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Yeah… this is how I can tell I’ve reached my limit on Heroes. This week’s fare, “Tabula Rasa”, was pretty good. Quite good on many levels in fact. If this were early last season I’d be over the moon right now. But I’m not and I don’t think I can ever be over the moon about anything Heroes again.

Why? I don’t trust this show not to let me down… hard. Every single time this show makes a turn for the good I’ve put my trust in it to stay at least semi-decent, and each and every time it has failed me. Every time this show sets up an interesting paradigm with rules and relationships I expect said rules and relationships to remain stable and concrete, and each and every time they have not. Every time I become attached to a character the show finds a way to ruin that, usually by altering said character until they no longer resemble who and what I cared about in the first place. Every time I become attached to a plot line they sell it short and every time they have a plot line I disliked they run it into the ground.

I know this is a strong metaphor and I apologize if anyone takes offense to it, but I’m not playing the abused spouse role with this show anymore. I ‘m not going to keep taking the waffling, the cliches, the shockers, the inconsistencies, and the outright screw-ups any longer. I’m just not. I would LOVE to be excited about the Carnival, about what we saw develop both with Samuel and Sylar. I’d love to start positing theories as to whether or not any of Sylar is in Gabriel’s head or if it’s all in Parkman. I’d love to guess at Samuel’s motives and how he plans to use Sylar. I’d love to know If Sylar can ever manifest without being “released” from Parkman. These are all great storylines… but I can’t talk about them. I can’t talk about them because I don’t want to waste my time predicting a rash of things only to find out that next week they’ve rewritten some important detail and thus my theories can no longer hold. Why bother making guesses when they keep changing the rules on you? It’s a no-win game, and I’m not willing to play anymore.

I liked meeting Jesse. I liked seeing HRG again. I loved seeing old-school Hiro teaching a newcomer how to use her powers for good. But I can’t trust it, not one single second of it. This was a good episode, it really was. But I think I’ve been burned enough to not stick my head in the oven again right now.

I’m gong to take a couple of weeks off Heroes I think. I just don’t have the heart to put into this show right now. I’d rather write a post about what I think is the best show on TV right now, Sons of Anarchy. I’ve got some great ideas about that show that I don’t think I’ve read anywhere yet. I’d like to talk about how Castle has completely and utterly destroyed my ability to watch Californication (this is totally true - I really can’t). I’d love to write up the changes in House, particularly the visuals of the show, and analysis those choices and discuss why I think it’s a major leap and improvement for them. SYTYCD is back and I’m going to be doing weekly write-ups on that. And there’s a certain rockstar I really want to share with you guys. With all this, I see no reason to put energy into a show that I just don’t give a shit about.

Now, if anyone wants me to at least write something short about Heroes instead of doing other things, speak now or forever hold your peace. If no one speaks up, I’m putting Heroes on the back burner for a month or so and putting effort into other things. Deal?