My Heroes Post...

"Who would have thought little **(name) would grow up to change the world? When he was a kid, his dad gave him a pocket watch. ** liked the watch, but he didn't use it to learn about telling time—he used it to learn about how watches work inside. Soon, ** was taking watches apart left and right. Friends and neighbors gave him their watches to take apart and put back together and soon ** had a fair reputation as a watch repairman."

If you are a Heroes watcher and thought that paragraph was talking about Sylar, the show's villian, well, you'd be wrong. But I definitely recognized the connection the first time I read it. Instead, the paragraph is actually about Henry Ford. I thought that was interesting.... (And yes, this is me bringing my work into my blog with me.) Who knows, had Sylar not become evil with all his powers and what not, maybe he would in all actuality be the next Henry Ford...except this time with flying cars and other ideas and processes that dramatically influence the generations to come. Or maybe that's where the writer's are heading...

After all, anyone who's watching the current season was probably baffled when the writer's started spinning Sylar as a good guy. Can he ever really leave his history of the past two seasons behind? But maybe they are really just trying to create some room for Sylar to "grow up to change the world" but in a good, not villian, type of way.

Speaking of random thing's going on in Heroes...well this season has kinda been disappointing. Some friends and I get together every Monday evening, after recording the show, to watch. And until last week, I have to say I was kinda hating the show and secretly counting down the days until Lost comes back on. Now that would be worth my time!

But last week did make me like it some more. But still, the show is having problems. I read this article today, "Heroes Need Help," by Scott D. Pierce at the Deseret News. He talks about the season too and notes some major flaws.

"I'm hesitant to nitpick. But specific problems with Season 3 speak to larger issues.

Hiro and Ando have become buffoons. Mohinder's transformation into a spider-like man is dumb. Parkman's vision quest — and his turtle — are booooooring.

Trying to turn Sylar from villain into hero can't work. The guy killed dozens of people in horrific fashion. It's like bad soap-opera writing to redeem him.

Speaking of bad soap-opera writing, keeping Ali Larter on the show by having her portray a twin (triplet, actually) of her original character is something right out of "General Hospital."

And how about the twist that has Sylar turning out to be Nathan and Peter's brother? Maybe that came from "Days of Our Lives."

All of the time-jumping and alternate futures are confusing, and viewers can never be sure that what they're seeing is real. And if it is real, they're not sure if it will change or not."

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I love the references to the soap operas because my friends and I use that all the time to explain the show. It really is crazy all the connections, relationships and things that are going on. Hiro is a complete idiot. Parkman, one of my usual favorite characters, has had no point this season. Peter's halfway evil all the time, and Mohinder is crazy and obsessed. At least I'm kinda starting to like Sylar ;). And it really is annoying how you never know if anything has actually happened, was supposed to happen in the future, or what each episode accomplished. I'm pretty sure there was one episode a couple weeks ago that was entirely a dream and none of the things really happened....arg. Anyways, last week did slightly restore my hope in the show. So tonight we will see what the newest episode brings. Otherwise, I'm back to my Lost countdown.