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TV Roundup, Part II: Heroes
I knew there was a reason I keep this icon.
I have an announcement to make:
Heroes and I are breaking up.
I just can't do this anymore. I can't invest time and energy into this show when it's going to consistently screw me over like this.
Oh, and by the way?
SCREW YOU, TIM KRING!
That's right. You heard me. I'm now officially in hate with you.
You do not get to kill off my second favorite character in that completely random and cavalier fashion. You just don't. You don't get to shove my third favorite character to the edges of the show and not let her do anything important at all this season (Kristen, I sincerely hoping you're finding better work. You so totally deserve it. Call up Rob Thomas. Ask him what's going on in his life. Maybe he'll give you another job again. Hey, it worked for Eliza Dushku). You don't get to keep hashing over the same issues with my favorite character again and again and making his annoying daughter hate him. You don't get to do all of these things and keep me as a viewer.
There was one great thing about this episode: that Doyle guy (I'm also mad that they named the character that--the real Doyle and his half-demon, Irish heroics is hating you in the afterlife) calling Claire "Barbie." Also, Sandra Bennet completely kicks ass. And okay, I like Daphne as a character.
But seriously? One of my friends and I were talking about this the other day and came to an important conclusion. He pointed out the fact that, say, Lost (which I need to get back into again, and I will) sometimes gets way off track, and you're sitting there thinking, "What the heck does this have to do with anything? Why are the characters acting this way." But you can keep watching the show because you know that J.J. Abrams knows where the dang thing is going to end up. He has a picture if the end in his head--he knows where's headed, and even if he loses sight of it occasionally, he'll get it back.
Kring, clearly, doesn't. He has no idea where he's going with any of this. It's very, very clear that he's making this stuff up as he goes along. And as someone whose television idols are such people as Joss Whedon and Rob Thomas, I can't deal with that. If you have no map, go write procedurals. I won't miss you. If you want to play with real drama, though, you need to know where you're headed.
So that's why I'm giving up on this show. I've stopped caring about the characters and I don't have faith in the creator. So unless someone whose judgment I trust completely comes along and says, "It's gotten good again, you should give it a chance" (which I severely doubt), I'm just not going to waste my time on this show anymore.
Farewell, Heroes.
I have an announcement to make:
Heroes and I are breaking up.
I just can't do this anymore. I can't invest time and energy into this show when it's going to consistently screw me over like this.
Oh, and by the way?
SCREW YOU, TIM KRING!
That's right. You heard me. I'm now officially in hate with you.
You do not get to kill off my second favorite character in that completely random and cavalier fashion. You just don't. You don't get to shove my third favorite character to the edges of the show and not let her do anything important at all this season (Kristen, I sincerely hoping you're finding better work. You so totally deserve it. Call up Rob Thomas. Ask him what's going on in his life. Maybe he'll give you another job again. Hey, it worked for Eliza Dushku). You don't get to keep hashing over the same issues with my favorite character again and again and making his annoying daughter hate him. You don't get to do all of these things and keep me as a viewer.
There was one great thing about this episode: that Doyle guy (I'm also mad that they named the character that--the real Doyle and his half-demon, Irish heroics is hating you in the afterlife) calling Claire "Barbie." Also, Sandra Bennet completely kicks ass. And okay, I like Daphne as a character.
But seriously? One of my friends and I were talking about this the other day and came to an important conclusion. He pointed out the fact that, say, Lost (which I need to get back into again, and I will) sometimes gets way off track, and you're sitting there thinking, "What the heck does this have to do with anything? Why are the characters acting this way." But you can keep watching the show because you know that J.J. Abrams knows where the dang thing is going to end up. He has a picture if the end in his head--he knows where's headed, and even if he loses sight of it occasionally, he'll get it back.
Kring, clearly, doesn't. He has no idea where he's going with any of this. It's very, very clear that he's making this stuff up as he goes along. And as someone whose television idols are such people as Joss Whedon and Rob Thomas, I can't deal with that. If you have no map, go write procedurals. I won't miss you. If you want to play with real drama, though, you need to know where you're headed.
So that's why I'm giving up on this show. I've stopped caring about the characters and I don't have faith in the creator. So unless someone whose judgment I trust completely comes along and says, "It's gotten good again, you should give it a chance" (which I severely doubt), I'm just not going to waste my time on this show anymore.
Farewell, Heroes.
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You are goddamn right about that. I'm still in shock.
And I think you're completely right about Kring. Rudderless ship - that's what this is.
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Rudderless ship - that's what this is. And there you sum up in two words what it took me an incredibly incoherent post to say. Here, here.
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NOW TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED CAUSE MY TV BROKED!!!
THEY DID WHAT TO MY FAVORITE DEMON?! They maniputlated him to a stupid character?!!!
Tim.
Is.
Screwed.
He has no idea what he's doing, he's pulling random shit out of his ass and slapping it onto the show. *rolls eyes*
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Oh, it's ridiculous. They had Mr. Petrelli steal Adam's power away and he just aged a couple hundred years before our eyes and then faded away to dust. It was horrible. Horrible.
And Elle wasn't in it at all. And they're trying to make Noah Bennet all evil again. There is nothing good about this show anymore.
He has no idea what he's doing, he's pulling random shit out of his ass and slapping it onto the show. *rolls eyes* That is exactly, exactly it.
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*grabs ax*
Lead the way!
They had that creeper do WHAT?! And then have one of my favorite characters diminish to dust?! THAT'S IT?!
Oh god.
I quit.
Oh god. Stop with the Noah-is-truly-evil-thing. Gawd. It's like overworking the Dean and Rory storyline! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TIM! SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!
No Elle?
Bah.
It wasn't worth seeing anyways.
I have summed up everyone's feeling sin three words or less.
Now what I don't understand is,is how this show won't get cancled but they'll pull my beloved Pushing Daisies off the air.
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I'm divorcing this nonsense right along with you.
Even Nate of the non/limited emotion agrees.
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I'm so glad.
And that icon is kind of awesome. Oh, Nate. You and your pretty, overly-groomed, emotionally stunted self.
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I mean...that was it? My reaction exactly. Except I worded it a bit more strongly, I suppose. ;)
Yeah, I'm a big TV fan, but since I always have several shows going at once, I don't have time to continue watching a show unless it really grabs me completely, which Heroes just isn't doing anymore. But I hear that they have new show-runners now, so maybe you can let me know if it gets back on track again. ;)
By the way, that is a very cool icon.
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that is a very cool icon.
Isn't it? :) Made by the talented