Heroes TV Show impressions
Monday, November 19th, 2007
See these guys? Their sole mission is to ruin my productivity.
I admit I watched the 1st episode of Heroes a long time ago but decided not to finish it. Not because of quality issues but because i was in the middle of Lost and I didn’t need another timesucker. But after season 1, Lost seems to meander and became less and less interesting. And I was off the clutch of that mystery island thriller.
We moved to our new house a month ago and having nothing to do, we headed off to the local DVD store and purchased a couple of DVD compilation, she got a Korean Love stories DVD and I got the Heroes Season1. We first watched a film in her DVD and after that we tried Heroes. Needless to say, Heroes hasn’t left the DVD player since then. We watch it every night now and i have a backlog of design jobs sitting in my drive. The clients will not be pleased, I just hope they’re Heroes’ fans.
Here are my observation on the TV series:
1. The casting for the most part works. Peter, Nathan, Claire, Sylar, and especially Hiro. the invisible man reminds me of that icky guy in Notting Hill, Hugh Grants roomie and thats strangely works too.
2. Mohindar took me some time to warm up to, as his character seemed to be overdramatic and overly chatty. The mindreading cop though gets on my nerves, the character is excruciatingly lame, and his back story is uninteresting. Nikki/Jessica was good but the whole shebang is getting a bit overplayed. I am just waiting for her family to go Incredibles and shit.
3. The pacing is great. the plot moves swiftly and the focus switches between the characters enough that nobody is shorthanded.
4. Claire’s expression on her face when she is happy/sad/flirty/listening is very convincing.
5. Sylar is creepy and someone we love to hate.
6. Plot holes are beginning to show. Forgivable but its something I hope I wont see more of.
7. The words narrated at the end/beginning of episode are ponderous and insightful.
8. the episode title are sometimes rendered in the environment. I would love for that little thing to be done each episode.
9. Lastly, I want Simone’s afro back!
Note: this post will be updated as I watch more episodes.
Speaking about TV shows…… MAD TV rocks, SNL sucks
