A week of Netflixed Heroes and insomnia
It ends with a lousy Claire cliff hanger?
I can’t say I regret watching the series - season one and three made it more than worth while - but season four’s writing, character development, and ending makes me wonder if the writers were Haitianed after every volume.
After becoming so attached to the characters, it’s disappointing to realize that in the Heroes universe, there are no consequences. Volume after volume, characters whose death may have lent a bit of integrity to show, were saved by writers using the “Specials” as a crutch. In S4, HRG is saved by Tracy’s water transportation, which we didn’t know she could do. I would have been devastated to see HRG die in Claire’s arms, but if he had, the pay off would have been an emotion-rich Claire/Samuel face off. But of course, he couldn’t die because no one does and as a result …
