how to stop an exploding man -- or a Zergling rush

[samedietc]

Did you see the season finale of Heroes? What did you think?

Have you looked at the gameplay video for StarCraft 2? What did you think?

Comments

[tragic_ohara]

From the perspective of someone who likes comics a lot but isn't particularly familiar with superhero comics as a genre, and who has never seen the show, I might expand upon "not being creative"; there's the perception (whether or not it's accurate) that superhero comics are founded on their own limitations (most significantly the Comics Code), and in the main are based around cliches and escapist power fantasies. Therefore, it's interesting to screw around with those limitations; I imagine it would be difficult to produce a superhero show that didn't pay a fair amount of homage to classic comics (although obviously I'm kind of underinformed on this point, so I'd be interested to hear specific examples of the kind of thing you mean). I'd personally rather they do something weird (or, even better, something creative) with the superhero model, since that model has been extruded into so many pairs of tights for so many years now, although as cthulie points out I may be asking for a Watchmen prematurely. But then, people who aren't fans of superhero stories to begin with aren't going to know or care whether the show innovates as a superhero story, so I probably have no point.

b) and c) are completely silly, though.