heroes

Hey did anyone watch "Heroes" tonight? I haven't seen any new shows this season (mainly because I don't wanna) but there was no mythbusters on tonight and I really don't like that guy's voice who does the narration on that history channel show so I watched "heroes" and despite the crappy looking commericals, I was actually intrigued by the first 8 minutes. The first 8 minutes is the critical time for me to find out if I'm gonna watch a show or not because after having that blockbuster movie pass for the past over a year or so and renting 514 movies (not me, my parents, we actually keep a list of all 514 titles), I've learned to save my precious time and energy for only those movies that can convince me that they are worth watching. And it doesn't have to be all action and excitement during the first 8 minutes, usually it's the writing that either catches me or doesn't. After the opening credits I give each movie 8 minutes to impress me with either the developing plot or the writing (having a hot babe doesn't hurt either). Because what I usually find is that the movie is either a) cookie-cutter action flick with generic fight scenes and way too generic one-liners, b) horror flick based on the assumption that axe + blood + "creative" and overly elaborate deaths = good movie (this formula is only true when there is lots and lots of alcohol involved), c) chick flick, or d) mind-numbingly BORING!

Almost every movie on that list of 514 will fall into one of these categories within the first 8 minutes, you can tell by the writing. So, I say the same goes for these new tv shows (and actually I'm being very generous since tv shows are shorter than movies). But the funny thing is, as I started to watch "heroes" I could tell that it was going to be an overly commercialized tv series with generic writing, but I kept watching! Weird huh? I actually watched the whole thing and just as I was about to say, "hey that's not a bad show I think I'll keep watching," I was reminded why I hardly watch network shows anymore... the commerical for next week's episode.

Talk about stupid! The whole point of a cliffhanger is to keep you interested so that you watch next week, well the cliffhanger at the end of the show lasted about 12 seconds until they showed the scenes from next week's show. Dumbasses. Same thing with Lost (the only other network show I watch on a consistent basis), they show TONS and TONS of commercials and by the time the show comes up you don't need to watch it anymore because you already know what happened, all summed up into one very OVERLY dramatic 15 second commercial. This is my frustration with network tv. Over-dramatic. Generic. Stupid.

Haha, not like I'm too good for network tv or anything, I still watch, but I think that "heroes" could actually be a pretty good show, but I probably won't end up watching it. Too bad.

Ok, I just re-read that and it sounds like I'm really bashing tv but I'm not. I still like stuff, like this weekend they were showing kill bill 1 & 2 back-to-back, that's a pretty awesome movie, really nice looking too, cinematography is what it's called right? haha, yeah, that movie's awesome, I'm gonna be a Crazy 88 for halloween, haha.