Heroes Is Kryptonite
Sorry guys, but Heroes is a stupid show. I know that it's stupid because it should totally appeal to me but it doesn't, and because I have eyes in my face and have seen it. I never made it through the first season because while every episode ended with a great cliff-hanger, every subsequent episode resolved that cliff-hanger dismissively in the first 30 seconds, and one of my rules is if a show's writers are going to be disinterested in doing a good job, then I am going to be disinterested in watching their show. I'm hopeful that one day we will have a superhero show for people who don't like bad things, but I'm not going to settle for Heroes just because it exists. That's how lazy shows win. Two and a Half Men has been following that strategy for over 40 years.
So I'm not particularly looking forward to a Heroes web-series Going Postal about a magical postal worker (Get it, Going Postal? Because he works at the post office. You'll probably get it later, it's a slow burn.) who can kill people by talking. For one, that's not a superpower that anyone has ever dreamt of having. That's a superpower that you come up with after a 13-hour superpower brainstorming session when you've run out of Mountain Dew Code Red. Second of all, webisodes of TV shows are the new sadness. With the possible exception of The Office's webisodes, it's just such a dismissive form of expanding the show. "It's the internet, which is great for our bottom line because it means we don't have to make it good."
A trailer for the Heroes web-series Going Postal after the jump.
I don't know about you guys, but I don't want any superpower that you can counter with a ball gag. I'm not even talking about the web-series at this point, that is just a direct plea to God in case he reads this blog and is planning on having something radioactive bite me in the near future. I want a real power, Sir.
Posted by Gabe at 9:43 AM in Viral Marketing
Tags: Heroes
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First!!1!
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I guess since they killed Banshee in the Marvel Universe they decided to bring him here?
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If you like Heroes at all after the 2nd season, you're mentally retarded. I don't mean that in some light way. You would seriously have to have real mental damage to look pass everything that was horribly wrong about that season. S1, that was neat entertainment that didn't reach it's full potential. S2 killed anything and everything about the S1 and made you feel like a doofus for ever thinking S1 was good. god damn, that was the worst season of TV I've ever seen. It took skill to make TV that horrible.
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The internet: home of the overstatement
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A bad episode of Heroes is still better than a good episode of that caveman show. And I hope that your overstatement keeps in mind According To Jim.
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I am pretty sure the seminal Goosebumps series was the first work of fiction to implement the "cliffhanger every chapter followed by an immediate ridiculous resolution" device which is now so standard. Or maybe it was the original Batman television series. WHO CAN KNOW
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Gabe, have you ever watch the new Battlestar Galactica?
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No. I was going to because I'd read good things, but then I was dissuaded by two friends with science fiction credentials (read: virginity) that it was actually pretty much terrible.
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Gabe, your friends are ridiculous, granted it’s a slow starter but it’s the BEST science fiction shows on television today…hell, it’s the best science fiction show in the past ten years.
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It is farking retarded. Everything about the show is the worst. I gave it one whole season and it can fark itself so say we all.
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dude...it's FRAKK, not fark. if you haven't seen the rest of the series then your opinion is worthless.
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OK I will watch 30 more hours of mediocre scifi. Fark.
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It looks very low budget, almost public access. Which could be a good thing.
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