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My friend recently requested for the second series so I picked it up for her.  At the same time, I decided to take the series for a spin.  Last night I watched the entire first season, staying up until the morning.

The show itself has many micro-stories, numerous intersections that eventually lead up to a major confrontation.  Each slice from people's lives form small strands of stories that slowly build up.  The interest point is that each story is incredibly small and forces the viewer to await the next episode.  With a fair number of characters, the viewer is entrapped into the lives of each person.  You constantly want more as more questions are asked.

I won't go into more of a synopsis since there's a huge amount of material written on the general content.  However, I have two huge buggers in this series: 1) BAD Japanese; 2) almost everyone is stupid.

The Japanese in the story is god awful.  The portrayal of everyone is horrid.  Hiro plays the innocent, sweet, hopeful Japanese guy.  He's somewhat of an otaku character and that's fine.  But everyone else in the supporting cast.....ugh!!!!  The Korean guy playing Hiro's buddy, Ando, jesus christ!  This is basically the Lone Ranger and Tanto.  And they should've bequeathed the name "Baka" onto Ando instead.  My native Japanese speaking friends say that the Japanese spoken is an abomination.  Okay, maybe not that horrid, but it's nearly incomprehensible.  Even I can tell how bad the pronunciation is just laughable.  Stupid Hollywood.

Speaking of stupid, why is everyone an idiot?  Is the pre-requisite to becoming a hero to be absolutely clueless?  I think there's only two somewhat half brained characters in the story in the form of Jessica and Noah Bennett.  The rest of the cast are complete fools:

• Peter - Major powers, major idiot.  Hot headed, can't control himself.
  
• Hiro Nakamura - Good hearted and hopeful.  Far too honest for his own good.
• Suresh - Academically intelligent, doesn't know shit about people because he's far too deep in his goddamn research.
• Ando - Please shoot this guy in the head....like 100,000,000 times!!!!
• Nathan - Almost smart.  Apparently cares too much and listens to his stupid mother too much.
• Claire Bennett - Typical idiot, blond teenage girl who really belongs in a horror cliche.
• Micah Sanders - He and Hiro should butt fuck because they are about the same in personality.
• Matt Parkman - Average donut eating cop stereotype.  Can read minds but can't use his own.  A retarded child has more intelligence and sense than a hundred of these guys.
• Isaac Mendez - Of all the "main" characters, his powers suck and is the most boring.  Thank god he was killed off.  His dick spoke more than his brain.
• Ted Sprague - Probably the only character who deserves to be considered a "hot head."  But high blood pressure terminated him (partly...)
• Maya - Radiated mud has more brain cells than her.  I can take an arrow, poke it through her ear, and not damage anything.

There's no Wolverine or Magneto characters who can think their way out of a paperbag and be somewhat cool.  Heck, give me the Joker any day of the week and he can snag the entire group.

Next you get the show constantly reiterating the word "hero" in the script.  Yes, we get it.  But I guess the producers feel that the audience is equally as dumb as the majority of the characters that they need to reiterate this word every episode.  Using it once in an emphatic manner for self-discovery is great.  Using it more than once for cheesy branding makes you look worse than a Poptart commercial.

That said, I do enjoy watching the series, even though it can get irritating as hell.  Just checking in to see what happens next is kinda fun.

However, I have the best character proposal yet.  I'm thinking of a character (whom I play) with the power of negative emotions.  When he's provoked, he can amplify negative emotions in people, whether its fear, hate, confusion, depression, jealousy, etc.  Anything listed on the seven deadly sins and then some.  I thought he would play a natural antogonist to Hiro.  This character would (like me) be incredibly intelligent.  His utter cynicism, lack of trust and alienated demeanor would foil Hiro's more positive demeanor.  I'd also see a character like this joining up with Sylar.  He manipulates Sylar's more physically mean personality and forges it into his defense shield.

I think that a great season four would be about a monstrous global suicide that the character plots.  Getting to the character is nearly impossible because of his utter distrust for anyone, not to mention how he's able to manipulate people into becoming his shield or tools.  The way they would discover/catch him is through numerous clues about his history and what formulated his personality.  Helping him avoid an event (such as a heartbreak, being traumatized as a child from a movie, his friends/family leaving him, etc.) removes one of his powers.  That would be an awesome story.  The character himself is trying to leave clues for someone to change what he's going to do.  However, as an added point of interest, there could be a supplementary character who can amplify the base powers of people.  And as another point of conflict, other events that re-write history could backfire and engender new negative emotions that allow him to have different powers.

How's that Hollywood for a story? :)