Spring Break
The Not-So Chosen One: Heroes saves viewers from lackluster TV season
Shaun Boutwell
Issue date: 3/15/07 Section: Entertainment
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03/15/07 - As March signifies the end of winter sweeps, most faithful television viewers are now left with a couple weeks of reruns until their shows' remaining episodes start airing in mid-April.
Luckily for me, a few of the shows I watch religiously, such as 24 and Battlestar Galactica (don't laugh), are running their last arc of episodes without any of those frustrating breaks. Unfortunately, however, both series have been surprisingly lackluster or predictable as of late. I still have hope they will return to their former glory, but I digress.
After a three-month hiatus, Lost is airing without interruption, but even this show isn't without its problems. Imagine a hot girl in college that constantly flirts with the entire male campus population but never puts out. That's the equivalent of Lost; it takes so long to satisfy fans with answers that the show's producers might as well scatter out the episodes inconsistently.
I'd have to say that personally, my two top choices for this year have been The Office and Heroes. I won't focus on The Office today, simply because I was already a big fan of it prior to the show's third season. For me, Heroes gets my vote for single-handedly reinvigorating this year's drab television landscape.
I'll have to admit, I had no strong desire to give this show a chance when I saw a handful of previews for it back in September. Being an avid comic book fan during my childhood, I scoffed at the premise of a television show about a group of superheroes.
"No way can they pull it off!" I thought. "What a blatant attempt to cash in on the success of the X-Men movie franchise and produce a sub-par rip-off!" (As a side note, X-Men: The Last Stand was complete and utter filth, besides Multiple Man).
So I virtually ignored the show until mid-February, when curiosity and boredom got the better of me and I gave the pilot episode a shot. Needless to say, all it took was 53 minutes for me to be hooked. In just three days, I burned through 15 episodes to get caught up, and have been watching it every week since.
Luckily for me, a few of the shows I watch religiously, such as 24 and Battlestar Galactica (don't laugh), are running their last arc of episodes without any of those frustrating breaks. Unfortunately, however, both series have been surprisingly lackluster or predictable as of late. I still have hope they will return to their former glory, but I digress.
After a three-month hiatus, Lost is airing without interruption, but even this show isn't without its problems. Imagine a hot girl in college that constantly flirts with the entire male campus population but never puts out. That's the equivalent of Lost; it takes so long to satisfy fans with answers that the show's producers might as well scatter out the episodes inconsistently.
I'd have to say that personally, my two top choices for this year have been The Office and Heroes. I won't focus on The Office today, simply because I was already a big fan of it prior to the show's third season. For me, Heroes gets my vote for single-handedly reinvigorating this year's drab television landscape.
I'll have to admit, I had no strong desire to give this show a chance when I saw a handful of previews for it back in September. Being an avid comic book fan during my childhood, I scoffed at the premise of a television show about a group of superheroes.
"No way can they pull it off!" I thought. "What a blatant attempt to cash in on the success of the X-Men movie franchise and produce a sub-par rip-off!" (As a side note, X-Men: The Last Stand was complete and utter filth, besides Multiple Man).
So I virtually ignored the show until mid-February, when curiosity and boredom got the better of me and I gave the pilot episode a shot. Needless to say, all it took was 53 minutes for me to be hooked. In just three days, I burned through 15 episodes to get caught up, and have been watching it every week since.
