Tim Kring: “I’m so sorry.”

[bryant]

I paraphrase his remarks on Heroes. What he actually said was “romance isn’t a natural fit for us,” and “We took too long to get to the big-picture story,” and “We made a mistake.” I.e.: the Claire storyline sucked, and the meandering around sucked, and season 2 in general has not been good.

This is true. I noted a while back that the problem with season 2 was that it’s very much like season 1. That worked for season 1, because they were introducing the world and building our relationships with the characters. But now we have relationships, and we are unhappy to see them neglected while yet more characters are introduced.

There appears, however, to be hope.

Originally published at Imaginary Vestibule.

Comments

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

Actually, yes. Meeting the characters for the first time on ensemble shows or movies is tremendously entertaining for me. It's one of the reasons I love all movies about getting a crew/team/band together for the tournament/heist/whatever.

I love origin stories, and snappy character intros, and I agree with Kring that it was a good feature of season 1 that they couldn't replicate (at least not at the pace they've been doing it) in season 2, now that the rest of the basic universe has been established, because people fill in the blanks so much faster.

[kodi]

I love origin stories, because things happen in them. I just don't get excited about "Hi, I'm Flying Kid. You're a robot!"