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Is it just me, or is Heroes rather 'meh' so far this season? Looking at it, I've just about concluded that Heroes may have made two fundamental mistakes that suck the drama and the momentum out of the show:
* Too many unkillable characters with infinite powers. There's nothing to fear when the characters cannot be killed. And infinite powers are always a problem. If you can fly and travel in time and live after you've been killed and fling fire and see the future (which, given that you can travel through time is a rather redundant power) and... and... and... Well, what the hell are your vulnerabilities? Where's the drama if you're invincible and have limitless second, third, fourth, tenth chances?
* Too much time travel. We've done the "See a terrible future and try to change it" plot in Season 1. Now they're doing another "see the future and try to change it" plot. And, again, we know the world isn't going to end. And that alone wouldn't be a problem. Sarah Connor Chonicles has the same basic premise of "horrible future, have to change it" but, unlike Heroes, Sarah Connor Chonicles can't jump through time at will anytime that it's convenient. They're pretty much stuck, like the rest of the universe, only going forward. And most of the SCC are most definitely not invulnerable. Heroes on the other hand... well nothing is actually real in the alternative Heroes 'verses because, hey it's a glimpse of a future that we're pretty darn sure won't happen thereby rendering everything in those alt_'verses mostly meaningless. There are no real consequences because it's all just a hypothetical, thus no real danger... and no real drama.
Frankly, I'm not a Sylar fangirl, but thus far this season, he's the only character who has been remotely interesting. (Well, he and Noah. But Noah always rocks).
Mad Men has been pretty rocking lately. Well, rocking in Mad Men very low-pitched, understated way... which is why it sent a cold shiver down my spine when someone pointed out on TWOP that Marti Noxon is now a co-producer/writer. Eeek! And Betty thought she was suffering major depression and malaise before!
I saw the first episode of The Tudors and fairly quickly checked out, thinking that I didn't want the anachronistic history. But, this weekend, I watched one of the Season 2 episodes (the one where Anne miscarried and the execution of Sir Thomas More) and I'm thinking about checking out the DVDs and watching the entire series. Yes, it's still anachronistic, but it's hard to deny that the life of Henry VIII makes great soap opera.
sp23's journal and decided to also post this here:Is it just me, or is Heroes rather 'meh' so far this season? Looking at it, I've just about concluded that Heroes may have made two fundamental mistakes that suck the drama and the momentum out of the show:
* Too many unkillable characters with infinite powers. There's nothing to fear when the characters cannot be killed. And infinite powers are always a problem. If you can fly and travel in time and live after you've been killed and fling fire and see the future (which, given that you can travel through time is a rather redundant power) and... and... and... Well, what the hell are your vulnerabilities? Where's the drama if you're invincible and have limitless second, third, fourth, tenth chances?
* Too much time travel. We've done the "See a terrible future and try to change it" plot in Season 1. Now they're doing another "see the future and try to change it" plot. And, again, we know the world isn't going to end. And that alone wouldn't be a problem. Sarah Connor Chonicles has the same basic premise of "horrible future, have to change it" but, unlike Heroes, Sarah Connor Chonicles can't jump through time at will anytime that it's convenient. They're pretty much stuck, like the rest of the universe, only going forward. And most of the SCC are most definitely not invulnerable. Heroes on the other hand... well nothing is actually real in the alternative Heroes 'verses because, hey it's a glimpse of a future that we're pretty darn sure won't happen thereby rendering everything in those alt_'verses mostly meaningless. There are no real consequences because it's all just a hypothetical, thus no real danger... and no real drama.
Frankly, I'm not a Sylar fangirl, but thus far this season, he's the only character who has been remotely interesting. (Well, he and Noah. But Noah always rocks).
Mad Men has been pretty rocking lately. Well, rocking in Mad Men very low-pitched, understated way... which is why it sent a cold shiver down my spine when someone pointed out on TWOP that Marti Noxon is now a co-producer/writer. Eeek! And Betty thought she was suffering major depression and malaise before!
I saw the first episode of The Tudors and fairly quickly checked out, thinking that I didn't want the anachronistic history. But, this weekend, I watched one of the Season 2 episodes (the one where Anne miscarried and the execution of Sir Thomas More) and I'm thinking about checking out the DVDs and watching the entire series. Yes, it's still anachronistic, but it's hard to deny that the life of Henry VIII makes great soap opera.
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Date: 2008-10-24 02:45 am (UTC)Though, this week was marginally better than the previous two... although that's not saying much at all.