After the Writers' Strike: Heroes Makes "Me-Woes"!

Ah, so the writers' strike seems to be coming to a rather abrupt end. Some of peoples' favorite shows are going to be making their comebacks soon, as well as talk show hosts. Though, one show within my mind makes me question as to if it's popularity had finally surged to the highest electric pole and has now aged without a single fuse to light a light-bulb, let alone a television. That show would be Heroes.

Now, don't get me wrong or anything. I have been dedicating much of my TV time to Heroes, having never found any interest within other shows like Lost or CSI. As much as Heroes borrows some bits from Lost, I can't help but like it for the wondering as to if we truly had super-humans among us. One small problem that I always found with Heroes, however, was the fact that the writers had been holding out the smallest bit of bait possible, that is, the information and origins stories. Then, we get suckered in, wanting more and more. And they keep holding this bait for episodes upon episodes, adding only a little tiny bit at a time. Then, when we actually DO get payoff and it goes right at us, acting as if this will change the events completely, the episode becomes warped around as to rewind that bit and act as if every single character needs to keep living and going on.

No offense to the writers, but I think I rather preferred them to stay on strike. This kind of writing may reel in viewers, but it starts to become ridiculous how, when a character is about to reveal their history, the information is told in increasingly small snippets, even though they are revealing their information to trusted people and yet they hide it so easily. I'm sorry, but it is just plain lazy writing and becomes incredibly tedious. When more questions are raised rather than any of them being answered with better logical solutions instead of the swipe-off tactic used in so many shows that have shocking cliffhangers, that deserves nothing more than a slap to the face to the writing staff.

Now, as to the actual story for Heroes, if I recall, Sylar has just recently figured out how to heal himself, using a bit of Claire Bennett's blood to recover his powers. Personally, there is only one logical way for this to go and that, my friends, is another season in which the good guys have to bring down the bad guy again with no real way to help them except for complete dumb luck and a bombastic writing staff. Truly, Sylar grew to be an interesting character, but we are never fully explained as to why he does what he does, nor the explanation as to why he didn't just blow up New York in the first place before even meeting with the other heroes in the final anti-climactic scene of Season One (also, for starters, the fact that all the heroes and Sylar just happen to be in the same area and they each randomly do a little jig with Sylar before being brought down, having never met each other in their lives).

Predictions, I feel, are harsh to do for this series because it is as if the writers had been making predictions as to how in the heck they could pull this off. Because of Heroes' tedious waiting time for any sort of revelations, which go without any sort of major payoff in the story as well, it is hard for me to even recommend getting back into the series because it is only going to feel like more waiting for the show to get off the ground already and fly like it's life on NBC depended on it. But, if anyone here feels that they need to satisfy their want for small bite-size bits of information that are never fully revealed, even after TWO WHOLE SEASONS, then, by all means, make your day set when Heroes will come back Late 2008/Early 2009.

B.T.