Being All Heroic
Those magnificent Heroes, don’t you just love watching them pretend to be all boring and normal and every-day, when actually they make Superman look a bit pathetic and Spiderman, well, almost redundant? The world has gone Heroes crazy! But if that’s the case then how come nobody seems to know who plays any of these mysterious characters? Back in my day a fan knew all that and more! So much more!
So how come some modern fans can’t tell a so and so’s Jock-strap from a so and so’s special designer boxers? Good question. And not one I can answer. My assumption would be that these people are so excited about watching the next episode that they just can’t stand to sit still through the end credits. Which would be understandable: I have seen Heroes and been blown away on numerous occassions. Yes, Heroes might be one of my favourite shows on TV. Mainly because it isn’t about Vampires and to be honest I’ve had it to the back teeth with those things!
The internet, though, what a tool if you’re a fan? I can’t even begin to imagine what hardcore fans did before forums like this one existed; and maybe that is why they seem to have become less fanatical? That could be it; they’ve got lazy. Had the internet not come to fruition—and the fans been forced to do it the old fashioned proper way: as in climb trees, shuffle through miles of ventilation ducts and scale tall buildings with suction pads, as is well known—then I’m reasonably confident that all those Heroes would be watching their backs a lot more than they are.