Heroes: Turns Out It's Good

Back when Heroes came out, we (the sci-fi crowd) were all pretty interested, so we excitedly queued up for the first Sci-Fi Night after the first episode aired. We all wanted to like it, but unfortunately, the first episode wasn't very good. The attempt to cram something like twelve character expositions, beginnings of backstories, the first hint at a bad guy, and way too many hints towards the "we are all connected" storyline didn't work out so well. It just came across too heavy-handed. Afterwards, I started hearing that it was pretty good, but my natural inclination to stick to my snap judgments kept me from giving it another chance.

Then Nina threw it on the Netflix queue, just for the hell of it (I love Netflix). We started at the second episode, which is easily ten times better than the first one, right now we've got discs three and four en route, and the show just keeps getting better and better. Besides the fact that almost all the people in the show are either superheroes or supervillains, the pacing is absolutely perfect. They make you wait for the awesome, but they don't make you wait too long. It is, after all, a comic book show when it comes right down to it, and comic books are all about the awesome. The characters have to come to terms with their abilities, but we don't need montages to see them develop.

I know most of you have probably already seen the show, but if you haven't checked it out, I highly recommend it.