Gave Up On "No Ordinary Family"? Watch!

For those of you who may not have seen the show at all or those who used to watch and gave up, Hulu is showing the season (and maybe series) finale. In it, things are changed a lot and the superhero quotient gets dialed up big time.

Be patient, give it the whole hour, and post what you think.

WARNING: I bold names.

I never saw the start of the series so I can't watch the finale! Edit: It did look like an interesting show but...again, never saw/heard of it until it was too late.

Gave up after the mid-season break. Got tired of the father's refusal to make any attempt to conceal his identity and the general stupidity of most of the characters.

I almost went back to it, but then just never bothered. Best character was the bad guy who was dating the mom's assistant (don't remember anyone's names right now).

That's pretty much my only complaint about the show... Jim wore a ski mask a few times, but then stopped for no explained reason.

I liked the whole series...no idea why others haven't. Also the end of the season was awesome ^.^

I really have enjoyed the series and would hate to see it get cancelled when it looks like it's finally getting its legs ready for a big leap in direction.

It doesn't take itself too seriously too often, which was really nice. I think it helped folks get into the characters over the plot so that when the serious stuff did happen folks didn't balk at the implausability of some of it (doing comic book/super hero stuff in a live action show is hard to pull off without making it 'hokey'- so they ran with it a bit). I was more invested in the characters than their powers, which they have been growing into nicely (not just in use, but in acceptance and their responsibilities with them).

I think it's what Heroes should have been, or something like it anyway.

And yeah it's built up to a great finale!

I rather enjoyed it. I hope it sticks around for a few more seasons.

Bah! Hulu hates Canada!

I enjoyed the series. I did find Jim's inability to hide his face a little bothersome, but he usually did super-acts with few people around, so I gave it a pass.

I didn't realize the other night was a season finale (it seemed like one, but they never let on in that it was). I have to say, it was the worst episode of the season. Too many things felt rushed and conveniently made up on the spot.

First, Dr. King goes from not being able to "not die", to suddenly having the whole family's powers by getting an extra injection. This made no sense with everything done on the show up to this point. When Stephanie received a shot, her power increased, she didn't exactly get new powers. And she certainly didn't get multiple new powers. It felt like a contrived way to add suspense.

Second, when Dr. King gets injected with the cure, his cancer comes back at an accelerated rate?? It makes no sense. If that's the case, then why didn't Joshua get his ailment back when he was cured (which took a much longer time to happen than with Dr. King)? It was mentioned his life was saved from receiving the injections, so whatever was causing him problems should have come back.

Third, the government shows up to ask for the family's help. Sounds nice and all, except that Stephanie saw a future in which Jim inadvertently exposed his powers and the government hunted them down to ultimately decide whether they should be killed or used as government property. This future was avoided, but suddenly we see that the government must have known about them all along?

If the show does come back, I'm concerned it's going to get the Hero's treatment. Great first season, then a complete mess after that.

I think the difference is in how they were discovered, and by whom. In that grim future, Jim exposed his powers in public, which brought them to the attention of a different branch of the govt. than the ones that approached them at the season finale.

I'm betting the company was being watched/investigated by the branch that approached them in the season finale. This branch had a clue as to what was going on, but no evidence or confirmation of what exactly was happening. They got that proof with them breaking into the facility (remember there were lots of shots of them on camera... we were just led to assume it was all the building's security).

So the govt., knowing that this company is into "Crey level" naughtiness, sees this family fighting against them; a quick background check into who they are, and a trip to their house to say "Hey, we know they're up to some bad stuff, and you have the power to help us get them..."

They were approached differently because of how it played out.

As for Dr. King. He knows how this stuff works better than they do. Stephanie may have had more powers than she knew about for a short time and just never tried to use them, or perhaps it was the instability of Dr. King's own treatments that allowed the other one to have wild side effects. Either way I was letting that one slide; it was the boss fight of the end-of-season after all.

Also, Stephanie stabilized Joshua's condition before giving him the cure, or at least I seem to recall something to that effect being discussed, and she probably gave Dr. King a much higher doseage than she did Joshua.

I think the last episode felt rushed, but I thought they set it up nicely for a good plot line in the second season (which I hope comes to exist).

I would bet money that the season was slated for a set quota of episodes, and the writers had to wrap up multiple plot lines in one 60 minute installment. If the powers that be decide that the show is worth continuing, a contract will probably be drawn up to include a larger number of episodes.

Things I want to see in Season 2:
- George ending up with a decent power that allows him and Jim to team up.
- A little more combat action from Stephanie.
- SOME KIND OF COSTUME FOR JIM! We've established that the same fictional heroes from our reality exist in theirs, so the need for super-powered beings to conceal their identities should be common sense by now.

I'd like to see the series continue on. Though.. my boyfriend and I would watch it and sit there telling the father to hide his face.. or at least get one of those hats with a wig built in >.>

as far as the gov reaction...

key differences... Public reveal and Jim attacked a cop and would have then been swarmed by cops. The immediate reaction would have been based on those things.

A private reveal to a government agency dedicated to national security and secrecy gets a hugely different reaction.

As far as "the cure" not "curing" well... You have to consider exactly what happens... basically, the serum gives you what you most want and heals you to some degree, killing infections and fixing any physical problems. A broken leg would be healed much faster. a spinal injury would repair itself. A deadly infection would be killed off. How is this done? Probably rapid cell regeneration... Would this cure cancer? Maybe some cancers but not all it could be argued that Dr. King's cancer cells were rapidly regenerating and due to the rapid regen of both normal and cancer cells his telemeres were extremely short and the cancer was extremely rampant, but one set of cells could hold the other at bay as long as the regen was in effect, once the regen wasn't in effect, the cancer cells, which already rapidly regen normally, would have taken over and because of the short telemeres he would have died.

Of course I don't think that they have an explanation like that, but you can work an explanation with cancer due to how cancer works...


As far as th new powers... the powers work pretty much based on what you want or what you think would be cool... I'd expect that he gave himself multiple injections and was wanting those powers at that time, controlling it to a degree...and technically he only needed one new power so whatever.

I want to like this show -- it's superheroes, c'mon -- but the writing is terribly inconsistent. It started strong and then lost its way. Which is why it lost viewers, I think. The Dr. King character is easily the worst. He started out as a mastermind but ended up as a mere toady. It would've been much more interesting if he had been angling to take over the secret organization, with plots and plans working for and against people. Julie Benz is hot, sure, but his lusting after her seemed like a bizarre motivation for them to pull out of the hat like that.

What's oddest about the writing is that all of the secondary characters were far more interesting than the main characters. I would much rather watch a show about Joshua, Katie and George than the Powells. This was a decent attempt, but they dribbled out the storyline too long. You really need to pack stuff into today's shows, not drag them out the way Heroes did. So we're left with a feeling of "oh, what it could have been."

I thought the show was cancelled? Does anyone know if there is gonna be a season 2 or not? I really want to see what George's powers are and the baby's.

I only "watch" this show as background noise while I play CoH since nothing else is on during it's timeslot. That said, did I see Lucy Lawless in an episode?!?

I'd give it another shot if she's gonna be a regular!