Heroes 2.04

[tielan]

I tried watching Heroes back when Season Two started up, but it failed to grab me.

However, having recently signed up as an artist for the heroes_bigboom, I'm forcing myself through the S2 episodes - at least to get as far as the episode after which the BigBoom story begins.

I should probably start checking out Heroes art while I'm at it, too - see if there are any trends.

I'd seen the first few episodes of S2 and there wasn't anything that particularly spoke to me. I'm 'eh' on the front of Claire and West, although the fact that her father has kept in touch with the Haitian is intriguing and it seems she's inherited a talent for lies. Perhaps not always the most inventive of lies, but lies all the same.

I'm not a big slash fan, so Matt/Mohinder doesn't interest me, and although I'm interested by the group photo, Matt's father, and the links with a number of 'parents' of the heroes, it's not really grabbing me. The ending was nicely dramatic. If I didn't have hockey, I'd have watched it.

I do like the dynamic between the Petrellis (not incestuous, just their relationship - and that includes Ma Petrelli), so I'm a bit put off by their sundering. Same with Hiro and Ando (neither of whom featured in this episode).

Micah and his cousins are moderately interesting, and now that Sylar's joined up with Maya and Alejandro, I'm curious to see how Sylar kills Alejandro and manages to persuade Maya that it was someone else. (I do know some spoilers.) And I want to know what the hell it is that Maya does and how Alejandro controls it.

The problem with Heroes is that I don't really have any emotional investment in the characters. None of them really speak to me that strongly. I'm not a big slash fan, so those dynamics fail to interest me, and the two het pairings I had any interest in (Nathan/Nikki-Jessica, and Peter/Claire) are adultery and incest respectively. I did want to know more about Nikki-Jessica and what they're doing; I think that of any of the old set of characters, Nikki-Jessica could hold my attention. Of the new ones, Micah's cousin Monica has potential, but right now, I'm not very into Claire and her secret identity angst.

I feel like a bit of a freak, actually: most fans latch onto the males in the show - I don't. I always go for a female character, and she doesn't have to be a white feminist for me to latch, either - which I gather puts me out of company with most other fans who go for female characters.

I'm not going to enjoy this series as much as I do Bones, I suspect. And I'm not as attached to the characters as I am to Stargate Atlantis. But Heroes might turn out to be something I can watch without too much wincing.

Actually, a friend has been catching me up on episodes of Dexter - definitely an intriguing show, although I doubt it's one I'd ever write fanfic for. How the hell do you write a serial killer, anyway?

Comments

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

Well - the problem with Heroes is that S2 was pretty wretched. S1 was *fantastic* and that's where you get the hardcore character love. S2 just went off the tracks quite a bit, and we're all hoping S3's going to work out much...uh, better.

[tielan]

Oh, so S3 hasn't started showing yet? I heard that S2 picked up at the end, but that it wasn't so well-received in the 1st half.

I quite enjoyed S1...up until the ending, at which point I was, "Uh, that's it? THAT'S IT?!?" According to one of my friends that was a common reaction.

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

S3 starts in a little over a month from now. *g* And yeah, S2 was a tiny better at the end, mostly because the characters you cared about getting to interact finally got to interact.

[tielan]

Everything starts in a little over a month from now. Except for SGA. Not that it matters since I have a tendency to download like crazy and then never watch!

Oh, good. They do get to interact in the end! *wants them to interact so bad*

It's like they had this awesome group of characters who interacted so amazingly...and then split them up and split them up and split them up and ARGH.

[missyvortexdv.livejournal.com]

I would've said Dexter isn't too hard to write for, he's very logical, if not as quite emotionally detached/blank as he may think. Of course it's sort of disturbing to consider his character, I'm amazed to actually like and care about his fate, but if there were ever a decent sort of serial killer he's about as good as you could get one.

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

Well - the problem with Heroes is that S2 was pretty wretched. S1 was *fantastic* and that's where you get the hardcore character love. S2 just went off the tracks quite a bit, and we're all hoping S3's going to work out much...uh, better.

[tielan]

Oh, so S3 hasn't started showing yet? I heard that S2 picked up at the end, but that it wasn't so well-received in the 1st half.

I quite enjoyed S1...up until the ending, at which point I was, "Uh, that's it? THAT'S IT?!?" According to one of my friends that was a common reaction.

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

S3 starts in a little over a month from now. *g* And yeah, S2 was a tiny better at the end, mostly because the characters you cared about getting to interact finally got to interact.

[tielan]

Everything starts in a little over a month from now. Except for SGA. Not that it matters since I have a tendency to download like crazy and then never watch!

Oh, good. They do get to interact in the end! *wants them to interact so bad*

It's like they had this awesome group of characters who interacted so amazingly...and then split them up and split them up and split them up and ARGH.

[missyvortexdv.livejournal.com]

I would've said Dexter isn't too hard to write for, he's very logical, if not as quite emotionally detached/blank as he may think. Of course it's sort of disturbing to consider his character, I'm amazed to actually like and care about his fate, but if there were ever a decent sort of serial killer he's about as good as you could get one.