TV Jots

Patience Is Waning

Fair Warning: Long-Winded, Useless Rant Ahead…

It’s hard for me to believe now that I’m the same person who started a fan community for Heroes when the show first debuted and diligently watched each episode, sometimes even managing to write extensive, detailed recaps. Where has my love gone?

I suppose I could also ask where has Heroes‘ appeal gone. All this season, I’ve been unable to stay focused on the show, often tuning out midway through episodes with a promise to myself that I’ll surf over to NBC.com or Hulu to play catch-up before the next episode airs. That hasn’t happened yet, of course.

Last night during “I Am Become Death,” somewhere around the point Hiro whined for the millionth time “Let me out! I have to save the world!” (or something like that), I went into a stupor again. I used to love this show all kinds of ways, but now I’m inching dangerously close toward being unable to stand it.

The convoluted plots, non-stop time-jumping, tedious dialogue, and ripped-off powers are really trying my patience. The last irks me most. With the considerable creative brain power behind the series and the possibilities truly unlimited, can they really not avoid duplicating powers among characters?

It’s that much harder keeping track of three dozen people when half of them seem to have the same “special” ability, not to mention that the whole idea of specialness is weakened when several people are “special” in the same way.

Am I going to have to give up on Heroes and just wait for the DVD so I can slog through the muck at my own leisure? With each new bombastic episode, it’s looking more and more like that is what’s going to happen. Dear Tim Kring & Company, please trim the fat from this Heroes mess before viewers overdose on it and walk away.