Fall Heroes Crit – Part II

Behold, Part II of general musings and criticism of this fall’s Heroes Season 2. Part I included the general ‘Why the suck’ question as will as my first major complaint: Not enough IQ; too much naiveté. Moving on…

2) Stealing the bad from comics: From the start, this show has been all about stealing from super hero comic books. And that’s cool to a point. It can be fun, recognizing those familiar themes, the iconography, the narrative conventions. Gives me an excuse to turn to the wife, and, in my best Comic Book Guy voice, intone: “Clearly that’s a Silver Age Marvel riff,” or “they did that in the early Wildstorm books,” or “reminds me of the X-Men by Claremont.” She loves it when I talk nerdy.

Heroes Season 2: Why the Suck?

The second season of Heroes is halfway over; we won’t see the conclusion until sometime next Spring (writers’ strike permitting). The question looms: Why the suck?

Ever since Heroes came on the air last year, it has frustrated and annoyed even as it entertained. I still tune in, of course; any episodic ensemble about super heroic types will be closely monitored at our house. But if Tim Kring, Jeph Loeb, and their assemblage of comic book plotline plagiarizers writers don’t improve, they’re going to start losing viewers.

Spoilers and critique after the bump.