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NEWS FLASH!!!

The upcoming monthly eclipse (similar to last month's eclipse, but somehow different) will again be global. Forget what science and physics say about the relative sizes of the moon and the sun, this event will be as global as it was last season. Someone needs to update Wikipedia and let them know how plausible this is.

Not only that, but this eclipse is touted to also remove interest in super heroes and their stories.

Did you watch Smallville? I only suffered through a few episodes. It was long enough to realize how simplistic their formula was. It involved Lex lying to someone, Chloe or Lana being in some sort of trouble, kryptonite hidden in the mix somewhere and Clark saving the day. It caught my attention simply because I always wanted to see how it was for Superman to grow up. Unfortunately they ruined its potential by using kryptonite too much.

While this is only the second eclipse, two is too many. They usually only happen once, twice MAYBE three times in one year. The timeline of Heroes is either much faster than it seems, or they have eclipses more in their world of mutation. Not only that, but an eclipse is a localized event. It's not the kind of thing that happens in Kansas, New York, Toyko and who-knows-where-else at the same time.

The element they are using too often is the "lost powers" thing. They used it last season, and it didn't work very well. It ended up not mattering a hill of beans that Sylar got injected and lost his powers. That syrum seems to have been completely forgotten. Suresh is very scatterbrained, it seems. Now, in this season their powers are taken away by an eclipse? Seems like somebody is playing games with the nature of this show's reality and I think the effect is going to be a separation from its fans. We don't like being jerked around by storylines that end up making no sense or difference.

Consistancy is what everyone wants in a relationship. Consistantly bad isn't what this show has been. Let's hope that the little shake-up evens out and the plot doesn't suck this season down.