So, was the Heroes revival any good?

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm really asking.

[Unorthodox]

With hEt working this is one of the things I watched over the weekend.


Or tried to.  I paused it part way through the second hour to put Talia to bed and never got back to it.

It just felt tired and lost. I think it was a huge mistake to bring back old cast instead of just a fresh start. New powers and characters were sad and boring.  A teleporter and a girl that enters video games (with poor cgi) really?  That's what we kick off with?  The overall mutant (sorry, Evo) registration/civil war theme is done better elsewhere. Maybe it will get going somewhere down the line but nothing hooked me.

[Buster's Uncle]

Any evil circus people this time around?

[Unorthodox]

No, it's the evil Gubment in a clandestine effort to "register" the Evo's after 9/11.  Sorry, I mean "June 13", a fictional event that is really supposed to be original and not a 9/11 stand in at all...

Opened with a decent start up, actually, showing gubment crackdown and rounding up the Mutant/Evos in a forced registration (hm...completely original...but workable)  Then the show proper started.  (First of all, the show opened with a "One year ago" then some vinettes "6 months ago" "5 weeks ago", etc.  It made absolutely no sense that when "Today" come up, it was accompanied by "one year later"  WTF?  Today is today, you've covered the timeframe leading up to that...)

Surresh is blamed for 6/13, and Horned Rim Glasses gets caught up with a conspiracy theorist to find "the truth" behind 6/13, because, it was obviously a cover up. 

Otherwise you got a woe is me teenager who teleports things/people to god knows where afraid to get found out, and a Japanese girl who enters a video game where her father is seemingly trapped.  In the first hour and a half.  ZZZ. 

Oh, there was a mexican kid who's got shadow cat's powers and actually had a decent story going.  His dad died playing Batman (as a luchadore costumed hero), and Uncle found out right as he was dying.  Presumably the Uncle will take up the mask, and has powers of some kind unknown yet, and there will be all sorts of drama with the kid, who now hates the hero for not saving his dad. 

Theres a CGI butterfly that flits between all these scenes to tie them together mysteriously...animated by someone who has never studied butterfly anatomy seemingly.  It probably bugs me much more than the average person.