Pages Tagged “Heroes”
Reviews
- Heroes Volume 3: Villains I liked the start of the season, but by the end it had gotten to the point where I was alternately ready to jump for joy and throw things at the screen in the space of the same episode.
Blog Posts
- Farewell to FlashForward, Heroes & Better Off Ted
So, the last few TV shows I was waiting to hear about have been officially canceled. FlashForward is two episodes away from its season — now series — finale. I’ll miss it a little, but I think I’ll miss what it could have been a lot more than I’ll miss what it actually was. The […]
- Sylar vs. Sylar?
Possible spoilers for the beginning of Heroes Volume 5: Redemption. So. Last season, Nathan Petrelli died and Matt Parkman telepathically brainwashed Sylar into believing he was Nathan, and since Sylar can change his appearance, as far as anyone can tell, he may as well be Nathan. Now, Matt has a version of Sylar living in […]
- TV Shows: End of Spring Status
A quick look at TV shows we’ve been watching this season. Lost – Good season, learned a lot more than I expected about DHARMA, major cliffhanger. Renewed for a final season…in 2010. (Hard to believe that’s less than a year away) Pushing Daisies – managed to maintain the tone & quality, but canceled halfway through […]
- Saturday Morning in Line at the Con (SDCC 2008)
Crowds, coffee and crazy lines: Waiting for Heroes in Hall H and navigating the floor from Artists Alley on up.
- Sylar Industries
Altered photo. The original sign is for Syar Industries in Napa, California, but as Heroes fans, we couldn’t resist changing it to Sylar.
- Wizard World LA 2008 – Con Report
Despite missing signs and a bad schedule, I got some comics bargains and met a bunch of artists, writers and actors including John Wesley Shipp, TV’s Flash.
- Prim(a)tech Sighting
In honor of the Heroes DVD release, here’s a truck that’s almost, but not quite labeled for Primatech Paper: Interestingly, it’s been a month for timing pop culture releases with relevant astronomical events. First Stardust, all about catching a falling star, arrived in theaters the same weekend as the Perseids meteor shower. Today, the Heroes […]
- Pirates vs. Sylar
I’m still attending Comic-Con in civvies, but Katie wore two costumes this year: another update of her pirate outfit on Friday, and a Sylar victim with a telekinetic slice across her forehead. Saturday, of course, for the big Heroes panel. She did the makeup from scratch, using latex and fake blood, and got a lot […]
- Thoughts on Heroes: “How to Stop an Exploding Man”
The Heroes season finale was excellent. They did a good job of resolving the main story arc established at the beginning of the season (the bomb threatening New York City), balanced action and characterization, answered some questions while still leaving things open—and set up a really interesting situation for season 2. It’s also nice to see […]
- Mohindiana
Ever notice the similarities between Mohinder Suresh on Heroes and Indiana Jones? His first arc is straight out of The Last Crusade.
- Exit stage left, pursued by a Claire.
Yeah sure, Heroes X-Men blah blah blah, but wait, there’s more. I’m getting a distinct vibe from the latest episode that has less to do with mutants than with good TV. This makes me very happy, all the more because I didn’t pick up on it until the third-to-last ep of the season. Of course, […]
- LOST Renewal / Story Arcs vs. TV Scheduling
Here’s a surprise: Lost has been renewed for a three-season deal… but each season is only 16 episodes long. The writers are glad that they have an endpoint, because now they know how long they have to tell the rest of the story they have in mind. (Call me credulous, but I’m inclined to believe […]
- Con Report: Wizard World LA 2007
With most of the panels done, Sunday was a nice, low-key chance to hunt for comics and fill in my collection. Getting to the con was a bit of a challenge.
- Fighting Irish
I caught a story on The World (PRI) today about Los Angeles band Ollin’s song tribute to Saint Patrick’s Battalion (in Spanish, El Batallón de Los San Patricios)—a group of several hundred primarily Irish Americans who, during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848), left the US Army to fight alongside the Mexicans. They fought fiercely for a […]
- The Secret Life of the Invulnerable Cheerleader
I was browsing the DVD releases at Target this weekend, and saw the box for Bring it On: All or Nothing. I did a double-take, because right there on the cover was Claire Bennet from Heroes: Yes, shortly before Hayden Panettiere played a cheerleader with super-powers on Heroes, she played a cheerleader in a direct-to-video […]
- Heroes Genetics
Genetics has been built into the show concept for Heroes from the beginning. Mohinder’s father was tracking a genetic marker, and it’s all about humans evolving powers (in response to what selection pressure, I don’t know, but it’s comic book science). So the question of what can be inherited is built into the show’s premise. […]
- Insert code name here
Been watching Heroes and loving it. Recently we read a list of names for the characters’ alter-egos. Inspired by this, I bring you my inventions: Charlie – Flashdrive Claire – Rebound (or, if you want silly, Anti-Maim) D.L. – Fade Eden – Hpnotiq (because somebody’s got to have a cool alternate spelling) Isaac – Visionary […]