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We don’t need another Heroes
Yet yet another display has appeared — Alphas on Syfy — about a group of super-powered misfits who need to team up to save the planet by virtue of the respective special gift/curse every single one particular possesses. This, of course, was the premise of X-Men, The Great 4, The Incredibles, Charmed, Heroes, and numerous, a lot of comparable fantasies, most not long ago No Ordinary Household on the ABC network here in the U.S.
The basic unifying conceit, of course, is that anything that tends to make you specific, even if it’s a super-power that enables you to save the planet, also singles you out, separating you from the fellowship of humanity and therefore generating you a variety of outcast.
The difficulty is that it’s a tired, apparent thought, with limited dramatic possible, because each character is stuck in their own private dialectic — either embracing their specific energy as a accurate mark of their identity, or else undertaking the opposite, trying to assert to an uncomprehending globe that “this point you see initial about me is not actually who I am!” This was precisely the point of the wickedly deconstructive Mystery Males.
Only one particular show ever got things appropriate, a brilliantly conceived BBC series from 1968-1969 known as The Champions. The sophisticated premise of this show was that none of the three protagonists (two males and a woman) had been actually misfits, because they all had specifically the same super-powers.
The 3 government agents, their plane having crash-landed someplace in the Himalayas, were rescued and nursed to well being by a mysterious superior civilization. Except that they were all place together far better than before, so they now possessed superior intellect, strength, vision, hearing, a modest pre-cog capability, and a restricted ability to read every single other people’ minds. Nothing at all as flashy as flying or invisibility, just humans “turned up to eleven” as Nigel Tufnel may possibly say.
The brilliance of this premise is that the 3 protagonists, simply because they possess identical gifts, are permitted to be individuals. Their powers do not define their interactions, but simply improve them, placing every little thing on a greater degree.
This is not like, say Monk or Numbers or Columbo or Property or Heck Ramsey or The Closer or The Pretender (I could go on — the list is really extended) exactly where 1 flashily hyper-brilliant misfit sucks up all the oxygen in the room.
No, to each other, the Champions are perfectly typical, charming, funny, interesting, human, except of course that almost everything amongst them is occurring on a wonderfully advanced degree. I suspect that right now, in the hands of an Aaron Sorkin or Joss Whedon, a display with this premise would blow all those “group of misfits” fantasies out of the water.