It’s sorta shameful that I haven’t blogged about NBC’s hit tv show, Heroes. I mean, it’s a tv show made for someone like me. I haven’t missed an episode and I’ve gone so far as to research the show and theories surrounding its plot. It’s just that kind of show.
Heroes I can sink my teeth into. So what if it’s the same basic premise as the entire X-Men franchise? The TV Show approaches it with class and a touch of realism that makes it worthwhile. Besides, I don’t have a weekly X-Men show to watch — or even weekly X-Men comic book for that matter.
It would seem that I got on the Heroes blog train a little too late, because there is no way I can blog everything there is to say about Heroes at this point. So let’s just pick up where we are, shall we?
There’s gonna be a bomb. It’s either gonna be Peter, Sylar, or Ted. Hiro wants to stop it. Future Hiro thinks that can be done by killing Sylar. All of this really doesn’t make sense because we know that 5 years in the future that it’s actually Peter who was the bomb. We also know that Peter already met Ted and has is nuclear-tastic powers.
So, what’s the use in Hiro killing Sylar at this point? Certainly, the future as was depicted in the “Five Years Gone” episode would change if Sylar were dead, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that New York will be saved from apocalyptic annihilation.
I think the more interesting question with only a few episodes left in this first season is whether the bomb will really go off at all or if they will stop that from happening. It seems the show can easily jump the shark by every season being them trying to stop the same damn bomb by doing what Future Hiro or Future Peter tell them to do.
Assuming they’re not gonna do that, I’m behind the theory that the bomb will go off. People will die, but not necessarily Peter or Sylar — maybe not even Ted. This all revolves around my belief that Isaac can’t paint a false future. If he could, then he’s useless and I might as well be Isaac. I can totally paint a picture of what I think is going to happen tomorrow.
If the bomb does go off, I think the show will become even more awesome. A show about a post-apocalyptic New York City is an awesome premise in its own right, to say nothing of superheroes flying around… well in Nathan’s case anyway.
It’s a shame I haven’t blogged heroes all along. So many theories I have, so little space to write. This will have to be the beginning of hopefully something for folk to read that’s more interesting than my vacations or whether or not I mowed the yard.