Another thought I had today:
A few years ago I was sitting on the couch watching television with my sister when I landed on a new show that I was not familiar with. The first thing I see is a male figure all in black with a baseball cap on. He is standing at the end of a long hall in a High School. It's dark. I then see two other people; a cheerleader and this guy that is seeming to keep the man in dark from the cheerleader. The next thing I see is the man in black lift up his hand and suddenly the lockers start flying off the walls at the cheerleader and her "friend". The "friend" of the cheerleader tells her to run as far away as possible while he attempts to fend off the man in black. He fails and the man in black pursues the cheerleader into the women's locker room where he sees a different cheerleader getting ready for the big homecoming game. Without warning, you see the man in black somehow pinning her up against the lockers without even laying a finger on her. The original cheerleader tries to be brave and pull him away from the other cheerleader but the man in black throws her back with such force that it busted up the whole wall, but curiously, this cheerleader was uninjured. With Cheerleader #1 out of the picture for him, he can concentrate on what he came for(so he thinks..). Suddenly, the man in black points to the top of her head and with blood pouring down her face he slowly saws the top of her head off using nothing but the point of his finger.
At the time, it was awe-inspiring and it even got better. Of course I am talking about the NBC show "Heroes". The man in black turned out to be Sylar, an extremely powerful individual with the ability to steal powers/abilities from others by killing them. The cheerleader turns out to be Claire Bennett, who no matter how hard she tries, she cannot die. Her body mearly regenerates. And the friend that was trying to save her is Peter Petrelli, the badest-ass off them all. Peter has the abilities to absorb powers/abilities just by being the the vicinity of other people with powers. There of course are many others with abilities and powers and they all share this common bond. But the comic-esqe style and real human emotion qualities are the reason I became a fan.
The reason this show has been on my mind lately is because I have been extremely unhappy with the writing on the show. The first season is one of the best seasons of any show ever, honestly. With the anticipation of the second season came great excitement, but something happened...they started going off on strange tangents trying to introduce new people with garbage abilities and making the characters with amazing abilities lose them or have them modified or something. It didn't help that the writers strike happened during that second season and so I guess I can kind of understand what they were dealing with.
The third season was very average. At times it had its good points, but as a whole it just made it way more confusing than it should be. The fourth season, which is the most recent, showed some signs of promise and I hope when the fifth season comes out they go back to the original story that made the show a legend. The season finale of the fourth season was the best episode since season one.
Heroes is a show for everybody that has ever been felt left out or alone. Its a show that we all have greatness inside of us in one form or another. Heroes gives hope for average people like me that we may make something out of our lives someday. But most importantly, it shows us that our talents and abilities are gifts that we should be grateful for and we should not take them for granted.
As for now...I'll stick to reruns of Lost and Planet Earth...
Good Day
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