Around the Horn -- NBC's Heroes Sucks Edition, One Week Until I Bail
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I can’t identify with it. It looks like a show about some people that I
care nothing about. It’s spread too thin over some convoluted and
repeated “change the future/don’t change the future.”
And that comes from a blog that writes only about Heroes? What will others think? Also, consider that those words were written at the end of September. It's just gotten more convoluted since then.
Jeff Jensen at Entertainment Weekly, lamenting the ratings and the critical notices, has five ideas to save the show. One of them is ...
Nothing undermines creative integrity like making characters act out of character just for the sake of advancing plot. Yet Heroes
has recklessly committed this sin more than once this season. Included
in the hard-to-swallow idiocy was a suddenly powers-hungry Suresh, as
well as flying man Nathan Petrelli's (Adrian Pasdar) utterly unconvincing religious conversion and boneheaded choice to heed career advice from his dead nemesis Linderman (Malcolm McDowell).
But the most egregious development has involved one of the show's best
assets, Hiro. Having him blithely embark on a potentially
world-destroying adventure simply because he was bored? That's just
lazy writing.
Finally, from James Gimler at Livej0urnal:
I don't ask much of you. All I ask is that this season you just try a
little...just a little, and stop rippi...errr...homaging, so many other
films like THE FLY and HALLOWEEN.
All I want is a little super-powered crack. Let me see some dudes hit each other with electrical blast. Give me a dark future. Steal from Chris Claremont's 1980's run of Uncanny X-Men all you want, but at least make it not suck. Oh, and try to remember your own storylines. I don't mind continuity changes, but when stuff doesn't flow one season to the next...or one episode to the next, ya'all got issues.
Future Peter is interesting. Jesus Nathan is interesting. Noah hunting the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is interesting. Hiro is losing...well, lost, that endearing quality and is sorta annoying. I don't even remember Niki's full storyline besides her hubby going out like a punk.
All I want is a little super-powered crack. Let me see some dudes hit each other with electrical blast. Give me a dark future. Steal from Chris Claremont's 1980's run of Uncanny X-Men all you want, but at least make it not suck. Oh, and try to remember your own storylines. I don't mind continuity changes, but when stuff doesn't flow one season to the next...or one episode to the next, ya'all got issues.
Future Peter is interesting. Jesus Nathan is interesting. Noah hunting the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is interesting. Hiro is losing...well, lost, that endearing quality and is sorta annoying. I don't even remember Niki's full storyline besides her hubby going out like a punk.
I think they've got one more week of my eyes before I decide to bail.
Preview clip (with a Sprint commercial, sorry) after the jump.
