startrekrcks
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I'm just wondering after a brave new world they will make another season of Heroes 
Is Heroes going to get season 5
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Nope, as far as I know, Heroes is over. If they do bring it back, I hope it turns out more like the first season. 
It was reported recently that NBC is considering giving it an abbreviated, 13-episode final season. No firm decision has been made yet.
Did this thing get any better during the course of Season 4 ?
I gave up after season 3.
I gave up after season 3.
What I'd they just showed the first 13 episodes of season 1 and called it season 5
Good!!!! Heroes problem is it has too many episodes, so about half the season is needless filler eps with characters doing nothing and not moving the story along....season 1 was the best because it had a plan, a beginning middle and end. Every ep of the first season led right to the next and each character had motivations and plot progression that made sense
Season 4 was much better than S3, though not on a par with S1. It still had plenty of flaws, but it made a good effort at returning to a focus on characterization rather than crazy plot gimmicks, and it had an excellent Big Bad character, Samuel, who was nicely nuanced and well-played by Robert Knepper.
In season five, Parkman will paint the future where something disastrous happens to New York City they must stop, but complications arise when Sylar becomes conflicted about whether to do good or evil and Claire hates Noah for trying to protect her. When they're about to solve the crisis, Hiro goes half way around the world to stop Mohinder's wedding because it's his destiny to do so, and even though Ando holds the key to stopping New York from being obliterated, Hiro teleports Ando into a mental institute because Ando is supposed to be the sidekick and Hiro must be the hero.
startrekrcks
Fleet Captain
looks like my thread has gotten responses anyway I hope they do make a last season it's kind of a addictive programme Heroes can't get enough.
i actually don't want it to come back. despite enjoying season 2 and 3, despite everyone else claiming it was shite, i found S4 dragged and was a bit pants. not even watching the delectable ms Panetierre could make it worth watching any more...
For old time's sake, I hope so.
No, its problem is that it has any episodes.
Meaning: the problem is the writers. They don't know what to do with the episodes they are given. Get some people who know what they're doing, and they could do 13 or 24 good episodes per season versus zero. I would be astounded if Heroes' upcoming 13-ep "season" (I think it's pretty likely) is any better than the longer ones they've been doing.
An added problem is that the change in status quo at the end of S4 is a story that needs more than 13 episodes to tell. Either give is 24 eps or don't even start because it will either be a rushed mess or, more likely, a pointless mess that doesn't even begin to address the premise. Some kind of premise like "heroes on the run" would be better suited to a short run like that, but they've already done that (badly). Oh well.
S1 was a normal length season so you've just invalidated your own argument. S2 was a truncated season because of the writers strike and it was an ungodly mess (and not because it was truncated - it was pretty bad all the way through).
S4 was also full of boring stories to nowhere (Hiro and Tracey were just as useless as ever) and terrible, completely off-kilter characterization (Peter's reaction to learning the truth about Nathan should be enshrined in the Horrendous Character Writing Hall of Fame).
Knepper was wonderful to watch but by the end of the season, even he couldn't compensate for the horrible, horrible writing that undermined all his efforts. You know the writing is awful when it makes us want such a charismatic actor to just shut up and go away.
S3 was also bad - S4 was just bad in other ways. I'd call it a wash.
Most S4 episodes were variations on Knepper's character telling his family he had a grand plan for all of them. Then it turned out he was Evil because Ellen Tigh turned him down. Meanwhile, Sylar was still all over the place, and everyone else did almost nothing important. That said...bring on season 5! 
Not at all. What matters isn't the length, what matters is having a goal in mind. The first season was intended to be a complete story, with the characters' arcs ending in the season finale; the idea was that a mostly new cast would be introduced in the second season. So since the first season had a definite conclusion in mind, that led to strong, focused storytelling. The reason subsequent seasons fell apart is that they were artificially continuing character arcs that were never meant to continue past the first season, so a lot of it ended up being directionless, repetitive, or contrived.
But if the next season is definitely the final season, if they know going in that they need to bring the character and story arcs to a decisive conclusion, then that should give them focus. And it's certainly possible to tell a complete season's story in 13 episodes. British series and US animated series do it all the time. You just leave out the padding and sidebar elements that a 22- or 24-episode season would have.
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