By far, the best show we have ever watched on TV is "Heroes." I mean that. Aron even ventured to say that it was on par with the cult-classic and pop-culture phenomenon "X-Files." If you aren't watching this show, you are missing out. Season 1 will be wrapping up shortly, so I suggest you wait and start from the beginning. With ingenious writing and a matrix of intertwining stories, viewers can't help but become immersed in the "Heroes" culture. I just had to blog about it because I realize that every week for the past 5-6 weeks we look at eachother and say, "That was the best episode yet." It keeps getting better and better. Any fans out there?
We don't watch it...in fact, we don't watch much except for Thursday nights. I think I'll try it when they replay from the beginning. When they start let me know if you think of it. :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Heroes!! Big Fan! It is one of my favorites...well, that, Grey's Anatomy and Jericho... a little bummed that it's not coming back on until April! Bummer dude! Hey, if you miss an episode it's always featured on Thursday on the Sci-Fi channel.
ReplyDeleteI watch a lot of TV... in case you couldn't tell. lol.
seriously. it's our new favorite show. it makes "lost" look like child's play.
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ReplyDeletewe have watched it religiously from the beginning and love it...still hooked on lost too!
ReplyDeleteWe love Heroes too! Can't wait for each new episode. In fact, I like it better than LOST this year and I never thought I would say that about another show.
ReplyDeleteYeah, glad so many do watch it!
ReplyDeleteKim, I totally agree with you--it's signficantly better than Lost; well, Lost has really lost it's edge this entire 3rd season. We'll see if they can bring some good new twists into the mix. Child's play indeed!
Perhaps now that VM has gone on hiatus till May, I can finally check this out.
ReplyDeleteI watch Lost as well, and Lost as nothing on Heroes! I actually don't like Lost much anymore. It was good the first season.... Seriously... if you haven't watched Jericho... WATCH IT! It is a Great show!! Heroes is on hiatus until end of April but they may be running re-runs. Check the SCI-Fi channel too.
ReplyDeleteWe watched the first epsiode and didn't get it. Haven't watched it since. We've never watched Lost either. Maybe the demographic divide is just too much to overcome.
ReplyDeleteI do watch TBN ocassionally. Talk about great SCI-Fi!
is heroes as good as laguna beach? cause if it is, im all over it. actually ive watched parts of it, but i need to give it more of a chance b/c it seemed a little cheesy. a little, um, "WB" if you know what i mean. i must be wrong.
ReplyDeleteso, ive been meaning to write you guys ever since lindsey was out there. she had a great time w/you and said you are great parents. she loves little maggie, and the pics on our fridge are proof.
thanks for sending so much music w/lins. i always love getting new stuff. i really like rogue wave. when i was putting that one on my computer i couldnt read what the title of the album was. i couldnt read the word "vultures" b/c the l and t were so close together. i thought the title was "descended like vu hures." so i typed it in that way on every song. of course i didnt understand what the heck that meant, but i figured it was some weirdo indie thing--like maybe "vu hures" was some buddhist or hindu revolutionary or something, like an eastern che guevara. when i finally looked up the album online, it made more sense..."vultures"...but then when i read some of the lyrics of the songs, i was even more confused b/c i didnt understand any of them, and i realized that "vu hures" actually represented the album more accurately in my mind, so i kept it that way in my computer. either way, good to listen to. i also really like sigur ros.
dont have time to write more, but we are really looking forward to seeing you when youre out here. sushi anyone?
Jason, let's see, if I had to prioritize the shows you mentioned, I would say LB is just a smidge above Heroes...but not by much.
ReplyDeleteJason, I really don't think I have laughed harder at a comment in a long time. I could totally just envision you telling me that story about the CD in your funny-Jason-way. You are hilarious! Glad that you are liking the new music; we love those albums, too. Did I give Linds any Sufjan Stevens yet? If not, we'll bring out a few albums? Or have you heard the new music from that guy named Aron McKay? He's pretty good, too.
ReplyDeleteThe Bennett episode was amazing. I was in tears at the end of it -- the music -- like at the end of the early ep where Peter and Nathan, well, first do the thing that they do. :) (Not to spoil new or soon-to-be viewers.)
ReplyDeleteI have a serious complaint with the show, however, and it's in the way that Heroes treats its women: there are very few, or the writers have a one-to-one exchange, in which a new woman gets brought on and another one gets killed off. And, at this point, almost all the interesting females -- Charlie, Eve -- the mechanic woman with awesome hearing -- have been killed off. I only care about Nikki when she's not Jessica or whining about Jessica, and that's most of the time. Claire is great, but she's a kid. Simone was a bore, but even she's dead now. And the new woman is a naughty schoolgirl version of Mystique from the X-Men movies. If there's a serious flaw to this show, it's that it's all men, all the time. (But how you can not love Hiro and Ando, who are adorable?)
Shel, well voiced complaint! I would have to agree after reading your argument. And you are totally right about the new girl being a version of Mystique! Hmm. We should write in and ask for more more resillient women.
ReplyDeleteHiro and Ando...classic!
I'm afraid TV has a habit of not treating its strong women well. Even shows that feature strong women -- the XF's Scully, Buffy (and all her compadres), Veronica Mars -- tend to build them to certain point, knock them around a good bit, and then either don't let them grow at all as a person/character (Buffy, VM), or deconstruct them so much by taking everything away from them that you wonder what happened to the character you so admired in the first place. Scully is the by far the best example of this; I get so angry I could still spit nails when thinking about it. I didn't watch Gilmore Girls, but after learning about the direction the show took from newspaper reviews and friends who did watch, I would guess that the mom and daughter fall into that category as well.
ReplyDeleteBut what are we to expect? Men are still the primary writers of these shows. I read on a fan page that Rob Thomas is using VM to "exorcise his post-feminist demons." Whatever. I was simply glad to see that I'm not the only one disgusted by the plot line of the fall season, and that I wasn't imagining the need for outrage.