I still haven't gotten through my MythTV recording of Heroes (the new NBC series on superheroes) yet. I had better get a move on as I'll have Ugly Betty to watch after tonight, plus I'll have to study up for the season premiere of Lost next week.
Unfortunately, I have primarily complaints so far about Heroes. Which could explain why I haven't been more eager to watch the rest.
It started with the opening... a bunch of text describing people with extraordinary abilities or some such junk. Who set that type? It looks like they spent all of 5 minutes creating it. Horrible, boring font. Then, for the text listing the cast and crew over the opening scenes, they used some horrible, ugly, scripty font. Is that because that's how they write in India or something?
The sets? Awful. The lack of effects to show people with their superpowers? Annoying. The guy's supposed to be flying. Show him flying already. Oh, and I know Manhattanites are supposed to be jaded, but don't you think they'd notice some guy flying around in the sky?
What else? Oh, the Japanese guy. Why give him a clock with Japanese characters on it? Are we supposed to NOT realize he's Japanese, when he speaks Japanese, looks Japanese, and all his co-workers are Japanese? I think we'll get the idea even if his clock has Arabic numerals on it, or even NO numerals.
Then, the Japanese space-time continuum guy has a screensaver. Some Godzilla-like monster. Oh, look, the smart kid with the hot mom in Vegas is reading a comic book with the same monster on it. Ooooh, wow, connections. Except Lost did virtually the same thing in Season 1 (with Walt and the polar bear), but did it better.
OK, I'm done complaining. I'll give it another chance or two. At least until I get a new episode of Iron Chef America.
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