HEROES is a mess

November 18, 2008 | Category: TV shows

Sylar and Elle from Heroes cause headaches

Sylar and Elle from Heroes cause headaches

It sucks when the timeline in a movie (or TV show in this case) isn’t held consistent.  For example:

The Sylar-Elle-HRG storyline from ‘Villains,’ the last scene of that particular arc, where HRG got into the Mohinder-driven cab and it went into the scene from ‘Genesis.’ According to the timeline you established in ‘Six Months Ago,’ Mohinder didn’t show up until after his father was killed by Sylar, right before he went off on his cross-country collection campaign. At that point, Sylar, according to all indications, was already a mass-murderer and that’s why Chandra stopped helping him. Yet the aforementioned scene seemingly takes place the same day Sylar kills Trevor Zeitlan, long after he should have been gone from NY or months before Mohinder arrived in town. And it was pretty clear his guilt was just over Brian Davis. We can tell you that when we broke the story – that scene between Elle and H.R.G. – was supposed to be at a Sylar-esque crime scene months or weeks after the entire story took place – and they were talking about the monster they’ve unleashed. Sometimes, things happen from script through production and editorial where ideas become too clever and through-lines aren’t tracked. Just so you know – it infuriated us as well.

HEROES just doesn’t make any sense anymore, sadly.

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  1. Chup@Cabra on December 20th, 2008
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    Well, I’m sticking with it for at least one more season.

    This season was kind of all over the place, but they were coming off a long strike-enforced hiatus, and had lost some of their original writers [stupidly, IMHO].

    Now they have got at least one of those writers back, and a new season to begin anew (Sylar should remain gone for this entire season [but we haven't seen a body, so he might not be dead]).

    If it doesn’t improve by the end of next season, even I, a hard core comics geek, will drop it at last.

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