(March 23, 2007) — Let’s face it; everyone wants to be a superhero. Don’t tell me you’ve never been sitting in class—in the middle of some boring teacher-student bonding lecture—and wondered if you could shoot web in the face of your academic docent; or maybe you wished you could freeze time, and do something terrible like move their chair so when they sit, BAM! And in this slight daydream for some, obsession for others—we now live in a torrent of superhero content all at our fingertips. Whether it be movies or TV shows, studios and corporations are starting to take notice of the dream of almost every single person age three to fifty. Leading this torrent of super-powered, comic book inspired content is the T.V. show Heroes . Whether you’ve seen it or not, you have to have heard about it—that is of course unless you live under a rock, and by under a rock I mean dead because even people under a rock watch this show. I watch this show, my family watches this show, my math teacher watches this show, my friends watch this show, my grandma watches this show; everyone watches this show. And it’s really no wonder how successful it is. It is, after all, a T.V. show deeply rooted in the fantasies, which I mentally live out every single day. The show, without going into detail, is about a bunch of crazy people who all get super-powers. They try to explain why, but it really doesn’t matter because the writing is god-awful. But who cares? Because not a day goes by when I wonder how cool it would be to freeze time and chop something in half with a sword, only to let time go again and see it simply fall in half in the most dramatic way possible. And being able to watch that—well, that’s just priceless. Can you tell I really dig the show? So why even write anything at all? Because this show could be one of the biggest television phenomena of the past five to ten years, and in reality it is just so simple. Think of all the ideas that could be just as good. This show is founded in the fantasies and dreams of kids, and yet it appeals to everyone. Think of the creative potential for a show. You could do anything, or pretty close to it as I’m convinced at this point, and it could become the next Heroes . There’s nothing wrong with eating up media like hotcakes, but please let me get you to think of the possibility. IT’S SO SIMPLE—IT’S SO SIMPLE, get it? It’s the simplest thing in the entire simple universe of simpleton simples. And because it’s so simple it appeals to everyone. Yet, think of all the things you could write that could be just as good as Heroes. It could be about a magical purple crayon for all I care—well that’s been done, but you see where I’m getting. Please, kill the poppycock—and get the creative juices flowing.