[Movie] "Villains" - Heroes Season 3 Thread

I have to say that this season has been a huge disappointment, and unless the finale is better than everything else we've seen, I think I'll just stop watching it.

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How is it that Arthur can travel through time though? Yes, he had an encounter with Hiro in Africa, but I always thought that he TOOK people's powers, not copy them, as was seen with Peter, Adam and Maya. This really seems to be a cheap move, but what else would you expect with the show's mountain of inconsistencies.

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Fuller will join the writing staff starting with the 20th episode. I have high hopes for his input, but I'm also afraid that cleaning up the mess that Villains made won't be easy. The main problem I have with this season is that there is no engaging build-up to events. Season 1 started with a lot of mysteries that got answered over the course of the entire season, now we only see cliffhangers and questions for the sake of trying to save what little enjoyment the show still gives us (the insignificance of the Eclipse, which would have been the PERFECT opportunity to kill off some of the characters with a healing factor, Noah aiming at Sylar).

There is no more credibility, which I find started with the resurrection of Noah in the second season. By showing us that no one important can ever really die (unless they get blown to bits or have their head cut off, I assume), all the drama that the visions create are trivialized, since you know that they will never kill of one of the starring characters. Just hang them on a bag of Claire's blood, and they'll be ok again, where is the drama in that?

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But the sad part is that they are ruining every chance they had for a big reset. The eclipse would have been the perfect moment, everyone loses their power, everyone can take a fresh start, perhaps with new powers, and most importantly, they could have killed some characters. But after all the hype of the eclipse coming, NOTHING happened, it is without any significance, except for finding out Daphne can't walk, which isn't exactly what people were waiting for.

I actually liked most of the second season, there was consistency, you had an interesting character with Adam Monroe. Sure, character development wasn't handled well, some characters shouldn't have even been there from the start (Micah's family), but overall, everything seemed to fit together, which is something that is completely missing from Villains. Even Hiro isn't interesting anymore, the 9th Wonders thing is lame as hell (no one ever thought that there might have been more work from Mendez, which would have helped prevent a lot of events?). I understood that they didn't want to focus on it anymore, since it would ruin the plot, but to bring them back now is just cheap.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I don't think that a full reset would be a good solution, since the risk of just repeating a lot of the same mistakes is too great, and there are some good things to come out of the last two seasons (I liked Benett's development, Angela Petrella is getting even better imo). The problem with a full reset is that there will inevitably be a loss of originality, even know they are introducing a lot of characters which are no different, who don't have any surprises, so I think that creativity will be an even bigger problem with resetting the show.

You should also remember that most of the next chapter has already been set in stone, Fuller will only be able to contribute to the latter half, so he'll have to work with whatever the previous writers came up with. Even though I think that Fuller is the best asset to get this show back on track, I think we should also consider that he'll be part of a team, that has shown a lot of mistakes over the past season, mistakes that can't be blamed on the fired writers alone.

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