Heroes

[rowyn]

"In the world of Heroes, there is no 'six degrees of Kevin Bacon'," Lut said. We've been watching the TV series via Netflix's instant watch, and are six episodes into the second season now.

I giggled. "It's more like two."

"'Heroes, by Disney. Because it really is a small world after all.'"

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[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not up on the latest season (yet?) but that's one thing I noticed from pretty early on in the series: Does it look as if there are separate plotlines going on? Never fear, they'll be tired together - no, not merely because the characters involved all have superpowers and thus will inevitably be thrown together by events. They're related, their pasts are intertwined, etc.

I mean, for a story to work, I have to accept at least ONE amazing coincidence for the sake of starting the story off: I can write it off as "selection bias." And then, maybe TWO amazing coincidences, because I already gave a pass for the first one - so the new one is just an amazing coincidence. But when there are Amazing Coincidences left and right, I think the writers are just lazy. (Partway through season two, some of those Amazing Coincidences made me want to throw large objects at the screen.)

[rowyn]

Phil Foglio used that line in "Stanley and His Monster": "Every story gets to have one amazing coincidence. The author is cashing his in now."

In fairness to "Heroes", a significant fraction of the 'amazing coincidences' ultimately make sense -- eg, the super powers run in families, so it's logical that X character would be related to another known member of the cast.

But even factoring out the 'this looked like a coincidence but it turns out other characters set it up' incidents, there are still Way Too Many coincidences. :P

[elusivetiger.livejournal.com]

Mythologies do not need to obey any laws of believability, else they are not mythologies. ;)

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Er, I meant to say they'll eventually be "tied together," not "tired together," but maybe that works, too, after a while....