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

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

It misses two big parts of season 1, which the ET article gets to: the overarching plotline and the cliffhanger endings -- that is, it is missing both strategic and tactical suspense.

(in particular, the overarching sense-of-doom that in season 1 was established almost immediately, with Hiro's jaunt into the future when New York was vaporized. As Hitchcock said, you can show fifteen minutes of two men talking over coffee, and have the audience on the edge of their seat the whole time -- but you first have to show five seconds of a man setting a time bomb beneath their table.)