Ever since NBC's sci-fi show Heroes came back on the air this year, it's been an interminable mess, causing critics and fans to wonder how the show could've fallen from a shining first season to the pandering crap of today.
It might all be Kansas's fault.
The evidence was only coincidental at first -- a ham-fisted shout out to Sprint shoehorned into the season opener. But last night's visit to Lawrence also marked a low point in storytelling that will keep me from ever watching again.
So there's this superfast woman who runs away from her true love. Of course she goes to her home in Lawrence, Kansas, which on the show is an endless cornfield with one white house. And when her mind-reader boyfriend finds her, it turns out her powers are gone and she's now a paraplegic or something. Isn't it just the ultimate shocking irony how the fastest character on the show is crippled? Can he love her for her? Also, Seth Green runs a comic-book shop on the edge of the cornfield and likes the Hulk. Don't you want to come back next week? Hulk never come back!
Since the producers left this cliffhanger in the Lawrence farmhouse, I assume they'll spend some more time in our backyard. But I think I'm done here. Get out of Kansas, Heroes! And don't take ad money for our local businesses, either! The deeper into Kansas you get, the more you stink of failure.
-- Peter Rugg
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awesome!
yeah, just caught the episode on hulu last night and chuckled a bit w/ the mention of lawrence and then really had a laugh when they teleported there and it was nothing but a corn field taken right from a Superman origin story or Wizard of Oz.
guess you have to be a bit deeper in the geek pit to get the red huld reference, but i do admit that it was pretty lame.
however, lets not forget that we're watching a living comic book here. it's just geek porn, not Sopranos.
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