All posts tagged “heroes”

Is it really necessary to yell SPOILERS? Anyway, I know the first part of the second season has received a lot of bad criticism already, but I still feel like giving my 50 cents about it, since I just ran through the entire volume and I’m feeling a bit… agitated. One of the main problems with the first season was the huge amount of creative license, i.e. important people randomly meeting each other in the middle of nowhere, and stuff like that. In the second season they’ve upped the ante, they use creative license every other minute, and the writing is just awful, it seems like every time they stumbled upon a problem in the story they just made some weird coincidence happen, seriously, it’s everywhere. For example: Claire’s love interest West not only has powers, but he’s also been kidnapped by Claire’s dad. Hiro Nakamura goes back in time to the exact place of his hero Kensei, and what do you know, he’s the same guy who’s trying to destroy the world 400 years later. And Sylar just happens to stumble upon Maya and Alejandro in the middle of a Mexican desert.

It’s obviously a result of bad writing, it just didn’t seem like they cared, as mentioned there was a lot of creative license in season one as well, but it seemed to mostly be used at important moments, in season two they just use it all the time, and it’s ruining the show. That and the fact that the new stories are extremely uninteresting, I don’t care about Hiro messing around in Japan. The Monica storyline is so fucking annoying as well, I don’t care about her, and why doesn’t she just watch superhero movies and stuff, she’d be just as invincible as Peter. Then she even gets herself taken hostage, even though she could’ve just kicked their asses. So, to sum it up: unnecessary and/or annoying storylines: Hiro in Japan, Alejandro and Maya, Peter in Ireland, Claire’s love interest, and especially Monica being a douche.

The writers also open way too many solutions, and then I just get annoyed when they don’t use those obvious solutions to solve problems, such as Nathan getting shot in the end, just inject him with some of Claire’s blood for fucks sake…

And what’s with all the fucking gullibility?! Maya believes and trusts Sylar in no time, and Peter protects Adam blindly, even though he’s presented to a hell of a lot of proof that Adam’s bad, just because Adam helped Nathan. Mohinder even fucking joins the company, that didn’t really surprise me though, since he’s more or less retarded.

Kristen Bell is hot though.

Season one of Heroes is over, I just watched the finale and I have some mixed feelings about it, and the entire series. It started out very nice, but in my opinion it’s been going a bit down hill since then. My main issue is the amount of errors, especially in the last episode, which is riddled with them. I’ll give you a couple of examples: Why didn’t Claire just shoot Peter when he was about to explode, they knew they could just pull out the bullet and revive him later. Why didn’t Hiro make sure Sylar was dead? Why didn’t Sylar do anything to stop Hiro when he charged him with the sword? And so on, and so on. Also, Nathan suddenly appearing to rescue Peter was ridiculous, he suddenly just changed his mind? Stupid.

And then there’s the problem with Peter not using any of his abilities to get out of sticky situations. For example, why didn’t he fly or teleport away when he was exploding? Obviously this is a problem for the writers, because he would litteraly be able to overcome all situations, he’s just too powerful, so they have to lose some integrity by ignoring his powers. This bothers me when they display scenes like he’s completely powerless, like the last, climatic one. I know this problem is unavoidable when you have a show like this, but it’s still annoying. Then there are stupid, more easily avoidable, errors like Hiro becoming a swordfighter in a few hours and Peter not even trying to get away from Ted when they meet. Wouldn’t the separation of Peter, Ted and Sylar be the easiest way to avoid the bomb? They don’t even think about that.

Two things got me worked up a bit in the last episode though, the girl talking about the unknown hero/villain, and Hiro going back to the 17th century. One thing is sure, I’m looking a lot more forward to the season finale of Lost.

Heroes Season 1: 7/10.

Minor spoilers ahead. 

Until recently I was only watching one tv-show regulary; the third season of Lost. Now I've stumbled upon another one, called Heroes. It's about a group of people who discover they have super powers, one can heal her wounds in seconds, another can bend time and space, a third can fly, etc. The show is a continuity-hell, mostly when following this Japanese guy, Hiro, the one who can bend time and space. It's also got a lot of plot errors, that are supposed to look coincidental but are too unrealistic to be convincing. Still, Heroes is actually a lot of fun, it's about super heroes, and that more or less says it all. What you may call super villains have already been revealed, so I'm really looking forward to some exciting battles when all the heroes, hopefully, gang up.

[update]

I just finished watching the latest episode, no. 6, and I'm so hooked! As mentioned Heroes has some continuity and plot flaws, but I don't care. Especially one scene stands out in my mind at the moment, the Japanese time/space guy (picture) comes back from the future all suited up with a katana and everything, being all cool and slick (he's a bit of a geek in the present), which means they'll probably all join up together and create a Justice League/X-Men/<random superhero group>-like gang in the future, and I can't explain how much I'm looking forward to that. Also…

… this guy is hilarous.

Heroes on Wikipedia.