10 Lessons from Heroes that NBC Totally Failed to Learn

We did n’t get a 5th season of Heroes , but in some ways it feels as though we did . NBC has been giving us The Event and The Cape , two show that experience like Tim Kring ’s deformed stepchildren , in the Heroes time one-armed bandit .

Now that NBC has anew drumhead honcho , is there a chance that the ghost of Heroes will be put to rest at last ? perhaps , if the internet can at last check these 10 lessons from its flush it superhero soap .

10 ) Carnies are not the new ninjas .

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At Comic Con 2009 , NBC expend gazillions of dollar bill creating acarnival fairgroundright across the street from the Convention Center , with fairground attractive force and stuff — because for some ground carnies are just automatically popular and awesome . Right ? Uh , yeah . The “ evil carnies ” subplot on Heroes was like the dullest thing ever — and now The Cape is all carnies , all the sentence . Even though we love Keith David , and Rollo is pretty hilarious , it ’s still an odd option . Who decided that carnies would predominate television system ?

9 ) Creepy dads are not endlessly gripping . hero scored early by making HRG into the ultimate fascinating creepy father figure — but you could only ride the “ creepy pop ” train for so long before it derails . And once HRG turned back to the morose side for the 10th fourth dimension , and we had Papa Petrelli , it was all over . And now The Cape is torment us with the creepiest forefather / son relationship in television history — Vince constantly stare at his demonic Logos Trog from a space and having flashbacks to when he and Trog used to be dating .

Supervillains can be campy or crazy , but not both

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Seriously . Just plunk one . And supervillains with split personalities or eldritch genial projections of their alter egos are so over . Heroes burned through a lot of kooky supervillain banality in its “ Villains ” storyline , and now The Cape is revisit a lot of them , including the “ supervillain identity crisis ” thing .

7 ) Gitmo metaphor are over . Heron fumbled towards relevance with a storyline in which all of the mutants get rounded up by the gummint , with orangish jumpsuits and bags over their heads , and everybody yawned . So now of class the main patch of The Event has to do with quasi - aliens being round down up and put into a hidden quickness in Alaska .

6 ) hoi polloi reading risible book of account about their real - life superhero lives never works .

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Heroes had the clairvoyant artist guy publish a billion issues of a superhero comedian , 9th wonder , that explain what was going to bechance next to Hiro , Claire , and the others . And if that was n’t enough , Micah start encourage his cousin Monica to mock up herself after a amusing - book character , St. Joan . So there were risible books based on real people , and real people imitate comic record — it was so metatextual , world ! Because superhero banality are just when they ’re painfully self - aware . So of course , this becomes the whole premiss of The Cape .

5 ) That light-haired chick does n’t take redeem any more .

“ lay aside the Cheerleader , make unnecessary the World ” was a nerveless slogan in Heron ’ first time of year , but Claire never quite germinate beyond the “ whiny dupe ” stage — even in her final episodes , she was being kidnapped by those carnies . And way , right smart too much of The Event ’s first mountain of episode were about Jason Ritter judge to save his perky blonde girlfriend , and then her babe .

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4 ) Flashbacks to stuff that materialise decades ago do not make your story more thrilling .

This is a big one — Heroes left us with a huge allergy to ho-hum flashbacks , after every plot strand turn out to be connected to something that happened during the Kennedy administration . And now The Event is like Flashback Heaven . It ’s part of the approximation that suffer endlessly complicated backstories is automatically interesting — and that conspiracies and bike within wheels that have been turning for decades add up to a plentiful plot line .

3 ) That dude who ’s the only one who screw what horrific thing are really become on should really get a life .

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At some point in time , it hit me that Sean Walker , Jason Ritter ’s character on The outcome , remind me of an even dopier version of Peter Petrelli . It ’s something about the way he ’s always yaw and looking like a desiccated pup as he seek to explain the latest gonzo conspiracy to people .

2 ) A soap opera need character we care about .

Both The Event and The Cape are following in the footsteps of Heroes , in the horse sense of having a grievous bodily harm opera house structure that relies on plot rather than characters . And this is really the Southern Cross of the issue — you ca n’t have a compelling scoop opera without lineament that we care about and want to follow . A readiness of nix run around in rope and spouting plot information and ready-made negotiation at each other is not a existent soap opera house , no matter how many loopy braid you throw in . By line , some masses have been rumble about Fringe going liquid ecstasy - opera , but the truth is no matter what , we care about the Bishops and Olivia Dunham . We know them , and we require to know what happens to them .

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1 ) Coherence really does matter .

In the end , stuff needs to make sense on a basic level — mystification and curveballs only get you so far . Even Lost would have a through - line , on an episode - by - episode layer , even if the over - arching plot line was often a bit mystifying . If your interview ca n’t buy into the storyline because it ’s not base in anything , or the stakes are entirely abstract , then that ’s a fundamental trouble of storytelling .

Here ’s hoping that whatever show takes the “ Heroes slot ” next will pull off to discover a way to tell compelling narration about characters who finger relatable — and wo n’t fall back on the same one-time meta - pulpy cliches . Thenewly greenlit show rapid eye movement , about a cop who awaken up from an stroke to line up out he ’s shifting between two different reality , sounds at least predict . Or they could just make for back the go - too - soon Journeyman .

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