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newnumber6) wrote2008-10-08 06:00 pm
newnumber6) wrote2008-10-08 06:00 pm
No Comic Day
Nothing on my buy list again.
Work was okay buy later than usual and heavier than normal and, to make matters worse, rained the whole way home. Grr, argh!
Since there's no comics to review, I think I might as well talk about how Heroes has officially reached train wreck status (spoilers for latest episode) .
It's now even worse, objectively, from last year. See, last year was compared to the first year, weak. Dumb plotlines, retreads of old plotlines, characters who weren't all that interesting. But it was forgivably bad. The kind of bad a show could and should have recovered from.
This... this is almost comically bad. It's as though somebody was sitting down at the writer's meeting said, "I hate this job. Writing is hard. I know what'll make it fun... I'll try to produce the worst crap I can imagine and still stay on the air."
I mean seriously, practically everybody in that episode had to be the idiot to end all idiots. And I'm including the writers. DAMN YOU LOEB.
To start with, everybody's keen on killing past-Peter as well as Future-Peter. Seriously? Not ONE person seems to consider, "hey, if we kill past Peter, our whole history, WHICH INCLUDES PAST-PETER, will change, and who knows if it'll be for the better or worse?" And what's more, once you do that, you lose the opportunity to correct it. At least with a living Peter, you get to kill him off.
Superfast Daphne manages to run all the way home to New York after the explosion only to die in her husband's arms... gee, you think maybe you might want to run to your ally, Claire, to get some healing juice, first. I dunno, if it was me, that might be my first priority (and what self-respecting super-powered organization wouldn't have samples of Claire's healing blood on-hand to rescue their operatives?, just as a general precaution?).
That's all aside from Peter not, say, stopping time or doing ANYTHING ELSE EFFECTIVE WITH HIS THOUSANDS OF ABILITIES.
And now Sylar's "Hunger" is a part of his abilities? What crap. If that were the case, when he had the power-stopping virus, it should have gone away. But then again, nobody in the world seems to remember the power-stopping virus anymore. Maybe the Haitian's been flying all over the world handling that. Peter needs to _try_ to get his ability? Okay, yes, there was, early on, some suggestion he had to specifically unlock people's abilities by understanding them. Except, that theory was all shot to hell when he lost his memory, and abilities came whenever he needed them. And even when it was in place, all he had to do to access an ability was remember how the person who had them made him feel. So, really, he should have had Sylar's ability long ago. And if he had to actually try to see how something works in order to access it for the first time, well, then Peter is spectacularly dumb for never having had occasion to do that before the present time. And even if you WANTED to go with the idea that there's a hunger to know that comes with the ability, don't make it manifest in the same 'chopping off the tops of people's heads!' for Peter. Make it manifest as megalomania or something, or the willingness to use Nightmare-Man levels of mind-reaping to get what was wanted.
I'm still watching the show but just because watching how ridiculous it can get is almost entertaining as the show on its own.
In other news, I managed to improve my TV reception by loads with a $1 dollar store item! Yay me! (Yes, I'm still without cable). I can now watch most channels I got before, but without constant tuning, _and_ with relatively good picture, although sometimes it's stuck in black and white. And I even got a channel or two I couldn't get before. And it's remotely possible that with some tuning efforts I'll be able to get more.
Food now.
Work was okay buy later than usual and heavier than normal and, to make matters worse, rained the whole way home. Grr, argh!
Since there's no comics to review, I think I might as well talk about how Heroes has officially reached train wreck status (spoilers for latest episode) .
It's now even worse, objectively, from last year. See, last year was compared to the first year, weak. Dumb plotlines, retreads of old plotlines, characters who weren't all that interesting. But it was forgivably bad. The kind of bad a show could and should have recovered from.
This... this is almost comically bad. It's as though somebody was sitting down at the writer's meeting said, "I hate this job. Writing is hard. I know what'll make it fun... I'll try to produce the worst crap I can imagine and still stay on the air."
I mean seriously, practically everybody in that episode had to be the idiot to end all idiots. And I'm including the writers. DAMN YOU LOEB.
To start with, everybody's keen on killing past-Peter as well as Future-Peter. Seriously? Not ONE person seems to consider, "hey, if we kill past Peter, our whole history, WHICH INCLUDES PAST-PETER, will change, and who knows if it'll be for the better or worse?" And what's more, once you do that, you lose the opportunity to correct it. At least with a living Peter, you get to kill him off.
Superfast Daphne manages to run all the way home to New York after the explosion only to die in her husband's arms... gee, you think maybe you might want to run to your ally, Claire, to get some healing juice, first. I dunno, if it was me, that might be my first priority (and what self-respecting super-powered organization wouldn't have samples of Claire's healing blood on-hand to rescue their operatives?, just as a general precaution?).
That's all aside from Peter not, say, stopping time or doing ANYTHING ELSE EFFECTIVE WITH HIS THOUSANDS OF ABILITIES.
And now Sylar's "Hunger" is a part of his abilities? What crap. If that were the case, when he had the power-stopping virus, it should have gone away. But then again, nobody in the world seems to remember the power-stopping virus anymore. Maybe the Haitian's been flying all over the world handling that. Peter needs to _try_ to get his ability? Okay, yes, there was, early on, some suggestion he had to specifically unlock people's abilities by understanding them. Except, that theory was all shot to hell when he lost his memory, and abilities came whenever he needed them. And even when it was in place, all he had to do to access an ability was remember how the person who had them made him feel. So, really, he should have had Sylar's ability long ago. And if he had to actually try to see how something works in order to access it for the first time, well, then Peter is spectacularly dumb for never having had occasion to do that before the present time. And even if you WANTED to go with the idea that there's a hunger to know that comes with the ability, don't make it manifest in the same 'chopping off the tops of people's heads!' for Peter. Make it manifest as megalomania or something, or the willingness to use Nightmare-Man levels of mind-reaping to get what was wanted.
I'm still watching the show but just because watching how ridiculous it can get is almost entertaining as the show on its own.
In other news, I managed to improve my TV reception by loads with a $1 dollar store item! Yay me! (Yes, I'm still without cable). I can now watch most channels I got before, but without constant tuning, _and_ with relatively good picture, although sometimes it's stuck in black and white. And I even got a channel or two I couldn't get before. And it's remotely possible that with some tuning efforts I'll be able to get more.
Food now.