Warning: what follows might be a little NSFW (yet really funny).
We review a lot of shows here at TV Squad, and the writers and readers often pick out something in the show that we don't like (even if we love the show in general). So what if the title cards/logos of each show actually told the truth, letting you know what the show is like even before you watch it?
Well, as you can see from the Heroes title card above, we find out that nobody ever dies on the show (or at the least, if they do they can come back to life). This is one of the things wrong with the show, even if I still love it. If no one ever really dies then where's the risk?
After the jump, some more logos from your favorite show that tell the truth. I especially like the one for Mad Men. Someone should make a t-shirt with that on it.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-28-2008 @ 7:16PM
Europa said...
"WTF has happen to this site?" That should be your title card of truth because this place sure ain't about blogging about TV shows any more. :-(
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10-28-2008 @ 8:21PM
Maria said...
+1
10-28-2008 @ 8:22PM
MarcDom7 said...
Mad Men, Heroes, Big Brother...
...seems like TV to me!
10-28-2008 @ 7:32PM
Cyantre said...
Three post in a row Bob? Slow down.
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10-28-2008 @ 8:31PM
Frank Wrench said...
I think the Heroes one should be:
"Someone dies anticlimactically every episode"
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10-28-2008 @ 8:52PM
Anita said...
Regarding Heroes, didn't the artist, Simone and her father die (&, you know, stay that way)? Also, what about Nicky's husband? I haven't watched the show in awhile, but I'm assuming they're all still sucking earth -
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10-28-2008 @ 8:58PM
0megapart!cle said...
I think the point is that not enough of them die. Although you could think of Suresh as dead, since he has been acting completely out of character ever since he got his power.
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10-28-2008 @ 9:22PM
Frank Wrench said...
Not enough of them... are you kidding me? Except for the premiere, a recurring character has died every single episode this season. Do you mean main characters? So far Issac, Simone, Nikki, D.L., and Adam have all died after their storyline faltered slightly. No, the real problem is that the posterboys/girls (Claire, Peter, Hiro, Mohinder, Nathan, and now especially SYLAR) are untouchable while the few characters with actual potential are often written off to make the writers' job easier.
10-28-2008 @ 11:44PM
0megapart!cle said...
The only one that has died relatively recently is Adam (Nikki's sister is pretty much a carbon copy of Nikki), and since he was brought back basically just to die, he barely counts.
The real problem is that there are too many characters on this show (if the show could juggle the various storylines better, it would be different, but Heroes sucks at juggling).
10-29-2008 @ 7:35PM
Frank Wrench said...
Yeah, I know, it just seems like with the exception of maybe Isaac all of the main cast deaths have been handled poorly. Now they just seem to be killing off all of the characters from the second season in an effort to rectify their mistakes in that season. Right now, literally the only 2nd season characters still in the storyline are Maya and Elle, and with Maya leaving and Elle walking into the hands of Pinehearst I doubt they'll be around very much longer. And that's the problem. They haven't changed the problems with Season 2 that needed changing, such as the extremely vague future of doom, the weird character arcs, and most of all the horrendous dialogue. I liked a lot of the Season 2 characters. I liked Bob, I liked Maury, I liked Adam, I liked Monica, hell, I even liked Maya towards the end. Idk. I'm done whining now.
10-30-2008 @ 12:35PM
0megapart!cle said...
The slowly unfolding train wreck paradigm is pretty much the only reason I watch Heroes nowadays. You know, it is horribly to watch a train wreck, but prurient interest in death and destruction means many people can't tear their eyes away.
I wonder from week to week, what character will go completely against their nature, what character will be whisked away, etc.
10-28-2008 @ 9:24PM
Frank Wrench said...
How about instead of Heroes it's "EVERYONE IS RELATED"
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10-28-2008 @ 11:08PM
scotty said...
They should do that uses the FRINGE font to say "X-Files 2.0".
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10-29-2008 @ 4:46AM
Some1 said...
"We review a lot of shows here at TV Squad,..." -- well, not anymore!
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10-29-2008 @ 8:28AM
Riley Freeman said...
the heroes card doesnt make sense. what superheroe franchise does someone ever die?
if they die they are brought in some future or alternate something etc... etc..
superheroes do not die. i dont get why this is surprising if they do they come back
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10-29-2008 @ 12:47PM
Argus said...
In Runaways, Dead means dead.
10-29-2008 @ 1:19PM
Riley Freeman said...
i dont even know what runaways is
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10-30-2008 @ 12:04AM
Joe said...
I still can't believe Adam died He was a guy I could have seenbeing really good in Heroes He was cool and people that are not say in the show.
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