I found the following link through Digg. It goes to a comedy type blog which may or may not have a bunch of NSFW stuff on so I leave it up to you whether you browse around the site. Their post is called If TV Shows Had Truthful Titles. There are some pretty good titles over there so I suggest going to check it out. For now I thought I’d just include two of my favorites.
The noise you are hearing is me ducking for cover from all the Lost and Heroes fans. Oh and yes I used to be a Heroes fan and I did watch the entire first season of Lost.
Funny but all I got to say is 4 seasons later and there is now a logical reason for the polar bears…
the Lost guys no exactly what they are doing.
Yeah coming up with solutions 4 years after is the give-away that they had it planned from the beginning.
Not to shit on Lost for not being planned ahead (no TV show ever has been I think?), but what you’re saying is ridiculous.
Believe me, a story this complicated, with so many intertwining character relationships, they know exactly what they are doing. The polar bear was one example, there has been many things they have revealed over the four years, and they all go back to the point that plot points have been set deliberately to work towards the whole. Obviously some things can organically develop, be fleshed out, but the Island mythology and story arc is fixed, you cannot bullshit four seasons deep and have cross-season connections that work perfectly within the trajectory of the story.
THAT would be ridiculous.
Apparently Hereoes is suffering from this sort of on the fly storytelling that makes little sense in retrospect
Agree with, rot. It’s not one of those cases where they throw in things and then just make up an explanation seasons (aka years) later as plausible reasons – there’s no way with the way it has played out so intricately that they did NOT know what they were doing. Once you know why, for example the polar bears, were there it doesn’t seem so strange. They have a knack of teasing you with something and then giving you the explanaton for it later and it just clicks and you go, “Oh rriiiiggght. THAT’S what that was all about.” As opposed to, “Oh come ON!….” sort of thing.
And yes Heroes is very guilty of this accusation right now. Season 2 was such a dissapointment but the first episode of season 3 was awesome and gave much reason to invest your time in the show again. But now it doesn’t make much sense, and not in the good, Lost sort of way where you are left in wonderment; It’s just a bit of a mess. Which is a shame as it used to be SO GOOD. Honestly I just watch out of habit, or perhaps in hoping it will get better.
reader El Gringo posted this link here and it got caught in the spam folder and I accidentally deleted it. Anyway, here is th link he pointed out:
http://glark.org/truthful-tv-title-cards/
there’s some better ones here.
I agree, at least about Heroes. I hope that the changes to the writing staff will help get the show back on track.