My first blog

So, I'm not a movie star, or a star athlete, or a professional critic but what I am is a lawyer, father to one, stepfather to 3, Heroes GN Commentator on Heroesarg.com, tweeter at sdlaw@twitter.com, armchair quarterback, fantasy baseball guru, 40 something, opinion giver.
You may not like my opinion, but heck, thats why we have 1000000000 or more blogs to choose from. My goal is to update this weekly with whatever I find interesting or my cause of the moment. If you care to hear my daily rumblings check me out on twitter, facebook (eric siegler) or myspace (look me up under erics123@aol.com). Otherwise, maybe let me know how you like my blogposts or if there is anything you want me to talk about.

To start, I want to talk about one of my favorite shows Heroes. despite the ratings struggles, I think they Heroes producers are doing an excellent job on the show. The actors are amazing me with their ability to portray characters which, to be quite honest, have powers we just can't fathom, and still come off as characters to whom we can relate. Credit this 50% to actors like Greg Grunberg, Milo Ventimiglia, Hayden Paniettieri, Adrian Pasdar, Jack Coleman, etc.. If I left someone out, it is because there are just too many quality actors and actresses to list them all. The other 50% goes to the producers, writers, propmasters, crew, etc who together provide the excellent story, sets, props, and editing to get hundreds of plot points, hints, clues, secrets, and story lines across in 40 minutes of air time per week, 22 times a season.

As for the ratings and critics, I really hope the networks and advertisers realize that they no longer can rely solely on ratings. With DVR/TIVO so prevalent, internet web replays of full episodes available within 10 hours of airtime, and the fact that the ratings households are no longer representative households, it becomes harder to judge a show by the ratings alone. Heroes gets a lot of DVR play. I rarely am home on time to watch it. Often, if I am home, I watch less heavy fare first so that I can end my day with Heroes. Knowing that it is available on the internet, I sometimes will watch it on my crackberry. I know many people who watch Heroes on G4 so they can get the commentary.

Morale - Pay no heed to those closet Neilson homes which is a narrow and outdated technique to rate shows and pay more attention to DVR tracking, Downloads, web participation and the mass amounts of internet time and space devoted to this great show!