Comments on: My Take about the Uncool News with Adrian Pasdar on “Heroes”

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:06:34 +0000

“People of color”? What decade is this?

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:15:00 +0000

Yes, in general, the show and “most” of the characters have become “dark, hate filled, unmeaningful”. In the beginning, the show was not like this, and did incorporate different ethnicities. That’s one of the things liked about the show. However, it didn’t last. Characters of color were getting murdered left and right. And not ONE was left standing. And for the very few characters of color that weren’t killed, their roles were suddenly gone. For example, The Haitian and Micah Sanders. I know as minorities, Hiro and Ando are still around, but that’s not saying much when they don’t receive the same amount of screen time as the white characters. Also, my so called “broad generalizations” was mainly referring to “people of color”. When you have that many black characters either killed off or suddenly vanishing, and there are no others left to see, that really stands out. Especially when most of the cast is made up of characters with “light” skin. And we won’t even get into the overall poor writing of the show itself, which had gotten so bad last year that NBC execs fired the two top writers and co-executive producers of the show. Well, it looks like it didn’t help. Because the writing and story lines are still poor. But I’ve heard this may be the last season anyway. Even so, I’m done watching. The show FlashForward is a better example of a diverse cast and cohesive storylines. And that’s the show I’m watching.

By: Estella

Estella — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:57:04 +0000

Broad generalizations in saying that the show and characters are all “dark, hate filled, and unmeaningful” really takes away any merit to your argument.

Heroes has been great in incorporating people of different ethnicities. Hiro and Ando are still around and probably always will be.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:51:57 +0000

My point is the writers who are most likely made up of mostly Caucasian, heterosexual males, are clearly out of touch and lack sensitivity in how their work would be view by the viewing public at large. White and heterosexual people aren’t the only ones viewing Heroes. Many other ethnic races are watching as well.

The writers should have kept that in mind when they decided to kill off ALL the Heroes characters who were of color. So much so, that there are now no people of color on the show, except the new young female black villain (who will most likely be killed of too). AND to write an unnecessary plot, involving a young man who is brutally killed by being chained and dragged by a truck, just like a hate crime incident in real life that involved people who happened to be minorities (gay and black), clearly shows how out of touch these writers.

There must be a lack of female and minority writers on the Heroes writing staff, because there seems to be a lack of sensitivity in regards to how the Heroes characters and the plot lines are written.

What first was an exciting and interesting show has now turned into something dark, hate filled, and unmeaningful. Just like the characters.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:00:04 +0000

Wasn’t a young gay white male killed in the same way many years ago? Sadly I think many people have been killed in this manner so I don’t think it’s too reasonable to claim the writers were being racist.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:09:48 +0000

I don’t think the show is deliberately being racist, but they definitely could step it up in terms of having a prominent African American character who stays alive.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:16:33 +0000

I used to be a HUGE fan of Heroes but this show has failed horribly. The writers have unnecessarily killed of characters, both females and African-Americans. And the episode that aired two weeks ago, which had a character killed by having him chained to a truck and dragged, was reminiscent of the racist murder of a black man a few years back in the south, who died the exactly same way. I knew then this show had strong racists and sexists overtones. I will never watch show this again.

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By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:24:34 +0000

ROB BENEDICT! <3333

ScarJo kind of annoys me with everything she does (ever her beauty is too ‘perfect’). For me the Break-Up album is only good because of Yorn.

Well, this is the place where people are allowed to talk about TV and all things related to it, so – pffft. Weirdos are awesome, anyway. Normal people are a snooze fest and a half!