Heroes:the Passing around of the Dumbass Hat(spoilers)
POSTED BY: Lester
UPDATED: Friday, December 12, 2008 22:18
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I have noticed something that the characters of heroes do. it is invisable, a quiet force that seems to pass from one hero to the next. and it, my friends, is called the dumbass hat.
you can not see the dumbass hat, but like god, it is an all powerful force in the show, causing the characters of heroes to do remarkably stupid things. such as the time peter petrelli found out that his father arthur was alive, and aurther said " give me a hug, son."
Really? he fell for that one? i mean, after he gave dear old dad a hug and dad stole his powers, peter looked up at dad like " why?"
Why? because he's a bad guy.moron.
and another one, the electric chick.(i dont remember her name.) she hooks up with sylar because....why? so she can have angry-you-killed-my-dad-sex with him? and then when he kills her on the beach she says " i saw you change." and he's like " nope. I changed my mind, again!muhahaha! now open up!" the dumbass hat cost electric her life.
and speaking of sylar, holy moly batman. every couple of episodes someone wants ot redeem him, or make him a better man, or whatever. and he says " no...im still a bad guy." and their like " no, you can be a good guy! i've seen you change!" and then he kills again, and that person he kills/or is around but cant stop the says " but...i saw you change!" and then he rolls his eyes and says "nope.still a bad guy. i told you i was a bad guy. why do you keep thinking im a good guy?"
(It's because of the dumbass hat, sylar.)
and that whole episode where they had lost thier powers, man that was weak. i mean, the first eclispe gave them their powers, then the second one took their powers away. but how long do eclispe last? a few hours? maybe? and everyone is running around saying " mohinder, you must get our powers back! or i will kill you!" well, couldn't we just...wait for the eclispe to end?and if the powers dont come back, then yeah, start breakin out the test tubes or whatever. but lets wait the four hours or so that an eclispe usually last(am iwrong here? they cant last too long.)and maybe, just maybe, their powers might come back. so instead of having a spaz attack,(im looking at you angry hilbilly guy who beat up mohinder), just take a nap and see how you feel later.
and mohinder, holy crap. that dude messed up big time. he's normal, than he says " hey, lets test this serum that i have no idea what it will do on myself." and then he gets all super strong, which is cool. but then he cocoons that hot central american chick in a cocoon and keeps talking about how much he cares about her. dude, if she has half a brain( and stays the hell away from the dumbass hat.) she'll stay the hell away from you. you cocooned her dude. move on.
but in the end, i think there are two characters who, if not ever, at least they wear the dumbass hat the least. And those are clares adoptive parents, HRG and her A-Mom.
With A-Mom, im thinking of the episode where electric comes to claire's house and then claire and her have a big superpowered fight. at the end of one sceen, claire's on the floor(I think, it's been a while since i've seen this one) and electric is winning. but then A-Mom pours water on electric , and shorts her out. pure, simple, genious. when i saw that, i shouted " finally, someone's thinking!"
and HRG, i think he's my favorite character. yeah, he's a real jerk. he lies to his family, and erased their memories for years. but now, in season three, when the passing of the dumbass hat is reaching first season star trek:TNG levels, he seems to be the only one who refuses to wear the dumbass hat. several examples spring to mind.
1. when they were with that black dude who could make the vortexes(Vortexs?Vortexi?)and HRG put a gun to his head and said " Suck sylar into it or die!" that was smart. but then claire had to ruin it and say " no dad!" why? why shouldn't sylar die?
2. in a recent episode, where they lost their powers, the only good part was where after HRG got claire back home, he found Sylar and electric at that house, with his sniper rifle. he knew that had
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Quote:Amen, bro.
Originally posted by Lester:
so just hold tight to your first season of heroes
The 9th Wonder Chrisisall
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I believe we calls that "Carrying the idiot ball"...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IdiotBall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Amen, bro.
Originally posted by Lester:
so just hold tight to your first season of heroes
The 9th Wonder Chrisisall
It says in Book Of Revelations 8:1
"When the lamb opened the third season, there was silence in TV heaven for about 43 non-adverted minutes in weekly installments."
They follow the dodgy second season with this? I have actually stopped watching, although I may catch up later.
I had such hopes....
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dude, that was only the stuff i could think of at that moment. and your right, the dumbass hat is but a ruder and cruder version of the idiot ball. i was going for a variation of the dunce cap.
I thought it was kinda funny, the guy who wrote the article about the idiot ball said some of the exact same things i said about peter in season 3.
but yeah, do not pay for season 3 of heroes. if you really want to, thats between you, god and the state supreme court. I can summerize it here
:"(steve carrel from anchorman)LOUD NOISES!"
Awesome as always,
Lester
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Has any other show to become such phenom right out of the gate, and then tanked so hard so quickly?
I've essentially given up. I've downloaded all the eps I've missed, on the hope that I'll hear it's gotten better, and have them to catch up with. But I'm not holding my breath.
Side note - $4 million an episode! And they routinely run over-budget. Rediculously wastefull.
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Vortices. The plural of "vortex" is "vortices."
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Has any other show to become such phenom right out of the gate, and then tanked so hard so quickly?
Oh wow, its tanking? I haven't been looking at ratings lately. I know there was dude hardcore about the BSG ratings a while back, we got any numbers?
Anybody seeing any good sci-fi out there? anywhere? Trying to figure out what show isn't being ripped now. ...or are we throwing tomatoes at Keanu's face at our local cinema now?
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or are we throwing tomatoes at Keanu's
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Originally posted by pdcharles:
Oh wow, its tanking? I haven't been looking at ratings lately. I know there was dude hardcore about the BSG ratings a while back, we got any numbers?
There are lots of articles out there if you google "Heroes ratings", but here's one for example: http://www.tv.com/story/11705.html
That one only gets into the ratings drop since the beginning of this season. Looking at it overall, durring season 1, they averaged close to 15 million viewers per episode. By the middle of October, as the article above points out, they were down to 5.8 million.
Quite a drop.
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