You raise a lot of good points here, especially about the lack of normal lives -- that was a wonderful appeal in the first series.
And I also agree that the return from the dead and other inexplicable ways characters remain *coughNikkicough* is irritating. Consequences are so important -- if nobody can be permanently hurt, there's nothing at risk, and nothing for me as a viewer to invest in.
Having said that, if Ando stays dead, I will be *very* upset. He had been winning the whole series up until then.
I wonder if a lot of the positive reviews are just in relation to last year's mess. Although I have enjoyed this season much better than last, I have two additional complaints: (1) that too much time is being spent in the future, and I don't really care enough about the present; and (2) that Mohinder has gone completely OOC -- even last season he was still a rational scientist, and I can't believe he'd jump so quickly to self-experimentation without some exigent reason ("OMG Sylar's on the way, you need power now!") to do so.
I was also rather fond of the lack of villains in Heroes. Even Sylar had some motivation, and the other characters just didn't qualify as villians in any sense of the word. The new season changed that, just like I feared. Its not a number of unfortunate circumstances and misguided good intentions that might get the world in trouble, it's villians. It's black and white, or so it seems.
I do have to disagree here. I think they've done a good job at complicating the villians, as with Vortex man. And determining who is good and who is bad is still as much a mystery as ever -- for instance, I had been demonising Mamma Petrelli until the last epi.
And I absolutely LOVE what they're doing with Sylar. I could not be happier about that. But maybe that's just because I love the Sylar/Bennet interactions.
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Date: 2008-10-14 05:24 pm (UTC)And I also agree that the return from the dead and other inexplicable ways characters remain *coughNikkicough* is irritating. Consequences are so important -- if nobody can be permanently hurt, there's nothing at risk, and nothing for me as a viewer to invest in.
Having said that, if Ando stays dead, I will be *very* upset. He had been winning the whole series up until then.
I wonder if a lot of the positive reviews are just in relation to last year's mess. Although I have enjoyed this season much better than last, I have two additional complaints: (1) that too much time is being spent in the future, and I don't really care enough about the present; and (2) that Mohinder has gone completely OOC -- even last season he was still a rational scientist, and I can't believe he'd jump so quickly to self-experimentation without some exigent reason ("OMG Sylar's on the way, you need power now!") to do so.
I was also rather fond of the lack of villains in Heroes. Even Sylar had some motivation, and the other characters just didn't qualify as villians in any sense of the word. The new season changed that, just like I feared. Its not a number of unfortunate circumstances and misguided good intentions that might get the world in trouble, it's villians. It's black and white, or so it seems.
I do have to disagree here. I think they've done a good job at complicating the villians, as with Vortex man. And determining who is good and who is bad is still as much a mystery as ever -- for instance, I had been demonising Mamma Petrelli until the last epi.
And I absolutely LOVE what they're doing with Sylar. I could not be happier about that. But maybe that's just because I love the Sylar/Bennet interactions.