6. Heroes All Of Season 2
I have looked over this one time and time again, majority of people are again in agreement over when this show jumped the shark but no one can truly pick a specific moment in itself so I will just say Season 2 as a whole was a write off for Heroes. I have read a few people saying that they think from the get go Heroes was flawed and interestingly they do have a point; Peter Petrelli had to save the cheerleader to save the world because if Sylar (a man who can absorb special abilities somehow by cracking their heads open?!?) got a hold of her he would become invincible (because this cheerleader is invincible, obviously). This is ultimately a flawed story, Sylar cant kill the cheerleader nor can he wound her long enough to extract what he needs to become invincible (because she is invincible, duh!) but also plot changes caused rewrites of the script which rendered the whole Save the Cheerleader campaign irrelevant. Whilst this seems quite a valid point many fans, myself included, were distracted enough with the shiny shiny of Heroes to not even notice this. Season 2 is a different kettle of fish though, a mix of bad creative ideas like Sylar not being dead (and is instead in Mexico or something?) and is drained of his powers, he then takes up border dodging with some locals, one of which has some weird I cause death with weird black eyes and goo power that Sylar slobberingly wants the same way I wanted my friends Charizard Pokemon card in school. This story ultimately ends with her turning on her brother and shacking up with Sylar, a decision so popular that you never see her again (maybe Sylar did kill her). You also had Hiro going back in time to a Feudal Age Japan to train his idol (who happens to not live up to the pedestal Hiro places him on), a very boring sub plot which did nothing to the bigger picture of Season 2 (if Season 2 even had a bigger picture). Then you had Peter Petrelli ending up living in a box (living in a cardboard box, yeah hes living in a box!) long enough to end up in Ireland, again devoid of powers. This season was SO boring that after a while I just took the Blu Ray out (money well spent) and it has sat on my shelf since. Season 2 of Heroes to me is summed up by looking, ironically enough, at comic books themselves. Say you took the many decades of history that DC and Marvel have ranked up and displayed it as a timeline, yes you would have lines veering off from it where dimensions are breeched or where people jump through time but ultimately you could follow it, to some extent. Now imagine someone then told you to compress that down into a years worth of reading, to a degree it is impossible without sacrificing A LOT of material. This is what Heroes was like; comic book writing where the writers start with an idea, expand on it, realise they have wrote themselves into a corner so therefore have to make up some weird BS to get themselves back on track. Over a long period of time in the DC or Marvel worlds you can find these things more palatable, but over a Season of so many months its harder to swallow, especially for a mainstream audience.