Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Things I have hated about this season of Heroes
1. They did not tell us the superpower of Hiro's dad, or Nathan and Peter's parents, or the woman who invented the virus. I am a big proponent (the only proponent I know) of the theory that if a piece of fiction/entertainment is not going to give all the answers, it has to surpass a certain threshold of quality. So for example, I have never seen the Sopranos but theoretically, a show like the Sopranos that bent all the rules on what a tv show could be could get away with an ambiguous ending, but Heroes is no Sopranos. It is kind of a clumsy show, part of its charm is that it can be kind of over the top and campy. Why is the show not embracing this standard? give me answers!
2. They killed Nathan Petrelli. He was my favorite character. The first couple of times that shows killed major characters in tv shows it was pretty cool because suddenly shows became less predictable, you could never be sure that everything would be ok. (Everwood, of-course, did this first and best.) But now that there are these shows with a million characters, you basically know that they will kill someone every sweeps season and it has become another predictable plot point.
3 The repeating superpowers. When I first read in Entertainment Weekly that they were planning to allow multiple characters to have the same power it seemed like a good idea, a way to get around the problem of giving people lamer and lamer powers because they ran out of ideas. But once I saw it in practice, I did not like it. One of the pleasures of the show was when they introduced new characters because the question was what new power they would come up with. Now with the repeat powers, one of the fun things about the show is gone.
4. How many heroes are there? So does this mutation happen to a select handful of people or is it like X-men when there are a whole subset of people who have a mutation. Last season, they made Heroes seem like X-men when they had the story line 5 years later with rounding up all the heroes. It made it seem like Heroes were a group in the population like a race or ethnicity. But then this season they made it seem like there had only been 13 heroes in the previous generation and also it was a mutation that seemed to be passed through families. So what is it, are there like 30 Heroes or like hundreds of Heroes?
5. What was the overarching plot? The Ashanti virus? Were you compelled? I was not.
2. They killed Nathan Petrelli. He was my favorite character. The first couple of times that shows killed major characters in tv shows it was pretty cool because suddenly shows became less predictable, you could never be sure that everything would be ok. (Everwood, of-course, did this first and best.) But now that there are these shows with a million characters, you basically know that they will kill someone every sweeps season and it has become another predictable plot point.
3 The repeating superpowers. When I first read in Entertainment Weekly that they were planning to allow multiple characters to have the same power it seemed like a good idea, a way to get around the problem of giving people lamer and lamer powers because they ran out of ideas. But once I saw it in practice, I did not like it. One of the pleasures of the show was when they introduced new characters because the question was what new power they would come up with. Now with the repeat powers, one of the fun things about the show is gone.
4. How many heroes are there? So does this mutation happen to a select handful of people or is it like X-men when there are a whole subset of people who have a mutation. Last season, they made Heroes seem like X-men when they had the story line 5 years later with rounding up all the heroes. It made it seem like Heroes were a group in the population like a race or ethnicity. But then this season they made it seem like there had only been 13 heroes in the previous generation and also it was a mutation that seemed to be passed through families. So what is it, are there like 30 Heroes or like hundreds of Heroes?
5. What was the overarching plot? The Ashanti virus? Were you compelled? I was not.
# posted by Julia @ 10:10 PM 
