jdmismypseudonym

I spent the last few days watching Heroes.I have some serious complaints to make. This show was completely lacking in originality. The characters were nothing more than variations of existing comic characters. They were thrust together in an awkward world which felt more like a fanfiction than a genuine television series. Since so few archetypes and superpowers have not been prevalent in comics in some form I was willing to forgive that. I was hoping that I would be able to overlook all of these things and have the story make up for it but this was the story of Alan Moore's Watchmen as told by a four year old. It lifted the basis of the plot, degrading the greatest comic book ever written by dumbing down the story for modern popular consumption.

The show is called Heroes. I had hoped that it would try and leave some ambiguity. The show began and characters were not all wonderful people who would save the world. People were flawed. They were losers, or had multiple personalities, or were overly ambituous. I had hoped that the show would take each of these people and show how they think that they are the hero of the tale. And how their alternate perspectives made them simply alterations and not "good" or "bad". The show started off on the right foot, but as it went it became more and more clear that there is no room for moral ambiguity to this tale. The sacrifice being asked could not be right - could not beneift mankind, because even in this new world it was dominated by a tyrannical psychopath.

Overall, I am miserably disappointed. I will still give the first season a 6/10. It DID choose to rip off its plot from the greatest comic ever written after all, so it cant be all bad.

Read Watchmen instead.