Just for One Day

Warning: The following post includes spoilers of The Matrix Revolutions. And as I am talking about that film it is absolutely guaranteed I will get rabid.

You have been warned.

I was having a conversation with a friend tonight and she asked me the following pertinant and interesting question:

"Why am I looking forward to Heroes?"

It got me thinking.

Heroes has shoddy dialogue, hackneyed plot devices, homage-a-meter originality (this week: Days of Future Past, the whole season: Watchmen without balls) and the kind of 6th Form socio-religious rambling that The Wachowski's (one now not a brother) fell into with their betrayal of all things wonderful The Matrix Revolutions.

Added to that the huge build up across the season to an ending so anti-climactic Trinity dying in a car crash a day after being brought back to life becomes satisfying.

Well ok nothing could make that satisfying.

Anger building, rage growing, Ben Stiller in Mystery Men rip-off peaking...

Anger subsiding.

Anyway, yes Heroes, crappy yet still infectiously entertaining.

However I do think the strange enchantment that Heroes has over the world populace will wain quickly if it doesn't manage to do a number of things.

1) Have a plot not taken directly from a comic then watered down.

2) Avoid Masi Oka leaping from charming and fun to annoying at the level of Chris Crocker parody videos not done by Seth Green.

3) Have Volume 2 pay off spectacularly. If we have 2 story arcs with a clunky ending there will be little faith that the 3rd will be worth hanging around until 2008 for.

4) Kick arse super hero battles. It was hinted at last season but the money shots were played out behind closed doors, this year we need our jaws swinging from raw power exploding on the screen.

If they make those 4 steps I will be in for the exhilirating journey towards porridge once more.

Well that or they could do something insane like put Veronica Mars on the show hehe.

Cunning bastards.