Heroes - Season Three
Starring: Jack Coleman, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Hayden Panettiere, Milo Ventimiglia, Masi OkaStudio: Universal Studios
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
DVD Release: September 1st 2009
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Experience all the explosive action and shocking twists as Heroes: Season 3 comes to DVD! Rediscover the phenomenon in this six-disc set that includes all 25 suspenseful episodes from the third season?s volumes, Villains and Fugitives. Plus, go behind the scenes with the show?s writers, stars and artists as you explore hours of exclusive and revealing bonus features.
User Reviews
Sylar, Sylar, Sylar! - Rating: 2/5
The third season of "Heroes" was a complete mess. The season started off in a fairly strong manner, with the heroes targeted by the government and having to work together to escape. However, this compelling idea was abandoned after a few episodes, with the heroes once again scattering all over the globe with separate (and uninspiring) plotlines. What the producers and writers consistently fail to understand is that the fans of the show enjoy seeing the heroes work together, and not in the same predictable pairings (Ando & Hiro, Peter & Nathan, etc.). By the end of the season, I really had no idea what the main plotline was and why I should care about any of it.
"Heroes" started as a fresh, clever series filled with interesting characters, and the producers showed a willingness to add new characters to help prevent things from getting stale. Unfortunately, the producers and writers really lost the thread by the third season, stubbornly sticking with the same cast of heroes, long past their expiration date. Particularly frustrating was their stubborn insistence on focusing on Sylar as the main villian; I enjoyed Sylar during the first two seasons but having a nearly unbeatable foe makes the rest of the cast look weak. Instead of introducing new heroes, each week brought new alliances between the heroes that quickly dissolved before they really could be explored. One week Noah and Sylar are working together, then they're enemies; the next week Nathan and Peter have reunited, then they're enemies; shampoo, rinse, and repeat. Keeping up with these shifting alliances was dizzying and tiresome. Likewise, all pretences of continuity have been abandoned in favor of ending each episode with a "shocking" conclusion.
I'll watch at least the first few episodes of Season 4 of "Heroes," as I feel a certain obligation given the time I've already invested in the series. Also, I do still care a bit about a few of the characters, despite being jerked around by the inconsistent writing of the series. However, I find that I can no longer recommend the series as a whole to new watchers, which is something I did prior to this season.
Im done with this show. - Rating: 1/5
Season 1: great show, captured my imagination, actually made me devote myself to fun, exciting television. Season 2: Lackluster, brought back characters I thought had died with great impact and import in season 1, halfway through the season I started skipping shows, moved onto other prime-time shows that were better written and acted. Season 3: Yawn, what happened to this show?!? Seriously, the most disappointing season of a seriously faltering show. If this show continues on this path I predict cancellation after the next season.
not what the bad reviews claim it to be... - Rating: 5/5
Lately it seems that my favorite show HEROES has only been getting better. Season 3 was exhilarating. It was entertaining action-packed suspense-filled shocking and most of all a huge blast of FUN! I know very well their are those who have expressed dislike for this season along with the last one but I would like to say why I believe these statements are lost on HEROES.
1) People complained that this season had bad character development when some complained that when season 2 delved more into character development people cried for more action so really if you complained about that this season don't say you never requested it on the show because most of you did no offense
2) people complained that in the 1st half entitled VILLANS the main ensemble characters ( ie Peter , Nathan claire) acted out of character i find this untrue. Although our heroes took darker paths this season as demonstrated by peter after obtaining sylar's abilite and claire trying to help hunt down the level 5 baddies these were not uncommon. Given the situation and our character's historys in seasons 1 and 2 these types of descisions and choices weren't so off-base escepially given the atmosphere of the volume ( it was called villans for a reason)
3) the season 3 finale's ending this year also gained some rocky reviews . I trust any negative reviews for that episode came from the sylar/nathan twist that occured. Guys believe me clarie's blood wouldn't have helped Nathan he was way too wounded for it to work at this point. Overall Heroes season 3 was a fantastic season and season 4 is definitely something i'm tuning in for.
How I got my hour back - Rating: 1/5
Every season (yes, even the first), I threatened to quit watching, as the show failed to deliver on its initial promise, then got worse, then got even worse yet. Finally, halfway through the third season, I did give it up, and thank goodness for that extra hour in my week! Even if that hour is spent just watching reruns of better shows, it's time well spent. I can't believe this show is still around, sucking money out of a failing network. I wish the NBC execs had Hiro's power so they could go back in time, pick up The 4400 instead, and give us a proper ending to that show...it may not have been perfect television, but it was much, much better than Heroes.
Heroes is an example of screenwriting at its worst - convoluted storytelling that is hard to follow, fails to offer any reason to even try, reinvents characters constantly and for no good reason, and attempts to pass off silly, insipid plotlines as real drama. It somehow manages to bore, confuse and frustrate at the same time, and I'm quite surprised that anyone still watches it. Even some of the less negative reviews here say things to the effect of "after a bad second season and first half of this season it finally picked up a bit, so here's hoping season four...". How have we come to value our time so little that we're willing to watch repeatedly bad shows, waiting for them to improve? I'm guilty of it too, but when I catch myself doing it, I feel very foolish. And after suffering through a trip to feudal Japan, a totally random desert vision quest, and the rest of the stupid storytelling thrown at us by Heroes, hopefully I've learned my lesson.
Bad, good, bad, good... - Rating: 3/5
This is really two mini-seasons. There are two separate story arcs in this season; when one ends, the next part begins. I think you can actually skip the entire first story arc, pick up where the second one begins (episode 14), and not feel like you missed much.
Which is good, because the first story arc, quite frankly, sucked. A lot. The theme of the first story arc is, "in every hero, there could be a villain." This is true, and to try to show us this in a story is a laudable goal. That said, there is a good way to do this, and a bad way to do this. The good way is to have one or two heroes go through something that causes them emotional turmoil, and either pushes them to compromise their values, or pushes a hero's existing character trait to an extreme, until what was a good or neutral character trait becomes evil. Then make them live with the consequences. The bad way is to just randomly change *everybody's* values and motivations for no apparent reason whatsoever, until we no longer know, or care, who anybody is or what happens to them.
Two guesses which way the powers that be decided to go with.
My parents mentioned that they got so far into this season, and realized that it was actually a chore, watching Heroes. They no longer cared about any of the characters. So they stopped watching.
I stuck it out, even though I agreed with my parents that watching the show had become a chore. I'm quite glad I did. The second story arc was much better. Kind of on par with the second season (which I didn't think was that bad). Not as good as S1, of course, but "as good as S1" is a really high standard to hold. I was satisfied with it being a major, major improvement over the first story arc of the season.
In the second story arc, the characters returned to being recognizably themselves. That is, Peter once again acted like Peter, Hiro was Hiro, Ando was Ando, Claire had grown up, but was still Claire, etc. Of my needs when I'm watching a series, this is the most important - that I be able to know the characters and feel for them. For that to happen, they (the characters) need to be themselves, not whoever the writers decide they need to be that week. They can change over time, IF IT MAKES SENSE. But even then, the characters still, fundamentally, need to be themselves. They need to be real. This is especially true in a fantasy story, where suspension of disbelief depends entirely on our ability to believe in, and identify with, the characters as people. The writers seemed to forget this in the first half of the season, then remember it again during the second half. And so, I have high hopes for next season again.
