December 17, 2008

• The TV show "Heroes" finally finished the story for "Volume 3 : Villains," and I've got to say that it's about freakin time. The conclusion to that story pretty much cemented the fact that I've completely lost interest with the show, and have grown quite dissatisfied with the direction it went.

  It started off as a character driven drama that happened to have super powers, to a completely comic-booky unbelievable unrelatable absurd excuse to create so called "cool" dramatic moments of a show. It's like all these ideas they have for the show looked good on paper, but on execution it was simply horrible. Plot holes up the wazoo, and characters that were written completely out of character (to the point that the actors themselves had said the same thing). The problem that I think happened was that "Heroes" was trying to give too much "fan-service" to the audience. It was like they were going "oh oh oh, I think the fans would like this..." or "so let's go ahead and do this thing that the fans are asking for" instead of simply just writing an overall good story.

  If what I saw on "Heroes" was a comic-book series, I would have given up on it a long time ago. In fact I've already given up on it by taking it off my DVR's scheduler, and am happy to spend that hour of television on something else. Unlike "Smallville;" which is also a show that's pretty embarrassing on the writing department, "Heroes" does not have the "I want to see what they are doing with Superman" factor that unbelievably still makes me watch that show. The characters for "Heroes" on the other hand have been butchered enough in the writing that I simply do not care what happens to any of them. For all I know "Heroes, Volume 4 : Fugitives" will actually turn out good, but just based on the little tease they showed us, I have my doubts.

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