Heroes Reborn
So Heroes Reborn starts next week, which is a continuation(?) of the 5 year old series Heroes, and I am wondering if you are excited for it?
I for one am not. I remember when the initial series was out it was one of my favorite shows. I thought it was so good. But I think my TV watching has come a long way in the last 5 years. I discovered Breaking Bad, The Good Walking Dead, The Bad Walking Dead, Suits, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, and all these new shows have kinda upped my quality floor for a show. I try to think back and remember the Heroes Series and mostly I just remember being disappointed by it.
If we want to dig into specifics of what I remember then I think it is pretty much just the first season. I remember the cheerleader video going viral and her secret agent dad trying to protect her. I remember the psycho clockmaker that could steal your power by slicing your head open and studying your brain. And the counter character to that being the brother that could take others powers just by being close to them. I remember the cop that could read thoughts, and I remember the show making that power pretty cool. Now that I think about it those themes and conflicts sound awesome, and were probably what made it my favorite show. But then I can't remember where it went from there…probably because it was not very good.
Let's face it without money and special effects you're never going to be able to give me what I want. And what I want is a great story but also interesting and amazing fight scenes. If you've seen X-men: Days of Future Past then you have seen the potential. The first fight scene in that is probably the best mutant fight scene ever made. Super sentinels fighting mutants with cool powers and OMG there needs to be a portal mutant in everything now! Or the scene with Quicksilver! Amazing. Man, maybe instead of watching this show I should just watch Xmenagain.
That is another thing, with a show around people who all have unique abilities you need to be always coming up with new and cool powers, but also powers that can be easily shown to a viewer. I vaguely remember from Heroes a Deaf person with the power to see sound? See sound? Are you kidding me? I think that was some writer trying to be a bit too clever. "Ok so theres a deaf person, but guess what, she sees sound and can control it. Its perfect irony. " But I thought it was stupid. I don’t know looking back at least it was a different kind of power. I thought of a power, probability man: someone that can see the odds on every outcome in any situation. Sounds weird but if you know the probably of all things happening you can really almost tell the future. But it's not perfect right, because when someone can see the future I think that tends to get gimmicky and is really hard to do. Oh I saw this person die but then I told them so now the future is changed and that might not happen and blah blahblah. No if I just said, you have a 33.3% (repeating of course) being successful then you might think of plan B. Or maybe he just is really good a gambling. I don’t know.
Anyway I also vaguely remember some government black ops agency run by some psycho mutant hater hunting down mutants. And if that is the new show then that could be good. I mean that should be any show about mutants. I know it is stealing it from X-men, but I don't see how you could do a mutant show without that being the fundamental conflict. Then you can layer on top of that the specific problems of each individual and their conflicting views and clashes.
Anyway I think Heroes failed to deliver on a lot of the promises of that initial season or the following seasons. I also don't remember the plot line of the Indian doctor at all. He was tracking down mutants for some reason and his dad knew where they would show up due to some algorithm?? That sounds awful. Also, when I hear that famous whine-chime and see the solar eclipse I feel like throwing up, not getting pumped.
But obviously I am going to watch it and try it out and probably even like it and stick with it for a while. But I am definitely not getting my hopes up for it yet. I really hope they don't expect you to remember details form a show five years old. I'm sure even if they don't, the whole time I will be w/racking my brain trying to figure out who is who and how it is connected, until getting frustrated for not knowing and giving up.