Holding Out For Heroes

After an impressive first season and a inconsistant second, it was with great relief that Heroes returned to our screens with gory cranial screw-top surgury for its third season.

However I have grown weary of the last few weeks. Much of it seems repetative of previous seasons...which is surprising (as its openly mimiking comic books...things that rarely run out of imagination). But the main reason is it's story, spread between tons of independent characters, is moving too fast. It's like Brett Ratner's X-men 3: The Last Stand...lots of interesting thing happening to characters who seem not to be in the remotest bit effected by events. The speed of events also means the events, deaths, deceptions, changes of alleigences etc have little dramatic impact. One minute bad guy Sylar has turned good...two episodes later he's bad again. One minute hero Peter has aquired Godlike powers, the nexy its taken away from him...and in the process a seasons worth of dramatic possibilities disappears too.

It also been difficult to keep track of who's who and who's doing what due to the number of regulars in play, combined with warp 10 plot speed.

Thank god for episode 8, which allowed some much needed breathing space as well as some backstory clarification. This seems to have been the mid season reset the series needed.
So instead of tuning out, as I have been in danger of doing, I'm back, hoping that the story threads begins to merge and focus as the season progresses.

It must also be noted that the casting of Robert Forster as the big bad is a masterstroke. He was in Delta Force and The Black Hole, don't you know...