Heroes and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip premiered at the same time. Heroes had a weak, turgid pilot and I wanted to hate it--but there was just enough interest there to keep me watching week after week. Studio 60 had a strong pilot and I wanted to like it, but it just didn't deliver in the long run.
Heroes is still a deeply frustrating show. Some of the characters are poorly handled--the women worst of all, as you've noticed (which I suppose continues the tradition of the comics). On the other hand, the stupidest characters tend to be male (Mohinder Suresh the brilliant-yet-incredibly-stupid scientist, and Matt Parkman the telepathic cop, who seems to blunder through life entirely on impulse and can't even work his ability into an advantage most of the time).
The wonderful double act of Hiro and Ando is the show's great saving grace. They kept me watching through the particularly bumpy first episodes, and after that, in a mid-season patch without much Hiro and Ando, the show's very good grasp of suspense and pacing kept me hooked (surprisingly, the best episode of all, "Company Man", isn't about them at all). Also, several episodes had Christopher Eccleston in them.
And the show really does not hold up to logical analysis at all, even granting the comic-book super-science.
"Company Man" is probably my favorite episode, but it reveals the backstory of a character they've been building up all season, so I don't know how strong it will be as a standalone.
Heroes is still a deeply frustrating show. Some of the characters are poorly handled--the women worst of all, as you've noticed (which I suppose continues the tradition of the comics). On the other hand, the stupidest characters tend to be male (Mohinder Suresh the brilliant-yet-incredibly-stupid scientist, and Matt Parkman the telepathic cop, who seems to blunder through life entirely on impulse and can't even work his ability into an advantage most of the time).
The wonderful double act of Hiro and Ando is the show's great saving grace. They kept me watching through the particularly bumpy first episodes, and after that, in a mid-season patch without much Hiro and Ando, the show's very good grasp of suspense and pacing kept me hooked (surprisingly, the best episode of all, "Company Man", isn't about them at all). Also, several episodes had Christopher Eccleston in them.
And the show really does not hold up to logical analysis at all, even granting the comic-book super-science.
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