Save the Cheerleader, Get Shot in the Face
NBC is hawking the third season of Heroes?subtitled Villains, making the full title Heroes: Villains, which, if you like antonym pairs, I suppose is okay, but sounds incredibly stupid otherwise?and the trailer does a great job of not conveying how boring the show will surely be. Oh, I know that Heroes was good for most of its first season, but the second season was so super-powerfully dull that I’m broken and bitter regarding the series, and no amount of Parkman being stranded in a desert or people standing around with expressions of mild surprise on their faces will change that.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.