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Well, I'm procrastinating again. Just finished revising one more chapter of my book and here I am. Again.
Read through my flist - and it appears that even the die-hard Heroes fans have jumped ship now. I'm still sort of watching the series. But not live. It's still watchable. Just a bit, well, far-fetched. Reminds me a great deal of some of the bizarre comic book plots I used to read. People who despise Jeff Loeb, may not be happy to hear that I believe he's one of the writers on Whedon's Buffy S8 arc. I could be wrong about that. Speaking of Buffy S8, I'm told that long-delayed issue is due out next week. Whedon apparently got distracted with Dollhouse and as a result had troubles getting it completed. For anyone that religiously followed Whedon's Astonishing X-Men arc - this is hardly surprising. Months went by before the next issue came out. Heck at one point I forgot about the whole thing and thought he'd quit.
Whedon is not the fastest writer in the universe - which considering his occupation, is not a good thing. TV, Film, and comic books requires fast writing, being able to churn out multiple pages, revise, fix, at the click of a button. The pace just about killed Rod Serling during Twilight Zone. It's not like writing a novel - you don't get five years to get it right.
More like 24 hours. Sometimes 15.
Back to Heroes. Heroes, sigh, is another show that has jumped the shark. I like the overall concept - the idea that villians can be heroes and heroes can be villians, but apparently, this isn't as easy to pull off as it may appear. You probably should for starters make your villians a bit more complex and a little less irreedeemably nasty. That would help.
Also you should build up to the switch, not just do it willy-nilly. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenak pointed out in a post - television writers have managed to accomplish this, both Farscape and Babylon 5 did.
Farscape did it with Scorpius, Crais, and that weird character who was with Crichton but took up with Scorpius and I can't remember the name of.
Bablyon 5 did - with G'Kar and Londo, two characters who at the beginning appeared utterly different than they did at the end. G'Kar in the beginning of the series was the scheming "villian" while Londo was the blustering victim, good guy diplomat. Over the seasons, it was revealed that this wasn't true. G'Kar turned out to be a true hero, self-sacrificing, and his "villianous" actions and attitude towards Londo, were revealed to be a lot more complicated that first perceived. Londo on the other hand came across as a complicated and tortured villian, weak, noble, but weak and tortured. You didn't hate him so much as pitied him. And their relationship also became fairly complicated. I bring them up - because Heroes appears to be attempting to do a similar thing with two key characters.
( spoilers )
Heroes has other problems, not just that. Which is why I think it may well be dead after this season. NBC, which doesn't have much else in the pipeline at the moment, may give it a fourth season. But I doubt it will get much more.
I'm watching for the Claire storyline mostly. Which to be honest has been consistently the strongest storyline throughout the series. Not sure why this is. It's not the acting, so much as the writing - it's just tighter and more consistent in regards to Claire, Noah, Meredith,
and the Company. Less so with everyone else. Almost as if the writers know these characters, understand them and feel for them, but are grasping at straws in regards to the others.
At any rate, I won't be surprised if it dies after next year, if not before. I think any attempts to save or ressurect it, may be too late. Audiences are fickle creatures and not that forgiving regarding their time.
Enuf procrastinating, back to my book.
Read through my flist - and it appears that even the die-hard Heroes fans have jumped ship now. I'm still sort of watching the series. But not live. It's still watchable. Just a bit, well, far-fetched. Reminds me a great deal of some of the bizarre comic book plots I used to read. People who despise Jeff Loeb, may not be happy to hear that I believe he's one of the writers on Whedon's Buffy S8 arc. I could be wrong about that. Speaking of Buffy S8, I'm told that long-delayed issue is due out next week. Whedon apparently got distracted with Dollhouse and as a result had troubles getting it completed. For anyone that religiously followed Whedon's Astonishing X-Men arc - this is hardly surprising. Months went by before the next issue came out. Heck at one point I forgot about the whole thing and thought he'd quit.
Whedon is not the fastest writer in the universe - which considering his occupation, is not a good thing. TV, Film, and comic books requires fast writing, being able to churn out multiple pages, revise, fix, at the click of a button. The pace just about killed Rod Serling during Twilight Zone. It's not like writing a novel - you don't get five years to get it right.
More like 24 hours. Sometimes 15.
Back to Heroes. Heroes, sigh, is another show that has jumped the shark. I like the overall concept - the idea that villians can be heroes and heroes can be villians, but apparently, this isn't as easy to pull off as it may appear. You probably should for starters make your villians a bit more complex and a little less irreedeemably nasty. That would help.
Also you should build up to the switch, not just do it willy-nilly. As
selenak pointed out in a post - television writers have managed to accomplish this, both Farscape and Babylon 5 did. Farscape did it with Scorpius, Crais, and that weird character who was with Crichton but took up with Scorpius and I can't remember the name of.
Bablyon 5 did - with G'Kar and Londo, two characters who at the beginning appeared utterly different than they did at the end. G'Kar in the beginning of the series was the scheming "villian" while Londo was the blustering victim, good guy diplomat. Over the seasons, it was revealed that this wasn't true. G'Kar turned out to be a true hero, self-sacrificing, and his "villianous" actions and attitude towards Londo, were revealed to be a lot more complicated that first perceived. Londo on the other hand came across as a complicated and tortured villian, weak, noble, but weak and tortured. You didn't hate him so much as pitied him. And their relationship also became fairly complicated. I bring them up - because Heroes appears to be attempting to do a similar thing with two key characters.
( spoilers )
Heroes has other problems, not just that. Which is why I think it may well be dead after this season. NBC, which doesn't have much else in the pipeline at the moment, may give it a fourth season. But I doubt it will get much more.
I'm watching for the Claire storyline mostly. Which to be honest has been consistently the strongest storyline throughout the series. Not sure why this is. It's not the acting, so much as the writing - it's just tighter and more consistent in regards to Claire, Noah, Meredith,
and the Company. Less so with everyone else. Almost as if the writers know these characters, understand them and feel for them, but are grasping at straws in regards to the others.
At any rate, I won't be surprised if it dies after next year, if not before. I think any attempts to save or ressurect it, may be too late. Audiences are fickle creatures and not that forgiving regarding their time.
Enuf procrastinating, back to my book.
