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skonen_bladesHeavily abused by the last two episodes of season one, Heroes came out of the gates this year like a freshly-blinded kitten with polio.
It ambled. It limped. It bled all over the track. It mewled horribly. It cried for its absent mother. It was a horrible and pitiable sight to behold. The image of something so defenseless, cuddly and undeniably beautiful treated in such a fashion made my blood boil until, powerless, defeated, and resigned, I had to squint my eyes shut and merely look away. I bit my lip. I choked back tears. I managed to get myself under control.
It was merely more evidence of the entertainment industry's ironic cruelty to successful creative endeavours. The cash-coloured spotlight of Sauron's Television Eye had settled on one of the most tightly plotted and well-written comic-book-based series ever. Producers descended like some weird form of vultures that fed on the thriving instead of the dead.
Compromises surfaced like corpses in a swamp in the form of plot holes and new characters. Obvious byproducts of behind-the-scenes power struggles, they were horrific blights. The show merely becoming the latest Great Thing to be ruined by rich people taking an interest. It kept me awake for a couple of nights until I had to get over it, accept another lash on the back of my comic-book-collecting childhood, and keep on trucking.
I'll resist giving spoilers. One thing I can say, though, is that the show's creators listened.
This season is almost a mirror image of the arc of last season.
The first seven episodes or so suck donkey testicles.
The last three or four episodes are edge-of-your-seat awesome.
Apparently Tim Kring listened to the boards, said "Yeah, you're right, world. It's blowing stronger than Katrina. We will fix." and they did.
I'm happy.
Here are the awesome opening credits to the movie The Kingdom.
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It ambled. It limped. It bled all over the track. It mewled horribly. It cried for its absent mother. It was a horrible and pitiable sight to behold. The image of something so defenseless, cuddly and undeniably beautiful treated in such a fashion made my blood boil until, powerless, defeated, and resigned, I had to squint my eyes shut and merely look away. I bit my lip. I choked back tears. I managed to get myself under control.
It was merely more evidence of the entertainment industry's ironic cruelty to successful creative endeavours. The cash-coloured spotlight of Sauron's Television Eye had settled on one of the most tightly plotted and well-written comic-book-based series ever. Producers descended like some weird form of vultures that fed on the thriving instead of the dead.
Compromises surfaced like corpses in a swamp in the form of plot holes and new characters. Obvious byproducts of behind-the-scenes power struggles, they were horrific blights. The show merely becoming the latest Great Thing to be ruined by rich people taking an interest. It kept me awake for a couple of nights until I had to get over it, accept another lash on the back of my comic-book-collecting childhood, and keep on trucking.
I'll resist giving spoilers. One thing I can say, though, is that the show's creators listened.
This season is almost a mirror image of the arc of last season.
The first seven episodes or so suck donkey testicles.
The last three or four episodes are edge-of-your-seat awesome.
Apparently Tim Kring listened to the boards, said "Yeah, you're right, world. It's blowing stronger than Katrina. We will fix." and they did.
I'm happy.
Here are the awesome opening credits to the movie The Kingdom.
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