Heroes
Sunday, September 23, 2007


I gave this sci-fi series 3 chances, I started watching it back in November, after three episodes I decided it wasn't worth my time. Then it started airing on BBC 2 this summer, I watched a few more episodes, missed some and promptly stopped. Last week I decided to give it one more try and promptly watched the entire series in three days, with episodes 17 (Company Man) and 20 (Five Years Gone, video above) being my favourites. Watching it all at once made everything flow much better and I remembered all the plot arcs. The story, although starting very slowly, does get much much better with a high quality of story telling, riddled with twists and turns (albeit many being predictable, on most occasions I would guess the twist 5 or 10 minutes beforehand).


(Spoilers below)

When a major disaster is meant to happen whether in a film or TV show, you can usually be sure that it wont, with someone saving the day. Heroes puts up a very nice illusion that suggests the disaster will happen, breaking down the security that it wont; it manages to keep you guessing until the end. Sadly though, the final episode is quite a bit of a let down, the Sylar battle being slow, Peter forgetting he himself can fly, little to no teamwork, and lots of other quirks and gimmicks that in the end don't live up to the predicted end of season showdown at Kirby place. It leaves me wishing the bomb did go off, it would have proved the show had some balls; to daringly question the real role of a Hero.

Instead it didn't, condemning itself to the realms of predictive storytelling. My only hope now is that by diffusing the bomb, the New York situation becomes inadvertently worse than it would have been - perhaps through Sylar's unimaginative survival.

To conclude, Heroes eventually invigorated me enough to watch the entire season, gradually building up my hopes as it developed, however catastrophically destroying the majority of my positive perceptions through the final episode's blow by blow. Let's hope season 2 doesn't go wrong where this one did.

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