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I think I hate the annoying!gratuitous!Sprint product placement suddenly permeating Heroes even more than scrunchy!face Peter. If Claire shows up wearing a Sprint tee shirt, I am so changing the channel.
I don't know, I was expecting Sylar and Pete to start making out on the torture scene... you know, the place alone, on top of each other on a table, the nail gun... they kinda have a Mr and Mrs Smith vibe going on.
"Honestly, they can't pay somebody to come up with a few cool, interesting powers that we haven't seen before?"
Mur Lafferty, in "Playing for Keeps", came up with the idea of a mutant who can produce vast amounts of shit on demand and hose them out through his hands.
Something tells me, though, that this wouldn't look very appealing on a TV show.
@Roklimber: Mur Lafferty, in "Playing for Keeps", came up with the idea of a mutant who can produce vast amounts of shit on demand and hose them out through his hands"
Yeah, I'm pretty sure those are the guys who write for Heros.
@Annalee Newitz: I meant changing gender at will. One moment you have a beautiful cosoplus, then the other a deadly spear of love. It would definitely result in interesting scenarios.
"this adds further evidence to the idea that every single power on Heroes was ripped off from X-Men. Honestly,
they can't pay somebody to come up with a few cool, interesting powers that we haven't seen before?"
There are thousands of X-Men. Or at least it feels like there are thousands of X-Men. Anyway, it would be hard to come up with a new power that hasn't been done before. You would have to go into the weird Tick meets Warehouse 13 territory of powers.
Like "Dialtone," with one single thought he can change anyone into a 1961 Crosley Princess phone. Oooooooo!
Or "Lord Flavor" with the ability to make anything you eat taste like three day old lasagna. Aaaahhhhh!
Yeah, I'd rather stick with the more normal powers of flying and healing and leave such weirdness to the likes of The Middleman. Heroes is too straight lace for that sort of thing.
Did anybody really expect Sylar to die when Peter let go of Nathan? And why do people always fall on cars. There is always plenty of nice asphalt around, why hit the car?
And the guy playing the puppeteer, was that the same actor? He was always overweight, but it looked like he had gained about 60 pounds and a couple of chins.
That puppetmaster part was ridiculous. They basically make that character one of the most sociopathic villains on the show since Sylar and poof! Claire is cool with him? When did this happen? She helped him run from G-man from last season, and it certainly wasn't because she liked him, so what's changed?
Also, it took THIS long for Peter to realize that besides Hiro, Renee has the most useful ability against Sylar? Wow.
@Alexis: The affectionate hug was a huge WTF. This is the creepy dude who controlled your body, and the bodies of both your mommies. He lived in an old puppet theater. He never shaved. He was one of the more effective villains on the show because of how slimy he was.
What kind of lame-ass evil carnival is this, that joining it makes you LESS creepy?!
I was pretty much expecting Samuel to freaking pull up a chunk of planet and put Asteroid M in orbit, that's how hardcore he was channeling 90s-era Claremont Magneto. 90s-era Claremont Magneto had a similar power of gaining sycophantic followers by shoveling vague separatist bullshit at them.
"(And am I the only person who spent the last episode waiting for a big lizard reveal, only to be thwarted? They even talked about skinning an alien just to tease us, the bastards)
Seeing as how it was already revealed they were lizards, I wasn't disappointed.
What I'm hoping for is that Anna is part of a mammoth warning plot where she has already turned against her whole race and wants to save earth, and that she'll reveal her real motives to the fifth column once the revealed BIG fleet is in range. I'm not holding my breath. It's probably going to be stupid.
I'm not really intrigued by Alice. "NEW, MODERN, EDGY, OOOH!" if you want to be new, modern, and edgy, make something new, modern, and edgy.
@Definer-not-defined: 4 of 7 here, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Dollhouse, hey hey. (that's ST:VOY wordplay btw) I can't wait for mah show to be back.
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12/01/09
Mur Lafferty, in "Playing for Keeps", came up with the idea of a mutant who can produce vast amounts of shit on demand and hose them out through his hands.
Something tells me, though, that this wouldn't look very appealing on a TV show.
12/01/09
Yeah, I'm pretty sure those are the guys who write for Heros.
12/02/09
You need a power?: The awesome ability to change genders. How's that for a change?
This would even help come to fruition all those shippers dreams...
12/02/09
The writers for Heroes do produce vast amounts of shit on demand, which they unceremoniously throw at us, the audience.
+1 to you, m'am.
12/02/09
12/02/09
Ever heard of Ranma 1/2?
12/01/09
they can't pay somebody to come up with a few cool, interesting powers that we haven't seen before?"
There are thousands of X-Men. Or at least it feels like there are thousands of X-Men. Anyway, it would be hard to come up with a new power that hasn't been done before. You would have to go into the weird Tick meets Warehouse 13 territory of powers.
Like "Dialtone," with one single thought he can change anyone into a 1961 Crosley Princess phone. Oooooooo!
Or "Lord Flavor" with the ability to make anything you eat taste like three day old lasagna. Aaaahhhhh!
Yeah, I'd rather stick with the more normal powers of flying and healing and leave such weirdness to the likes of The Middleman. Heroes is too straight lace for that sort of thing.
12/01/09
12/01/09
12/01/09
And the guy playing the puppeteer, was that the same actor? He was always overweight, but it looked like he had gained about 60 pounds and a couple of chins.
12/01/09
12/01/09
Also, it took THIS long for Peter to realize that besides Hiro, Renee has the most useful ability against Sylar? Wow.
12/01/09
What kind of lame-ass evil carnival is this, that joining it makes you LESS creepy?!
12/01/09
Sprint!
11/30/09
It's pretty good... compared to the other FF episodes anyhow, but shit actually happens, and we get quite a few answers.
So not to shabby overall.
11/30/09
Seeing as how it was already revealed they were lizards, I wasn't disappointed.
What I'm hoping for is that Anna is part of a mammoth warning plot where she has already turned against her whole race and wants to save earth, and that she'll reveal her real motives to the fifth column once the revealed BIG fleet is in range. I'm not holding my breath. It's probably going to be stupid.
I'm not really intrigued by Alice. "NEW, MODERN, EDGY, OOOH!" if you want to be new, modern, and edgy, make something new, modern, and edgy.
11/30/09
11/30/09
11/30/09
My saturaday morning shows are complete!
11/30/09
2 of 7 here.
11/30/09
I'd almost forgot that it would be returning Friday. I'm so excited.
11/30/09