Disclaimer: the following post has massive spoilers about Heroes, Lost, and Fringe if you are not up to date on any of these and don’t want anything spoiled I suggest you read this or this or any of the other fine posts my blog has to offer. However if you are up to date on one or two of these shows but not all 3 I have made it easy for you with a little message before each paragraph telling you what the paragraph spoils.

Heroes and Fringe Spoilers here;
I follow 3 dramas that are currently on television, ‘Lost’, ‘Heroes’, and I just started watching ‘Fringe’. It was in a recent episode of Fringe where Olivia (Anna Torv) discovers that John (Mark Valley) is not actually dead (or it appears that way). This is when I realized that the three shows I watch all have something in common; (no it’s not that JJ Abrams co-created two of them), they all have dead people popping up going “surprise, we were part of a creepy lab experiment”, or “surprise I’m only a hallucination that you and a few others can see”. The latter of those two would be Linderman (Malcolm McDowell) from ‘Heroes’.

Keep in mind I am a big fan of all of these shows, and most of the time when somebody who was dead pops back for a visit it’s awesome. So I am not posting a hate rant, merely an observation that on television death is not what it once was. Gone are the days of ‘The Fugitive’ when Dr. Kimble’s wife died we knew she would not be coming back.

Heroes spoilers here;
Look at it, Heroes is, awesome. Yet pretty much in every episode this season they have brought back a character who is dead or as good as dead, Nathan, Linderman (yes hallucinations that more then one person can see do count), Adam, and Future Peter (but he can’t die so that doesn’t really count).

Fringe spoilers here;
Now look at Fringe, Agent Scott, died in the pilot came back in episode 4. Fringe is still young I’m sure we’ll see this again.

Lost spoilers here; 
Finally Lost, who knows what’s going on there? In season one Jack kept seeing his dad (yes it was a hallucination), however in season 4 when Hurly looks into Jacob’s cabin he sees Jack’s Dad (Christen Shepherd), looking alive and well.

You’re probity thinking I need to watch shows grounded in reality like ‘ER’ ‘Gray’s Anatomy’ and ‘House’ however I also discovered a theme with those shows, they all take place in hospitals!

So on TV today you can choose between a show that takes place in a hospital or a supernatural show and I choose supernatural.

(Over simplification yes I know, but whatever.)

written by Travis \\ tags: Death, Fringe, Gray's Anatomy, Heroes, House, Lost