Heroes, Heroes, Heroes

By On September 24, 2008 · 4 Comments · In Cleveland Browns, Heroes, Misc, Social Issues, WSM?

(“Four Secrets to Always Having a Job” might be the worst title to an article like ever – how about “Four Secrets to Getting Rich in Time to Quit Your Job in the Next 30 Minutes”? Where’s that one?

NOTE: As you know, I don’t have like a real job – I’m just looking out for those who might.)

***SPOILERS if you haven’t watched Heroes this week yet.***

My brother wrote a lengthy post aboot the two episodes of Heroes from this week, and I have to agree with everything he said.

Here is a piece.

Over the course of these two episodes I must have said to myself “Why didn’t he/she just…” about 30 times. Why can’t Future Peter just go back in time and kill Sylar before he got his powers? Why didn’t Sylar rip the door off its hinges with his mind? Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It’s odd to say this, considering this a show about superheroes, but Heroes isn’t realistic enough.

Yeah, I mean they just don’t seem to think this stuff through – to me it feels like they have a list of “cool moments” they want onscreen, and put no thought into how they actually work.

The other problem I have is that it seems as if the template for the show is, “Find out about horrible thing that’s going to happen in future, attempt to stop said thing by tying strings all over apartment, finally stop thing, thus resetting the future into something different.”

There’s no weight to anything, because it feels like they can roll out the, “Yeah well the future changed, so that’s all different now. Oh, but this stuff is still the same, because we like giving Peter a scar on his face.”

I’ll still watch if I’m around or there’s nothing else to do, but I won’t seek out a time to do so again.

On a nice tangent though, it’s always nice to see my brother update his website – as far back as 1997, he’s been doing regular updates every 8-4 months. Like clockwork!

 
  • http://www.wishrules.blogspot.com Wish

    I had high hopes for ‘Heroes’ this year even though it was crappy last season. I think, again, it all boils down to how they couldn’t exactly put the nail in the coffin on the season finale of Season 1. This year is going to be crap and I don’t expect it to be around next year.

    An excerpt from an email between a friend and I:

    Panda man: They tried to pack way to much into the show. They hit on every character, but just muddled everything up because they weren’t able to expand upon it. Maybe it will setup the rest the season. If they stick with that type of setup then it will be awful.

    Some people hate it when Lost doesn’t give certain characters enough screen time for 4 or 5 episodes, but you almost have to do that if you want to tell the story in full. You can’t get any where if every character gets 5 minutes of screen time every episode.

    Wish: It’s like I’m not even sure what their goal is this season. Is it to try to catch the escaped ‘heroes’? Is it to find out if “everybody’s” can have the powers? Is it to….I don’t even know.

    After Season 1 they should have brought all the ‘Heroes’ together, X-Men style, and allowed them to hunt down/capture/investigate all these things together. There needs to be a lead character, of which there isn’t right now, who leads the ‘Heroes’ to their true destiny. Sure there would be some who went to the villain side but it would have been much more intriguing if at first you knew they at least tried to be good, like Harvey Dent in Batman.

  • http://www.wishrules.blogspot.com Wish

    I had high hopes for ‘Heroes’ this year even though it was crappy last season. I think, again, it all boils down to how they couldn’t exactly put the nail in the coffin on the season finale of Season 1. This year is going to be crap and I don’t expect it to be around next year.

    An excerpt from an email between a friend and I:

    Panda man: They tried to pack way to much into the show. They hit on every character, but just muddled everything up because they weren’t able to expand upon it. Maybe it will setup the rest the season. If they stick with that type of setup then it will be awful.

    Some people hate it when Lost doesn’t give certain characters enough screen time for 4 or 5 episodes, but you almost have to do that if you want to tell the story in full. You can’t get any where if every character gets 5 minutes of screen time every episode.

    Wish: It’s like I’m not even sure what their goal is this season. Is it to try to catch the escaped ‘heroes’? Is it to find out if “everybody’s” can have the powers? Is it to….I don’t even know.

    After Season 1 they should have brought all the ‘Heroes’ together, X-Men style, and allowed them to hunt down/capture/investigate all these things together. There needs to be a lead character, of which there isn’t right now, who leads the ‘Heroes’ to their true destiny. Sure there would be some who went to the villain side but it would have been much more intriguing if at first you knew they at least tried to be good, like Harvey Dent in Batman.

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