What I’m watching: part two because I forgot two shows

September 25th, 2008

I can’t believe I forgot two shows last night when I was writing about what I’m watching.  Arjan reminded me when he mentioned Heroes, so here is the follow up…

Heroes

OMG I love Heroes.  Forget that the second season was a dog, that had a bearded Jack Bauer show up I wouldn’t have been surprised*.  They admitted their mistakes, promised to fix them and I’m gullible hopeful enough that they may just make a worthy follow up to Season One (one of the greatest seasons of a show ever).  And the first two episodes really haven’t failed me so far, I’m still cautious but I’m quite excited to see new powers, old powers, villains and Sylar.  Tracey hates Sylar, in a ‘I’m bored’ kind of way rather than he is pure evil.  Have to see cousin Larry on this one because all you bastards keep putting spoilers out there.

Robotech

A while back I indulged my inner child (lol that’s funny…) and picked up some animation boxsets that were cheap, Star Blazers (my Mum and I loved this show), Battle of the Planets and Robotech.  I’ve put Season One on in the background whilst I’ve been doing stuff and have constantly found myself being sucked into the adventures of Rick Hunter.  I have very vivid memories of my Mum referring to Rick as a dirty stop out because of the love triangle he finds himself in (we preferred Lisa).

But I can totally see how this could be made into a movie, it has action, pathos, a great cast of characters and surprising humour.  Obviously the show itself doesn’t hold up as well as it could, it was hacked together for American markets and I wonder how much storyline remained intact.  When you watch them one after another you notice that a quarter of the show is dedicated to recapping the previous episode.

There are clearly some great concepts and ideas in there.

I’m sure there are other shows that I’m currently watching but have forgotten. 

*Off hand remark referring to my general apathy towards Season Six of 24 and how I feel that they made a perfectly good must see TV show into a god I hope next season is better than this one TV show.

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Heroes: Season three

July 27th, 2008

I don’t care that season two of Heroes lost its way, they admit it, there were also external factors at play (the writer’s strike - although this has been used as an excuse to cover all manner of sins) and they seem to know what went wrong and hopefully how to fix it.

So with that in mind I welcome season three Heroes with open arms and no reservations:

That is though not to say that I won’t hold them to the quality of the first season.   I’m hoping with a clearly established group of villains then the superhero thing can really start, I want to see Peter and Sylar thrashing it out although I expect that Sylar will probably be a bit of a puppetmaster kind of character now that his powers are reduced (or gone, I barely remember season two now), drawing several characters over to the dark side if you will.

Of course this is barely even a musing on my behalf, I just know that we’re hopefully going to have some clearer cut villains for the heroes to unleash their powers on.

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