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I quit during the third episode of season two. I was bitterly disappointed in the direction it had taken. Sure, Masi Oka was kind of the breakout star but that whole storyline bored me to tears and reeked of fan service.
Haven't seen an episode since and do not care that it is gone.

I loved the first season and was excited to see what happened next... AND THEN Season 2 happened. And I couldn't even finish the season, it was as if an entirely different show occurred. Or a different director. Honestly I couldn't raise enough ire to care. A friend brought over the DVD's and we both stopped watching about three episodes in. I think he left the DVD's at my house, too ashamed to bring them back to his abode.

Good job, Jeph Loeb. Keep on doing your thing, you personification of inevitable decay.

I quit an episode or two after Veronica Mars showed up.

Around that point in time, to employ several grating clichés, the curtains were pulled aside, the Emperor was shown to have no clothes, and Indiana Jones escaped a nuclear blast in a fridge.

I posess a permanent, soul-shriveling disdain for any simpleton who continued to watch this show beyond, say, five episodes into season two.

Sorry, TO an end. Sunday night syndrome.

Good. Maybe they can wrap it up in a nice neat bow and be DONE. Much like LOST, I was sticking with it JUST because, much like my marriage, I had already invested too much time in it to walk away. That was a bad tactic. I may need to learn to end bad relationships more efficiently.

Honestly I never bought into it. I thought Season 1 was well made though, and watched it. But the entire time I was thinking to myself "wow, there isn't an original though here past Wild Cards or X-Men to save this show, nothing at all". When the production and writing faltered immediately starting in Season 2, I was done.

We would have been much better served by a series that cherry picked the Wild Card stories for the best (usually Wild Card novels are series of shorts that are tied together thematically or into a larger plot device, so it would be perfect for television).

My fiancee continued watching, and at one point I was pulled into a Season 4 episode with her. I laughed, literally laughed at how bad it was.

And in that vein:

Now I'VE got your power!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akJygsSXcjw

"I've never seen the show, but do you think the demise could have come by way of The Stranglers?"

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser

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Sadly, since Hugh quit, The Stranglers don't have the baws to do the deed.

Still, I'm a little in love with you now Jo 'Mama'.

Sigh. I knew it would happen, but I'm still surprised.

The sheer awful-ness of the show wasn't lost of me. I just loved the premise so damn much that I truly hoped it would improve. There were so many things that went wrong. Lack of continuity, characters doing dumb-ass things (Hiro, I am looking at you) no rules regarding the abilities...it just got tiring.

Then it became the Sylar/Claire show and that pretty much killed it. At least Quinto can act, but I don't see what the big deal is about Hayden Pana-whatever. She can cry on cue, but that's it. The cast and crew would just wax poetic about her "talent" on the commentary and I was always baffled as to why. Same with Milo Venti-whatever.

And the writers didn't give a shit; from their introducing a shitload of new characters in the second season, only to kill them all off or they disappeared, never to be seen again. You could tell they were pulling it out of their ass and just didn't give a fuck.

The writers strike really hurt this show. Also the show creator's mantra of "no tights" hurt it too I think. I mean why have a show about superheroes without some of the traditional superhero tropes.

I quit the show when it became obvious that Hiro was just comedy relief. The character had the best powers and they had no clue how to write it.

Really glad I caught the first season, which was great up until the very end. RIP.

Here's what I remember about the last episode I watched:

It contained flashbacks to Elle and Sylar meeting before the series begun. But, uh, Elle never left the office before going to Ireland to get Peter. Ever. That was a plot point in Season 2. WTF?

Sylar began to learn how to just take powers by osmosis, Peter-style. He just *learned* it. Jesus, that could have saved a lot of trouble if he learned to do that sooner! (To my knowledge, he never used it again.)

By the end of the episode, he and Elle did the bump and grind, and then he killed her and stole her electricity powers because *shrug*.

Ye-eah. Goodbye, Heroes. Thanks for Company Man and that lovely first series finale. Have fun in making-up-plots-as-you-go-along Heaven.

Technically, I quit when they changed the fate of the artist in the pilot when the series actually premiered, though my interest was already wavering from the crappy garbage disposal/hand mutilation effect in the pilot (beautifully fixed for the season premiere; originally it was fake blood and Hayden wrapping her fingers around each other). I almost turned in for season 3 because of Kristen Bell, but didn't.

In the past week, as rumors of the cancellation spread, I decided to visit the show I never grew to love and am enamored with season one. I'll probably see the good in even an evil carnival subplot, as I'm a fan of a good evil carnival. My favorite episode of Torchwood is the one with the evil carnies, I was addicted to Carnivale and still hope for a real resolution to the series, I have Clive Barker's full series of Infernal Parade collectibles, and I've even designed multiple Halloween haunts around the evil carnival concept. Knowing my warped perspective, I'll probably think it's the best thing since "Yata!" was first screamed.

Season one was really good, but it wasn't perfect. When Hiro randomly lost his powers and then randomly got them back, when that woman with the super power of being a super techno-geek simply disappeared, and that terrible season finale, I hadn't the slightest interest in seeing season 2.