![]() Because let's face it, it's hard to call someone a straight-up monster when they barely ever raise their voice and never free fall into fits of madness or rage. With Rosen scrambling to discover Parish's ultimate plan, Season 2 felt like it had more of a recognizable through line, leading the team to thwart Parish's plans not just once, but three times actually, if you count his ploy to try and use Jason's hive mind powers in "Gods and Monsters." Parish was no scene stealer, often sentimental and quiet to a fault, but his demeanor played well off of Rosen's ever-increasing obsession. Well, thanks in part to Parish's photic stimulator device too. Season 2 still had the team working through their issues and weaknesses (Bill's heart, Nina's self-destructiveness, Rachel's oversensitivity), but the writers had them overcome these hindrances, making most of them even stronger in the process. Rosen reveal the existence of Alphas to the world at the end of Season 1. Alphas solved these two problems by A: not making their characters overly-powerful (while also tying their abilities, as best they can, to biology), and B: having Dr. Also, Heroes spent four seasons with our heroes not acting like heroes at all forever policing and bickering among their own in a world that didn't even know they existed at all. One of the problems that Heroes faced after, and even toward the end of, Season 1, was that they had a handful of characters that were so powerful that they couldn't write for them anymore without plummeting into logistical nightmares. Alphas' closest parallel is X-Men (creator Zak Penn co-wrote X-Men: The Last Stand and gets story credit on X2 and The Avengers), but many folks often bring up NBC's Heroes, since it's a notable recent TV series featuring out of costume super-humans. Season 2 had a few low moments, but for the most part it revved things up with some large scale, master villain-style schemes from somber, Civil War-era villain, Stanton Parish. ![]() Sometimes hindered by its basic cable TV budget, Alphas makes up for its occasional fudging by giving us characters that we care about and emotional situations that resonate. Lee Rosen, Alphas has always been a good show, if uneven at times. Confidential, Good Night and Good Luck) as team leader Dr.
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