Bryan Fuller Admits Heroes Needed Fixing
April 1, 2009 by brian
There’s a pretty candid interview with producer/writer Bryan Fuller over at Sci Fi Wire in which he talks about where he feels Heroes went awry. Among the highlights: he felt the show pushed character aside for plot, and that Season 2 was just too filled with techno-babble.
Fuller said one of his primary concerns when he got the first few scripts in the Fugitives arc was that he didn’t recognize the characters anymore. Um, power hungry-Fly Mohinder (cough cough)?
The so-called “savior” of Heroes says he is not really feeling the pressure though. And honestly, there are probably as many people who don’t expect Fuller or anyone to be able to turn this ship around as there are folks hoping he will.
Word on our boards and throughout much of the web is that the recent eps have been improved. Readers, is Heroes getting the magic back or is this too little, too late?
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Too little too late in my book. I almost stopped watching after season 2 but wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt that they could fix what went terribly wrong. But no… they lost me after a handful of episodes in season 3. I think it’s just time to put the show down.
My gut feeling is that it will be too little, too late even though I’ve watched since the first episode, and will probably continue to watch out of sheer curiosity. And despite that the show came off as TV-version X-Men wannabe, it was still interesting enough to provide an hour of entertainment that didn’t involve a hospital, courtroom, or murder scene investigation.
I’m not sure when it all reached a point where I didn’t care anymore. Somewhere around season 2, and the strike didn’t help in their case either. Then season 3 started as a royal mess. One thing that sci-fi audiences would like to see is some attempt at plot consistencies, especially with established ‘facts’ as presented on the series. It simply had too many characters it didn’t know what to do with and it got silly… he’s got power / no he doesn’t / now he does… we’re in the past / now in the future / now is the past… she’s dead / no she’s alive / no she’s dead again… etc. There is a big difference between fascinating plot twist and utterly implausible plot occurence.
Heroes is in trouble, but at the moment it’s still one of the better things that NBC has to offer, so they’ll be smart and keep it around. Maybe that will give Mr. Fuller some time to get things back on track and back to the basics that made it successful in the first place.
oh… one other thing… yes, recent episodes have been better. Although from the recent ‘Asylum’, with inclusions of shapeshifters, mentions of the Apocalypse, and religious innuendos, you’d think the Heroes writers were receiving inspiration from Supernatural — which isn’t really a bad thing at all! **wink**