I think it was getting SFX this week and reading them raving about Heroes, as per usual, that made me decide this week's BBC3 episode would be make it or break it for my viewing of it. I wasn't that impressed by the first two episodes, but I kept going - after all, everyone seems to think it's the best thing since sliced bread, so I thought there must be something in it.

The episode I watched last night turned out to be the 8th one - I feel like I've been watching it for longer than that. It didn't have Nikki or her equally annoying family in it, so on the plus side I didn't feel like throwing things at the TV. And it had plenty of Hiro and Ando, who are the only characters I like. It even had plenty of Matt, who is played by the same bloke who played Weiss in Alias, which makes him automatically cool.

But I was bored by it. Hiro and Ando bored me, and the rest of them bored me too. There were two moments of excitement, one of which was when it had Kasuf from Stargate in it. The other I've already forgotten, so it can't have been that exciting.

I had a look at some synopses on the internet to find out what I would be missing and if there were any answers to the questions they threw up at the start and haven't answered yet. I got lost by the use of character names I haven't learnt yet (ie most of them) and bored by everything else.

So the net result is I get 40 minutes of my life back (although probably more like 35 minutes as I skip through the previously as I have a memory longer than a goldfish).

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