Soundscape #44: "Save The Cheerleader, Save The World"

Heroes, the show that has held me hostage for 23 Wednesday nights, has just finished its run on tv and the final episode was absolutely crap. I'm so disappointed! What a cop-out ending! Where's the action? Where's the promised drama? The final episode was suffocated by really bad acting and oh, the lines! They were so cheesy I was cringeing through them, hoping, no, praying, for some spark of originality.

I should have known better. Originality in a TV series? What is Heroes if not a big pot of the issues and problems that occupied—and is still occupying—man since the dawn of human consciousness? Sure, it's updated for the modern ADD audience but you don't have to dig too deep into the packaging to see the characters trying to grapple with the issues of good vs evil, the hero and his hubris, the notion of the journey, the problem of the Outsider/Other in each episode. And if you stir into that mix the childhood fantasies we all had—super powers that noone knew about, the conspiracy, the excitement of it all, the inner kid in me is happily willing to come straight back home on Wednesday nights just to watch TV.



Playlist:
1. (0:00) Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (Black Sheep Boy)
2. (1:21) Pixies - Debaser (Waves Of Mutilation)
3. (4:13) The Organ - Brother (Grab That Gun)
4. (8:14) Voxtrot - Firecracker (S/T)
5. (11:56)The Flaming Lips - Fight Test (Fight Test EP)
6. (16:05) Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly (There Is Nothing Left To Lose)
7. (16:05) Sufjan Stevens - The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts (Illinois)
8. (20:01) Josh Ritter - Good Man (The Animal Years)
9. (25:47) The Arcade Fire - Intervention (Neon Bible)
10. (29:55) Beulah - A Good Man Is Easy To Kill (The Coast Is Never Clear)
11. (34:11) Bloc Party - Hunting For Witches (A Weekend In The City)
12. (38:31) Mogwai - Glasgow Mega-Snake (Mr Beast)
13. (42:05) M83 - Don't Save Us From The Flames (Before The Dawn Heals Us)
14. (45:37) The Thermals - Here's Your Future (The Body The Blood The Machine)
15. (49:53) Radiohead - There There (The Boney King Of Nowhere) (Hail To The Thief)