Monday, September 17, 2007

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.











3 comments:

Admiral Neck said...

Tim Kring, when asked about the enormous Peter-can-fly-so-why-did-Nathan-sacrifice-himself-shaped plothole in the finale, said if you're looking for adherence to plots and logic and the rules of their powers, then you're an idiot. It's all about the "emotional truth", according to him. That might wash on Crossing Jordan, but not here, Kringbitch. You're in Nerd Country now. We worry about "plots" and "enormouse nonsensical failures of nerve" and "not understanding your own show or the rules of the genre". Without these things, TV would be anarchy.

That's why I'm apprehensive about the 2nd season. We'll see. I have some hope.

Jaredan said...

Yeah that whole "liking-plots-that-make-sense" nitpickery of the fanboy populace, we should be flogged I tell you.
All they had to do was establish he could only use one power at a time, but no that would be silly wouldn't it?

Unknown said...

No Hope, no hope whatsoever...unless Tim Kring resigns to the fact that he doesnt belong near a pen or a camera... as soon as that happens i might just give season two a shot...doubt it though. Hey Kring, you MF i want back the 24 hours you stole from my life...cock.