Comments on: I could watch “Heroes” for just one day

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:34:04 +0000

It does have a real Unbreakableish quality about it. And since I hated that movie, I mean: it’s got lots of the overbearing self-important attitude that it’s telling comic book conventions in a realistic and dramatic way, even though it’s showing you nothing you haven’t seen before in comics that do the same thing 1000 times better.

Still, for all the stupid, clumsy stuff it keeps doing, there’s just enough intrigue in there to keep me going for a little while at least. The second episode upped the gruesome factor a whole lot, which is something my body needs anyway, and I like that. Plus the time-travel travel twist with nuclear explosion, I actually didn’t see that coming. Same with the cheerleader breaking her neck, a surprisingly well-done scene in an otherwise clumsy as hell series. And MPD Lass is kind of hot, and I want to see exactly what her superpower is and how they explain it.

But in that very same episode, they have the blander-than-bland villain watching the videotape he stole from his daughter on his laptop with the sound turned up, queued just to the right moment, before she even has a chance to leave the room. So I imagine I’m going to be doing a lot of eye-rolling while I slog through to see what happens.

By: Jeff H.

Jeff H. — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:43:17 +0000

I know nobody likes it, but didn’t “Unbreakable” mine this terrain years ago? Or is this show more explicitly whizz-bang superhero-ey?

By: Seppoloppolis

Seppoloppolis — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:01:31 +0000

I’m actually not sure if I liked it or not. To me, one of the best things about the show was Hiro, who I thought had sort of a sincere supernerd vibe going. That, and their Japanese wasn’t obviously terrible.

The little “twist” at the end I presume involves the two brothers? I thought that was pretty clever. But you’re right in the respect that it feels … unoriginal. I wonder if it’s because I’ve got years of comic-book reading experience that the characters feel sort of stock, and that their powers, and the situations they’re in all feel familiar, because you’re trying to pull something original out of something that’s iconic, and been around for decades. Either you retain the “familiar” feel, and poach existing storylines (or facsimiles of them), or you do something really new, and lose the superheroes vibe?

I dunno - to me, it feels like Astro City, the TV show - or that it will once it gets going. For now, there’s too many stories, and too many sort of “obvious” things that aren’t really gelling properly…

I guess we’ll see.

By: Chris Flinn

Chris Flinn — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:01:54 +0000

I couldn’t make it through the first episode. “Smallville” has enough of the requisite “hot chicks” (which my wife consistently makes fun of) and has enough entertaining stories for me to get my comic book TV fill that “Heroes” just seemed bland. Besides, “Smallville” is going to do a junior “Justice League” type episode so I don’t think I’ll be watching “Heroes” again.

By: Cory

Cory — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:20:31 +0000

that pilot sucked so bad I am currently in line not to watch it this week.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:28:38 +0000

Yeah, I’ve got to admit I’m going to keep watching for a couple of episodes, just to see if the story picks up and they do anything interesting with it. I just didn’t want to ruin a good Bowie reference.

By: Rain

Rain — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:17:35 +0000

I’ve read the guy who created the show isn’t a comic book-reading guy at all, so you hit the nail on that one.

I’m gonna keep watching it, for a while at least. I like seeing cheerleaders sticking thier hands into garbage disposals.