Secrets Of Iron Man And Heroes Season 3 - io9 Comments

Secrets Of Iron Man And Heroes Season 3

Balius — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:19:27 PDT

Am I the only one who found the trailer to Hancock to not suck nearly as much as was expected? Granted, some parts were kind of hokey to me, but the bar's been set pretty low for movies of that kind, and some parts seemed genuinely interesting to me.

And good lord I hope that Heroes starts being less stupid. Get the guys from Journeyman on the writing team or something, at least they managed to do time travel with a sort of internal logic. Hiro's wishy washy stance on altering the past annoys me. Also, poor writing, hackneyed writing, stilted dialog...I have no idea why I look forward to being disappointed by it on a weekly basis again.

Balius

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jbq — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:52:34 PDT

@Charlie Jane Anders: I found it to be repeatedly brought up, as in "Or not."
But it didn't make any sense anyway, so whatever :-)

jbq

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Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:19:17 PDT

@92BuickLeSabre: To be fair, it also could have gotten garbled by the site I lifted it from. But at the same time, I'm not holding out much hope for Heroes season three...

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92BuickLeSabre — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:36:56 PDT

@Charlie Jane Anders: If that's the case, then they're a bunch of big dummies, and I've lost all hope for the future of the franchise. They might as well have said "We're thinking about a Native American character, maybe somebody Khalkha or Tuvan."

92BuickLeSabre

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Asari — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:13:59 PDT

I read that old-school Aboriginal (Australian) teachings teach that the world is re-created anew every day, and they see themselves united with the process. Pretty sweet.

Also, if you've ever looked at Aboriginal drawings of spirits they look remarkably like the "Grays" in ufo sighting lore.

Asari

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Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:05:53 PDT

@jbq: The Nick Fury rumor has been dead for a while....

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Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:05:34 PDT

@GenXCub: NO, it's because we're dyslexic. I'll fix that, thanks :)

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jbq — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:26:05 PDT

Oh, and according to this British review (the first!) [timesonline.typepad.com] there is no Nick Fury, so that's that rumour dead.

jbq

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GenXCub — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:12:25 PDT

I've been wondering if I'm missing something and not paying enough attention, but many Iron Man posts have been spelling Robert Downey Jr's last name as "Downie." Is it because they think he's a downie (Down's Syndrome kid)?

GenXCub

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jbq — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:45:42 PDT

@Charlie Jane Anders: It would certainly be pretty weird!

By the way, anyone else getting pretty tired of Odessa, Texas? Especially since there is no longer any reason for anyone to hang around there? Oh, and Niki/Jessica/whatever. Love the actress, can't stand the character.

And Doctor Who: Whaaaaaaat?

jbq

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braak — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:42:45 PDT

@Charlie Jane Anders: It would be extremely awesome if the aborigine guy was like the aborigines in the Crocodile Dundee movies.

Just wearing blue jeans, tripping on things in the dark, going to Yale.

braak

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Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:16:52 PDT

@braak: I have a feeling any subtleties in the uppercase/lowercase A have long since been lost in transcription... and I'm sure the Heroes writers meant Australian Aborigine, and were just tossing around names that they thought were from the Outback. My hope is that this Aborigine storyteller dispenses great wisdom to the white characters and then sacrifices his life to save theirs at some point. That would be AWESOME!

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braak — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:23:13 PDT

Yes, ten space alien magic power rings!

braak

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bigswingdaddy — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:18:49 PDT

yep. Heart saving space magnets.

Also Ten Rings, the terrorist organization is a coded reference to Iron Man's original adversary the Mandarin (who sports ten rings of power on his withered old hands)

bigswingdaddy

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SunZhiQian — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:11:09 PDT

@braak: Ah, thanks. Makes sense.

SunZhiQian

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braak — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:46:53 PDT

@SunZhiQian: When Stark first got blown up, he had shrapnel near his heart, and needed special magnets to keep it from killing him. My guess is that the thing in his chest is some variation on those magnets.

braak

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SunZhiQian — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:31:02 PDT

What's with the embedded ring on Stark's chest in that one pic from Ironman? I'm absolutely gonna go see the movie, but I've never really been an Ironman fan, so I don't know.

SunZhiQian

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SunZhiQian — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:13:08 PDT

LOL, braak.

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braak — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:12:02 PDT

@beelzebuddha: Well, it does, I guess--but did IO9 use the lower-case "A", or did the Heroes writers? What about Heroes Revealed?

And, really, if you've already cast the part, it should be pretty easy to tell the difference between an Aboriginal Australian and a Maasai.

braak

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The Blow Leprechaun — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:08:34 PDT

@braak: I believe the Dreamtime is an aboriginal concept, too. I'm sure there's similar in other cultures, but when you say "dreamtime," I think Australian aborigine.

The Blow Leprechaun

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beelzebuddha — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:07:44 PDT

@braak: When you capitalize the "A" in aborigine, it's the Aborigines in Australia; when its not capitalized, you're referring to general indigenous people... if that makes any sense.

beelzebuddha

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braak — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:42:33 PDT

I thought "Aborigine" generally referred to "Aboriginal Australians."

Aren't the Maasai in Africa?

What am I talking about? TV writers don't know the god-damn difference. "Are they brown?" "Yes." "Do they wear pants?" "Not usually." "Do they have a highly-romanticised, non-Western culture, that's strange and mysterious to us retarded Americans?" "Yes." "Okay. Aborigines."

braak