i think that i've had just about enough of "heroes"

[rone]

"Heroes" is a comic book title on the TV screen, and it carries all of the dreadful drawbacks that you'd expect from your typical comic book:

• The plotting is twisty and leaky: a lot of it springs from the heavy reliance on time travel and precognition, which are being handled with a ham-handed grace.  As for the stuff that doesn't, here's one: how did Bob know Peter would be flying Nathan back to that specific hospital and walking down that specific corridor so Elle could zap him?  And my biggest complaint: why didn't Peter absorb Sylar's "instant comprehension" power?
• The characters are not interesting except for their powers: leaving aside the really dumb but insignificant things, such as various characters looking directly at the solar eclipse, the characters alternate between being railroaded into being dull and predictable, and doing crazy, nonsensical things just to move the story along (why was Candice all alone taking care of a complete psycho like Sylar? why did Bob put Peter in the cell next to the extremely dangerous Adam, through which they could speak?).  To say the characters are two-dimensional is rather generous in at least half the cases.
• Women and Blacks fare poorly: Charles Deveaux: dead.  D. L. Hawkins: dead.  Monica Dawson: nearly injected with lethal virus.  Simone Deveaux: dead.  Micah Hawkins: alive, but his dad was killed and his mom's crazy and irresponsible (also, he's only half-black and not a woman and just a kid).  The Haitian: almost died from Shanti virus.  Eden McCain: dead.  Angela Petrelli: scheming, manipulative, untrustworthy.  Maya Herrera: toxic crybaby who's developing a taste for killing.  Candice Wilmer: dead (didja notice she was a fatty?  god forbid an overweight girl pretending she's thin!  kill her!)  Niki Sanders: dissociative, and of course all her alternate personae are indecent and unscrupulous, oh, and she's infected with a lethal virus.  Molly Walker: her parents were gruesomely murdered by a serial killer and she was trapped in a nightmare.  Elle Bishop: way-over-the-top clichéd crazy.  Claire Bennet: teenage angst out the ass.  Sandra Bennet: she talks to her Pomeranian and was a bit dotty even before she got repeatedly mind-wiped.  Audrey Hanson: promising, and therefore written out.  Caitlin McKenna: stuck in the grim meathook future.  Janice Parkman: cheated on Matt, no explanation whatsoever.  Heidi Petrelli: stuck in a wheelchair after horrific accident, but at least Linderman healed her.  Yaeko: she's without the man she loves.  Jackie the Other Cheerleader: dead.  Charlie Andrews: dead.  Virginia Gray: dead.  Who does that leave?  Oh, right, Nana Dawson, but she's barely appeared.

Sure, i'm curious to see what happens next, but if "Heroes" were a comic book, i'd tell wacky_hijinx to drop my subscription.  How does a TV network pick up mediocrity like "Heroes" but not "Global Frequency"?  Oh, right, "TV network".

This ought to segue into my oft-promised rant about the dismal world of DC & Marvel, but i've had a migraine all day and i'm feeling a little drained now.

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

What I really liked about Season 1 was what they did with some of the characters, especially Nathan and Mr. Bennet, who were each far and away the most interesting and complex characters on the show. Mr. Bennet still has his dark mojo on, which is fab, but we're seeing a lot less of it. And so far none of the new characters look very interesting, personality-wise. Hmpf.

If you have been following the show at all I highly recommend desdenova's blow-by-blow show summaries. Usually cynical, often hysterical and always interesting.

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

Heroes is frequently dumb and frequently annoying, but it is like crack. Very cheesy crack. At least half the fun I get out of watching it is chatting about it with people each week.

Also, I am shallow, and many of the actors (and actresses) are hot.