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09-30-2008, 05:32 PM
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| | | OK, I'm officially addicted to the show 'Heroes' now...
We started watching the new season because I had never really watched it but heard it was really good. I'm hooked.
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09-30-2008, 05:33 PM
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it's a great show!
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09-30-2008, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by PuritanBouncer  it's a great show! | Can you see the video I embedded Adam? The reason I ask is that sometimes my network doesn't let me see embedded media.
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09-30-2008, 05:35 PM
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Yep, I can see Sylar!
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09-30-2008, 05:36 PM
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Dude, Sylar is one bad Hero!
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09-30-2008, 05:37 PM
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it looks like they are going to try and make him sort of an anti-hero.
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09-30-2008, 06:15 PM
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I've been watching since the first episode in the first season.
Great show. A little complicated to sort through sometimes but still a great show.
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09-30-2008, 06:37 PM
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oh joy, a soap opera for men and women alike.
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09-30-2008, 06:45 PM
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| | Heroes is really good but I'm addicted to "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit".
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09-30-2008, 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by gene_mingo oh joy, a soap opera for men and women alike. | I don't know about that. I think it belongs in a 'comic book series' type of genre. 
My wife doesn't like it a bit. She made it through half of the first season and then it got too "gross" and violent for her.
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09-30-2008, 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by gene_mingo oh joy, a soap opera for men and women alike. | I don't know about that. I think it belongs in a 'comic book series' type of genre.
My wife doesn't like it a bit. She made it through half of the first season and then it got too "gross" and violent for her. | Quote: |
The defining feature that makes a program a soap opera is that it, according to Albert Moran, is "that form of television that works with a continuous open narrative. Each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode". Soap opera stories run concurrently, intersect, and lead into further developments. An individual episode of a soap opera will generally switch between several different concurrent story threads that may at times interconnect and affect one another, or may run entirely independent of each other. Each episode may feature some of the show's current storylines but not always all of them. There is some rotation of both storylines and actors so any given storyline or actor will appear in some but usually not all of a week's worth of episodes. Soap operas rarely "wrap things up" storywise, and generally avoid bringing all the current storylines to a conclusion at the same time. When one storyline ends there are always several other story threads at differing stages of development. Soap opera episodes typically end on some sort of cliffhanger.
| yes it has all the marks of a soap opera.
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09-30-2008, 07:02 PM
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But how many soap operas have people cutting skulls open and eating brain parts?  |
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Originally Posted by Seb But how many soap operas have people cutting skulls open and eating brain parts? | Thats the man appeal.
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09-30-2008, 07:56 PM
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Yeah, Heroes is am amazing series!!!   |
09-30-2008, 08:21 PM
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I've been watching since the first episode in the first season.
Great show. A little complicated to sort through sometimes but still a great show. | Same here. Great show.
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So what do y'all think of "Dark Night" Peter from the future?  |
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Originally Posted by Seb My wife doesn't like it a bit. She made it through half of the first season and then it got too "gross" and violent for her. | My wife only made it through half of the season premier! The "fingering your brain and talking perversely to you about it while you are still alive and writhing at my feet" was a little too much for her.
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Heroes is one of those shows I watch on a week to week basis. Once 24 comes back on though, there will be a conflict of interest.
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I'm a heroes guy, every monday night. 
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10-01-2008, 03:01 AM
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I watched soap opera's when I was young (teens/twenties) with my wife. This show is NOTHING, NOTHING like a soap opera, so please.
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10-01-2008, 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by PuritanBouncer I watched soap opera's when I was young (teens/twenties) with my wife. This show is NOTHING, NOTHING like a soap opera, so please. | Really?
So how does it differ from the definition of a soap opera? Seems like it matches up pretty well. A soap opera is not defined on the plot itself, just merely on how the plot is presented.
Most of the sci-fi shows are soap operas as well. It is nothing new. Now it just seems that writers have gotten a bit more creative and started writing soap operas aimed more at men than women.
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10-01-2008, 07:49 AM
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I object to that definition. Soaps are widely known as those sappy afternoon programs with terrible actors and stories obsessed with sex. No matter what the "official" definition may state.
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| | All series TV is a form of soaps. When I catch you guys talking to the TV like my Grandma used to do, I'm getting a net.
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