Heroes Season 2

 Yeasterday (I'm posting this at 1:30am, so technically yesterday) was St.Patrick's Day. Every year, I've got to appreciate the Irish. Last summer, I went to a town called Midland for an international rowing (yes, as in boats) competition with teams from all over the world. I will never forget the enthusiastic Irish and their loud cheers, and of course, their incredible ability to dance on top of tables. I mean, St.Patrick's Day is a day that the abuse of alchohol is not only socially acceptable, but almost expected of you. And for that, I tip my green hat to the Irish.

 The preceding paragraph had nothing to do with the following ones. It was also brought to you by the letter "J", so I'd love to give a shoutout to "J". Thanks, man, I owe you one.

 So anyway, while you were all out drinking and having the sort of fun that normal members of society seem to have, two of my friends decided to watch all 11 episodes of Heroes, season 2. (I wrote about the first season a couple of posts back, if you want to take a look.) Basically I want to relay my initial thoughts about it, and hopefully initiate some discussion either in the comments, or if you see me in person. (As is my goal with most of my posts.)

 When I tell people I was planning on watching all four seasons of Heroes, I was told "seasons 1 and 2 are the best. It's not even worth watching from that point." Well, I'm going to watch season 3 and 4, just so you guys know. But I've got to be honest, I was really under-whelmed by season 2. Like I've said before, my favourite character was Noah Bennet because of the great growth he went through, and he seemed to be a constantly changing character. But in season 2, it was as if he had forgotten all that he had learned. In terms of the characters, I think that Nathan really shined, and so did Hiro. He's becoming more and more wise, as are a lot of the characters. I also found myself loving Claire even more. She's starting to find herself I think.

Nothing says "strong character" like cutting off your toes, just to see what happens!
You can read that post sarcastically or not. It works either way.

 In terms of the plot, I was unimpressed, and I think that's what got me most about it. It was cool to see what happened to the characters after the explosion, and their whole adventure in season 1, but that's all thanks to the characters, not the plot. With the first season, it opened with telling us of an explosion that it going to completely destroy the city, and the whole "save the cheerleader, save the world" deal. It kept me watching. I wanted to find out how they dealt with a seemingly unstoppable explosion. With season 2, I didn't really feel that sort of suspense. I enjoyed watching the whole Hiro/Kensei thing that was going on, and I liked seeing the situations that the characters were put in. But in terms of the main plot about the previous generation "screwing things up", I found myself generally uninterested. Maybe it was just me, or maybe (as one of my friends pointed out later) it was the context in which I was watching the show, but I was not engaged nearly as much as I was in the first season.

 So, I'm going to watch the rest of the series, and will hopefully finish season 3 in a week or so. I'm not saying that season 2 was bad, I'm just saying that I got my hopes up after the brilliance that was season 1, and I was let down.