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Eldrad must live ([personal profile] gogmagog) wrote2007-05-04 09:01 pm

HIROS


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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] moonsheen!

Edit: Have a couple of wanky threads on Heroes. Honestly, they kind of irritate me a little. As [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[identity profile] yoshitsune.livejournal.com 2007-05-05 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] bobthetrout.livejournal.com 2007-05-05 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] yoshitsune.livejournal.com 2007-05-05 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] bobthetrout.livejournal.com 2007-05-05 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
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!