I'm done with Heroes. That was such a bad ending. Please, let's call in Dignitas and let it go out in ... well, I was going to say dignity, but that wasn't a dignified episode.
Just let it end.
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Some non-spoiler-ish (honest) blurb by Tim Kring. Really, you want to read this.
We’re all very excited about the next volume of Heroes(volume 5) called “REDEMPTION.” All of our characters, in way or another, return to their normal lives after the turmoil and tragedy of “FUGITIVES.”
One of the big issues we’ll be exploring is how should a person with abilities live his or her life. Should they try to assimilate by hiding their abilities, or should they live more honestly, exposing their powers to the world?
Claire will be at the forefront of that issue, starting college in Washington, D.C., and trying to discover, as all college kids Oh who the fuck cares. Enough of the whingy cheerleader struggling with her identity and how she fits in, already. Didn't see that one coming, did we?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5paYvm2bBk
Like the first few seconds...
Oh. Spoiler alert. In case (it's not obvious)
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OK, I've gotta stop reading the forums after an episode. Too many fuckwits. Here's a post I just couldn't not write. The bits in italic are other people's comments:
Some thoughts on other people's comments:
"I wonder how in the world we are supposed to believe Matt Parkman took 5 bullets to the chest and lived to tell about it - especially considering he was in badphysical shape to begin with.4 months later he is up and running around as if nothing happened. Supposedly D.L. is dead, from 1 bullet to the lower abdomen, yet Matt survives 5 to the upper chest? The writers botched that one. "
Matt didn't get shot. He got 5 bullets "flung" at him by Sylar's telekinesis. Obviously, TK is not as strong as a good load of gunpowder, otherwise he would be dead (unless there's another healer around that we don't know about, and who was there at the scene, and I don't believe the writers are dumb enough to use that sort of cop-out).
"Mrs Petrelli and Hiro's father may be at the base of the company?"
No sarcasm this time: Didn't we see this in series 1, when Hiro's father first appeared? I can't remember that far back - was it something to do with handing Claire over to HRG? Also, remember Ma Petrelli had previously known the haitian, who was a company man, so obviously she had ties.
Re: the latino siblings:
"The Spanish brother and sister was kind of the only real boring storyline last night IMO. I do think that the brother has super speed/stamina with all the running he did, especially when he caught up the truck. What exactly is the girl, Mayas power??? All i saw were people with like blood drops coming out of their eyes. I didnt really get what she did to them. "
Someone else: "I also thought that her brother may have the power of speed because he was able to catch up to the truck by foot. We all know powers run in the family.... "
Really? All I thought was that A) they died relatively quickly once the brother was left behind, and B) the brother caught up... eventually. Or maybe I missed something that said "10 minutes and 400 miles later, the brother catches up" ???
And as for all the comments about how the episode didn't answer questions like: Why is Peter in a trailer in Cork with no memory? Why is Matt divorced? etc etc.... well, that's kind of the point of having 24 (or however many) episodes in a season - to spread things out. Get a life. Have some patience.
"He's [Kensei] english? Maybe he's claude's ancestor."
Yeah, that's right. The UK (or England in those days) is such a small place we're all related. I forget that, being a Brit myself. Heck, the Queen is my second cousin.
And where are Nikki/Micah/DL? Who cares? Hanging out with Sylar, Candice, and Claude, for all I know, as they weren't in it either. It was a 52 minute episode. They'll be back (well, maybe not DL). Just like in series 1 - not every hero was in every episode, thank god.
Oh, and GeigerdolylWodd [a twat who posted like 10 posts saying " HIRO chANGED THE PAST WHEN HE CAME BACK!", complete with the all caps writing] - why not watch the bloody program in one sitting without stopping every 10 seconds to post about what's happening on-screen? Go see a doctor and get some ADHD medication.
Andy
Thought some of you would appreciate reading that.
Anyway. Nice episode. Some good questions/plot elements to pursue in the coming series. I'm liking how messed-up Ma Petrelli is looking. And how does someone as small as George Takei (Hiro's dad) have a voice as deep as James Earl Jones? Unbelievable.
And I'm loving HRG (Horn Rimmed Glasses - cheerleader's dad) and Suresh and their plan - could be the best bit of the story, which is odd given that neither has any powers (OK, Suresh's blood can cure the virus that got his sister and nearly got Molly in the last series, but that's hardly a power, is it?)
In fact, HRG rocks generally. Nice scene at the office. Great round-the-dinner-table conversation, with more unsaid than said.
Shitty bit is that there's another fucking break in the middle of the season. I thought they'd promised not to do that after it lost 20% of it's viewers last time?
Ah well.
Actually, this series sucks.
After watching 2 episodes every 2 or 3 nights so that the missus can catch up to series 2 by episode 2 or 3, I'm hating having to wait another week for the next episode.
Life sucks.
Still, NCIS tonight! Yay DiNozzo!
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The good lady and I finished watching series 4 of NCIS last night... spoilers ahead! I've put them in white, so you'll need to highlight them if you want to read them. Actually, not so much spoilers, as possible plotlines/background. Anyway, if you're watching NCIS but not finished series 4, don't highlight the text below....
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So... Mr French Gunrunner meets DiNozzo and calls him DiNardo the film professor. Rumours abound amongst the 65 fecking pages on TV.com about this one single episode. Possibilities that I read on the 3 or 4 pages I managed to read:1. Apparently, we've never heard Jeanne called Tony anything other than Tony, and never made a reference to his work at NCIS. So... is Tony undercover, trying to get close to Jeanne in order to get to Papa? However, when Jeanne was held hostage by the two junkie drugrunners in the hostpial morgue, Tony reached for his gun... so maybe she does know. Also, Papa called him DiNozzo when speaking to the shifty double-agent British-accented CIA guy (still haven't worked that one out yet). So Papa knows full well who DiNozzo is.2. That would explain why Tony's having doubts... maybe he actually HAS fallen for her, even though it was supposed to be an undercover thing.3. It would also explain why DiNozzo went to see the Director to speak about his sex life, of all things. You just wouldn't do that, no matter how close you got. Mind you, that director... Yummm. Nice with the shorter hair that she's got nowadays. Very, very nice.4. Someone else posited that as Director Jenny still gets pissed off everytime she gets close to Papa Gunrunner, then loses the trail, then she obviously doens't know about Tony going undercover and gunning for Jeanne to get to Papa. So he must be on a CIA sting for some reason.5. My own theory: Gibbs has been strangely unsarcastic when it comes to Tony not being around, not answering his phone, etc, etc. So I reckon it's Gibbs who's asked Tony to go under cover, to protect the Director from making mistakes in her obsession to get Papa Gunrunner.[END SPOILERS]
All very exciting.
Even more exciting when I found out that series 5 starts in the Us in 2 weeks. 24th September.
Second, obviously, Heroes starts on the same fucking day.
I think I just wet myself with excitement.
If only Battlestar Galactica could have started the same day - I'd have died in apoplexy.
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Very arty, at least one new face I think (could have been someone else in profile with a new hairdo, not sure). No spoilers or hints on the plot.
http://www.mininova.org/tor/868687Oh, and did anyone see this weekend's Mail On Sunday (the Daily Mail one, not the Scottish Mail one). It had a brief interview with Ali Larter (Nikki/Jessica/Superbabe), and a nice full length, two-page centerpiece type thing, obviously not quite your Penthouse version, but nice never-the-less. Yum!
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This torrent caught my eye the other day, and I've just flicked through it. Don't bother downloading, it looks like an alternative script to the first 2-3 episodes. I didn't see the very original pilot, so maybe it's based on that.
Some differences:
- Matt Parkman (the mind-reading cop) is trying to get into SWAT, not to detective level.
- The FBI woman and Matt's wife are played by different people
- Matt finds an Islamic terrorist in the house, not the young girl
- The terrorist is the one with nuclear powers, not the guy from the final series, although he has also killed his wife due to cancer
- Mohinder meets Sylar already (different actor, possibly), where it's in episode 6 or thereabouts in the true release
- The warehouse-on-fire that the cheerleader goes into is a replacement for a train crash caused by the terrorist cell
That's about it.
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Yay! Heroes is back on.
[Wipes drool from keyboard]
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