“Heroes” Why Must You Continue To Torment Me?
By Beth in Uncategorized, NBC, Heroes, Amaldo.Com on May 8 2007
About a third of the way thru “Heroes” last night, I became bored and started asking my husband what time it was. Normally, I can be preoccupied by this show for at least 45 minutes before resorting to this type of behavior, but last night I was annoyed.
All week since the last episode in which our favorite heroes traveled into the future to see how the world turned out (and it wasn’t pretty), I was looking forward to this particular episode where Hiro and his buddy Ando travel back into present day time to make things right so as to avoid Sylar taking over the universe.
The trailers promised me some sort of resolution, some sort of train of events that would lead us to the season’s culmination in two weeks in which the world either blows up or doesn’t. Instead, we were given a window into the show’s villain Sylar’s emotional developmment in the form of shmaltzy psycho-nonsense about what causes a dude like Sylar to end up being a mass murderer.
And just in case any of the writers are reading this: The domineering, semi-abusive mother routine is as old as Norman Bates and he died off with Alfred Hitchcock, so what gives? Did the show’s writers get lazy? Was there too much staying up all night at Wired’s Rave Awards for series’ creator Tim Kring?
Naturally, most of the last night’s episode’s plot development occured in the final two minutes (what else is new?), but by the time that came around my brain was so tired from being mind-f*cked for an hour, I didn’t even take notice.
I leave you with this final thought: How can we leave the fate of the world in the hands of these writers? Save The cheerleader! Save The World?=pfff.
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