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NOTE: contains vague-ish spoilers for Season 2/Season 3 premiere
With a lot of shows, you have a fairly small cast of main characters, who get fleshed out and have their own subplots, and then a bunch of minor characters who are fairly shallow and never the main focus, and the audience isn't expected to care about them so the writers can mess them about (kill them off etc) without anyone really minding.
I've decided that the problem with Heroes is that superficially it has a large cast of main characters, but actually it's just that it fleshes out it's minor characters more. They appear to be main characters, having fairly complex characterisations and their own subplots...until they get utterly screwed by the storyline because the writers assume noone cares about them(*). The Petrelli/Bennets are main characters (well, not so much Mrs Bennet or Lyle) so when one of them dies, or is even just a bit sad, there's huge long introspective scenes and angsty music and they tend not to stay dead for long, etc. But characters like the twins or the Sanders family are not real main characters, even though they get a fair amount of screentime, and so the writers are happy to kill them off/hurt them etc as a plot device without much thought or fanfare because, well, it's not like anyone cares, they're just minor characters!
Unfortunately, I tend to get attached to the not-main characters, and thus I am often sad. They should be more clearly marked! The fact that by sheer coincidence they tend to be the non-white-male characters doesn't help(**) (thus![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
bobthehaitian)
Anyway, other than various plot developments that got me thinking about what it is about this show that draws me in then breaks my heart, S3 is looking better than S2. I just have a baaaaad feeling about what's going to happen to the characters, especially Mohinder and Maya. Oh, and you know how last season they clearly went "Wait, chicks dig Peter, we should get him to take his shirt off. Lots!"? Well this season they musta noticed that Mohinder is hot :D
SPECIFIC SPOILERS IN THE COMMENTS!
(*)There are shows that are happy to unexpectedly and heartlessly screw with all the characters, but Heroes is not one of them.
(**) Yes, I could only let myself get attached to the pretty white male characters (specifically, Pettrelli/Bennetts), but I'd rather not :P
With a lot of shows, you have a fairly small cast of main characters, who get fleshed out and have their own subplots, and then a bunch of minor characters who are fairly shallow and never the main focus, and the audience isn't expected to care about them so the writers can mess them about (kill them off etc) without anyone really minding.
I've decided that the problem with Heroes is that superficially it has a large cast of main characters, but actually it's just that it fleshes out it's minor characters more. They appear to be main characters, having fairly complex characterisations and their own subplots...until they get utterly screwed by the storyline because the writers assume noone cares about them(*). The Petrelli/Bennets are main characters (well, not so much Mrs Bennet or Lyle) so when one of them dies, or is even just a bit sad, there's huge long introspective scenes and angsty music and they tend not to stay dead for long, etc. But characters like the twins or the Sanders family are not real main characters, even though they get a fair amount of screentime, and so the writers are happy to kill them off/hurt them etc as a plot device without much thought or fanfare because, well, it's not like anyone cares, they're just minor characters!
Unfortunately, I tend to get attached to the not-main characters, and thus I am often sad. They should be more clearly marked! The fact that by sheer coincidence they tend to be the non-white-male characters doesn't help(**) (thus
bobthehaitian) Anyway, other than various plot developments that got me thinking about what it is about this show that draws me in then breaks my heart, S3 is looking better than S2. I just have a baaaaad feeling about what's going to happen to the characters, especially Mohinder and Maya. Oh, and you know how last season they clearly went "Wait, chicks dig Peter, we should get him to take his shirt off. Lots!"? Well this season they musta noticed that Mohinder is hot :D
SPECIFIC SPOILERS IN THE COMMENTS!
(*)There are shows that are happy to unexpectedly and heartlessly screw with all the characters, but Heroes is not one of them.
(**) Yes, I could only let myself get attached to the pretty white male characters (specifically, Pettrelli/Bennetts), but I'd rather not :P
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