professorx

February 18, 2010 4:31 pm

This show hits the sweet spot for a forty-ish guy like me.  The whole show has a light-drama feel of a MacGuyver (Christopher Chance seems to know EVERYTHING) crossed over with the do-gooder-mercenary-for-hire feel of the A-Team (Chance is like Hannibal and Face rolled into one).  Every week is a new adventure with an undercurrent of a seemingly deep and elaborate, slowly-unfolding mystery/secret reminiscent of Bourne Identity with Bourne-like up-close hand-to-hand combat.  I've loved every episode so far and really, really hope that they don't screw it up.  This is my new "can't miss" show because I'm dropping Heroes--I've given them too many chances (hah!).

April 28, 2009 7:01 pm

I thought this volume started kinda weak (3-4 episodes), kicked into gear for most of the rest and went off the rails the last 2 trying to re-weave loose threads and cut off stagnant ones.  Very disappointing attempt at saving this show from bad ratings.

1. Nathan had to die in a "heroic" manner (fighting) because his character got so twisted up (rounded up heroes and put them into comas) and lame (doing God's work?!?) since volume 2.  Wasn't his save at end of volume 1 awesome (taking Peter away from NY to save everyone from the blast)?  What happened to that guy?

2.  Matt met his soulmate (Daphne) only to lose her tragically and 2 episodes later he sweetly reconciled with his ex-wife ("If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with"???).  Didn't make any sense

3.  Smart of Peter to take shapechanging from Sylar.  Too bad it's going to mess him up (Sylar was really losing it) worse than trying to cope with all the powers he was absorbing during Volume 1 & 2. And wasn't that (Peter losing it) getting tiresome?

4.  Hiro is the idealist and hero at heart.  So they kill his girl, send him into the past where he makes a mortal enemy of his idol, strip him of his powers, send him back into the past to helplessly watch him mom die again and then give him his power back but now it's killing him.  Writers, make up your mind.

5.  Rebel was the guiding force in the resurgence during this last volume.  Yay, it's Micah.  Sylar sends him away and he literally disappears from program.  What the heck?

6.  Too much screen time for Moron-hinder & Claire bear which gives the audience impression that they are important but they do so many 180's (i'm tough, i'm weak, i'm smart, i'm stupid, i know what to do, i don't know what to do, i trust my dad, i don't trust my dad) their characters get lamer and lamer.

January 12, 2009 8:10 pm

Are there any adult comic book readers out there who think they would be turned to a life-long devotion to comic book reading by starting their hobby (passion?) today as a child/pre-adolescent?  Should new comic book readers only be mature teens and adults?  I wish there were MORE comic books out there written to inspire and astound young minds.  I think pre-80's comics did just that.  Good guys were GOOD.  Bad guys were BAD.  Good (eventually) triumphed over evil.  I think those "easy" basic morals/beliefs are easily understood by young readers.  Those ideals can form the basis of a strong moral core for a person throughout their life (whether or not they continue to read comics).  Yes, that may sound corny and reading those old issues feels corny but it wouldn't to a young person.

Nonetheless, I'm all for "mature" comics.  I don' think I would be in my 40's and still reading them without them, but it saddens me that the next generation is not picking up comics or picking up the "iconic" comics (i.e., Superman, Captain America, Spider-Man, etc) and "getting" them or getting anything out of them.  There should be comics and characters that should remain "iconic".  If I want mind-blowing, mature content, I'll pick up Indie books or "Max" books.

January 9, 2009 7:32 pm It started dying towards end of "first" volume.  I half-heartedly bought 3 issues of reboot and dropped it.  I heard it's cancelled.  I was the biggest X-Men fan for years and this was the last X-title I was still collecting.  Oh well.  I can always go back to my boxes and read my 80's/90's X-Men when they were really something to be proud of.