Heroes, season 1

[avram]

Just watched the first season of Heroes. Some thoughts:

• Mr Bennet is clearly the non-powered character who’s dangerous because just thinks a step ahead of everyone else. The Batman.
• OK, both the X-Men “Days of Future Past” storyline (explicitly mentioned in the first episode) and Watchmen.
• Paint washes off pretty easily if it hasn’t had time to dry yet.
• In fact, it’s not really clear what medium Isaac works in. He seems to have oils on his palette, but he’s also got all those big cans of what seems to be house paint. It’s not like we ever seem him doing any Pollock-style action painting.
• What, five years in the future and they’ve got a memorial up?
• New York City voting machines aren’t electronic, much less networked.
• Dude, Peter can fly on his own.

In general, far too much of the plot is driven by the fact that the most powerful good guy is a moron. Still, I like most of the other characters.

Comments

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Dude, Peter can fly on his own.

At the point he *needed* to, though, I'm not sure he could. He was exerting all his mental energy trying to control the runaway chain reaction. Diverting his concentration to that might have been disastrous. Or so he feared.

Heroes Season One is hardly perfect. But it aimed high, and I salute it even when it fell short. A series that is willing to take a risk deserves praise, even for its failures.