The CoW: Half a Dozen Years » heroes http://www.the-cow.net Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:58:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Why Do Heroes Hate Time-Travel So Much http://www.the-cow.net/2009/04/heroes-timetravel/ http://www.the-cow.net/2009/04/heroes-timetravel/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:02:11 +0000 Alvan http://www.the-cow.net/?p=494 I love time-travel. Yet there’s something about the way Heroes handles it that bothers me. Today it struck me.

The time-travel of Heroes is watered down. Zap, someone goes to the future, omg, there’s danger. Then you just blomp* back and yodeloo* the danger away. And then there’s cake. Until the next horrible future is envisioned and then our heroes change it so that it never happens.

The only time I really remember there being some time-travel stuff going on that made my time-travel-fan-sense tingle was when the guy with the stupid face traveled to the future with a cute non-heroics girl and then left the girl there, and changed the future so that he couldn’t travel back to the girl because the timelines had gone all wibbley-wobbley. And that plot was never explored any further. I don’t think stupid face ever mentioned the cute girl ever after that.

*sigh*

* Blomp and yodeloo might not be real words, but they sure as hell describe well what’s going on.

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Alvan: I’m watching heroes again. I can only assume this is what it feels like to poke yourself in the eye with needles. And the first season was so good…

Spikey: Yeah, I think it flunked when they stopped delivering things they had teased us about for so long when the seasons turned. At least it didn’t work the way I expected. Now there’s nothing there but soap.

Alvan: I wish there was even soap.

Spikey: Says the guy who doesn’t bathe.

]]> http://www.the-cow.net/2009/02/heroes-out-of-sequitur/feed/ 0 Heroes and the Ratio of Awesome http://www.the-cow.net/2009/02/heroes-and-the-ratio-of-awesome/ http://www.the-cow.net/2009/02/heroes-and-the-ratio-of-awesome/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:41:01 +0000 Alvan http://www.the-cow.net/?p=113 Oh boy. If there is one television show that proves the age-old truth of “no amount of superficial cool makes up for a lack of depth” true, it’s Heroes. It’s pretty easy to rate any Heroes episode by taking the number of important characters in the episode without powers (HRG doesn’t count, neither does “The Hunter”, who will turn out to be a) empowered or b) another HRG) and divide that by the number of important characters in the episode with powers. In the early episodes, for each of the main empowered character, there were at least one or two normal humans. These provided some way of exploring the powers. But then they started killing, empowering or just dismissing the non-”hero” characters, leaving us with SUPERPOWERED BEINGS DASHING OUT AT EACH OTHER WITH TEH ZOMG POWERS½!!!§!!11½! Or without powers. But still, boring. It’s gone from character drama to powers “drama”.

Sometimes  I wonder what is going with with the writers.

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