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Heroes…You Are Dead To Me
Dec 16th 2008
Last night was the final episode of Heroes before the break and…wow, was it totally lame. The show started in a bit of a rut this season, and if you recall, I put the show on notice back in October. Since then, it seems to have gotten a little bit better. Until the last couple shows.
It's becoming increasingly obvious that they're just stealing from every popular movie and comic book idea in existence and mashing it all together. Including previous seasons of Heroes. The storyline seemed to have improved only because they railroaded it back on the tracks of the first two seasons. It really feels like at the beginning of the season the try to break out of the mold, fail horribly at coming up with something original and then pick up the pieces and push it towards what they know they can do right before the mid-season break. It's utterly predictable.
In addition, they're playing with laws of physics that just should not be played with. For example, solar eclipses only last 5 minutes..tops. Not a couple hours like the one in the show did. Also you cannot run so fast that you travel back in time. Not according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity anyway, but that was the explanation they used.
I understand it's a show about people breaking the laws of nature and physics…but if you're going to bring in real world science to your show, at least try to get it right…Dah!
I'm not coming back after the break. I'll watch it if it's on or if i'm really freaking bored, but Heroes has officially lost me.
Heroes: You Are Officially On Notice
Oct 21st 2008
Pretty much the only broadcast TV show that I make sure to watch these days is NBCs Heroes. After an awesome first season (which I saw in a very, very compressed chunk), the second season was kinda directionless and wandering but they managed to regain some focus by the end.
This third season though…It's not holding my interest as much as the first two. It's become quite obvious that the writers really have no overall story plan for this show, and that it's success season 1 caught them a little off guard. I have a couple of main beefs with the show this time around, which I will outlay in an official looking bulleted list format.
- Too many people with powers. The first season of the show was about ordinary people who suddenly discovered they had powers and were thrust into a situation that was bigger than they were in an attempt to save the world. This season they're acting more like comic super hero types, They're old vets of all this saving the world stuff. And everybody and their brother has a power. Which leads me to beef two…
- The show isn't focused. There's too many main characters. When they choose to show a couple of them, by the time their plotline starts gaining steam and you start getting interested…poof, we're off to another group of people. Nothing seems to be connected and nobody seems to be doing anything really important.
- They forget people have powers when convenient. The writers are trying to juggle so many people with powers right now that it's impossible for them to remember what everbody can do. And situations that should never happen with people that have certain powers happen anyway. Like somebody with super hearing not being able to hear a whispered conversation happening not 20 feet from them…
- They're acting out of character. Sylar especially. How, exactly, did he become a good guy? I know it's an attractive idea, but I don't buy the execution. It's just coming off as lame.
As of right now, I don't think I'm going to be expending an extra effort to watch this show in primetime anymore. I'll still watch it via hulu.com but I don't think it has enough of my resepct to plan my life around catching it. I hope that they can pull themselves out of this nosedive, but I think this is just another case of burnout after an awesome first season…
The Void
Oct 2nd 2007
Well, I know I've slowed down posting around here, but…really, there's not much to talk about. Even the Question of The Day's recently have been uninteresting to me.
I went over to my friends last night to watch Heroes (and pick up some yummy chocolate chip cookies) but I can't really talk about that much except to say it's entertaining. It's far too early for me to try to develop any sort of theory as to what's going on. I'm just happy I can watch it this season due to my school schedule.
Oh, there's another thing I can talk about! For my Software Engineering class, we're paired up into groups to do the final pair project. Our group got perhaps the dumbest project I've ever heard of. We have to make a system that will diagnose and repair home problems, like appliances breaking down and such. It's your classic internet enabled toaster scenario. I had to write up a 2 page problem description/specification sheet for this problem I don't have and can't see any reason of having. I managed to BS up about a page of crap before the well went dry. I sent it off to my partner to see if he can come up with anything I may have missed.
So…that's about it as far as interesting "stuff" goes.
QotD: The Fall TV Season
Sep 11th 2007
What shows are you looking forward to in the new fall TV season?
Heroes! Because I can actually watch it this season since I don't have classes on Mondays. Last year I was never back in time to watch it. I ended up catching it in a day long marathon on the sci-fi channel. Well, no marathon for me now! It's too bad NBC had to can Studio 60 as well, otherwise I would have had a Heroes/Studio 60 back to back hour of fun.
And of course, I have to mention Grey's Anatomy. Something about this show just pulls me in. Although I think it slipped a bit towards the end of last season. I'm probably bitter because of how they tried to promote the horrible, horrible spinoff by jamming it into an "extra special" episode of the show. Ugh. We'll see what happens this time around.
QotD: Favorite Finale
May 25th 2007
What was your favorite TV season finale this year?
Submitted by Kristine.
By far, Heroes. Of course the only other show that I watch is Grey's Anatomy so I don't have much of a comparison really…but there we are. The Grey's Anatomy finale didn't really do much for me. It kinda feels like they might be running out of steam a little. We'll have to see next season I guess.
If you haven't watched it yet for some reason, spoilers to follow. Just a friendly little warning.
Anyway, I thought the episode was really good, although a bit…rushed. It would have been a lot better had they given it 2 hours instead of one,so they could slow down. I didn't really like how the final confrontation with Sylar lasted all of 5 minutes and seemed as if it was just a way of cramming in all of the foreshadowed events that were peppered through the rest of the season.
A lot of people seemed not to really enjoy it all that much for two reasons. They can't figure out why Peter didn't fly himself away and they can't figure out how they let Sylar escape.
The first can be explained, in my opinion of course, because Peter was trying not to explode! I think that might be a little bit distracting…
And as for why Sylar escaped, I figure that in the mayhem that occured after Nathan flew peter up and the explosion with all the people getting shot and such, there was plenty of opportunities for Sylar to drag himself into the sewers unnoticed (which probably isn't really a good idea for him considering he's got that very large puncture wound in his chest…but…still.)
In any case, I can't wait to see where the series goes from here in season 2.
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14…Hours!
May 20th 2007
Yesterday was spend doing one thing and one thing only. Sci-Fi had on a 21 hour marathon of the NBC show Heroes that I've wanted to watch for a very long time. I couldn't due to my Monday classes getting in the way.
So…I went over to my friends place (they have cable) at 9am and watched Heroes for 14…hours. I'm now entirely caught up with the series and I think it's awesome. Of course I can't watch the season ending episode tomorrow due to my summer classes starting up. Drat! I'll catch it online or something.
THAT was an awfully long time just sitting there and watching TV. 14. Hours.
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