Heroed

Pronunciation:\ˈhir-(ˌ)ō,dē-\

Function: verb

1: to reduce to a less than spectacular shell of a once great endeavor : 2 to damage irreparably 3: to subject to frustration, failure, or disaster intransitive verb: to become heroed.

Fuck Tim Kring. In case you’re ignorant, Kring is the Executive “Producer” of the NBC series Heroes. According to Wikipedia, Kring “was an Emmy Award nominee in 2007 for Outstanding Drama Series as the producer for Heroes. He was also named one of the Masters of Sci Fi TV for his work on the series.”

Well that was then, and this is now. And now, Heroes just flat out sucks. Why do shows with so much potential not called Lost always end up terrible? Well the answer is pretty simple: Shoddy storyline after shoddy storyline with more terrible acting than an episode of Blossom has left Heroes a pitiful shell of its once magnificent self. Also, Kring and co. wrote themselves into a corner by succumbing to the pitfall of superman syndrome (making your character too powerful and constantly backtracking and coming up with stupid reasons why they can’t dominate everyone, e.g. Peter Patrelli can “only hold onto one power at a time”). I figure the brainstorming sessions between Kring and his no-talent ass-clowns went a little something like this…..

Some ass-clown producer: “Tim, we have to find out a way to make sure Peter can’t just dominate everyone since he can take any power.”

Tim: “I got it! We’ll throw in a one liner about how Peter can only hold onto one power at a time and not bother to explain why, even though Mohinder was totally reverted when he got the serum!”

Ass-clown: “That’s perfect!”

Tim: “Print it!”

To sum it up, Tim Kring heroed the superhero tv show genre. And that is not cool.