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<blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 4737488" data-attributes="member: 1225"><p>Possibly the greatest failing of it all is that Danko has this mad, Senator Kelly-esque hate of "people with abilities"*, and the show has never explained why. Not even a clue. "These people are dangerous, so I hate them." What? Huh? So, Danko hates people based on what a snooty senator tells him? Awesome; let me get my senator to tell him that cabbages are dangerous, and give him some papers that say that, and maybe get a drug addict comic book artist to draw some pictures of dangerous cabbage. Then Danko can waste weeks of time and millions of dollars of taxpayer money hunting down cabbages.</p><p></p><p>*(The show needs to come up with some danged slang for the supers already. Call them supers, powers, metas, mutants, muties, Tangos, Papas, whatever; no bunch of soldiers is going to spend weeks chasing a group of people and not come up with a slang term for them!)</p><p></p><p>Nothing has happened on the show, nor has anything even been hinted at, that backs up his extremist position. Yes, it's supposed to be a metaphor for attitudes on terrorism, but there have been no mass casualty events in Heroes, so the metaphor is mostly functioning as a metaphor for the writing's Epic Failure. There have been many prophecies of horrors to come, but <em>none</em> of those have happened, and nobody but the PWAs themselves have seen or have any proof of these prophecies. The biggest body count in Heroes history apparently belongs to Sylar -- so Danko's current alliance w/Sylar makes Danko an even bigger idiot.</p><p></p><p>Idiot villains + incompetent heroes + no humor == not very interesting show.</p><p></p><p>(Idiot villains & incompetent heroes can work, if it's funny; as evidence, see Venture Bros. And Venture Bros has deeper, more interesting, more consistent characters than Heroes at this point.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="coyote6, post: 4737488, member: 1225"] Possibly the greatest failing of it all is that Danko has this mad, Senator Kelly-esque hate of "people with abilities"*, and the show has never explained why. Not even a clue. "These people are dangerous, so I hate them." What? Huh? So, Danko hates people based on what a snooty senator tells him? Awesome; let me get my senator to tell him that cabbages are dangerous, and give him some papers that say that, and maybe get a drug addict comic book artist to draw some pictures of dangerous cabbage. Then Danko can waste weeks of time and millions of dollars of taxpayer money hunting down cabbages. *(The show needs to come up with some danged slang for the supers already. Call them supers, powers, metas, mutants, muties, Tangos, Papas, whatever; no bunch of soldiers is going to spend weeks chasing a group of people and not come up with a slang term for them!) Nothing has happened on the show, nor has anything even been hinted at, that backs up his extremist position. Yes, it's supposed to be a metaphor for attitudes on terrorism, but there have been no mass casualty events in Heroes, so the metaphor is mostly functioning as a metaphor for the writing's Epic Failure. There have been many prophecies of horrors to come, but [i]none[/i] of those have happened, and nobody but the PWAs themselves have seen or have any proof of these prophecies. The biggest body count in Heroes history apparently belongs to Sylar -- so Danko's current alliance w/Sylar makes Danko an even bigger idiot. Idiot villains + incompetent heroes + no humor == not very interesting show. (Idiot villains & incompetent heroes can work, if it's funny; as evidence, see Venture Bros. And Venture Bros has deeper, more interesting, more consistent characters than Heroes at this point.) [/QUOTE]
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