Heroes

Besides the bad channel feed I get where I'm at, I'd say that at least the plot is not fuzzy. Yes, believe it or not I find the new TV series Heroes to be predictable. People are discovering their super powers and are being drawn together in an inevitable plot to form a league of heroes not quite the same as "other" leagues we've seen before.

I DO like the freshness of the characters and their believeability. That is refreshing. Also, the discoveries they make about themselves are creepy, and it seems that not just one but a few of them have a negative or uninviting personal life. This is good, but of course the stuff of comics past, already been written.

The interchanging of scenes is very good, and the special effects normal to ok, the acting is as I've said, believable, and also cast well. The show has a filmic quality and is not too TV like, so it looks good (as far as I can tell with my bad reception - ok it's a shared campus network cable, but even though it's satellite it's not that great). One drawback I saw so far that is a weakness is the use of a floating voice that sporadically interjects poetic and mysterious-sounding lines that may or may not have anything to do directly with the visual of the moment. So much for aesthetics, let's get to the meat.

This is where rerun #2 comes into play. If you close your eyes and listen to what's being said it's standard postmodern mixed with all-but-deserted humanism and fantasy thinking. This will entertain all those who do not have a life and wish they really had one. Well, ok, and those who like heroes and comics just because they do. There is a huge dose of positivism thrown in, and you can tell from the plot so far, even though it hasn't thickened yet, that there will be many obstacles to overcome to make the show addicting. But it's all psychological drivel that amounts to little more than faith in mankind, against of course great odds and unnamed evils, the worst evil of course being resignation to tedium and amalgamated homogeniety. Nobody likes to be homo (sic).

But I am waiting to see the next recorded episode off of the TIVO. I'm betting there is mention, if not outright dutiful recognition as some kind of player, of a deity or higher power source, most likely fitting neatly into the catagory of an atomically and metaphysically correct pandeity. Will most likely catch about 3 episodes and then drop this one from future consideration. No stars really or good tomatoes, cows, whatever....