I have a long list of television shows and movies that I have been watching. Lots of new shows starting, and a couple of old shows starting again. Being the fall season, shows like heroes and dexter, house m.d. and pushing daisies. These shows, and others keeps me creative. Some have good stories, some have good character, some just have a universe that fascinates me.
Heroes has not come back from its amazing 1st season, and has turned into something that resembles some sort of soup opera. Characters that were evil are becoming family, and family characters are looking to become evil. Trouble is, they solved the shows problem at the end of the first season, and had no real issue in the second season. The show now seems to be trying to get back to that issue but the characters have changed and things are different.
Heroes is not the only show to suffer from this. Shows that have survived this issue have had problems or enemies that are so big they seem like they are unattainable or unsolvable. Shows like Lost intentionally hide things from the viewer, so they are frustrated. But successful shows (successful as in they became popular) have those seeming unsolvable problems, and each episode, they take a little piece of that wall down. Shows like X-Files and Pushing Daisies have or had an issue that didn’t keep the main characters from their everyday activities, but seem to be watching those activities “intently.”
The success of shows like Lost that have used the intentional hiding method have spread and are showing signs of falling because their popularity relies so much on that story line. Fan base is a strange monster and they are still watching the shows that slipped and showed too much.
The procudural shows are a different thing as well. They have been popular since the creation of episodic story telling, not just in television. The popular ones are the ones with interesting characters with interesting motives.
As far as movies and other entertainment venues there has been nothing amazing that has driven me to write here. Not many new movies that have peaked my interest. Just lots of watching of old movies while building levels in valve’s hammer for my portfolio.
More later.
