just to have a minute and a half of one sword stab and two guys flying away in each others arms.  Fuck you Heroes.  Maybe having Peters brother sweep him away to blow up in the sky, and Hiro doing a quick stab through Sylar’s chest was done to save money on all the special effects they would have needed to do. Why the hell did I say maybe!? I’m positive it was done to save money because I sure as hell know it could have been exponentially better.  I wasn’t looking for an ending or one final battle of good conquering evil, because it’s a TV show, I understand it needs to keep going… but COME ON.

Once I got into Heroes it happened to be one of the very few shows I watched when it first premiered on TV as opposed to watching it online or otherwise.  So when season one ended with a shank I was left with blue balls, I didn’t really feel like watching any more and when it came back from its hiatus, I didn’t watch. Apparently other people felt this way too, because ratings dropped 15 %. Yet some how the marketing genius’ sucked me back in and I was back on Monday nights watching Heroes.  Other people didn’t quite feel the same and by episode seven Heroes dropped to 9.87 million viewers.  Damn near cutting ratings by 40 %.  This would be a death blow for any other show, but Heroes is one of NBC’s best in the 18-49 demographic, as well as having strong international appeal so they keep it alive.  When the big twist hit just after episode 7 it slightly came back up but still ended at 11 million which was still 3 million lower than the average of season 1.  Then to make everything worse the writers strike happens and cuts the 24 episode second season down to 11.  So I can’t directly slam Heroes for the downfall of the story here, but it hurt ratings and viewers again.

So now Season 3 begins, A YEAR LATER, and its with a 3 hour bullshit “meet the fans” and “catch up on the red carpet” pre-show.  God damn man, fluff me a bit more why don’t ya.  The ratings die again, and of course the producers chalk it up to the writers strike, but give me a break your showing an hour of pre-show that’s 50 % commercials and 50 % actors trying to be hosts… this blows.  Yet finally after 2 hours of garbage the premiere pops on and its pretty slow but like the Heroes of old it set up tons of promising story lines and crazy twists to what we know.  Then the first few episodes are actually pretty good and have all kinds of questions bubbling, then Peters dad is shot and the entire thing starts to crumble and we lose interest all over again…

So this brings us to the present and there are only 3 episodes left before it goes on break until September and without some of the most amazing shit ever, this show may be dead to me.  Its constantly filled with more commercials than any show I can think of, the writing has fizzled out like a bad fart and I’ve been left disappointed.  A man can only take so much…  Somebody fix Heroes…

Message to the Producers:::  I will write for this show and make it fuck-your-face awesome.  Just give me a chance.