Heroes Season 2 non-review

Heroes makes me sad because it has such a potential for greatness but it hobbles itself with all this weird crap that it drags along. And lo, they did not spontaneously get rid of any of it between seasons.

I winced over and over through the premiere, and finally turned it off when it became clear that the show will now have two super-creepy child characters on it. The kids on this show are written and directed to act like experienced, nuanced adults, and I'm fairly sure at this point that it's less because they're supposed to be unusual and more that the writing and directing kinda stinks.

Those kids give me the willies! They're far worse even than sitcom kids who crack wise like cynical, tired gag writers.

Maze thing, again

Spent Saturday stomping around the Davis cornfield maze thing in Sterling with friends. From pre-maze breakfast to post-maze dinner the whole adventure took close to 10 hours, somehow. It was OK but I this will be my last one for a long time. I love the concept of life-size mazes, and I love seeing "normal" people attracted in great numbers to unusual games like this. But as for me, I've seen enough of them for the time being.

I have been able to get into the spirit before, but when I'm not I just end up following someone else until I'm bored and tired and ready to do something else. And then I look up and discover I'm stuck in the middle of a giant maze. Doh.

Deeply unfortunate: Apparently dictator555 and company got stuck in a loop because some pranksters rearranged some of the maze's many DO NOT ENTER sawhorses specifically to trap people. It took them a long time to figure this out, and they emerged an hour or so after everyone else. This makes me sad. It feels like a betrayal, even though it isn't the maze's fault.