Well, it’s official. I am now hooked on Heroes.
My friends have been telling me for quite some time that I should be watching Heroes, not only because I bear a slight resemblance to one of the show’s principals (if you don’t already know which one of the actors I resemble most, I’ll leave it to you to figure it out; you can view my previous post on this very topic here), but also because it’s exactly the sort of show that would appeal to me, uber-geek that I am.
I grew up reading superhero comic books, I love a good superhero movie, and even to this day, if I could choose any profession in the world, I’d have to pick (you guessed it) superhero.
My friends kept pestering me about the show and how I needed to watch it.
People I had never met before stopped me, on the way to work (the “other” work), waiting for the elevator, in a crappy bar watching my friends’ band perform: “Has anyone ever told you you look just like that guy from Heroes?”
(“Yes, actually. The lady in the checkout line next to me at Walmart, the guy at the gym, the mailman,” etc., etc., etc.)
I sat through I-don’t-know-how-many conversations about “last week’s episode,” my friends discussing the latest exciting developments in a sort of roundabout, mostly spoiler-free way (which was actually very cool of them, I must admit).
Eventually I agreed to check it out on DVD. (I don’t watch TV. Ever. Odd, yes, but I never seem to have the time and truthfully, the desire. Until recently, there really wasn’t anything that interested me. The last TV series I kept up with regularly was Homicide: Life On The Killing Streets, and even that I watched on VHS.)
I’m usually pretty busy with writing, also the “other job,” and the Heroes: Season One DVD sat on my shelf idle for some time.
I finally started watching about a week ago. Watched the first four episodes in one sitting. Then a couple more a few nights later, and last night, I finished up with the tenth episode (“Six Months Ago”), and now I can’t wait to see the rest.
I read an article when the show first aired about the somewhat unconventional method the writing team uses to put the show together. Unlike most other hour-long television series, the writers on Heroes split up and tackle each character’s scenes individually first, then combine them. Later, as a team, they read over the assembled scenes, and the episode’s head writer uses the team’s notes to craft the final draft of the script.
Personally, I’m a big fan and a huge supporter of this rather unorthodox writing process, as the individual story arcs for each of the series’ characters are all pretty compelling, some more than others, but that’s understandable. After a couple of minutes hiatus between episodes, (I’m not sure I could wait an entire week) I find myself eager to catch up with even the least interesting characters and their developments. (I hate to say it, but as handsome as he is, Hiro, along with his sidekick Ando, are just not cutting muster for me lately. Course, it’s nothing a little more bending of the space-time continuum couldn’t fix.)
One thing I’m not so crazy about: the many subtle and not-so-subtle interconnections between the characters. It’s all a bit tough to swallow at first, but as I sit through more and more of Season One, I’m slowly beginning to accept that all of these grand coincidences are just further proof that these Heroes are “destined” to save the world.
Eventually.
But first, there’s an indestructible cheerleader in grave, grave peril that needs saving…
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told you this show is awesome
That’s great and all, but now I can’t decide whether to start watching Season 2 now, mid-season, or wait until the next DVD comes out.
What to do, what to do…?