Somebody call an exterminator!

[hackthis_archive]

Because I am never afraid to mince words I'm just going to say that IMO, Heroes is sucking the big sophomore ass this year. It's slow and monotonous and they are stretching themselves entirely too thin.

If you already have an ensemble cast, adding to that without utilizing what is already there is sloppy and wasteful. And also? Hella convoluted. Last night, I got up and walked away from Heroes, because there was nothing happening.* It pains me to see such a talented cast just picking the lint from their navels.

*I'm having shades of Smallville S2 here, people. Just saying.




a) Kill the boring twins already. When even People magazine is telling you that your casting choices need to be 86'd, you have problems, Tim. I can see how you wanted to go all international and show the human condition. That's great, that's good, that's awesomecakes with sauce. HOWEVER. Maya and Alejandro are good for nothing. NOT-HING. They are getting Sylar home, lovely. How about he kills them, and then kills everybody else and oh, wait, we did that already. Not all recycling is bad, however...

b) Are you really pulling the save the world card, again? Wow, Tim. I didn't know you'd used up all your good shit already and were being forced to recycle so soon. Sad, baby, v sad. Whatever the case, bring Peter home, this shit is tired. So is his beard. This Irish storyline would be the worst one you'd ever made if it weren't for the No-Wonder Twins.

c) Stop murdering the rest of the world's languages and accents! Jaysis. You want to go to Ireland, rock out. Get me a pint. You want to go to Japan, it's all gravy. But do not think that cheap backlot scenery and people who wouldn't know a proper Irish accent if it jumped them outside a pub are sufficient ambassadors. Stop spending all your cash on special FX and get yourself some quality actors and locations. And stop trying to conquer the whole world at once! You have to do it one continent at a time. Any dictator will tell you that.

d) I think the impending Writer's Strike is the best possible thing that can happen to this show (as I've been saying for the last week or two). They need to burn this current story arc, pretend is never happen, i.e. PULL A DALLAS, and make this crap be Peter in a coma.

Start the whole season over again. NOW.

e) For the love of god, streamline your cast. Have a month of killing. Just kill people off every episode. Not random ass periphery characters, but people who are actually on the show for longer than three seconds. You have TOO MANY COOKS IN THE KITCHEN. They're spoiling the meal.

f) If West is another Petrelli, just tell us already. We know you can only have chemistry with people you are related to on this show. We get that. I have seen Firefly finally, I know how this all works.


I believe you should do one thing and do it well, and then, once you speak that language, you can learn another. One good year does not a whole series make. At this rate I'd be shocked if they made it to syndication, which is very sad making.*

*Oh, I know NBC will drag the Golden Goose out, but it's going to be painful as hell to see it done at the rate they are going.



I am not completely out of sorts today. Here watch David Anders singing. Oh, and Greg Grunberg too. Adrian, ilu.

Also, I finally watched Firefly the series. I know I am late, whatever. I only watched it b/c I'd watched Serenity six times. Hey, Firefly didn't have Chiwetel Ejiofor, Serenity did. I love everyone. I want a Mal. And a Jayne. And a Zoe. And now I see who made too-close siblings all the rage. Anybody want to recommend their favorite Firefly story to me? Hit me up. I am equal-opportunity anything and everything, except Inara who annoyed me to near-death.

Comments

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

All my Firefly recs are here, mostly Mal or River-centric, het, gen, girlslash and crazy space incest.

[starfishchick]

I actually don't read tonnes of Firefly fic - not sure why - but my favourite Firefly fic is actually a crossover: A Million Light Years from Home by, um, musesfool. (Harry Potter/Firefly. Sirius, ensemble, gen.)

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

WORD. I want a Heroes killing spree toot sweet.

(Not by Nathan. I just like this icon.)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

*shares the icon love*

[antheia.livejournal.com]

It didn't have Chiwetel Ejiofor, but it did have Richard Brooks (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1444462/). *G*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You know that is the only episode I really really didn't like. The black man threatening the white woman with violation just made my skin crawl.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I approve of your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Plz to sign all life savings over on the dotted line.

[fivil.livejournal.com]

Oh god, Heroes. I totally tuned out upon the realization I simply stopped caring. Or maybe I never cared enough. But it was fun to watch regardless of how little I cared for most of the cast during S1. But now.. Meh.

S1 is airing in my country now and I sort of want to tell people not to bother at all. I have a feeling most of them will end up extremely disappointed. It's sort of sad, this could've been THE awesomely thrilling mystery show to kick Lost's ass.

They should totally pull a Dallas. It's all just a comic book Hiro was reading!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Pulling a Dallas would be the best thing to happen to them this season. Seriously.

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

I am not so annoyed at Heroes as you, but I just have to say I love it when you get your bitch on.

What pairings are you interested in in Firefly? Or are we equal opportunity with this one?

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I am equal opportunity on Firefly, except for Inara. Really gen, het, slash, BRING IT. I also am thinking on Chuck slash. I love Chuck.

[way2busymom.livejournal.com]

Huh. Someone else thought Heroes did kinda suck last night. I thought it was just me being totally & mind-numbingly exhausted last night.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Oh, not just suck, like flat out was bad. And I'm not even referring to the lack of Nathan, which is how I know I'm pissy, because not even Adrian Pasdar could've improved that mess. Unless he was naked. Naked Adrian Pasdar, ooooooooh....

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

For the love of god, streamline your cast. Have a month of killing. Just kill people off every episode. Not random ass periphery characters, but people who are actually on the show for longer than three seconds. You have TOO MANY COOKS IN THE KITCHEN. They're spoiling the meal.

YES YES YES. Oh, thank you GOD yes. As long as none of the dead people are Petrellis, Kring can kill off as many fucking characters as he wants. It's TOO MUCH. I detest it when creators say their show is about the "story" and not the "characters" because that automatically says to me: (1) they obviously don't care if their shit gets cancelled; (2) they don't give a crap about their fans; and (3) they have NO idea how fandom works or why people tune in. Kring is a stupid, stupid man.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I think Tim Kring is lost since Bryan Fuller left him to work on Pushing Daisies. The show has no soul. No nothing. It's just chasing its tail. Tim needs to see if Bryan will come and do some consulting or something.

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

Firefly was the first show I ever read and wrote (really bad) fic for.

Other pairings will come and go, but Mal/Simon will probably always be my greatest love.

I can give you recs... mostly Mal/Simon, but also Simon/Jayne, Mal/Jayne, and Mal/Simon/Jayne, and possibly Mal/Simon/Saffron, but now I can't remember if that fic actually exists, or if I only dreamed about it.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Did you know that Saffrom is on Mad Men? Now you really must watch it. I want to read it all. Hook me up. I'm equal opportunity everybody, just no Inara.

[brandil.livejournal.com]

Three Firefly Recs: http://del.icio.us/brandil/Firefly

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[knowledgequeen.livejournal.com]

Julian Sark, singing. Oh, my heart. I miss Alias so much.

And I don't have any fic recs, unfortunately, but there is a River in my brain and she chews on it from time to time. My OTP of doom is crossover, though: River and Dean Winchester from Supernatural.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Hey, I wrote River/Dean fic once. They do work in a crazy sort of way. celli called it Crazy Space Wincest.

[wyoluvr.livejournal.com]

http://del.icio.us/wyoluvr/firefly

not all fic, but i didn't always have a 'fanfic' tag, so there's no easy was to separate them.

THANK JESUS someone else hates this season of Heroes. i'm not really watching so much as fastforwarding, but i think i'm almost done with that. dude, i never thought Peter could bore me. he's pretty! but i hate that storyline so much that not even pretty can carry it through.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

i hate that storyline so much that not even pretty can carry it through.

I've never been the biggest Peter fan, but this is like lemon in the eye EVERY. FUCKING. WEEK.

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

I'm less willing to write off the entire season to date, but last night was not of the good. Ugh.

West needs to die. Now. And Mohinder needs to regain custody of his brain from wherever the Company hid it.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Mohinder's never been the brightest boy, but there's just too much happening on this show this season. It's like a Top Chef catastrophe.

[maiahaha.livejournal.com]

Eight recs, though two of them are a crossover with Supernatural lol. (http://del.icio.us/shsharktango/Firefly)

I tend to read mostly Mal/Jayne, Wash/Zoe, Crazy Space Incest!, and River/Jayne. :D

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[romancandles.livejournal.com]

FIREFLY. Damn, I forgot how awesome that show was--okay, admittedly it was low budget, but they worked all the cheesy shit and made it awesome. I'm giving you the stink-eye, Kring.

Is Chuck any good? I caught the end of it last night and, unfortunately, might be looking for different hour of television on Monday nights. I'm sort of down with anything that contains a character named Captain Awesome.

ps do you think that the guy to whom last night's shitty episode was dedicated is rolling in his grave?

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

ps do you think that the guy to whom last night's shitty episode was dedicated is rolling in his grave?

I just spit apple everywhere. I didn't maybe think the same thing last night, too. No, definitely not.

[silverakira.livejournal.com]

I've been really lax about keeping up with Heroes, just because the finale last year turned me off a ton.

Also: FIREFLY, OMFG. Favorite Firefly story every (although technically it's Serenity fic): The Past and Pending (http://community.livejournal.com/serenity_santa/90047.html) by cherryice.

[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

So... while I'm not enjoying this season as much as I enjoyed season 1, I'm not hating it nearly as much as every one else. I actually kind of like West and Monica. I was getting really bored with the Hiro story, but the recent development in the story has peaked my interest in it again. The only part of the Peter story I like so far is Elle--she needs to come back ASAP. I also don't know how I feel about what seems to be this season's 'Save the world' plot. It looks like it may have the potential to be interesting, but I don't know. And a recurring 'Save the world' plot doesn't bother me that much because I'm used to them from my love of shows like Buffy, Angel, Alias, etc... where every season was them trying to save the world from some different thing every season.

[inimicallyyours.livejournal.com]

In a word, yes. You've pretty much summed up my feelings about season two.

Also,

We know you can only have chemistry with people you are related to on this show. We get that. I have seen Firefly finally, I know how this all works.

*dies*

[millebasia.livejournal.com]

I'm actually really glad that you think last night sucked, because I tuned in for the first time for the latter half of the episode and I was left completely cold. I expected, from how much everyone raves over it, that I would be blown away and want instantly to see the first season and catch up. But I did not. So I'm rather relieved to know that last night was not standard fare - or at least not S1 standard fare.

[undersea.livejournal.com]

hee. i agree completely with all of your heroes points.

[meret.livejournal.com]

*I'm having shades of Smallville S2 here, people. Just saying.

For me it's bringing back flashbacks of Lost season 2. I loved the first season of Lost, and had quit watching by ep 5 or 6 of season 2. I'm not there yet with Hereos, but I am ready to record it and skip through the boring parts.

make this crap be Peter in a coma.

LOL! I had a dream last night that Nathan was the one in the coma. :) Nathan and Matt were arguing about what to do next. Nathan wanted to concentrate on finding Peter, and but Matt was worried about Molly. Finally Matt lost his temper, yelled that Peter was dead and it was time for Nathan to accept that, and then stormed off. Nathan yelled for him to come back.

Then the scene did a weird zoom shot, and we see a horribly burned Nathan lying completely still with his eyes closed in a company hospital bed while we still hear him screaming at Matt. It turns out that Nathan's been in a coma the whole season. The radiation from Peter mutated his abilities, and he's been astrally projecting himself to interact with other people. Then I woke up.

[fangirljen.livejournal.com]

Dude, what a cool dream! Write a fic about it now please?

[arby-m.livejournal.com]

Dude.

THANK YOU for saying this. I thought I was the only one who was seeing a rather precipitous drop in quality this season.

When I stop caring about the characters I start focusing on the pretty (c.f. Smallville, SGA), and even that's been in short supply. Most of the new characters are both fugly and boring. Exceptions: Monica, KB's character (Elle, was it? I was too busy having VM flashbacks to catch her name) and of course Sark. Boring twins? Ugly. Peter's new fag hag girlfiend? Really ugly. West? Boring, ugly and makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

I really, really, really hope that this is not due to Bryan Fuller's departure, or we'll be weeping in our beer for many torturous seasons to come.

[pixelarious.livejournal.com]

I've pretty much given up on Heroes this season. I figured after 2 eps of suckage, I didn't have to waste my time, so the only ep I saw since the second was last week's, for the Kristen Bell. It too sucked, so I wasn't too upset to be out at a party with an open bar instead of home watching it last night.

However, Firefly does not have that problem (which, you know, pros and cons). My del.icio.us page of Firefly recs (http://del.icio.us/vixrex/firefly), heavy on the slash. I adore most the Jayne/Simon, but am also open to Mal/Jayne, or Jayne/anyone, really.

[blueandomlettes.livejournal.com]

yes but did you catch the gayness on Chuck? Captain Awsome couldn't be gayer if he tried.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

yes but did you catch the gayness on Chuck? Captain Awsome couldn't be gayer if he tried.

I am thinking on it, trust me. Unfortunately there's a lot of activity in my head at the moment and Chuck and Awesome are just kind of content to be awkward with each other at the moment.

[indyhat.livejournal.com]

While I don't think S2 outright sucks, I hear you on a lot of this, especially about the Latin Death Twins :-/

However, thank you very much for David Anders - that has brightened my day considerably :)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Yay for the David Anders happy.