I think the main issue with season 2 was that it was chopped in half, but there were three separate stories each dragged in the middle. Part of good story telling is knowing how to break up your piece in to proper chapters. Heroes has been pretty good at this (even as they get worse and worse at actual plot, scripting and acting). Heroes Season 3 was broken into two volumes with self contained stories that ended and began dramatically.
Fortunately Season 3 lends itself well to this. I can easily see a first act focusing on John in the Future and Sarah in the past that ends with them reunited, kicking off a new mission for the latter half.
I'm not sure how Season 2 should have been done differently. People here seem to like the Kaliba arc, but elsewhere that's almost universally seen as the weakest part of the season. I agree that several episodes focusing on Sarah Connor were crucial, but I think it could have happened in a way that didn't impede on the... well, frankly, more popular characters.
I think some of the singleton episodes could have been pushed further back, and Today's the Day could have functioned as an Act I finale, and then have the Kaliba story be Act II, instead of trying to weave them together. The Kaliba story in general felt too vague and drawn out to me. The whole 3 dots thing in particular always struck me as lame, and even seeing them at the end did nothing to reassure me the whole thing wasn't in Sarah's imagination. Some random computer has three dots on it? And those 3 dots aren't part of any kind of advertising campaign to help us find it? Gee, random guy from the future! Thanks!
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Fortunately Season 3 lends itself well to this. I can easily see a first act focusing on John in the Future and Sarah in the past that ends with them reunited, kicking off a new mission for the latter half.
I'm not sure how Season 2 should have been done differently. People here seem to like the Kaliba arc, but elsewhere that's almost universally seen as the weakest part of the season. I agree that several episodes focusing on Sarah Connor were crucial, but I think it could have happened in a way that didn't impede on the... well, frankly, more popular characters.
I think some of the singleton episodes could have been pushed further back, and Today's the Day could have functioned as an Act I finale, and then have the Kaliba story be Act II, instead of trying to weave them together. The Kaliba story in general felt too vague and drawn out to me. The whole 3 dots thing in particular always struck me as lame, and even seeing them at the end did nothing to reassure me the whole thing wasn't in Sarah's imagination. Some random computer has three dots on it? And those 3 dots aren't part of any kind of advertising campaign to help us find it? Gee, random guy from the future! Thanks!
So... yeah. Thoughts?