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27 September 2007 ... TO ZEROS Before Heroes' second series began on NBC on Monday, the missus and I had a conversation. How long, we wondered, would we stick with the show if it suddenly turned awful? That's the kind of thing we talk about, I'm afraid. Three episodes, we decided - it had earned that much leeway by dint of the first season being pretty much the most exciting thing on TV in years. Monday's opener - which we got round to watching last night - was terribly disappointing. Not inept, not awful, just oh-so dreary. I won't go into lots of detail and spoil things for viewers still following the first run on BBC2, suffice to say characters were planted into new(ish) situations, but already it's clear that - just as Jack Bauer would be back working for CTU by 20 minutes past the hour - the new lives adopted by certain individuals are quickly unraveling as the old order pushes its way through. And that's a bit boring. Although that's not the case with Hiro, whose storyline chronologically, physically and figuratively finds him far removed from everyone else, pursuing his own plot bubble. I'm guessing his actions will eventually have some impact on the show's main thread, but right now it's hard to care about what's happening to him. Oh, and some of the British accents on show are very odd indeed. I won't go on. When a good show turns in a disappointing episode, it's too tempting to bang on about it forever. I'll be watching next week and I'll still be hopeful. Hopeful the unusual, offbeat, pretentious drama I enjoyed earlier in the year will find its feet once more. It's got two episodes to play with ... Anyway, if you've watched the Heroes season two opener, please do leave a comment and let me know what you thought. And, let's not worry about spoilers for British viewers there either. They can choose not to click ... # posted by Graham Kibble-White : 8:07 AM Comments: I thought it was good. I enjoyed it. Much better than the over-so-slightly-disappointing finale. Let's overlook the odd version of Ireland, which was indeed rubbish. David Anders has always done a rubbish English accent (cf Alias), so that was no surprise (although technically, you could argue it might have gone a bit strange after so many years in Japan. Plus, in that time period, the standard English accent was far closer to the American accent of today anyway). But generally, I thought they did a good job of bringing all the old characters back, and doing something different with them. I wouldn't be so sure that everything is going to end up just as it was before, either... I always wait at least three episodes before deciding for sure whether something's rubbish. Too much time on my hands? Maybe. # posted by  Rob Buckley : 9:09 AM   I enjoyed it, as you might already know if you read my blog post on the subject, but a) a lot of that may have been relief that there was no bloody Niki and family in the first episode (I am aware that this won't last!), b) my expectations were fairly low considering the damp-squibby finale of series 1, and c) I'm not as fervent a fan of the first series as you are (although I did enjoy it). I agree about Hiro, though. I hope his adventures have a pay-off, but suspect they might not. And anyway, I'd like to see him interacting more with the rest of the main cast. # posted by  A Kitten in a Brandy Glass : 11:22 AM   Heroes did go off the boil towards the end of Season 1 and it still is looking to recapture it's form. BUT... Season 1 didn't get going for a while so I'm happy to stick with it for a while yet. Overall, it was a bit dreary. But the girl who plays Molly is superb and I'm always happy to see Mr Bennett exhibiting his bad-assness. Plus they've got Ned Ryerson in it. I'm hopeful things will pick up. # posted by  Paul : 12:55 AM   Very early days. The preview for ep2 looked much better. You forget that all pilots/season premieres are 70% set-up for the rest of the season -- it's subsequent episodes that become indicators of quality usually. If it's still bad/middling by ep6... feel free to bail. # posted by  Dan : 12:28 PM   The good outweighed the bad (too bad the dull, non-secret-hiding, non-lying half of the Bennet family, i.e. Claire's mum and brother, couldn't have stayed behind in Texas)... wondering what kind of power Maya has and why she has to have her brother around all the time. Controlling influence? And it was so sweet when that bloke who so fancies Claire flew away after seeing her. # posted by  Cindylover1969 : 7:58 PM   Post a Comment << Home	Archives December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 Site Feed Email OTT Blog