We Could Be Heroes

So Monday is turning out to be a big TV night here. We started with a helping of How I Met Your Mother, and while better than last week, still wasn't as good as most of the episodes from last season. I tried paying attention, and the voice over narration really does imply that it's future Ted telling the stories. It still doesn't come out and say that future Ted is the father of the kids he's talking to, but I think that's also implied (but not explicitly stated). Since the whole story is basically about how Ted met the mother of the kids, maybe the kids were Barney's and something happened to him and Ted raised them (I just get this feeling there has to be a twist in there somewhere). Since this is a TV show based on a relationship it only seems to sustain momentum with this "will they / won't they" get together aspect (last season it was Ted and Robin, this season appears to be Marshal and Lilly). Ultimately the "will they / won't they" aspect can't sustain a show long term (see Moonlighting). Now that I think about it, I don't think we've seen the future kids this season. Maybe they're gone from the show. That would make sense due to the fact that if the show lasts any amount of time (several seasons), the kids would grow out of their roles since only hours (or days at the most) should have passed from their perspective.

Then we switched over and watched Heroes live while the TiVo recorded Two and A Half Men. I must say, I liked the first episode of Heroes. It's obviously built to have a long term storyline, and you start seeing hints of the interconnectivity of the characters in the first show, but it definitely leaves you wanting more. It even got the coveted Ginger approval since she said she would watch it again next week. Of course, the only problem is the show conflicts with Two and a Half Men, but no worries, because after Heroes we watched Two and a Half Men and decided after the lackluster series reboot last week and the less than amusing episode this week we would drop that show (to be fair, there was a really good one liner about one legged waitresses in the episode, but honestly, you can't carry a half hour comedy show on one joke).

If you missed this first episode of Heroes, but want to see what you missed, the show is going to repeat Tuesday night at eight. If you miss it there too, there was an implication the episode would be available online from the NBC site (which I linked above, but as of right now it's a couple hours past when the site says it will be available and it isn't available yet). In fact, I visited the Heroes website earlier last week, and it was pretty spiffy, but now it's been clogged down with ads and promo stuff and it seems much clunkier and slower (seems like the page is trying to load too much interactive stuff on the main page). And there's going to be a web comic available online after each episode. After checking it out, the online 'reader' blows chunks, but it is early and maybe they'll work through some of their technical issues in the future. The online comic isn't crucial to the storyline, but it does flesh out the actions of one of the characters and adds some nice info that would have been boring to film, but was nice to see at least see that someone thought of it (I don't want to get explicit since it would be a mild spoiler piece of information).

We then finished the night by watching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Here's my problem with this episode (and admittedly, it's minor). It's suppose to take place a couple days after the first episode, and yet everyone on the show (except Matthew Perry) has changed appearances and hairstyles (and some even changed hair color). Doesn't exactly give me a sense on continuity. Barring that nitpick, it's still another good episode so we're keeping that show.

Tonight's random image is a close up of a soccer goal that I took at the park this past weekend.