Have to say I'm disappointed so far with season 3:
Heroes - The soap opera trick via Construed[
http://construed.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/heroes-the-soap-opera-trick/]
"After viewing the 3rd episode of season 3 of Heroes, ‘One of Us, One of Them‘ another concern for me about the writing on this show, has begun to irk me.
In my last Heroes post, I mentioned how I found the characters of the show to be very insular in their own microcosm - they didn’t engage enough in the lives of their non-powered cousins. Some of this problem, I believe, is in the shows format where the story chops & changes between the numerous characters in each episode. This is very much a soap opera trick, employed so that the TV audience doesn’t lose interest & is kept guessing to what will happen next. This approach of direction can mean the storyline & dialogue suffers, becoming sedated & unfulfilling. If Heroes carries on in this format, I can only see the storyline becoming a very muddy puddle that people will want to avoid.
Dropping this soap opera approach to the show would give the big ideas in the storyline, time to develop & mature. Let the viewer come to love the characters rather than just feel indifferent to them. Then maybe we would see less episodes like the anticlimactic season 1 finale, ‘How to stop an Exploding Man‘ & have something closer to a classic modern-day superhero TV show on our hands."
Heroes to who? via Construed[
http://construed.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/heroes-to-who/]
"Heroes season 3 began airing this week in the UK & I have to say I’m not so sure about the direction the show seems to be taking. That’s not to say the quality of production is bad but the writing seems to be making the shows characters live in an almost entirely insular world.
The premise of a good/entertaining superhero story is not always about the hero alone but how that hero lives & interacts with everyday common-folk. The Heroes writers seem to be preoccupied with the idea of the hero or villain & concentrate very little time or thought over to developing a back story of everyday life. In a way there’s far too much adventure that, for me, is unbalancing the whole story & characters of Heroes. In a nutshell, I care very little for what happens to these characters - be they a hero or a villain.
Adam Buckman, of The New york Post, puts it like this in his recent review of the 1st episode of season 3:
Instead, this show, which was once so thrilling and fun, has become full of itself, its characters spouting crazy nonsense.[1]
I do hope that Heroes season 3 develops the show into a more seasoned & well rounded experience but I can only see that happening if there’s less reliance on special effects & more on the pacing of the multiple story-arcs."
Just a few of my thoughts
