Making it into a war was idiocy of the first order. I think the religious loons are perfectly capable of motivating themselves irrespective of any help they might or might not get from their targets, but with a war you piss off a large civilian populace who were perfectly happy minding their own business, and you polarise a lot of people who were moderates before they were occupied and bombed.
I adore Hiro and he's definitely slashy with Ando, but for me to get into a fandom, I have to like the source rather more. Heroes was fun entertainment with a nicely rolling plot when I had nothing better to do, and it had a few really good well paced eps; it just never grabbed me with that can't-wait-for-the-next-one-to-find-out feeling. And I think a big part of that was the dialogue - while the plot was fine, the writing rarely rose above soap opera platitudes. If the 'snark' is low quality, that's just not a hook for me. The creators should have taken their plot and given the script-writing duties to someone who can make characters real.
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Date: 2007-07-13 03:14 am (UTC)I adore Hiro and he's definitely slashy with Ando, but for me to get into a fandom, I have to like the source rather more. Heroes was fun entertainment with a nicely rolling plot when I had nothing better to do, and it had a few really good well paced eps; it just never grabbed me with that can't-wait-for-the-next-one-to-find-out feeling. And I think a big part of that was the dialogue - while the plot was fine, the writing rarely rose above soap opera platitudes. If the 'snark' is low quality, that's just not a hook for me. The creators should have taken their plot and given the script-writing duties to someone who can make characters real.