Lost vs Heroes: Which is Your Favorite?
September 27, 2007 | Filed under News
Lost and Heroes are two very successful series and despite both sharing many of the same fans, the debate over which show is better rages on. Fans of Lost appreciate its cinematic pacing and its mind bending ending left fans with nothing but stunned curiosity. Heroes fans say its shorter arcs and quicker delivery is nothing short of brilliant story telling though Lost fans argue that Heroes finale is evidence that it is operating at a ‘he who burns brightest, burns out first’ pace.
In my opinion Heroes is the better programme. I’ve never really got into Lost because it was too slow for me, but with Heroes there’s always something exciting and new happening it’s hard not to be hooked.
Of course, in debates like this the word ‘better’ simply means ‘more popular’. So what I really want to know is what show you like better, Lost or Heroes? Don’t take into account the ratings, awards or reviews, I just want to know what programme you like the most and why.
So is Lost still the veteran of the two? Has Heroes beaten Lost at it’s own game? Let me which is your favorite and why.
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Lost is definitely the better show. Heroes has a premise (”everyone gets a special power”) that’s been hashed out a million times - from the X-Men to Piers Anthony’s “Xanth” novels to The 4400. The presentation is good, but the characters and story are utterly generic.
Lost is really something brand new, and it’s really the more honest approach to the supernatural - that it would manifest itself in ways where no one knew “the rules” or even what the heck was going on - not by magically letting various people do various physics-defying tricks.
Besides, while the premise of Lost certainly requires a great deal of suspension of disbelief, the premise of Heroes is just flat-out laughable. Fully naturalistic changes to DNA can give people the ability to fly… with no wings, or any mechanism whatsoever to provide them lift? Come on - that’s just stupid. And the same, um, “category” of genetic “evolution” produces a person who doesn’t fly, but can, I don’t know, see into the future? Sure, that’s what genetic mutations do.
There’s only so far I can suspend my disbelief, and Heroes stretches it to the point of breaking.
(Of course, when Mr. Eko was sort of teleported out of an imploding building and subsequently kidnapped by polar bears, it was stretched pretttty thin then, too).
Heroes all the way. I’ve just never got into Lost despite seeing several wonderful episodes. I like it, but you have to pick your obsessions, and I’d rather obsess about Heroes. Love the characters, cool powers, variety of eye candy, storylines, etc. Seriously, this is the only show I DVR since I work nights and normally can’t see primtime shows.