Will Heroes Return Be Gamechanging?
February 2, 2009 by brian
I thought the Heroes ads last night were pretty inspired. As a matter of fact, if Heroes, Chuck or any other NBC show doesn’t draw this week it won’t be for lack of advertising.
But cute ads aside, Heroes begins its newest story arc tonight at 9 p.m. ET with a tale of Fugitives. The government is hunting down people with superpowers and I will now pause for my comic shop guys and gals to accuse Heroes of stealing more storylines from the X-Men.
If Heroes were on a network that had any other dramas people were watching, this show would already have gotten the heave-ho. The return of Bryan Fuller, who wrote some of the best episodes in the show’s buzz-garnering first season (Man, does anyone remember those days?), is expected to help.
Fans and critics alike have called for less “Gotcha” plot twists and a return to good old-fashioned storytelling. The time travel elements have drawn some groans as well. One need only look at how well shows like Doctor Who and Lost deal with time-travel to see what a mess Heroes is making of it. Readers, do you think these Heroes can still save the day for NBC?
NBC Photo:Adam Taylor
it should have been Roger Staubach instead of John Elway as the quarterback with superpowers. Okay X-men joke. When is “X-cuetioner’s song” going to start.
I think that this was a good episode. They spent more time than I needed setting everything up, but that’s to be expected from the beginning of a volume. I’m quite happy to see Peter a little weaker than he was.