I admit it. Heroes has me by the nads. In my teens I occassionaly watched soap operas, mostly because the suspense drew me back in. I have to thank advertising for turning me off of tv. I am probably happier without. Sure, the daily show rocks, and I loved babylon 5, but tv=bad for you.
Heroes is very well done. The acting is good, the story believable, compelling, and interesting.
There’s probably something about being a social reject in one’s youth that leads to a love of comic books, fantasy, etc, etc. I’m not quite sure why these genres are so compelling to me, but they are.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Heroes, it’s a nbc tv series. People with strange abilities from “around the world” (ie, almost all from america. One indian and two japanese people not withstanding). “Normal” people. Who get an array of abilities, many of which are remarkably reminiscent of x-men, for the most part. But there’s no professor X. This is a darker, more sinister world. And more mysterious. Sorta x-files meets x-men. But more intimately grounded in real life. It’s good watching, I much recommend it.
the only abilities i have been able to match up perfectly to xmen is that of a little known mutant named Synch to the character of Peter. most of teh more well known mutants aren’t just psychic, they also have TK (a term you may remember from your Bab5 days)
TK was barely mentioned in b5, but I’ve known in under both TK and its alias PK since the late 80’s at least. =)
Kitty Pryde as a black convict (albeit, an innocent one) is rather amusing to me.
Also, wolverine as a cheerleader (who never underwent surgery to get her bones replaced with bogusium).
ok, you got me, those do make sense to me.
Say anything about what happened in the last episode and you’re toast. I had to miss it because my dad’s in town.
Well, you see, they saved the cheerleader. Well, sort of… =)
If you enjoyed B5, and are up for something, ah, interesting, Netflix or rent the pilot/miniseries for Battlestar Galactica. It doesn’t suck. I promise.
I have heard this a great deal and may have to investigate.
Seriously, the miniseries is pretty self contained. They weren’t sure they were making any more after that, so it stands on it’s own as a 3-ish hour movie.
Of course, it does have a ton of loose ends, as the idea was to create momentum for a series, but as far as “getting a feel” for a series, BSG is easy. 🙂
sigh, i wish i had you by the nads
Once wasn’t enough? =)
twice would be nice 🙂
That can almost certainly be arranged. =) When are you next coming to Chicago?
don’t know yet, but we will let you know. wouldn’t want to find ourselves there when you’re away traveling 🙂
i love that show.