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October 17, 2007 |
It
seems as though whenever I return from any kind of hiatus, my first comic back
into the mix is one about Hereos. Today's comic
fits that description, but I admit I'm starting to lose a bit of my love affair
with the show.
I suppose it's like any show that people get passionate
about. You want to see things go in a certain direction, and when that
direction changes, for example by foiling a nuclear explosion, you begin to
wonder why new characters and plot lines are introduced while other characters
and plot lines are left by the wayside.
Season 1 is really a triumph. It's proof that all
us geeks that have and do read comic books can justify a show that just takes a
wrecking ball to all other shows. Season 2, now, shows us that anyone has
a price, and Nissan is the one writing the checks. Don't get me wrong, I'm
all for money. If Nissan wants to write me a check so that little Muranos
and Rogues appear in the parking lot of all my office background strips?
Well, then just make the check out to Greedy Little Otter.
I suppose I just really don't like the way Season 2 is
starting. The four-month gap in time is to allow the writers some creative
freedom to intertwine back stories and have some progression. It also adds
to the mounting piles of questions of why who is doing what is now there doing
this. I hate to say it, but I'm afraid Heroes is turning into Lost.
Answers to questions are going to take a back seat to eye candy and overarching
plot points.
School is still threatening to eat my last few brain
cells with an appetite that I can only describe as taunting. It's not that
the work is hard, but the schedule is starting to take a toll on me and my
hobbies, as my obvious lack of updates show. Still, it'll only be another
two months and I'll be done with this semester. Only five and a half more
semesters to go >.<
Oh, you didn't think the other students have gotten
smarter, have you? Quite the contrary. My Sociology class's main
objective is to post discussion topics on a weekly basis. We read a
chapter, the teacher asks us to quantify or explain a topic, and then lend some
personal experience to round out the postings.
The problem is, I'm guessing, that no one in my
Sociology class can read. For every question the teacher brings up for us
to discuss, well over half the class posts random inane topics that are only
remotely related to the chapter.
One such recent discussion was for us to discuss how
social deviance can be a good thing. Well, you could say it's good because
it promotes new thoughts, new ideas, and questions the status quo and keeps our
society in check. Hell, you could say it's good because you're a crazy
nutbag anarchist. I don't care. This, however, was one of the posts:
You could say that a drunk driver killing someone
is deviant because when he get punished that is good, right?
Indeed.
