Fallen Heroes
By Alex Langley - November 27, 2008
A brand spankin’ new Watchmen trailer dropped this week. I have to say, I wasn’t particularly interested in The Watchmen before this, but the trailer just grabbed me. The previous trailers were in more of a teaser style, relying on your knowledge (or lack of knowledge) to draw you in; this new trailer hints at a story, it flirts with you, saying, “Hey, yeah, there’s some story here. Come on down, baby. Let me buy you a couple drinks and tell you about it.”
Heroes’ ratings are plummeting harder than Wile E. Coyote after a failed Roadrunner abduction. Why? Many E-journalists are batting their theories around, but primarily I think that the creators detonated all of their creative dynamite in season 1, and they’ve been floundering around ever since. If you watch season 1 again, you’ll notice that there’s a Jason Voorhees level of slow, focused movement to the story; you knew that everything was significant, and that it was all going somewhere good. That being said, season 2 went for that same slow storytelling pace, but lacked the magic of the first season. Season 3 is…well, it’s not boring, that’s for sure. It just doesn’t really know where the hell it’s going.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go play Left 4 Dead.
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