Heroes is back tonight. Are we suppose to still care?
Remember when…
It’s been a long time. Too long. Honestly, I can’t even remember how things ended when we last saw our super-powered friends. Was Peter about to die, or was it Mohinder? Either way the momentum was completely killed. Now it’s three months later and we’re suppose to still be excited. Not so.
Look, at 9:59:59 PMÂ EDT tonight, I’ll probably have been won over to the point of girly squealing, but right now at 4:48:05 PM EDT I just couldn’t care less. I’m far more interested in seeing if Drive can continue to win me over or what’s in store on Everybody Hates Chris (which is also returning after a long haitus). This is a problem. I would also suspect that this is a problem facing many Heroes fans.
I have friend(s) at work who have been spending the past few weeks enjoying the Heroes web-comic which NBC has been posting on-line since the show went off the air (actually all season), and whose story has continued despite the show being off-air. I hear they are very good and fill in a lot of details the show wouldn’t have had time to explore. I’m for this, but also against it. I’m glad there’s a place we can go to get stories involving the characters we like, but I find all of this tangential material tedious. What do they really want from us? That being said, my web-comic-reading friends are still very enthusiastic about the show and are anxiously awaiting its return… in five hours.
How about you? What lengths are you willing to go to for entertainment. Personally, last summer’s very lame Office Accountants shorts kind of turned me off to the whole idea. I feel like suplemental material could be effective if it wasn’t produced as something of an afterthought.
April 24th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
just to clarify: i didn’t actually read any of them before last night, but had been told that the last story arc was pretty fantastic. when i checked it out, i realized that each “volume” was only about 4 pages, and takes about 5 minutes to read. In any case, now that the last episode aired, I can safely say that it was about how Linderman and Petrelli met in Vietnam, and revealed that Linderman had healing powers. It’s a nice little complement to the show, and they did a good job at breaking a huge plot detail that was shown in the first five minutes of last night’s show. It really isn’t necessary, but it’s a nice little way to keep some bigger fans interested in the dead time between episodes.