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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.