Posted by Max Battcher on Nov 2, 2007 twenty five past three pm
I do indeed love Lucy. It certainly has met, if not exceeded, my expectations from Loren Bouchard and H. Jon Benjamin. It's a lot of fun and there have been some killer belly laugh jokes in the series that I couldn't see coming from any other show on television.
As for Heroes, I think there's an interesting dynamic that they are trying for right now and maybe not quite hitting... In comic books there's that sort of dynamism between what is and remains continuity and what gets rewritten and restarted and rebuilt every year. Heroes seems to be trying to find that sweet spot that comic writers have where they can both be true to continuity and the expected (superhero continues to battle big enemies) and yet "constantly fresh" at the same time. It's a tough juggling act that I don't think television writers in the US have ever managed to find, and yet you see it in the near timeless runs of American comics and Dr. Who, among others...
I don't think that Season 2 is as amazing so far as Season 1, and I agree that the "plague" theme from Season 2 does seem a little too similar to the "bomb" theme from Season 1, but I'm still intrigued enough to see where the writers are leading and I feel sympathy towards the writers that they feel they need some sort of "perpetual world crisis" in order to keep the show from feeling too much like a different show. I think this season has a lot of potential left in it and I'm still interested enough in the various current subplots that I'm going to keep following the show. The next few weeks certainly are going to be crucial to how the season gels as a whole and I think things should be interesting and that I'm going to reserve my judgment, just as I did with Season 1 actually, until the mid-season cliff hanger.
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Posted by Max Battcher on Nov 2, 2007 twenty five past three pm
As for Heroes, I think there's an interesting dynamic that they are trying for right now and maybe not quite hitting... In comic books there's that sort of dynamism between what is and remains continuity and what gets rewritten and restarted and rebuilt every year. Heroes seems to be trying to find that sweet spot that comic writers have where they can both be true to continuity and the expected (superhero continues to battle big enemies) and yet "constantly fresh" at the same time. It's a tough juggling act that I don't think television writers in the US have ever managed to find, and yet you see it in the near timeless runs of American comics and Dr. Who, among others...
I don't think that Season 2 is as amazing so far as Season 1, and I agree that the "plague" theme from Season 2 does seem a little too similar to the "bomb" theme from Season 1, but I'm still intrigued enough to see where the writers are leading and I feel sympathy towards the writers that they feel they need some sort of "perpetual world crisis" in order to keep the show from feeling too much like a different show. I think this season has a lot of potential left in it and I'm still interested enough in the various current subplots that I'm going to keep following the show. The next few weeks certainly are going to be crucial to how the season gels as a whole and I think things should be interesting and that I'm going to reserve my judgment, just as I did with Season 1 actually, until the mid-season cliff hanger.