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| Heroes: Season 2 | 
 enlarge | Actors: Jack Coleman, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Masi Oka, James Kyson Lee, Milo Ventimiglia
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  159 reviews
Sales Rank: 123
Format: Ac-3, Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 484
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.9 x 1.2
MPN: MCAD61101979D
UPC: 025195015493
EAN: 0025195015493
ASIN: B001B7CNZ6
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not up to the quality of Season 1 but still good June 26, 2008
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
Season One of Heroes was phenomenal; I really got invested into the characters and their wild stories. It was funny, exciting, dark and unique. Season 2 dipped in quality a bit, partly due to the writer's strike, but I still found it entertaining and not as bad as many are making it out to be. Hiro DID spend too much time in Japan but it was wrapped up nicely. I liked the new characters of Monica and Elle. Matt was given more time on-screen (not as much as Hiro or Claire but still quite a bit.) It's a nice set-up for the next season (which sounds like it'll be amazing... if you're disappointed with Season 2 don't stop watching. The creators are really working hard on 3 and even made an apology.) The second half of Season 2 gets even better and that's when the show really takes off.
 One-hit wonder tanks in season 2 August 6, 2008
22 out of 46 found this review helpful
The best thing to happen to season 2 was the writer's strike, it put the season out of its misery! With that the producers decided to cancel the rest of the season and try again next year.
The cliffhanger from season 1 was not even delt with until most viewers stopped watching.
Oh, this second season was PAINFUL to watch! My co-workers dropped out after only 4 episodes. I recorded the show so that I could fast forward through, hoping it would get back on track. It never did, I kept fast forwarding through the entire season.
Season 1 was great, never to be equaled by season 2. Maybe season 3 will be better, if anyone is still watching. It is sad to see the hottest show of 2006 go down in flames in 2007.
Disappointing June 23, 2008
17 out of 39 found this review helpful
HEROES Season 2 came with high expectations. Besides delivering a dynamite first season, the team behind the show had run a terrific multi-platform entertainment set up, with text messaging, online content (including mini-comics), and all sorts of ways to get into the world of the show. I was hooked-- and my wife and I were home Mondays to catch every episode.
Then Season 2 came out--expectations were high--and I had one night after another of WTF???
I kept having to make excuses to my wife for why the show really WASN'T sucking, even if it seemed to be, because they would make it better.
And they didn't. Week after week.
It seemed as if the creative team had been replaced by folks who had never *watched* HEROES, much less worked on it.
Virtually nothing was enjoyable or entertaining, least of all the resolutions to this abbreviated season's confusing and meandering storylines.
Unless the show gets its act together in the first few episodes of Season 3, HEROES won't be drawing my interest this year.
As for this DVD set, I'll think about buying it when the cost comes down to its value to me... say around $10. Maybe.
-one ticked-off HEROES fan (?)
 The Writers didn't understand their own creation June 24, 2008
17 out of 25 found this review helpful
It seems like, in the wake of HEROES' huge first season success, Tim Kring and his staff looked back at those episodes and then completely misinterpreted what the audience had liked about them. As the second season started lots of new characters were introduced, all of them uninteresting and poorly cast. Characters from the first season remained frozen in their storylines, going nowhere. The first season's famous cliffhanger endings were gone. There were a few hints of the former glory, but not many. In fact, the writers' strike may have been a blessing for HEROES. This disastrous season was truncated and Kring & Co. have had the time to reflect on the mistakes that were made. Maybe they'll get back on track for Season Three. If you need to own this boxed set of Season Two just in order to keep your collection complete then wait a few months and get it cheaper on Ebay. It's certainly not worth $40!
Waste of time - don't waste your money July 26, 2008
15 out of 26 found this review helpful
I was so excited when season two started up. After being blown away by season one -- a superhero show that wasn't stupid! Character development! Plot development! -- I couldn't have been more let down by season two if they'd deliberately tried. Not only did I stop caring about characters I'd previously loved, I actually came to loathe them due to shoddy handling of them -- I sincerely hope Niki is dead now, girl just got on my last nerve. I couldn't even begin to care about the utterly useless new heroes that were introduced, and even a returning villain managed to be boring.
Hiro's big story arc was nothing but predictable and actually annoying most of the time. There were gaping plot holes throughout all of the story arcs, and the finale was so abrupt and utterly non-climatic -- just as much of a let down as the season itself.
I might watch season three, but I won't be looking forward to it nearly as much as I might've had they put any effort into this season, and that's just sad. They had a great show here, and they may well have managed to trash can the whole thing with one poorly written season. And that bad writing started well before the writer's strike, so the blame can't be laid there. It just plain sucked.
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