Excessive Opinions

My thoughts on the TV show “Heroes” has truly been a ride of ups and downs. It started off great, I watched the first season as it aired in America and thought it was great. By the time it reached England I was over it and having to wait so long for season two, which didn’t live up to expectations, kinda killed it for me. I forced myself to watch season three and four. It got better and it got worse but it never really grabbed me as an amazing show.

It’s been coming since season two but finally Heroes has been cancelled! Unlike Claire Bennet the show is finally dead and bar chatter of a final straight-to-TV film (designed to tie off most of the stories) it won’t be coming back. The ratings have dropped ridiculously and looking at the numbers I’m really surprised it even got a fourth season.

Personally, I hate the characters. Claire is an annoying whiny brat, Hiro isn’t nearly as interesting as you first thought and Peter, when not being an emo, just stupidly runs into danger without thought. The only character I wanted to find out more about was the invisible man and due to various off-screen problems it was clear the chances of him coming back were extremely slim. I feel that the main success of the show came from trying to figure out these characters and how they’ll each use their powers. Once the audience knew exactly who everyone was and what their goals were, they got bored. The conflict was usually silly, characters flipped from good to bad too often and the amount of dramatic irony was literally off the charts.

I usually don’t include charts and things in my stuff but I thought this was important. This really backs up what people are saying about the show. It’s kinda surprising really, I thought it was doing better and I’m confused about the lack of advertising after season three. You would think that with the continuously diminishing numbers NBC would have either cancel it there and then or release a pretty substantial advertising campaign to re-establish a strong viewer ship for season four.

This film is out today in the UK (and looks awesome.) I think I’ve talked about this before on my Twitter but it looks like a rather good take on the old film. It seems creepy, not veering too far from the original film yet still worth the overpriced cost of visiting a cinema.

I’ve only seen the first film out of the series and I loved it. It was Johnny Depp’s first ever film, it was arguably quite dated but it still kept my attention and was enjoyable. I would watch it again and it’s my idea of a good popcorn film. This remake looks like it’ll be similar in that respect. From the posters to the TV spots it look like I could easily sit there, silently moving a single piece of popcorn into my mouth very slowly… The director, Samuel Bayer, is fairly unknown when thinking about films. Most of the previous work is primarily made up of rock music videos, so I’m interested to see his take on this film, being a more long-form media.

Freddy Krueger hasn’t changed too much and the actor is literally perfect for the role. If I was to choose anyone over Robert Englund to play this role, it would be Jackie Earle Haley. He was awesome in Watchmen and then even better in Human Target. Rorschach and Guerrero are completely different characters but I love them both, despite being rather despicable people; I really hope Jackie Earle Haley manages this same effect with Freddy. I don’t have any reason to doubt that he will. I’m not going to lie that he is the main reason I’m going to pony up the money to see this on the big screen.

I’m watching this film. I’ll probably tell you about it after I have but as it is I’m really excited. It looks to be something good. This film seems to be a bit more focused on Freddy himself than on Nancy, so I do wonder how that shift will work when it comes to the story.

A new show I really like lately has been Ugly Americans; it’s just a nice type of comedy. This show is set in an alternate USA, where people live side by side with monsters, demons, wizards, zombies, vampires and various other such creatures. It’s nicely animated and the characters are all fairly interesting.

Its set in New York, our main character is Mark Lilly. Having recently moved to the city and working as a social worker we follow him around the city having to solve the many problems which come from integrating monsters into the American population. His workmate Leonard is an alcoholic five hundred year old wizard. Mark’s roommate is Randall Skeffington; a frat dude gone zombie who is absolutely hilarious. Callie Maggotbone, daughter of the devil, is his boss but also has a semi-fling like relationship going on.

The show has very parody based when it comes to the story lines and I think they do it in a really funny way. For example one episode is based around Randall “coming out” to his parents about having become a zombie. You could argue that some of the episodes are a little cliché but I think the supernatural twist is really fun. I really like the style of the animation and the voice actors really suit the characters. Everything just seems to fit well and there’s nothing I don’t like about the show, really. I would compare it to The Simpsons, possibly even Archer to a small extent.

The show was originally thought up by Devin Clark, who I have no information on at all. It was then developed by David M. Stern, writer for The Simpsons, and should have seven episodes in the first season. I’ve watched up to episode six so far and I just love it. The first episode got over two million views and hopefully that’s kept up as I really want this to continue. It’s good and stuff like this usually ends up getting cancelled.

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Conservative. The Tory party will help out the rich billionaires and possibly focus a little on the NHS for the PR benefits. This party generally has terrible policies which will either hurt us in the long run or simply won’t help the right people. Their leader, somewhat of a twat, will change things though. You can be fairly sure David Cameron is in this solely to try and get a little fame, because it was the easiest route for him to take in life and as he actually thinks that he’s not a twat. Vote for this party if you want the world to spiral out of control slightly. I think the general public do want change but they’re not looking into the specifics of this change. Remember: Margaret Thatcher.

LibDem. Who? What? Oh, right… Them. Yeah, I think I’ve heard of ‘em.

Yeah, this party doesn’t really do much; their general policies are that if something doesn’t work just get unskilled inexperienced people in to do it instead. (Surely that’s a hint at their own party, when you think about them wanting to run the country.) They’re the ones who came up with getting parents to run schools. Don’t vote for them at all but if you do; expect businesses to close down. People seem to like this party because there’s a general feeling that the leader isn’t a twat and that they might lower taxes a little. The trade off, though, is that the actual economy will likely not get any attention from this lot.

The UK General election is coming up, it’s hard to judge who to vote for this year, I’ll admit. So looking around online you can get a general sense of the parties, I’ve not really seen any true information to help you vote though. Everything’s fairly similar, nothing stands out and I’m sure the results will be unexpected. My thoughts? Why, well,  here’s the three main parties from the perspective of satire.

Labour.  Helping out the lower income families, small businesses and supposedly focused on welfare. This party is generally quite good but its leader, Gordon Brown, might as well be an inanimate carbon rod. Vote this party in and there will be a load of good ideas thrown around but no actual change. Things will continue on their path, slowly moving generally forward in most areas. Nothing drastic here and with the economic environment as it is; most people agree we do need a drastic change.

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