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I've never seen one episode, and I ain't a-gunna, neither.

Sorry, Seth, I can't help you on this one, because I'm trapped in the same god damned hell. This show is beyond awful, but I continue to watch it. I have abandoned dozens of much, much better shows, but yet I can't seem to shake this one.

I this conversation with my wife on my way into work this morning:

Mrs. Ajax19: Are you going to get coffee?

Me: No. I had coffee this morning while I watched my stories (Heroes).

Mrs. Ajax19: Oh. Did you like it?

Me: No. Not at all. It was horrible. The show's awful.

Mrs. Ajax19: Why do you keep watching it then?

Me: Uh... Um... I.... have... no idea. What else would I do before work in the morning?

Mrs. Ajax19: Sleep in? Read a book?

Me: Yeah. So, anyway...

Did you really need to look at the screen to understand Nathan's French? I mean, "Je me appelle, Nathan?" "Je suis amis?"

I suck at languages and I even I could understand that without the subtitles.

I was hoping the second season was just an aberration, but apparently it was not. This season has been just as bad, if not worse.

Now that they have apparently offed the Delightful Kristen Bell this show has become even more unwatchable.

Maybe that's our rallying point. Do it for, Kristen.

What's even worse is that I record two shows on Monday night: Heroes and Terminator. There is no doubt in my mind that Terminator is the better show, yet I have only watched one or two episodes this year (and am on the verge of deleting them all to conserve my valuable DVR space), yet have watched every episode of Heroes. And I've pretty much hated them all.

I, too, need help.

Um, I still watch it and I thought last night's episode was pretty good.

Crap. I should turn in my Cool Card right now, shouldn't I?

Much like smoking, which we discussed, you can quit Heroes. I did. I watched all of the first two seasons, and after two episodes of season 3, I quit. Cold turkey. Never looked back.

I'm telling you, people... once you get it out of your system, the air is fresher, the sun is brighter... you'll never regret it.

I believe in you. You can do it.

I quit this season a few weeks ago and it's been great knowing I don't have to figure that crap out anymore. It's like the writers took every possible explanation for everything that has ever happened threw it in a hat, mixed it around and made it into a storyline. It was killing me slowly so I had to get rid of it. Good luck Seth, it's hard but if anyone can do it, you can!

Ajax19 what is so impressive about that conversation you had with your wife is that you could remember it verbatim. Usually the conversations that I have in the morning go along the lines of...

Pookie: How much do I owe you?

Sapphire: Three Hundred.

Obviously they have their own Hero kicking around, that forces you to watch the show beyond your will.

That's all I've got, because I am exactly the same. Each week I go 'meh' and yet the next week I still watch. I have given up on reading the subtitles though, and I used to like Hiro. I also have no idea why Nathan and Peter are in the jungle (I'm an ep behind here, but I still should probably know).

I, too, was stuck in the cycle. Even though I knew the show was sub par at best, the second eclipse helped drive the point home. I was really just watching for the different powers.

My mornings before work I spend watching the Daily Show from the previous night.

Hahaha, Seth. My other geeky friends (there aren't many, but they are strong in their allegiance) kept pestering me to watch Heroes, but when it started I was out of the country and couldn't watch it and I never got around to watching the DVDs.

Now they all complain, just like you, and I get to laugh. Irony here: I was studying French, so I could listen to the French scenes without looking up.

Eh, because that was kind of mean, sometimes it helps to replace stupid with lesser stupid. It's hard to cut a TV show cold turkey, but maybe you could put in a DVD in it's place and then slowly ween yourself off.

However, I'm weening myself onto Chuck (*wink to Zachary Levi*) and I worry it might go the way of my beloved Daisies, so we both might be screwed.

Also, can someone please help me stop watching The Mentalist. It's just another worthless, formulaic cop show, and I am well aware of that. And yet I got attached to the damn Red John serial killer storyline from the pilot episode that they have just refused to even fucking mention ever since...

They set up a major fucking storyline that was the entire foundation of the lead fucking character and these assholes don't even acknowledge it exists other than the damn titles of the episodes having the word "red" in them. Seriously. Wanting to see that storyline is raping a part of my soul on a weekly basis.

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I know, right! That whole show is just fun. And Zach Levi is adorable, like, more so than he should be. And the other leads are so great. Everyone is likable.

I worry it'll turn out like a really awesome club that shows up on campus. You make it to their intro meeting and everyone is so cool and full of bright new ideas, but you can't make it to the meetings because of work, but you really wish them the best. And then all of a sudden their funding gets cut from the SGA. And your heart hurts.

Save Chuck, save the world!

The best guess I can offer (as I'm still watching too) is that there are occasionally flashes of what made the show good and intriguing in the first place, and there's really not much better to do on Monday night if you're not into football. And the last few MNF games have been absolute suck-fests.

I want to punch Peter Peterelli in the face, though, and continuing to watch the series isn't making that any better. He's got this messiah complex but has he ever really made any situation he's gotten involved in better? Cause like, 90% of the time, he does something stupid and some other Hero has to come save his ass. Course, it doesn't help that Milo Ventiwhatever just seems pervy to me ever since it came out that he was dating his (literally) barely legal co-star.

Genny: I also have Peter Petrelli hate. I think it started because I hated him as Jess on Gilmore Girls, and then his stupid hair in the first season of Heroes didn't help. But you're right, he just makes everything worse, someone should vanish him to the future that no longer exists like that fake Irish Caitlin girl, and do us all a favour. (I am still stupidly annoyed by that plot line. Does he no longer care that she doesn't exist anymore??!)

I used to wonder why I was watching, and then I just stopped, I've found other T.V. that is not demanding, yet genuinely entertaining. Thanks to the Food Networks Good Eats, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report, the void has been filled. If you wand to learn how too cook food based on reason, and not have a lot demanded of you, Good Eats is the show for you. Maybe it will help you all kill your watching of heroes.

I hated Peter most of all ever since I realized that he should have been killed off in the first season, and he became even more of a limp dick ever since the start. So many character's on that show outstay their welcome. They just don't know how to end shit. What a clusterfuck.

Can't help you there.

I turned the TV off during last week's episode, screaming "FUCK YOU" into Matt's face as he got pelted by Hiro with some corn. Good God how can anyone mess up a show about how people with SUPERPOWERS so badly?!

Seriously, I was just so completely fucking angry at it, and I just declared I.AM.DONE.

I tested my resolve on Monday, and was very glad to see that I didn't miss the anger, the frustration and the pure hatred for everyone in this show at all.

Fucking done.

I know I blasted Dustin for dissing on Heroes, but I mostly just liked the 1st season and the first few episodes of the premire. But the rest devolved into more whiny bitching rather than action and killing of unnecisary characters, Heroes has become the Sonic the Hedgehog of T.V. I'm sorry for my early defense Dustin, but the rest of my insults to you, I still stand by.

Can't quit this dreck either. I hate everything the previous eloquent haters hate, and then some.

Two main reasons for not kicking it are trying to pinpoint the moment my fellow viewer colleague (enthousiastic fanatic as ever) will finally give up*. And reading the bitch-mock-bitch-mock-bitch-stab-fork-in-tender-area comments on the AV club (and now in my safehaven as well).

*not anytime soon, easily amused girl from Finance Control just won't budge.

Fellow haters, where did/should have you give(n) up?

Truth be told, my experience with Heroes is very similar to my experience with 24.

I breathlessly watched two seasons, and then, on the cusp of starting season 3, I had an epiphany.

"Wait a minute," I thought to myself. "Holy fuckballs... this show actually blows. It's horrible. Why have I wasted my time on this piece of shit?"

A moment of clarity. Which is why I've never seen another episode of either.

Seriously, though. 24 is just as bad.

I am still willing to watch, however, I've been watching "Prison Break" instead. Talk about ridiculous, but entertaining as shit. And you know what, I like "Terminator," too. It's way better than I expected it would be, given that it's a prequel, kinda.

"Heroes" just has so much going on plotwise, it's getting way too dense as far as shit you have to remember to understand WTF is going on. The subtitles ARE annoying. I don't mind them in a movie, but on a weekly show, they get tiresome.

Beer-flavored nipples?

(off to weep in silence now)

Actually Heroes was a lot like Lost for me.

First season was brilliant; a show that was new and exciting and flashy, and I absolutely loved it.

Then the second season (or was it the 3rd season of Lost? I can't remember) blew giant donkey balls and made me want to give the whole thing up because I don't need that kind of tear-my-hair-out frustration.

I gave Lost one final chance, and the 4th season redeemed the show beautifully. Still had its flaws but it moved along fast and they dialed down on the annoying characters.

I gave Heroes 10 episodes to redeem itself. It almost looked like it would do it, but no. I can't take it anymore. It's really fucking frustrating, because it had so much potential. Now it's going absolutely fucking nowhere. Dug itself into a hole and it'll never recover.

Blargh.

Cindy, thanks for that. I will do so. I really loved the first season, I don't know why I stopped watching it.

I keep watching because Battlestar, Lost, and Dollhouse don't start until next year.

I've got a bunch of episodes on my Tivo waiting for either 1) the show to get canceled - eps get deleted or 2) the show to get good - I skim through bad eps to catch big plot points and continue. This is the reason you need a lot of memory in your DVR (I have 100 HD hours on mine).

I, Too, hate Heroes, I still watch it, but i think tonights the night to cut the cord. I have had similar reactions to Lost, which just faded into a sea of stupidity by the second series, Chuck I managed to get to the second episode before I turned it off in disgust, Whoever came up with that needs quietly leading out to a courtyard and shooting, no one would complain! It would be the only decent thing to do. Like cancer in an old dog. Weeds has also lost it, as had smallville. I just don't get it anymore. desperate housewives has also begun to show stretch marks......it won't be long. Mediums still good though

I don't know what it is about this show, but I am officially taking it off my DVR list after this season is over. I have no idea what is even happening on the show anymore, and worse, I don't care. I have to stop.

I quit watching after the first few episodes this season, but since reading all the ongoing hate and disappointment, I kind of regret it.

The only thing I love more than a train wreck is being able complain about a train wreck.

I watched the first couple episodes of this season, relaized I didn't give a shit anymore, and never looked back.

Apparently there is a small nation of us who can't quite make a clean break from the clusterfuck of Heroes. My husband and I sit down to every episode and end up barking at the screen or mocking some idiotic plot point. (For example, I personally would have decapitated the temporarily powerless invincible man and incinerated his head. You know, just to be sure. But these idiots on the show have to do everything so half-assed, so somebody can rise from the dead. AGAIN. Sheesh.)

But I guess we keep watching it because it's the closest thing to interesting sci-fi on network tv (Casa Pink is cable-free). I can't say I got into "Fringe" because it felt too much like an "X-Files" retool.

I'm starting to have the same relationship with "House". I spend most of the episode railing at the enormous inaccuracies. Hugh Laurie just keeps me coming back.

I tried. I really tried. I thought, 'it can't possibly suck more than season 2'.

I was wrong. But, luckily for me, this is one of the few times I've been able to make the break. I didn't download it this week. I haven't watched it since about episode 5. As much as I would like to know what is going to happen in the end, I don't care enough to actually watch it.

Meh. To be honest, I'm still finding this season better than season 2. And while I hate what they've done with Sylar, and particularly with Elle, I think they've had some nice minor plotlines along the way that have kept me interested (Meredith's return and backstory, Adam's return and, even if I hate her being paired with Matt so quickly, the whole Daphne thing), and there's still enough moments that make me go "AWESOME!" that I'm kept watching.

I think I've found out what Heroes is.

Heroes is like a girl you have had a phenomenal night with, and just before you experience the sweet climax of love, she leaves the room, but says she'll come back. So you wait for days and days, and then she returns revealing she opened up a series of fake credit cards under your name to buy an expensive car. Your so shocked, you don't do anything while she leaves. Then a week later, the people at the credit card companies come over and destroy everything in your house, then she returns in the end revealing that she destroyed the car in a terrible accident, killing 18 people, and she had no insurance. Unless you give up by fleeing the country at this moment, you will be sent to prison and receive the death penalty.

Quick, get out know! There's nothing left! And you don't even want to know who your inmates will be!

Sorry Seth, I was about to give up on this one, but the Petrelli bros stomping out global injustice intrigued my inner International Studies grad student. Petrelli Bros vs the Janjaweed? I'd love to see them kick some genocidal ass. Of course it will probably be followed by some butterfly-effect-style justification for non-intervention, but in the offshoot chance the show does something original, I'm gonna keep watching.