I love LOST. Love it. Some of my fellow LOST aficionados would rave about the series HEROES. I never caught it when it aired. I almost always taught on Monday evenings so the series never hit my radar. So, a couple of months ago, after the season of LOST ended, I started watching episodes of HEROES. Sometimes, the writing was clunky — the dialog was stilted, exposition so thick it was painful, and, in some cases, acting that was so bad, calling it “acting” was actually a compliment. And, yet, I got hooked on the story, started to like the characters. I wanted them to SAVE THE CHEERLEADER and SAVE THE WORLD.
Season One proved to be very satisfying. There was this underlying motivator that so many of the characters were driven by — the feeling that they were meant to be “something special.” Even the extremely bad guy, Sylar, was miserable and decapitating everyone because he, too, wanted to be special … and wasn’t. No Godsend power for him … only the powers he could steal from others.
Season Two was cut short by the Writer’s Strike. Only 11 of the 24 episodes were produced and aired. I’ve only seen five episodes of Season Two thus far. It’s moving a bit slowly and the Feudal Japan stuff is pretty tedious. We’ll see if it picks up. I was excited to read this evening that Season Three will air on September 22 and the theme is VILLIANS … inside every hero, there’s also a bit of a villain. I do love complex, conflicted characters. They’re so much more like us “real” humans.
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1 Michael // Jul 4, 2008 at 7:17 am
What’s funny is I was one of the few people who had never seen an episode of LOST. All of my friends ranted and raved about it, but my wife and I just never had a chance to watch it. And now, 4 years later, we decided to start watching season 1 on DVD.
It’s a painful irony being able to watch the next episode right away. I’m ashamed to report that it took very little time for us to watch all 4 seasons, and now we have just two episodes left of season 4 to watch (which we’ll probably watch tonight).
You know, I think it makes the show more interesting when you have to wait a whole week between episodes. It’s good to let everything roll around in your mind for a while. But I’ll be honest, instant gratification is way better.
2 Robin // Jul 7, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I watched LOST once in the first season . . . by accidnet. Then I saw it again and it was exactly the same episode!! So, I quit on it. Too much like a soap opera. Tune in once every couple of years and you can still follow the story . . .
I loved the first season of Heroes . . . and that was it.
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