Like I said in a previous post, I have a tendency to hear about some great show half-way through the season and then end up catching all the episodes online. Last year I watched the first two and a half seasons of Lost online because I’d heard so many good things. This summer I watched the first season of Heroes online. Monday I caught the first episode of the second season of Heroes, and I was kind of disappointed.

Spoilers below if you don’t like reading those type of things.

Some of these ongoing dramatic shows like Heroes and Lost sometimes seem to suffer from a kind of soap opera syndrome. People do a lot of talking and a few episodes go by and you realize that nothing has actually happened. Lost sometimes falls into this in the middle of the season, and I got that feeling from the first new episode of Heroes. At the finale last season a lot of stuff happened, but the premiere seemed to undo most of it. Half of the people that died are now back alive somewhere. Also, the new people that were introduced managed to go through the entire premiere without actually doing anything. Maybe it’s just because there are so many characters now, when last year the characters were introduced slowly and were each able to accomplish something almost every episode. Or maybe the writer’s are running out of ideas and just want to drag this thing out.

I got hooked last year with ‘Dexter‘ and can’t wait for the new season to start on Sunday. That series has half the episodes of other popular series, but things stay interesting because it doesn’t have a sprawling cast and something happens every week.

Still looking forward to “A Song of Ice and Fire” series on HBO if it ever gets made.