Heroes Strikin' Out

[botias]

I tried to watch Heroes the other night, Episode 1, season 1.

Strike 1: Pritty professor guy talks about how we use only 10% of our brain. Yis, and don't forget that masturbating will make you go blind and you should always forward virus warnings to everyone you know

Strike 2: First female character is a sex worker

Strike 3: Second female character is a cheerleader

If the professor is actually supposed to know not of which he speaks, then my respect for the show will be raised a smidge, but I probably still won't watch. Frankly, too guy porn for my tastes.

Comments

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

While I agree with your strikes, and for the first several eps I was complaining about that sort of thing to my sister (we both watch it) ... the show just gets better and better. I can forgive the sex worker/cheerleader/fluffynewagefauxscience/clichés because it's a damn good fascinating story with increasingly-more-complex and enjoyable characters.

I keep thinking it's going to go flat, but instead it just improves by the week. I'm continually impressed by it! (And having said that, I'm crossing my fingers.)

And Buffy was a cheerleader too. Just sayin'.

[botias.livejournal.com]

My husband kept watching. He says he was hooked in by the end of the first episode. I'll put it on my 'maybe' list. :)