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Heroes: The end is nigh?

October 30th, 2009 | by | canceled, heroes, nbc, series finale

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I rarely root for a series I once loved to end, but an exception could certainly be made for Heroes.

Looks like I could easily get my wish, as Airlock Alpha (once syfy.com, before the SciFi Channel became SyFy) reports that NBC sources say Heroes is being asked to wrap up its entire story by season’s end.

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An unidentified source was quoted as saying:

There isn’t much happening with this show in terms of audience, and giving it a ‘final chapter’ feel is something the network is considering to help allow the show to go out with a bang.

As I wrote earlier this season, even the most die-hard fans have been having a hard time staying interested. It’s all unfocused – the storyline’s all over the place, the characters are no longer interesting and they don’t seem to be working toward anything.

Even the disjointed, strike-impaired second season seemed to be working toward something. And last season had a good start before trailing off into “who the hell cares” anymore land.

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Supernatural: Dang!

October 20th, 2009 | by | supernatural

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As the episode opened, I once again felt as if I’d walked into a plot tangent, a throwback to the first season when we had the demon/supernatural creature of the week.

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And even though it fabulously turned out to be soooooo much more than that while at the same time being exactly that.

By the “soooooo much more,” I mean we very much got a look at what the end game may be. This little boy, the Anti Christ — half human, half demon — don’t tell me he’s not going to come into play in, at the very least, the final episode, when it all comes down to God v Lucifer, Jesse is going to swoop in and be the decisive decider.

And this, being Supernatural, does not necessarily mean that the side of Good will win. If the side of Good is even truly good.

Wouldn’t it be a kick in the pants if it turned out that all this time, Sam & Dean had been fighting demons and the demons really weren’t the Bad guys?

I mean, I can’t imagine how that would be so, but this show rarely takes the easy way out, and that would certainly make things interesting.

The thing that did still confuse me about this episode was WHY Sam & Dean actually went to this godforsaken place for these stupid deaths.

ISN’T THERE A WAR FOR LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING GOING ON NOW?

I mean, no one realized the Anti Christ was there because they couldn’t. (I’ll take one of those Castiel dolls, by the way…) So … wtf?

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Supernatural: And now, a break from our … plot

October 10th, 2009 | by | supernatural

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OK, I’m gonna start off saying I’m of two minds about this week’s Supernatural episode, “Fallen Idol.”

On the one hand, it was great. It had all the humor and gore we’ve come to expect from Kripke & Co.

On the other hand, um, hasn’t the apocalypse been unleashed and Sam & Dean head to Canton, Ohio, to find out why one man has been killed in a car that may or may not have belonged to James Dean?

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So, first things first:

I hate to admit it, but Paris Hilton was pitch-perfect. She even sounded almost sincere making fun of the celebrity culture that has made her, well, a celebrity. And how can you not enjoy an episode that ends with Paris Hilton’s bloody decapitation after she beats the crap out of Dean?

Then there’s the (literally) bloodthirsty Abraham Lincoln and Ghandi. If you didn’t giggle Sam was struggling with a psychotic Ghandi (or, as Dean would put it, a fruitarian Smurf in diapers) hanging on his back, you have no sense of humor and should just stop reading my blog now.

The episode was very Season 1, in a sense. A one-off. Sure, some of the side points, such as the whole “You need to trust me, Dean,” complaint of Sam and the whole, “But, Sam, you chose demons over me,” bitching of Dean, would have been a bit confusing if you hadn’t been watching all along, but you could kind of get it without being a regular watcher.

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Heroes – why am I watching this, again?

October 5th, 2009 | by | heroes

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In Heroes’ first season, I enjoyed the roller coaster ride of “Save the Cheerleader, Save the World” and Hiro’s adorable embrace of his superhero-ness.

The Petrelli brothers and their twisted family.

Claire Bear and HRG and the hapless Mrs. Bennett.

Sylar torn between being good and evil.

Matt Parkman struggling to understand and use his powers.

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Then there was the bizarre, strike-shortened Season 2 that had potential but just left everyone wondering what the hell happened to Peter’s Irish lass, stuck in some screwed-up, plague-infested alternate future.

Season 3 had its moments but took a left turn to weirdoland with a whole plot where we got to see Angela Petrelli as a little girl in a U.S. internment camp for people with powers. And, of course, Mohinder’s father was there.

And don’t even get me started on Mohinder doing his best Jeff Goldblum impression from The Fly.

I still watch; I can’t seem to help myself.

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Supernatural: The End. Kinda.

October 2nd, 2009 | by | supernatural

Oct
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An interesting episode of Supernatural last night. The main question posed is one that seems to come up on all the shows I watch, somehow.

Can we change our future? Our past? Is the timeline immutable? If you see your future, is it possible to change the past, or are you stuck because you’ve seen it, so whatever you do to avoid it will end up just changing the details but not the end result?

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I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that the five-years-in-the-future zombie-ish apocalyptic reality doesn’t have to happen. First off, the angels as we’ve seen them have not been exactly honest with Sam and Dean up to this point, and I wouldn’t put it past them to show Dean a reality that could, but doesn’t have to happen.

Second, would Eric Kripke really have embarked upon a five-year journey like this and, in the end, let the Devil and his minions win?

Of course, one of the things I’ve liked about Supernatural is that it doesn’t always deliver the nice, happy ending (thinking right now of Season 4′s “Jump the Shark,” when it turns out the Winchester brothers actually did have another brother, but he was killed by the ghouls pretending to be that brother and his mother). So does that mean the world will survive the apocalypse?

I like not knowing. Makes it more interesting to watch.

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