Sanokal
Since: Dec, 2013
11/02/2015 00:00:00
It sounds like a case of Tainted by the Preview is being applied here. The jumbled mess seems to be completely intentional, but it's actually surprisingly coherent after a few episodes. I will certainly agree with you in that it was hard to follow, however.
One thing to note is that Deconstructed Trope and Subverted Trope are being wildly applied here. Luke Collins (aka Blood Gun) takes quite the turn, while certainly not one free of cliche, he's not what he's initially protrayed as.
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Episode 1 & 2 premerie review
Heroes Reborn is....a jumbled mess of nonsensical garbage.
It is the absolute worse qualities of the original series magnified. Loads and Loads of Characters and despite a two hour premiere no time to care about any of them.
The new characters are so forgettable, I can't recall their names even seconds after they are spoken. Mostly because in a minute the viewpoint will shift to someone else before anything can be fleshed out.
The story's between the many characters are so disconnected that its hard to buy that they're even in the same series, let alone the same universe.
The most unfitting of these storylines is one guy doing some costumed vigilante Arrow thing. And a japanese girl doing some kind of CodeLyoko/KillBill Situation, without any context whatsoever.
And of course it goes without saying that there is a mysterious mystery of extremely vague vagueness ambiguously threatening the world that only a select few know about and will only speak about in nondescript pronouns and unhelpful warnings.
The only one to get any meaningful(or even coherent) screen time is a highschool kid named Tommy. With the ability to teleport anyone he touches to god-Knows-Where. Its an interesting power in an uninteresting character who moans about it, because of course he does.
The new antagonist hunting down the supers is called...The BloodGun!!...Okay, no. He's just an unshaven white guy in black with a dead wife and son with a generic thirst for vengeance
Bloodgun's intro involves him and his partner killing an entire room full of supers...instead of being a Badass show of force to prove he's a threat. It's just people with superowers being Too Dumb to Live and Bloodgun having Plot Armor to makeup for not having powers himself.
I knew nothing but stupidity would follow after Bloodgun somehow manages to light an super's blood on fire and burn down a building like it was kerosene.
And I was right.