<![CDATA[io9: mohinder suresh]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: mohinder suresh]]> http://io9.com/tag/mohindersuresh http://io9.com/tag/mohindersuresh <![CDATA[Everyone Goes Dark On Heroes]]> With the third season of Heroes only days away, we're still getting hints over just which Heroes are going to switch sides and be tempted by the dark side this time around. If you believe all the rumors, it seems as if every regular character on the show is going to get down with their bad self at some point over the next thirteen episodes - even if it means jumping through ridiculous plot hoops to get there. Spoilers below on the next suspect of evil.

According to SciFi Wire, another potential Hero heeding the siren song of wrong this season will be Mohinder Suresh, the show's powerless moral compass. Suresh himself, actor Sendhil Ramamurthy, explains:

Everybody has a little bit of an evil side. They have a little bit of a dark side, even people who are good. And you are going to see that part of a lot of the characters that you thought were fundamentally the 'good' on the show, and not just the Suresh character, but other characters as well.

The first step down the troubled and rocky road of evil? Suresh giving himself superpowers in the first hour of Monday's season premiere. Because, if there's one truism that superhero movies and TV shows like to adhere to, it's that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Unless your name is Peter Petrelli, in which case absolute corruption is counteracted by absolute emo pouting.

Will Heroes' Suresh Go Dark? [SciFi Wire]

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<![CDATA[Suresh Explains Evolution to You on the Interwebs]]> The last time we saw him, he was betraying all his ideals and messing around with a cheerleader's magical healing blood, but none of that stops Dr. Mohinder Suresh from setting up his own website. Yes, it's part of the Heroes Evolutions multimedia marketing program we wrote about last week. Don't you want to learn more about Heroes' craptacular version of evolutionary science?

Visitors to Activating Evolution - named for the book that Suresh's father wrote - will find such goodies as the introduction to the eponymous book, video interviews with fictional geneticists explaining how superpowers would work, and the chance to have your dreams analyzed by Mohinder "himself".

If you're suitably excited by the whole thing, you can even discuss the subject in Mohinder's wiki for accelerated evolution. Although doing so may get you under the watchful eye of Primatech Paper Company.

Activating Evolution [activatingevolution.com]

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<![CDATA[Sarah Connor Is Bionic Woman's Meaner Big Sister]]> Sarah Connor uses a motorcycle as a projectile weapon in this great set piece from last night's Sarah Connor Chronicles. Compare that with this lame motorcycle-fu clip from the last Bionic Woman, where the whole sequence is just a set-up for a dumb PMS joke. It's a good reminder that even though Sarah Connor once again sobs about her impending nervous breakdown, Connor is still a million times better than the alternative. More reasons why after the jump.

  • Summer Glau is a better foil than Katee Sackhoff. Both Bionic Woman and Chronicles give our hero a crazy-ish cyberwoman to bounce off. But Sarah Connor and her pet Terminator are developing an awesome buddy-movie vibe that will be fun to watch. They can play good-cop, bad-cop, except that Glau really is prepared to shoot the criminals that Headey only wants to intimidate. (Like last night's fake-ID crime czar.) The scene last night where Headey pretends to be Glau's stepmom to get out of a sticky cop situation was priceless.

    Sackhoff's crazy lady version of the bionic woman was the best thing about Bionic Woman, but she had no chemistry with star Michelle Ryan. And every time Sackhoff appeared, the message was clear: bro's before ho's. Jaime Sommer is way better off letting the boys tell her what to do than hanging out with other cybernetically enhanced women.


  • Sarah Connor is a good mom. Okay, we maybe could have done without the bit where Sarah tells John where to find the turkey in the fridge. It felt like the show was telling us to go make ourselves a sandwich. But we'd way rather have those unsubtle moments (like the "Sarah used to read Wizard of Oz to John" speech) than Bionic Woman's constant Jaime-is-an-incompetent-surrogate-mom subplot. If we had to sit through one more scene where Jaime apologizes for letting sis down, we'd be rooting for the terrorists.

  • Sarah Connor calls the shots. We see her being competent and making smart decisions, like the motorcycle thing and figuring out that Enrique is a snitch. And the scene where Glau tells Headey that she's the "best fighter," bar none got me kind of choked up. Sarah doesn't need the dumb suits at the Berkut Group stiffening her spine and aiming her at the bad guys.

Of course, there are some early warning signs. John Connor is a jackass, with his sneaking out to the mall to use unsecured computers and visit his crazy ex-step-dad. Headey's voiceovers are getting up there with Mohinder's on Heroes for the "most annoying narrator" sweepstakes. But still, if there had to be only one girls-and-robots show on TV right now, we could do a lot worse than this one.]]>
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