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   Monday, November 19, 2007

   HEROES...JUST FOR ONE DAY

There’s been a lot of fuss this fall about the decline in ratings for last year’s hit show Heroes. In its first season, the show I was prepared to ignore as an X-Men retread won me over with its offbeat characters, crackerjack pace and wild cliffhanger-ending plot twists. How many times did an episode have us saying, "Whoa. Didn’t see that coming!" Gorgeous!

Consider then, however, the painful tedium of this season’s big plot arc (spoilers follow, be warned!):

-- A shadowy, cloaked figure starts bumping off the shifty parents of the main characters.
-- They all warn of one of their own who went bad: the mysterious Adam Munroe.
-- Our engaging time traveler Hiro Nakamura is separated from the other characters in an endless subplot set in feudal Japan. The samurai hero whose legends he heard as a boy is revealed, oddly, to be a British man.
-- Hiro makes a mess of history and this new man, who seems to heal from any injury, vows revenge.
-- That man is then shown in the present day and introduces himself as Adam Munroe.
-- Hiro returns to the scene of his father’s murder and discovers the cloaked assassin is...Adam Munroe.

And this blindingly obvious tale has taken nine hours to tell, why?

Personally, I was hoping the killer would be Nathan Petrelli. Why? Because that would make no sense and it’d be fun to see the writers come up a reason. Also because, nine episodes in, they haven’t done a damn thing with the character yet. I hope actor Adrian Pasdar is being paid well, because he must be as bored as the audience by this point.

But here’s an interesting thing: Tim Kring, the show’s creator, has actually apologized for the season so far, admitting: "We didn't give the audience enough story to justify the time we allotted it...The message is that we've heard the complaints — and we're doing something about it."

Whoa. Now there’s a plot twist. You don’t hear sentiments like that coming out of Hollywood every day. Alright, Mr. Kring, since the writer’s strike leaves Heroes with only two more episodes left, that and your apology will keep me on board.

Oh, and Claire’s dad coming back from the dead?
Whoa. Didn’t see that coming.

Labels: comic books, TV, writing