Comments on: Heroes Redux http://www.showbits.net/2008/10/12/heroes-season-2/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:01:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: GeneD http://www.showbits.net/2008/10/12/heroes-season-2/#comment-8241 GeneD Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:43:46 +0000 http://www.showbits.net/?p=346#comment-8241 Ken, I think you'll be pleased to see the tone of Season 3 of <em>Heroes</em> take a slightly more positive direction, but I won't "spoil" it for you. I like the multiple interweaving plot threads, even if last season wasn't overly satisfying. Many critics and fans say that <em>Heroes</em> is supposed to be a more realistic portrayal of the good and bad choices people would make if they got metahuman abilities, rather than the four-color idealism of comic book superheroes. Still, as with <em>Smallville</em>, let's hope the writers and actors strike a balance between moral absolutism and dour ambiguity...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8241','GeneD'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Reply</small></a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8241','GeneD','Ken, I think you\'ll be pleased to see the tone of Season 3 of <em>Heroes<\/em> take a slightly more positive direction, but I won\'t \"spoil\" it for you. I like the multiple interweaving plot threads, even if last season wasn\'t overly satisfying.\r\n\r\nMany critics and fans say that <em>Heroes<\/em> is supposed to be a more realistic portrayal of the good and bad choices people would make if they got metahuman abilities, rather than the four-color idealism of comic book superheroes. Still, as with <em>Smallville<\/em>, let\'s hope the writers and actors strike a balance between moral absolutism and dour ambiguity...'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Quote</small></a></div> Ken, I think you'll be pleased to see the tone of Season 3 of Heroes take a slightly more positive direction, but I won't "spoil" it for you. I like the multiple interweaving plot threads, even if last season wasn't overly satisfying.

Many critics and fans say that Heroes is supposed to be a more realistic portrayal of the good and bad choices people would make if they got metahuman abilities, rather than the four-color idealism of comic book superheroes. Still, as with Smallville, let's hope the writers and actors strike a balance between moral absolutism and dour ambiguity…

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]]> By: a2history http://www.showbits.net/2008/10/12/heroes-season-2/#comment-8233 a2history Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:33:25 +0000 http://www.showbits.net/?p=346#comment-8233 You make some valid points about the general direction the program tended to take, that things tended to be more on the depressing side. It will be interesting to see if the third season currently airing will take things in a different direction. On one hand, you almost need some impending major disaster to avert to put drama into the story. I wouldn't want the program to be reduced to a soap opera of minor events that are resolved in a couple of weeks, with another one looming around the corner, nor would I want this to end up as simple old-style Legion of Super Heroes series of stories. What Kring has done is something more like Marvel or DC with a four or five different comic titles, where the stories concentrate on one or two heroes, but in which they all guest-star in each others comics, and at the end of the season have a blockbuster team-up to end the ultimate menace.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8233','a2history'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Reply</small></a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8233','a2history','You make some valid points about the general direction the program tended to take, that things tended to be more on the depressing side. It will be interesting to see if the third season currently airing will take things in a different direction.\r\n\r\nOn one hand, you almost need some impending major disaster to avert to put drama into the story. I wouldn\'t want the program to be reduced to a soap opera of minor events that are resolved in a couple of weeks, with another one looming around the corner, nor would I want this to end up as simple old-style Legion of Super Heroes series of stories. What Kring has done is something more like Marvel or DC with a four or five different comic titles, where the stories concentrate on one or two heroes, but in which they all guest-star in each others comics, and at the end of the season have a blockbuster team-up to end the ultimate menace.'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Quote</small></a></div> You make some valid points about the general direction the program tended to take, that things tended to be more on the depressing side. It will be interesting to see if the third season currently airing will take things in a different direction.

On one hand, you almost need some impending major disaster to avert to put drama into the story. I wouldn't want the program to be reduced to a soap opera of minor events that are resolved in a couple of weeks, with another one looming around the corner, nor would I want this to end up as simple old-style Legion of Super Heroes series of stories. What Kring has done is something more like Marvel or DC with a four or five different comic titles, where the stories concentrate on one or two heroes, but in which they all guest-star in each others comics, and at the end of the season have a blockbuster team-up to end the ultimate menace.

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