What's interesting to me from a technical standpoint is three characters who were prominently featured last season are the ones stuck in the going nowhere plots this year. I have to wonder if it's an attempt to balance out the cast a bit, or if they just don't know what to do with them now that their raison d'etre from last year is gone.
Yeah, it's very noticable - more than a few people have mentioned that strange holding pattern. I honestly don't know why or how the writers are dwelling so much on these characters and their ill-fated romances (who cares? oh, well, the inveterate hateful irritating shippers do). I'm convinced these writers need to read some *decent* comic books to be aware of the tropes and cliches of the superhero genre.
Sure, lots of superheroes have ill-fated romances (it's aimed at teens, after all, at least in comic's earlier phases)...but the adaptation of the comic genre just doesn't work the way they're putting it up there.
It was awful when I realized when I read the spoilers in that link how utterly dismayed I was to hear that Mohinder/Matt/Nightmare Man/Molly/Nathan were not mentioned ONCE. Hell, I'll even take Nikki and her problematic power/personality over Peter/Claire/WonderDeath!Twins and Sylar.
It's like (if they're doing this, even) whoever is in charge of keeping track of the character arcs is dropping the balls in a horrible manner. They need someone on staff to keep the beats and make sure certain narrative elements don't take over and, as you say, grind it to a halt.
I wouldn't mind the WonderDeath!Twins as long as I saw some actual progression in their story and they started interacting with the characters I care about! (Sylar doesn't exactly count: he's very flat this year)
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Yeah, it's very noticable - more than a few people have mentioned that strange holding pattern. I honestly don't know why or how the writers are dwelling so much on these characters and their ill-fated romances (who cares? oh, well, the inveterate hateful irritating shippers do). I'm convinced these writers need to read some *decent* comic books to be aware of the tropes and cliches of the superhero genre.
Sure, lots of superheroes have ill-fated romances (it's aimed at teens, after all, at least in comic's earlier phases)...but the adaptation of the comic genre just doesn't work the way they're putting it up there.
It was awful when I realized when I read the spoilers in that link how utterly dismayed I was to hear that Mohinder/Matt/Nightmare Man/Molly/Nathan were not mentioned ONCE. Hell, I'll even take Nikki and her problematic power/personality over Peter/Claire/WonderDeath!Twins and Sylar.
It's like (if they're doing this, even) whoever is in charge of keeping track of the character arcs is dropping the balls in a horrible manner. They need someone on staff to keep the beats and make sure certain narrative elements don't take over and, as you say, grind it to a halt.
I wouldn't mind the WonderDeath!Twins as long as I saw some actual progression in their story and they started interacting with the characters I care about! (Sylar doesn't exactly count: he's very flat this year)