Heroes, Interrupted
As I anticipate watching my DVR’d Heroes season finale, I reflect on what has been, for me, a sub-par season. And here’s why.
After you watch enough television, you learn what kind of fan you are. I like complicated. I would prefer to be a little confused rather than feel like everything is being spelled out for me. That’s why, even though I’m still not entirely sure what happened, I still love season two of Veronica Mars
The first half of Heroes season three, the one with Alexander and Loeb, is complicated. It moves in unpredictable, (mostly) interesting directions with almost every ep. A few times it really loses the character thread, and even the narrative thread, but it never feels boring, predictable or oversimplified.
The second half, without them, has every important plot point repeated in every ep, sometimes more than once. Very few surprises.
But it’s easy to follow.
(That having been said, mad shout out to Željko Ivanek, who is pwning this half.)
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helmer Mark Waters. It is however, also coming from the writers behind Rebound and Four Christmases. Okay. You can go back to scoffing.
, required what can only be described as a weird fucking skill set, and Tennant somehow hit every note.
, which tumbled into obscurity last fall theatrically, is finding new life in the land of iTunes rentals, ranking third at the moment ahead of better-known titles like Zack and Miri (which is also making up for lost theatrical love on the Web) and right behind something called Twilight.
probably gaining the most from the extra exposure down at number 10. Man, people really didn’t go see that movie.
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and The Wire. The writer, however, has given us Lakeview Terrace and Money Train, so I’m pretty sure Beyonce getting in Ali Larter’s face for macking on her man will be about as bad as 
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with a new narrator (James Earl Jones instead of Patrick Stewart). Early buzz is good.
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writer/director Dito Montiel, so probably a step up from Never Back Down. Terence Howard and Luis Guzman in the supporting cast, but the casting that really has me stoked is Roger Guenveur Smith, whom you may remember as Smiley from Do the Right Thing, but looks to make a nice turn as a villain here.
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helmer Kevin Macdonald up in here directing the likes of Russel Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Robin Wright Penn, Helen Mirren, Jeff Daniels, Viola Davis and Harry Lennix. Where it gets interesting is the three-way screenplay. Can the mad skillz of Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, the Bourne trilogy) and Billy Ray (Shattered Glass, Breach) work and play well with the contribution by Michale Matthew Carnahan (the flawed-but-compelling The Kingdom and the flat-out hated-on Lions for Lambs)? Potential for serious greatness here, though the 
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. Chev, now with an artificial heart that has to be juiced every hour to keep going, has to track down his real heart before he dies. Kind of like a buff Tin Man.
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Yeah, that happened.
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