nixpayn
10-09-2008, 10:49 PM
/begin rant
I watched Heroes season 1.
Then in the gap before season 2 i watched the entire 4400 series.
Then i tried to watch season 2 of Heroes. It was so terrible.
So i try watching.. some .. of the new season and god damn, it appears they're stealing all the main plot points from the 4400, and they're not even pretending they're not. I mean they're even stealing powers.. 4400, there was that chick that got mad and then everyone within like.. 10 miles around her died. Heroes has a chick where she gets mad and everyone .. 10 feet or something from her dies.
Lame. Heroes had potential and lost it i think. It isn't the 4400 and they really should stay away from it.. because 4400 was getting huge, the scope that show was about to take on was bigger than anything i've ever seen TV try to do. Heroes TRIED to do some pretty big stuff last season and failed miserably.
and then USA network canceled it.
*sigh*
i bet 1 season of Heroes would cost as much to make as 4 more seasons of the 4400.
And come on. Within the first 2 seasons of Hereos they were already running into characters with duplicate powers. 2 people that can fly out of a total of what..12 people who had powers that were in the plot? 2 characters who can take powers from other people to use themselves? if they do one of those 'balance' things where every good person has an evil opposite with the same power imma kick in my tv.
4400 had probably 100 different people with powers over the course of the show and not one duplicate - some were so original they probably hadn't even been in thought of by comic book writers.
edit: right! plot points.
Heroes.. well.. they figured out how to give people powers! what did they do in 4400? figured out how to give people powers! cept in 4400 it went mass market and thousands of people were getting powers, half were dying, and the ones who thought it was wrong wanted to kill off everyone with powers? sound like a possible plot twist for Heroes? maybe!
time travel? sure lets have 9 versions of the future all of a sudden. 4400? yep, while not quite 9 versions of the future, the whole thing happens because of time travel, and there some episodes where they bounce from future to present.. same as Heroes has done.
Cancel Hereos and bring back my damn show!
/end rant
I watched Heroes season 1.
Then in the gap before season 2 i watched the entire 4400 series.
Then i tried to watch season 2 of Heroes. It was so terrible.
So i try watching.. some .. of the new season and god damn, it appears they're stealing all the main plot points from the 4400, and they're not even pretending they're not. I mean they're even stealing powers.. 4400, there was that chick that got mad and then everyone within like.. 10 miles around her died. Heroes has a chick where she gets mad and everyone .. 10 feet or something from her dies.
Lame. Heroes had potential and lost it i think. It isn't the 4400 and they really should stay away from it.. because 4400 was getting huge, the scope that show was about to take on was bigger than anything i've ever seen TV try to do. Heroes TRIED to do some pretty big stuff last season and failed miserably.
and then USA network canceled it.
*sigh*
i bet 1 season of Heroes would cost as much to make as 4 more seasons of the 4400.
And come on. Within the first 2 seasons of Hereos they were already running into characters with duplicate powers. 2 people that can fly out of a total of what..12 people who had powers that were in the plot? 2 characters who can take powers from other people to use themselves? if they do one of those 'balance' things where every good person has an evil opposite with the same power imma kick in my tv.
4400 had probably 100 different people with powers over the course of the show and not one duplicate - some were so original they probably hadn't even been in thought of by comic book writers.
edit: right! plot points.
Heroes.. well.. they figured out how to give people powers! what did they do in 4400? figured out how to give people powers! cept in 4400 it went mass market and thousands of people were getting powers, half were dying, and the ones who thought it was wrong wanted to kill off everyone with powers? sound like a possible plot twist for Heroes? maybe!
time travel? sure lets have 9 versions of the future all of a sudden. 4400? yep, while not quite 9 versions of the future, the whole thing happens because of time travel, and there some episodes where they bounce from future to present.. same as Heroes has done.
Cancel Hereos and bring back my damn show!
/end rant