NBC’s New TV drama – Heroes September 27th, 2006
I watched NBC’s new drama Heroes tonight (thank goodness for my home theater pc. I have mixed emotions about the show.
Think “Remake of The 4400″ and you’ve got the idea.
The series may survive if they can pull the threads together quickly enough to capture interest. As it is, although each character introduced had uniqueness (in a dark sort of way, seldomly seen on television), the show was way, way too disjointed.
Fortunately, they also took a lead from some of the other shows today that have good teasers at the end. I’m thinking particularly about the Sci-Fi Channel’s Eureka as a good example. Eureka shows, and apparently the teaser at the end of Heroes’ pilot episode showed, bits and pieces of a lot of future episodes — to try to communicate some quick continuity and sense of purpose to the viewers.
It worked well with Eureka. I’ll give Heroes another chance.
It can’t be worse than The 4400, I hope…