When to Pull the Plug

When I started to think of how to explain this episode of Heroes, I realized two things 1) my favorite characters had little if any air time and 2) the reason for that is simple: WAY too many characters. There’s too many personal story lines going to keep up and of course it keeps getting more ridiculous when you try to weave more and more of them to connect in some way. Before you know it Ando will be Hiro’s brother as well as Claire’s real dad and Nikki/Tracy will be her real mom, oh and Claire’s pregnant with Sylar’s baby that he telepathically implanted in her. It seems outrageous, but I wouldn’t put much past the writers in their desperate attempt to save the show.

Okay, so now to get to the summary- Heroes are still being hunted, some escaped, bla bla bla, new characters are introduced (are they serious?), Tracy’s dead, Rebel is Micah (that was cute I have to admit, but really weird to hear him with a deep voice), oh and the puppet-master man was delivered to Danko by someone (that was never explained, but will probably wind up being Danko’s other personality- ‘Cinnamon’).


Confused? Yea, I don’t blame you. I watched it and I’M still dazed. So here’s the point- When has a TV show outlived itself? Where do you draw the line and just say “okay, this is just too much stretching for new ideas and things to push us along, I just pulled a muscle.” I really liked the first season of Heroes but the second (aka- I’m going to see how BADLY I can write this) was just a joke. The third was like a roller coaster when you’re going up the big incline, click-clack, click-clack, click-clack. But now with the fourth it’s as if you started to make the drop and it was a bit exhilarating, but now there’s just no more track. Yes, you have plummeted to your death and your loved ones can sue to the theme park. Yay for a money-hungry society! See how off base I’ve gotten? JUST LIKE THE SHOW.

Obviously if nothing happened, it would be boring and not a show at all….(wait wasn’t Seinfeld a show about nothing?).. anyway you get it. No conflict = no show = nothing = bad. There needs to be a third party (Yes, if you insist I will take on this responsibility) to come out and say “Enough is enough. Put the pencils and other writing implements down and back away from the drawing table. Time of Death: 10:55 pm.”

You have to know it’s gone too far when you start recycling conflicts (i.e. Heroes season one =Peter sees a drawing of his future self blowing up New York City… Heroes current season = Parkman draws his future self blowing up Washington D.C. AND IT GETS BETTER- NATHAN SAVES THE DAY IN BOTH CASES!!) Are you serious?


Much love,
Pearl




***But remember, these writers have a knack for bringing the dead back to life (even if you see one blown up into millions of pieces and those pieces eaten by a wild dog and then that wild dog blasted to Jupiter) (Ex: MR.PETRELLI!, Nikki, Sylar, Claire, Nathan, Sylar again…) so I wouldn't be suprised if they continue to revive themselves forever and the show never ends. Scary, isn't it?