The intro sounds like it could be about Bleach.

Sorry, I defended the show through season 3, but it lost me. Only #7 held any interest for me at the beginning of this season, and the terrible scripting ruined even that!

Heroes had great potential, and could've had an awesome myth arc, but they fucked up by abandoning the plot season 2 seemed to set up (despite its horrid pacing...), and the fact that they'll bring in and kill off characters for no good reason... fuck this shit!

Wife and I have skipped the past 3 or 4 episodes. Is Claire dead yet? Because that would be groovy.

6) Claire Bennet

Ugh. I'd list that pretty high among the reasing why I stopped watching Heroes.

7 reasons why you haven't stopped watching Heroes? I don't even know 7 people who are still watching Heroes, period.

It seems to me that the hero with the most awesome power , seems do get dry humped by it whether it be he ends up way far in the past or dying from it for fuck sakes. i wanna see hiro do some shit normal people would do. Like locker rooms of the cheer leaders. Or just for shits and giggles moving people around so when they came to they'd be like, "how the fuck did i end up on this riding lawn mower with a midget dressed up like boba fett in my lap?"
AND KILL OFF SYLAR PLEASE!!! He's Spock now . You should rip the new Star Trek too.
But my point ultimately. Why will we watch it? Because there isnt shit else on until adultswim. Unless you like ncisi shows. Or reality shows.

Best that I can tell this is the last site on the internet that even mentions this craptacular show anymore.

And I'm with Daniel Tosh when it comes to Hayden.

I work as the copy writer at a Manhattan design studio and one of the things the company does is create style guides for potential licensors who want to manufacture products based on movie and TV properties. Since I'm the guy who has to write the stuff, a while back I was tasked with writing the style guide for HEROES and thought it would be a good idea to refresh myself on the series because I'd stopped watching it about halfway through season two. The company provided me with the first three seasons on DVD and I watched the entirety of it in sequence over a week. Let me tell you straight up that you cannot possibly appreciate just how badly HEROES screwed the pooch until you watch three seasons-worth over a few days, a marathon of sheer torture that all but grabs you by the shoulders, holds you immobile as its images pass across the screen, and shouts, "Look at it! LOOK AT IT!!! Gaze upon how much contempt for an audience we feel is composed entirely of microcephalics!"

And you just have to love how the series creator went public a while back regarding how bad the show sucked and how the writers were going to make concerted efforts to fix that problem. Apparently such steps were never taken...

I can honestly say I don't watch Heroes anymore. Before the end of Volume 3, I'd had enough and walked away. I will say I'm glad I only bought the Season 1 DVD, because while the rest was complete garbage, I have the one season that had talent and class.

Speaking of #7, it's probably the only show on American television to ever make reference to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. And even that isn't enough to get me to watch it, since the only character who comes off as remotely interesting always seems to be in a coma/dead/temporarily retarded/on a bus.

I'm no longer watching for Claire, I'm watching it for her college roommate.

I stuck with the show during into Season 3. Sometime during that 3rd season I missed a show, then I missed another, then I worked through a couple episodes. Eventually Heroes just fell off my nerd plate for lack of interest. I don't miss it, and I only know it's still on because I read about it here.

But if I remember right, the luster of Heroes began being tarnished with the first season's finale. The entire season built up a lot of great drama and tension, but the payoff wasn't great. I remember wanting to see a massive superhero fight and getting just a smidge.

8) It's one of the only shows we can still watch without vomiting because heroes has never been the topic of a sick FFF.

8) It's one of the only shows we can still watch without vomiting because heroes has never been the topic of a sick FFF.

Oddly, these are all reasons why I stopped watching Heroes.

Sorry, but #7 is why we all stopped watching. Yes, we're nerds, and thus intelligent. The show became so stupid after it's promising start it doesn't matter how many geeky references are made, bad quality is bad quality. The only reason it's even getting enough ratings nowadays to keep it on the air are from viewers who only care about numbers 6 & 5, thinking hotness=talent (i.e. Twilight fans).

If you think about it they should have let Peter blow up newyork at least than Future Hiro would be around.

Who is this mysterious "we" who still watches heroes?

if all it takes is lame references to nerdom to lure you in then it looks like you've been punk'ed by the future Hiro that never was.

I think at least #7 should be switched to the Live-Blog, legit, seriously one of the best reasons to watch. Aside from Sylar only reason I watch.
But I really did think the Live-Blog would make the list...

This show needs more Sendhil Ramamurthy,

yes, his character is annoying
yes, his accent isn't quite right
yes, he has the most retarded plots

but DAMN he is gorgeous man.

I have to admit I stopped watching part way through season 3. I just couldn't take it anymore - the writing was just terrible (in that very little that characters did seemed to make any sense).
There was something wrong from the very beginning with the extremely slow pacing of the show. Even back in Season 1 it was as if the writers went out of their way to "develop characters" and have absolutely nothing of significance happen to a cast of meta-humans. Then add in that myself and a bunch of friends who were drawn in with the excuse that "well, they must be saving the fx budget for the season finale, cause they sure aren't spending anything at the moment" expecting a lot of flash only to be met with one of the stupidest and most cheaply done season finales I can think of in a sci-fi show in recent history.
What I wanna know is why a major network show about superheroes couldn't afford a college kid with a copy of After-FX to add visuals more convincing than a damned Godzilla film.
PS. Never understood the obsession with Claire.

reasons 1,2,3,4, and 6 are the only reason i have not finaly walked away from heroes but mostly Clair now being bi which means new love ones for her to wind up whacked that and tunning in to see if finaly Sylar says enough and puts heroes out of its misery.

Please. I stopped watching after the end of season 3. Gee let's hype up a huge fight scene then not show it because it is more thrilling and fun to watch someone else watch the fight.

I'm Sylar I hate my father. He killed my mother. I will kill my father. (episode later) I know now where my dad is. I'm going to drive there with an annoying kid. (episode later) kid is annoying me I should kill him...nah (episode later) still driving. Going to kill my father when I get there.. (episode later) I found my dad. He is pathetic. Bye dad I'm not going to kill you. see you father's day..

And sylar kills your son so what do you do? Shape change him in to the dead son and brainwash him into being him and then give the body of your beloved son to the authorities to do what ever with.. That is love right there.

sorry but the show is crap. First season was good, second was weak, third was horrid. It is DEAD to me. DEAD!!

I know its hard for alot of people but me and my friends have been loving heroes lately.

You just have to realize two things:

1.It will never be as good as season one, so stop trying to have it live up to it.

2.Stop trying to figure out all the plot holes.

After that the show is reasonably enjoyable and if you let your guard down you might even have fun.

I know when matt did his dads trick and locked sylar in his head i was cheering, and had a OH SHIT moment seeing him brick him up in the basement.

glad I figured all this out during season 2 and quit watching. The final episode of season 1 should have been a clue to all of you that Kring was off his rocker.

As to the cheerleader... how many other head cheerleaders do you know in real or fictional life who are 4 feet tall. Sorry, but it just doesn't happen...

Oh also the thing about the woman peter left in the future, if you go http://heroeswiki.com/Theory:Caitlin

theres some cool theory's on what can happen with her. If i remember right the current timeline hasent caught up with where she was left and its not impossible for the virus thing to happen.

Rob, you forgot the real reason that people are still watching the stupid show; The Topless Robot Live Blog of the insanely bad show.

Literally none of these points rings true with me. I could give a shit about claire and her giant head, or the fact that they have hot actors, EVERY GODDAMN SHOW ON TELEVISION HAS HOT ACTORS!!!

also the whole first season i was hooked until the finale when peter explodes of new york city. look it up people. A nuclear bomb is worse if it goes off in the air, not on the ground!!!

you know, rob, i think you'd have a bigger list if the subject matter was reasons we SHOULD stop watching heroes. bleh!

"If I had a hit TV show, I'd run it into the ground."
- Bart Simpson

*So* glad I stopped at season 1.

Season One will forever hold a place in my heart for making comic books cool. You could argue movies like X-Men or Spiderman helped bring do that, but TV is different from movies. You have to follow many different stories, you can have 'Heroes' nights with your friends, you're kept guessing with cliffhangers and twists. Turning a comic book into a TV show is not easy, but Season 1 pulled it off. Season 2 was meh. What little I saw of Season 3 seemed a big stepdown from Season 1, and I haven't even seen this current season yet. Sorry, Heroes.

My roommate and I used to watch S2 just to see what new, inconsistent thing they'd do with Sylar's character, and how Zach Quinto would manage to roll with it and play whatever cracked-out new thing they threw at him (Sylar in an apron making pancakes still ranks up there as one of our fave WTF?? moments in recent TV). Also, the show did a pretty good job of catering to nerd girls by having lots of pretty men who tended to take their clothes off (in addition to the pretty women/girls for the nerd boys), which was pleasantly novel. But then we moved to a new apartment and were without cable or satellite for several months and lost track of it all; now we have cable again, I don't know that it's worth catching up again. There's only so far reasons #3, 4 and 5 can go . . .

Sure Claire is annoying, but admit it-

you'd hit that. (yes, literally and figuratively.)

I feel like the only bad season of Heroes was season 3... This current season has been pretty good.

It does suck how they dropped all the mysteries and how they kept killing off good characters though.

I'm likely the only person that still watches and defends this show.

I stopped watching a couple episodes into Season 3. I watched all of Season 2 and blamed its issues on the writer's strike, but Season 3 was just too terrible.

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Well, from what I've surmised from the two people that I know that still watch Heroes, the primary reason for watching the show would seem to be bitching about it.

It's like they have Battered-Nerd Syndrome--the thing that they love keeps hurting them, but they can't leave it because they love it. And it will get better. Honest.

Me, I waited about a quarter of the way through the third season, until Heroes had passed out in a drunken stupor after having savagely beaten my brain with its stupidity, then I set fire to the bed that it was sleeping in.

There's still some scars, but I least I have my dignity.

I'm still watching, way behind the US here in England.

Main reason for sticking with it - Sylar.

Zach Quinto is the best thing about the show, specifically his current run as Matt Parkman's evil half. Makes me laugh everytime he shows up.

As for Claire, kind of bored with the character now, doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

I miss Elle Bishop to be honest, she was a quality character.

Good points, all. And I can agree completely with the battered spouse metaphor.

I just kept coming back - no matter how bad it got in Season 3 - in the hopes that THIS time it would get better. That THIS time it would be different. That THIS time it would change.

But it didn't.

I finally gave up in Season 4 after I ran the numbers and realized that there's no way the show's official timeline ads up.

The show's current writers are acting like three years have passed between Season 1 and Season 4 (Hiro's trips to save Charlie were referred to as "Three Years Ago") but if you map out all the time between Seasons, barely one year has passed, at most.

That was the killing point for me; the moment I realized that I cared more about making things make sense than the people writing the show and that I was able to find a big whopping mistake with only five minutes, a modicum of effort and an on-line episode guide.

I'm sorry but Mohinder shouldn't be included in #5. I almost hurled when he was sexing up Maya. His character sucks big time and I wish they killed him off instead of Adam, Elle or even Nathan.

I still watch it. I can't believe how stupid some of my fave characters are now. Sylar is pretty much the only reason I even watch any more and if he goes good for good, I'm done with Heroes.

I've never seen a single episode of Heroes, not even from the legendary first season, but I wanted to come and say that I'd bang Hayden Panettiere until my junk broke off and ran away. And I'm about as ashamed of that as I am about my loving upbringing. That is all.

Wasn't there a painting of Hiro fighting a T-Rex in the first Season? I haven't really watched the other seasons, anyone know if that T-rex fight occurred yet?

"I feel like Heroes is an abusive spouse."
So right now "I appreciate you being...patient with me..." Peter is actually the personification of 'Heroes' and "Every time you pick up that sledgehammer I think you're going to hit me with it..." Sylar is actually the personification of the fanbase? Suddenly everything is clear to me.

You people need help. Isn't there a twelve step program for getting off of bad TV shows? I know I shouldn't talk watching Lost, though I guess I'm not as obsessed as some fans. I used to watch Heroes. Sometimes I used to drin.. er.. watch Heroes socially with a group. Then I just had to sit down and realize, the show wasn't good. Even the first season I got on DVD wasn't that good and fell apart at the end. We keep tuning in hoping the show will turn around, but it never does. It just gets worse and worse.

Actually, yeah, even more than alcoholism, it's really is like an abusive relationship.

"No, Heroes will be better this next episode or season. He'll change. He won't hurt me anymore. My puddin loves me. It'll be better from now on. These plot holes? No, I just ran into a doorknob, it's nothing."

The only reason I still watch Heroes is to be there for Snoodle as she's bound to watch it until it's over. Hold her hand while she goes through it. Comment on such things and the like.

And to hate on Meelo's face.

In case you haven't listened to it yet, Stephen Tobolowsky, the actor who played Bob Bishop, has an entertaining takedown of Heroes at his podcast. The Heroes section starts around 21:45.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/01/29/the-tobolowsky-files-ep-14-lost-in-act-1/

When frelling Smallville is better than your show, it's time to pack it up.

"Each week, what's left of Heroes' audience tunes in to see if this is the week he'll finally come to his senses and murders them all. So far, nada. Sigh."

This is why I keep watching.

I'm not familiar with this show you call heroes.

Great job Jill :)

None of those 7's give me a convincing reason to open S2 on bluray I bought a long time ago.
Don't judge me.

My Monday on NBC ends when Chuck ends. So it has been for the past 2 seasons, so it shall be for a while.

That's writer's strike back in Ought-seven ruined Heroes. Guess what other craptacular bodge has been attributed to that Writer's strike?
That's right Bayformer's 2:Electric Boogaloo.
Those hacks Orci and Kurtzman attributed its ****tiness to a labor dispute.

You should know,I'm going to use whatever means I can to take a swipe at whoever is responsible for Bayformers...

I'm still watching. I just call it my soap opera and yell at the screen from time to time.

You know, my biggest beef has been the fact the Hiro has never gone back in time and "saved" the originator if the storyline through his graphic paintings - Isaac Mendez. Hiro was motivated and guided by those paintings and when they ended, it killed the momentum of his questing.

Of course, unless he did try to go back and save him and I was just in a coma due to storyline conflicts and totally missed it. I think I remember staring at the TV all the way through season 3, but have no memory of anything that took place. Am I alone?????

Heroes is nothing short of awful. Season 1 was great, everything after was pure crap. It's so obvious that the writers have no fucking clue what to do with the characters so they're just throwing everything at the wall and hoping it sticks. The characters' motivations keep shifting like they're bipolar. Sylar's good, now he's bad, now he's good, now he's bad. Clair hates her father, now she loves him, hates her father, now she loves him. It just keeps going on and on. And let's no forget that Peter still has an Irish girlfriend who's trapped in the future and he shows no intetion of trying to save her. Sylar should have been killed during Season 2, his character's outlived his usefulness.

Future Hiro is pretty much the reason why Heroes sucks now. A huge promise that had us all salivating that was never fulfilled in the slightest. It became obvious that the writers had no intention of including him in their convoluted plots.

All I can say is, FUCK YOU HEROES!

Heroes is like booze and AA meetings. You go to the meetings and tell yourself over and over again that it's bad for you but you just can't stop yourself from grabbing the remote and watching it...or even from buying it; even if it does make you cry later on...

Fuckin' Heroes; making us all act like meth addicts.

I am still a fan of Heroes. It's may not stand up to it's former glory but it still has it's moments.

This season, I thought the episode featuring Adrian Pasdar's final departure was good.

The scenes in which Peter was trapped with Sylar inside his head for what seemed like years were good.

But the main villain this season was a real letdown. The season finale was very anticlimactic.

But I still like the show.

They lost me as soon as that "save the cheerleader, save the world" line was uttered. For every episode after that I couldn't help by yell "Malarkey! Malarkey!" at the screen.

I disagree with all those reasons, i've stopped watching Heroes. I got the papers, and i divorced that abusive mother fucker.