Disclosoholic What?

Obviously—to anyone who has glanced at my blog in the last two months—I am a fan of NBC’s Heroes. I don’t think it’s the best written show I’ve ever seen (of those I’m into, that would probably go to Veronica Mars, Doctor Who, or maybe season 1 of Lost), nor is the best acted show (again Veronica Mars, Lost and Doctor Who have got it there), but there’s just something so sweet about it that I love. But you know what I don’t love? The forum posters on TWOP who can’t discuss the show without making allusions to other comic book universes. I understand how sometimes you need to refer to other, outside sources in order to better understand context, to put things in a frame, but at some point you have to assess the text on the page (or show on the screen) for what it is. Half the posters on the boards are missing interesting plot points and instead having discussions like, “If Peter is Rogue then how come he doesn’t suck life energy from the people whose power he absorbs?” Um, maybe because he is NOT Rogue; he is a character created by someone who did not create Rogue, and he exists in a universe completely different from that which Rogue occupies. Ugh. What if I did that with books all the time? What if I read something with a love story, like maybe Graham Greene’s “The End of the Affair,” and I had only this to say about it: “Well, is Bendrix like Romeo or what? I mean, Sarah dies, so she’s obviously the Juliette, but he just goes on living. I thought Romeo died. Why didn’t Bendrix die?” BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT THE SAME BOOK, LET ALONE THE SAME CHARACTERS. Ahem. Anyway, it’s probably no use getting worked up about this, as it’s just a highly watched television show on NBC, and by that description is no different from, say, Deal or No Deal. Ooh, but I must mention that I learned that

Posted by miXi on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 11:40 AM | Permalink