Additional rant regarding Heroes 3x01

[brighteyedjill]

I couldn't resist sharing this gem from a New York Post review of the Heroes premiere:

Instead, this show, which was once so thrilling and fun, has become full of itself, its characters spouting crazy nonsense.

Here's one I wish someone would translate for me: "There's a divinity that shapes our ends - rough hew them how we will," spouts the enigmatic industrialist Linderman played by Malcolm McDowell, who should win an Emmy for keeping a straight face while reciting these lines.

Interesting point, sir. But did those words sound familiar somehow? As if you, a New York critic, might be expected to recognize them? Did you try Googling them? They're from one of the most famous speeches in one of the most famous plays of all time. Still stumped? Hamlet. Dumbass. And that crazy monologue at the end, about slouching toward Bethlehem? Yeah. Google that, too.

Comments

[thepandorarose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, put the the in their place. I'm sick of people saying the show is dumb because they don't get it. Its so highly intelligent. I like to watch TV and think!

[brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was mostly appalled that this guy was really snarky about an example that he didn't even bother to look up... Wow. Made himself look all manner of foolish. Which made my job easy :) But the rest of his review is not too bright. He suggests that the heroes do something heroic. Like rescue kittens from trees. Maybe he missed the whole "prevent billions of deaths by preventing the outbreak of a terrible virus" element of last season...

[thepandorarose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I never get people who don't understand the show has style... yes, they save the world it's a comic book.

There use to be a great reviewer for the NYTimes. In the first review I read of her's she managed to have an Oscar Wilde, The Importance Of Being Earnest reference. I now forget her name, but I miss you.

Love your icon. :)

[brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com]

Comic books have a logic all their own. And people don't complain about Lost having broken logic? Srsly.

I expect reviewers for major publications to be at least a marginally well-read. Oscar Wilde definitely would get someone points with me!

The icon's by lay_of_luthien. I do hope we get some more Adam in this season soon...

[thepandorarose.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know where you are but, the NY Post is kind a joke - it's considered a tabloid almost. I'm not surprised. The post is the newspaper you pick up off the subway because someone left it there and you're bored because you're ipod isn't working. lol.

Yes, I think Adam is returning, for how long I don't know. I am hoping that he gets made a regular again in vol 4 and perhaps he is only a guest star now for money issues - not worth making him a regular now.

I'm desperate for him to have a scene with Angela. I'm already bummed we won't see Angela and Bob interact, but perhaps a flashback. And I think Claire needs to ask Adam some questions. Not to mention I bet Adam would get a kick out of Angela's grandchild being like him - I think he's see it as a just desert.

[brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear Adam. I know they have to leave him in his coffin for a while, but I would love to see him and Angela mix it up. And dead people usually stay pretty dead in Heroes, but I wouldn't mind a Bob flashback. Because I love Steven Tobolowsky, and I wouldn't mind seeing more scenes with him and Elle, or him and Angela. And while we're at it, I think we should add Arthur Petrelli to the mix.

[thepandorarose.livejournal.com]

I LOVE everything your saying here, EVERYTHING! :)

[47-trek-47.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com]

I agree. I hope he opens an inbox full of "you're dumb" e-mails and cries a little.