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Honestly, Married to the Sea is AWESOME.

Entertainment Weekly has series of Heroes covers which give clues for the rest of the season

Wow, they do seem to be running with the Nathan/Sylar mixture on these covers...it appears that they've used elements from each in the other's portrait. This is kinda odd, though, since last week's episode made it sound like we'd need to wait a while for that to happen; after all, Sylar didn't take over until he killed Candace, and since she was one of those future Hiro helped escape the Linderman Act, Nathan must have at least been in charge until that act started being enforced (it was enacted a year after the explosion).

Also, the fact that it was named the Linderman Act (traditionally I think those legal bills are only named after dead people as a memorial), combined with Malcolm McDowell's non-appearance in the five-years-in-the-future episode, makes me think that Linderman is dead by that point in the future. If so, he must die relatively soon after the bomb goes off - perhaps even in the explosion itself, given that he'd probably have been with Micah, who was also killed. Ironic, given that Linderman's the one talking to Nathan about how the explosion might not be so bad.

Finally, I do find myself very puzzled by some of the pairings on the cover. Linderman/Sylar(Nathan?) can be explained away as either "villains" or "evil mentor/protege". Claire/HRG is obvious, as is Niki(Jessica?)/DL. But why Hiro/Nathan? I mean, I loved the "flying man!" scenes as much as the next person, but they haven't had too much to do with each other, and it seems odd that the Petrelli brothers don't get a cover together instead. Hiro/Sylar!Nathan makes more sense - after all, it seems like he's fated to kill Sylar - but then why have this one be more Nathanesque and the one with Linderman be more Sylaresque? And on a similar note, why Peter/Mohinder/Parkman? Emo Petrelli and Mohinder make sense - after all, they started this investigation together back before the whole "save the cheerleader, save the world" thing started - but why is Parkman there with them, given that his only encounter with Peter was that brief post-Homecoming bit and he has yet to encounter Mohinder (in this time, anyway)? Might it be because he's the only one who's met/spent any time with Molly Walker, who seems like she's going to shape up to be important (if next week's previews are anything to go by)?

Honestly, I think everyone I know needs to watch this series, but especially

lordtravis (once finals are over). Not only does it have a lot of crossover in terms of fans with shows I know a lot of my friends like (such as Battlestar Galactica), but it's pretty much all about superheroes and comic books: one of the main characters is a comic book artist whose art is done by big-name artist Tim Sale, and one of the others is a huge comics fan who makes retarded geeky injokes about Kitty Pryde and Green Lantern. In fact, in general it's a loving tribute to superhero comics - especially X-Men, to which it owes the biggest debt - even while it gently pokes fun at spandex and Superman.

So basically to sum up, ZOMG AWESOME WHY AREN'T YOU ALL WATCHING T_T

To those of you who are, enjoy this music video: Mohinder/Sylar, set to "I Want It That Way"

Finally, happy birthday to

moonsheen!

Edit: Have a couple of wanky threads on Heroes. Honestly, they kind of irritate me a little. As

jokersama points out, people who scamper to claim that things such as Mohinder diriving a cab when he was a professor in India are ZOMG DEGRADING are missing that the point that, yes, this sucks, but this happens not unregularly to highly skilled people who emigrate to the US from other countries. And honestly I find the way Heroes deals with race actually pretty unusually good for a network show: I mean, this is the series that begins with three interracial relationships pretty much right off the bat, with no one really remarking about how unusual it is or it ever really being an issue, and definitely the series with the most diversity as far as race on TV right now (the race of major characters, even) as far as I know.

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I'm a terrible person and reading spoilers even if I'm only up to ep17 or something. The colourist for the Heroes stuff is also a big coloury person in the industry whom I like, although his name escapes me at the moment. Anyways! I'm fine with Hiro + Nathan on the cover because they would make an awesome team of dork and actually, probably would be pretty effective too, once they got over the dork. But where's Ando. ;_;

In conclusion, I am ignoring that Mylar vid.

Yeah, I always forget Sale only does the black-and-white part of the art. (And I also forget the colorist's name, but he is a relatively big name.)

I also missed Ando on the cover. D: Also Micah, though I suppose he's on there in missing person poster form, which kinda counts. XD

And don't ignore that Mylar vid (or at least not once you've seen ep 18-19); it is full of crackish fun! Because come on, Mohinder and Sylar could already be like 2/5 of a boyband in themselves; all they need to do is recruit Peter, Zach and Parkman and they'd be ready to make their debut! :D

(Srsly, you have the ethnic one, the GRRR ANGRY one, the emo one, the gay one and the chubby one; Lou Pearlman is rubbing his hands in anticipation already!)

Haha well I'll um, be sure to watch the video of lurrrrrve as soon as I get caught up. :} (Isn't Zach in the closet/gay/not gay/no wait, gay again/no wait, leaving now? Man, they ARE the stuff dreams are made of~)

I have 276 unwatched objects in my recent downloads. I don't want to think about how many GB that is.

Well, that is an excuse I guess; but this is better than probably at least 260 of those unwatched objects! You could move it up your queue... :D

I dunno, at least 13 of those unwatched objects are Higurashi no Naku no Koro ni, 5 are Gintama, and 3 are Tokyo Majing Gakuen. That throws your numbers off and that's only 3 shows!

Oh come on, Heroes is totally better than Tokyo Majin Gakuen. I mean, it's an anime based on a videogame! Is it even possible for those not to at best be mediocre and at worst suck horrendously?

Plus Heroes has lots of incestuous overtones! And canon brain-eating!

Like Tokyo Majin Gakuen doesn't have those too?? You would like it if you tried it but noooooo, you're so hung up on heroes you can't see that there's anything else to watch!

Oh man. Married to the Sea is greatness. I am jealous of my roommate, and her Married to the Sea shirt.

and thank you!

Whoa, I guess I've never noticed that MttS even did T-shirts. Hmm, perhaps I should see about getting one one of these days. :D

Yes. Married to the sea is the bomb digity.

Sly! :D

And it is indeed...especially so if you are or have been studying Victorian periodicals. (I'm fairly certain I've seen the original sources of a few of them, at least, over the past couple of semesters.) XD

I've been preaching the gospel of Heroes ever since the 4th episode when future Hiro showed up and rocked my world. The first episode back from the break didn't impress, but last weeks raised the bar again. I think that changing the cast lineup for season 2 is the best idea ever. It means that they can kill off characters with extreme prejudice! Always good! Even Galactica suffers from the dreaded "keep the main cast" status quo, ie. Starbuck.

I've been preaching Heroes off and on (mostly off) since I started watching, which was around ep 6 or 7 I think, but now that they're ratcheting things up in preparation for the season finale, every episode has me going "ZOMG O_O" and I just can't hold back my TV-evangelizing (televangelizing?) any longer. XD

I dunno, I'm not sure they're gonna do that entirely (though I've heard that too); obviously I have a feeling some folks are gonna get killed off, but in that EW interview at least some current major characters talked about character arcs for next season, which I think raises the probability that those characters will probably not die (though I guess that could be misdirection). Though from what they say in EW about the general direction of next season, it seems pretty clear that some less major characters introduced this season will have a much larger part to play in S2, so there will at least be SOME mixing up of the cast.

I mean, I think it's a good thing to keep us on the edge of our seats that any character is at risk - it definitely is good not to let your audience get too complacent - but I think Heroes does a pretty good job of that, in that a couple of main characters have already died, and I imagine the finale will have a pretty high death toll too. (If nothing else, Radioactive Ted at the very least must be slated to die so that Sylar can be blamed for the bomb going off, and I worry for a lot of the other characters, especially Nathan, Mr. Bennet and Ando.)

I kind of see it like Firefly - Joss hadn't killed any major characters in the TV show, but man, the end of that movie seriously had me thinking that he was going to kill EVERYBODY off, even though he didn't end up doing so. Nevertheless, two people died, and I will never trust again that ANYONE is "safe" in that universe. And I kinda have a feeling the finale to this season of Heroes will be the same way.

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