What's a dying giraffe sound like?
So, fandom related post just because I haven't updated this thing due to the UNGODLY amount of school work I've been having to keep up with. Having four animation classes is kicking my ass three ways to Sunday but with a lot of work I've been able to keep ontop of most things though being sick for five days certainly didn't work in my favor....
ANYWAY so most of the things flying around on the internets right now is the fact that Heroes has indeed been cancelled. And in all truth I don't honestly know how to feel about this. =\
Those of you who know me know my love for the series and how it's become one of my regular fandoms. I was actually introduced to it by a good friend of mine (which is how I get into a lot of shit now a days) and after seeing the pilot at my old boyfriend's house I can say that I was instantly drawn in. Not caring how much I had in my account I rushed out and bought season one to enjoy and enjoy it I did. I watched the thing from start to finish over the span of a few days and I was hooked on the fandom.
That was the year that season 3 aired and I would actually get to watch it live. The teaser trailers looked fantastic but of course looks can be very deceiving. What I expected was something that was just as good as the first season like a lot of you but instead we got a convoluted mess that wound up bastardizing and killing off certain favorites. It brought the series to a certain lameness from which it probably wasn't going to be able to recover from and boy was I right.
Course I kept watching just to see if it could redeem itself and I wanted to know what was going to happen even if the end results were incredibly STUPID.
I enjoyed the later half of the season than the previous one but by the time the fourth rolled around it was getting to a point where I just didn't care anymore. I like to compare it to a roller coaster, it started out as fun and exciting and awesome but towards the end the only thing I wanted to do was get off and vomit.
I don't even know what the whole point of it was to be honest, motivations kept changing and kept coming at me from left field. Just when I thought I'd have a grasp on the plot and what everyone was trying to do BAM! someone would hit me upside the head with a 2x4 and I'd forget what the fuck all was going on.
I think it all boils down to squandering potential. The writers had plenty of opportunities to turn a bad show good but instead they either killed off or wrote off any characters that had the potential to make the show interesting while the stupid ones lived. All the good and well rounded characters were cheated by dying some horrible death while we never experienced justice for said deaths. One of them in particular being a flying senator, but oh no lets just be friends with the guy who killed him. BOOSH!... Also they sort of bended over backwards to the whims of a particular actress on the show in season 4 and it was BLATANTLY OBVIOUS who the culprit was. Just when things would start to get interesting we would cut away for 20 minutes of having to deal with her.
Last time I checked the show was called Heroes you know with an s thus signifying that it's plural.
Then came the final nail in the coffin for me, by the end of the fourth season I didn't even recognize the majority of the characters I had come to love, each and every one of them had been bastardized to a point where it was just getting painful to watch.
All in all I think this cancellation comes across as the mercy kill. It was essentially like watching an animal slowly bleed itself out to death, the only right thing to do at the time would probably be to kill it and end its suffering...
although there are talks that we're getting a finale event. But more on that later.
TLDR: The ride was fun but all I really wanted to do at the end was get off.
ANYWAY so most of the things flying around on the internets right now is the fact that Heroes has indeed been cancelled. And in all truth I don't honestly know how to feel about this. =\
Those of you who know me know my love for the series and how it's become one of my regular fandoms. I was actually introduced to it by a good friend of mine (which is how I get into a lot of shit now a days) and after seeing the pilot at my old boyfriend's house I can say that I was instantly drawn in. Not caring how much I had in my account I rushed out and bought season one to enjoy and enjoy it I did. I watched the thing from start to finish over the span of a few days and I was hooked on the fandom.
That was the year that season 3 aired and I would actually get to watch it live. The teaser trailers looked fantastic but of course looks can be very deceiving. What I expected was something that was just as good as the first season like a lot of you but instead we got a convoluted mess that wound up bastardizing and killing off certain favorites. It brought the series to a certain lameness from which it probably wasn't going to be able to recover from and boy was I right.
Course I kept watching just to see if it could redeem itself and I wanted to know what was going to happen even if the end results were incredibly STUPID.
I enjoyed the later half of the season than the previous one but by the time the fourth rolled around it was getting to a point where I just didn't care anymore. I like to compare it to a roller coaster, it started out as fun and exciting and awesome but towards the end the only thing I wanted to do was get off and vomit.
I don't even know what the whole point of it was to be honest, motivations kept changing and kept coming at me from left field. Just when I thought I'd have a grasp on the plot and what everyone was trying to do BAM! someone would hit me upside the head with a 2x4 and I'd forget what the fuck all was going on.
I think it all boils down to squandering potential. The writers had plenty of opportunities to turn a bad show good but instead they either killed off or wrote off any characters that had the potential to make the show interesting while the stupid ones lived. All the good and well rounded characters were cheated by dying some horrible death while we never experienced justice for said deaths. One of them in particular being a flying senator, but oh no lets just be friends with the guy who killed him. BOOSH!... Also they sort of bended over backwards to the whims of a particular actress on the show in season 4 and it was BLATANTLY OBVIOUS who the culprit was. Just when things would start to get interesting we would cut away for 20 minutes of having to deal with her.
Last time I checked the show was called Heroes you know with an s thus signifying that it's plural.
Then came the final nail in the coffin for me, by the end of the fourth season I didn't even recognize the majority of the characters I had come to love, each and every one of them had been bastardized to a point where it was just getting painful to watch.
All in all I think this cancellation comes across as the mercy kill. It was essentially like watching an animal slowly bleed itself out to death, the only right thing to do at the time would probably be to kill it and end its suffering...
although there are talks that we're getting a finale event. But more on that later.
TLDR: The ride was fun but all I really wanted to do at the end was get off.