Heroes
16 January 2008
Two seasons have passed, time to make up the score.
Heroes is a story of a number of people with extraordinary abilities. Walking through walls, ability to heal, ability to fly. Basically your run-of-the-mill X-men variant. The way the story grows is a bit different though.
When I watched the first episode of this series I thought “hmmm…. weird…. need more…”. The series starts of quite chaotically. But rest assured, it gets more chaotic after the first episode.
During the entire first series one keeps on wondering who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. And apart from Sylar (who can quite easily be defined as “consistently bad”) you never get an answer. Heroes does not have any good guys or bad guys. There are just shades of grey, and lots of those.
The second series starts off with a large time-travel story which I think is the weakest point of the series. Although the story is quite nice, the huge danger of inconsistencies lurks around the corner. The biggest problem, however, is the fact that the second series was cut short because of the strike of all hollywood writers, including the writers of the Heroes series. This leaves the season at only eleven episodes and far from finished.
All in all I absolutely love the series. Time travel aside the series will continuously keep you on your toes. There is no set morale, every side of the story gets airtime so you are left to decide for yourself who is wrong and who is right. In general you won’t be able to decide because most of the time all of the parties are right in one way or another. The Company is doing the right thing, but with questionable means. The old team is doing the right thing with questionable motives. I suggest you don’t wait for the ultimate answer as I suspect, just like in real life, there is none.
25 March 2008 at 13:42:18
I didn’t know you had a blog until just now. xD
About the comment of Sylar being a shade of grey I would have to say he made a break through into the dark/black side with killing his mum near the end of the last season. Granted, he ended up taking the brains out of people with abilities (and possibly ate them) but I think it left you to wonder if he was just severely deprived of any loving attention of his parents. (Which we found out later he was.)
Overall, I think Sylar made a GREAT consistent baddie. Unfortunately, he’s lending his acting abilities to Star Trek and I really can’t see him as ‘good guy’ Mr. Spock. Perhaps they’ll pay tribute to Heroes and you’ll get to see Mr. Spock saw someone’s head in half.
25 March 2008 at 13:47:24
Yup, I have a blog
several even, the rest are linked on the roll.
As for Sylar as bad guy; yes, he does make a good baddie and some of his actions do put him in the beyond-dark category. But if you look at the dialog there is a lot of remorse in his words; he is disturbed, more then truly “evil” and in his bright moments he does regret that his mental state results in killing. Does that make him “evil” or just mad?…..
26 March 2008 at 10:04:23
It has been stated that the more brains Sylar uses, the more corrupt his DNA becomes. And the more his DNA corrupts the more crazy he is. With that said, I think that he is, in fact, mad. However, I won’t blame his evil actions on his madness. He had to start somewhere and that was with the melting metal man. He began to do it more and more, corrupting himself even further but I do think somewhere along those lines he should have been able to stop. The reason he didn’t stop was because he enjoyed being someone extraordinary more than anything else.
The remorse in his voice that was the most noticeable when he went to mummy. But after killing her (accidental or not) he went completely over the edge. And I think it’s safe to say that there is no turning back for him at any point. The series enjoyed completing him as a monster with megalomania spiraling out of control and into madness.
I used to be quite the anti-transcendentalist, believing that the core to evilness is lying dormant in everyone and in a way I still do. However, I also think one has control over their decisions in life before descending to such a level of ’sin’.
In conclusion, I would have to say that Sylar willingly allowed the madness to take over him to be somebody extraordinary.