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sdelmonteWatched the new show Heroes. Meh.
If I didn't know that the first episode was actually half of a two-hour pilot, and that we hadn't met the whole cast yet, and that Jeph Loeb didn't join the show's creative staff till after the pilot, I might be quick to bail out. While there were some good moments, such as Super-Hiro the fanboy, the Thing of Mislead involving the brothers, and Claire the fast-healing cheerleader, I found most of this to be pedestrian. The acting was bland; the script was full of Cruddy Exposition; the plotlines are too full of chance meetings and coincidence; the brothers and Stripper and Son are too cliched; the pseduo-science was grating (though I like the Indian scientist a bit); and the overall air of show is very, very dour. That crawl at the beginning didn't help matters, nor did the use of a solar eclipse.
Oh, and even Hiro's magic time powers couldn't make a solar eclipse visible in both Tokyo and New York.
That said, I wasn't bored, and the things that I liked could, with a more deft hand, evolve into a really gripping action series. As I've said before, Loeb is the perfect man to help this show, since he is a great writer of both action stories and personal ones. And until we meet the rest of the cast, and see what happens when they interact, we have to withhold judgement. But if nothing else, this premiere didn't hook me.
If I didn't know that the first episode was actually half of a two-hour pilot, and that we hadn't met the whole cast yet, and that Jeph Loeb didn't join the show's creative staff till after the pilot, I might be quick to bail out. While there were some good moments, such as Super-Hiro the fanboy, the Thing of Mislead involving the brothers, and Claire the fast-healing cheerleader, I found most of this to be pedestrian. The acting was bland; the script was full of Cruddy Exposition; the plotlines are too full of chance meetings and coincidence; the brothers and Stripper and Son are too cliched; the pseduo-science was grating (though I like the Indian scientist a bit); and the overall air of show is very, very dour. That crawl at the beginning didn't help matters, nor did the use of a solar eclipse.
Oh, and even Hiro's magic time powers couldn't make a solar eclipse visible in both Tokyo and New York.
That said, I wasn't bored, and the things that I liked could, with a more deft hand, evolve into a really gripping action series. As I've said before, Loeb is the perfect man to help this show, since he is a great writer of both action stories and personal ones. And until we meet the rest of the cast, and see what happens when they interact, we have to withhold judgement. But if nothing else, this premiere didn't hook me.
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Date: Sep. 28th, 2006 02:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
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