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    Despite Rumors, Heroes Fly To San Diego

    Did The Internet Save Heroes?

    Heroes Creator Finds New Way To Insult Viewers' Intelligence

    Heroes' Kring Avoids Time Travel To Return To The Show's Roots

    Has Firing Loeb And Alexander Saved Heroes?

    EW Dooms Heroes By Offering To Help Save It

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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    06/21/09

    In reply to Despite Rumors, Heroes Fly To San Diego
    Fingers crossed that Ray Park will be on that panel!
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    Image of KainTheGreat is a Spy! KainTheGreat is a Spy!
    06/20/09

    In reply to Despite Rumors, Heroes Fly To San Diego
    God, they just need to cancel this show and bring back Life or make Chuck 2 hours or just have it be dead air.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/21/09

    @KainTheGreat is a Spy!: Although dead air would be a great respite from both Heroes AND Chuck.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    06/20/09

    In reply to Despite Rumors, Heroes Fly To San Diego
    crap.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/20/09

    @Meredith Woerner: The panel starts up to a room nearly empty except for six people huddled together in the back row. As Kring starts going on how we just didn't get his vision and all the bold new directions the next season will take a voice belts out from the folks in the back,


    "Hey, you wanna pipe down over there? I'm trying to make a very important saving throw!"

     Reply
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    06/20/09

    @Meredith Woerner: we expect you to take every opportunity to turn every question at the panel into some kind of cast member's member related query.
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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    06/21/09

    @tetracycloide: this is going to be a thing between you and me isn't it?
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    06/21/09

    @Meredith Woerner: that depends entirely on what you mean by 'this', 'thing,' and 'between us.'
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/20/09

    In reply to Despite Rumors, Heroes Fly To San Diego
    Can these cast photos get any more contrived and phoney looking? I can tell that everyone in the picture has a carefully nuanced story filled with complex motivations and dark secrets.

    But I still really don't care.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    06/20/09

    @Grey_Area: Why is Hiro checking out Claire's rack? This picture is all kinds of lame.
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    Image of Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
    06/20/09

    @Evlsushi: He's admiring her new power, which is to get her hair to fall juuuust so...
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/20/09

    @c0dek: He does seem like he's all WTF? trying to figure out how her hair stays there... gravity? hairspray? glue?
     Reply
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    Image of Julius Seizure - Canuck Julius Seizure - Canuck
    06/20/09

    @Grey_Area: It's a Battlestar "Last Supper" on the cheap.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/20/09

    @Julius Seizure. (Lackey Position Avail.): More like "Dogs Playing Poker".
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    Image of Torley Torley
    06/20/09

    @Julius Seizure. (Lackey Position Avail.): You totally cracked me up, that's exactly what I was thinking! Except for the "cheap" part, but that's what you get when posed actors look in different directions instead of at the camera.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    06/20/09

    @Evlsushi: lame, really? honestly that was the only part of the photo the feels genuine, well that and spock reading a magazine off by himself.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/21/09

    @tetracycloide: QUESTION: ISN'T NATHAN SYLAR NOW? Are they retconning that? Because god almighty that was stupid.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    06/21/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Heroes' middle name is retcon.


    @tetracycloide: You're not wrong.

     Reply
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    06/20/09

    In reply to Despite Rumors, Heroes Fly To San Diego
    When the cast is comprised of fifty or so characters, twenty could be considered a small panel.
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    03/15/09

    In reply to Did The Internet Save Heroes?
    I wonder if TV execs started looking at Hulu viewership if they would bring back "ALF?"
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    Image of Quilt Quilt
    03/15/09

    In reply to Did The Internet Save Heroes?
    Do not try and cancel Heroes. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. There is no Heroes. Then you'll see, that it is not Heroes that cancels, it is only yourself.


    Long story short, ignore Heroes. Doesn't exist anymore starting...NOW!

     Reply
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    Image of Erin Snyder Erin Snyder
    03/15/09

    In reply to Did The Internet Save Heroes?
    You can blame the internet: I'm blaming Guinness.
     Reply
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/15/09

    @Erin Snyder: I blame the widget they put in the cans. They make you do weird things.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/15/09

    In reply to Did The Internet Save Heroes?
    So do the "novels" on NBC.com count as well towards this "popularity"?
     Reply
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    03/15/09

    In reply to Did The Internet Save Heroes?
    I guess it's true, there's no such thing as bad press as long as they spell your name right.
     Reply
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/15/09

    @DrEmilioLizardo: Damn straight, Dr. Emily Lizard!
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    Image of Kpibca Kpibca
    03/15/09

    @crashedpc: High five, crackedpeas!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/15/09

    @Kpibca: Right on...oh, nevermind.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    03/15/09

    In reply to Did The Internet Save Heroes?
    Sonofabitch. When I started downloading cheerleader videos, this was not what I intended.
     Reply
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/15/09

    @Moff: Well, we have our first scapegoat...
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    Image of Moff Moff
    03/15/09

    @crashedpc: How did you know about the video with the goat?!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/15/09

    @Moff: It is not a coincidence that the video involves goats, cheerleaders, and a masked hero that looks suspiciously like Spiderman but speaks Spanish, yes?
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    Image of Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
    03/15/09

    @Moff: I saw that one! Man, Tara Reid will do any kind of film these days, won't she? Sadly, it's gotten to the point where they didn't even consider her for the cheerleader role...she was the goat.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/15/09

    @c0dek: But didn't she have the lead in Shave the Cheerleader, Go Ground the World?
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    03/15/09

    In reply to Did The Internet Save Heroes?
    First, the internet brought us "two girls one cup" and now it saves Heroes.


    Will the madness never end?

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/15/09

    @OW-Holmes: CAN I HAZ FIFTH SEEZUN?
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    Image of Islandkiwi Islandkiwi
    03/15/09

    In reply to Did The Internet Save Heroes?
    As a person who loved season one and have since avoided the show like the plague, I wonder what Heroes could do to entice me back. The problem, in my mind, is that there's too much complaining and bitchery about having powers, then the ridiculousness of having to "Save The World" every season. How about breaking up a drug cartel, stopping a bank robbery, getting a cat out of a tree?


    You know what Heroes makes me nostalgic for? Misfits of Science.

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/15/09

    In reply to Did The Internet Save Heroes?
    The hard-core Heroes fans (shoot me now, but they do exist), have been screaming about this from day one.


    But to make the non-commercial point even more clear, most of this is torrent-related. So NBC's mission to make money is two-fold. 1) Figure out how to make money of their own internet content. 2) Figure out how to control the distribution so their content is their own internet content in the first place.


    If history is any guide, NBC seems to be one of the only places that has tried to merge (1) & (2) together by making Hulu a user-friendly option, as opposed to simply throwing wasted energies and money at (2).

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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    03/15/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: They could add a lot more product placement. Hostess fruit pies maybe?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/15/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: *flings fruit pies overhead with two hands*
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    03/15/09

    @crashedpc: who needs rape when there are delicious fruit pies?!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/15/09

    @GreyHammer: *insert tag line*
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    11/25/08

    In reply to Heroes Creator Finds New Way To Insult Viewers' Intelligence
    I hate missing any of the shows I watch, whether they're doing long-form storytelling or not. These days, most shows don't have a rerun season, so if you miss it once, you missed it twice. Being able to catch up on the internet is nice, but I find that I have to be careful when I try to play catch-up, as the servers appear to get swamped during certain parts of the week. All day Saturday and Sunday afternoon are great times to pick up a missing ep, since there's pretty much nothing new that people are going to be swarming over. Tuesday is pretty much a lost cause due to the number of shows that people apparently watch at work.
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    Purple Dave was starred Purple Dave was unstarred
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