I saw this week with Tracy we had a return of one of Heroes favourite little plotlines - the woman who finds that she can't control her powers and thus puts herself and those around her in deadly danger. It made me further reflect on how the show seems to hold the unspoken view that women shouldn't really be given the heavy duty powers. They only cry and break them. Maybe this is why a lot of the female Heroes have powers that are kind of passive in nature - Angela, Claire, Emma (although that looks like that may change), Becky, Daphne, Candace, Lydia, Charlie, Eden & Molly, all have powers that are purely defensive or work by manipulating and deceiving a foe.( Read more... )

It's a screencap heavy review this week because a), I skipped over a lot of the non Petrelli bits of the episode and therefore I'm not totally sure what else was going on but b) there's lots of Adrian & Milo scenes for the first time in ages. Also, I'll say now but I'm sticking the casting spoiler into the review so in case your bid to be the last person on earth not to know it is proceeding nicely, you might wish to not click below the cut.

( reaction & screen caps (spoilers) )

As a follow up to playing this meme with wee_warrior :

Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.
Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

I got asked the following questions:
( Answers to questions )

Ever noticed a close up of a newspaper shown on TV? If like me, you happen to have the time on your hands, it's worth struggling to try and read the rest of the article. As you might imagine, this will never be all about the actual banner headline and so it's fun to see what it says instead. Often it's just an unrelated news story or even the old Lorem ipsum standby but Heroes gave us two lesser approaches this week. Firstly, Noah studying the article on the sinkhole disaster which, when is actually read is an almost startlingly meaningless collection of legalese....
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Previously on Heroes: Sylar moved into Matt's head for wacky Odd Couple style hijincks, ( spoilers for Heroes 4.09, plus screencaps )

As posted by blue_berry earlier: Casting Spoiler conclusion

From the article, quoting Tim Kring:
( Casting spoiler reaction )

You know, the one crumb of comfort I took from all the Heroes casting frenzy was at least I knew where I stood and had some closure. I see we seem to be back at square one but with the bonus of there now being an astonishing amount of anger and hurt generated by the whole thing.

( Brief response, vaguely spoilery  )

Hey, trekker? Remember how you were saying that it seems like Heroes secretly yearned for the days when the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys black? Heh. I guess I’m in a bit of a weird place with this episode as I was catching up on show casting gossip JUST before I sat down to watch this. But whatever –the review is as honest as I can make it.


( spoilers for episode )

As *I* don't seem to be able to get the acoustic version of "Poker Face" by Lady GaGa out of my head, I don't see why I should be depriving you good people of the chance for it to get you too. Semi seriously, this is about a million times better than the actual single and somewhat bizarrely shows that far from covering the usual multitude of sins, the extensive autotune & other gubbinry was used to merely give the convincing illusion that this was someone who couldn't carry a tune in a bucket and that she actually has a very pleasant voice. Why wasn't the single more like this version?  Weird.( youtube links featuring Lady GaGa & also Christopher Walken )

I'll probably keep watching Flash Forward just because hey, there's nothing else on on Monday nights here in the UK at that time but I doubt I'll be giving it much in the way of regular reviews. A shame because the premise was right up my street but...I'm just rather bored with it :(


( Spoilers for Flashforward ep 5 & Vampire Diaries ep 7 )

You know, following up on my earlier post mentioning in rather entitled fashion about  how I don't think Robert Knepper is all that, with this might look like I'm piling on. However, I swear I just found this via my general message board home from home, The Straight Dope. Namely, Knepper's chilling earlier work. What? No, not T-Bag! THIS!

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Awwww! :)

Oh dear - after a stack of good or at least solid eps, that one just blew.

( Heroes 4.07 (spoilers) )

Just one quick sketch, this time of Swoosie Kurtz and her elegantly melancholic face. I don't think I quite did her justice but I did enjoy sketching her - I do hope we haven't seen the last of her but if we have, well what we got was solid gold.

( Swoosie Kurtz sketch )

Ever watch Heroes and find it that tiny, tiny bit familiar? I bet you do if you're Alan Moore,  J. Michael Straczynski or Chris Claremont. But they and you would be wrong.  Because this month's SFX magazine has an advert for HMV (biggest seller of DVDs in the UK High Street), in which Tim Kring finally reveals his actual inspiration for Heroes.


( scan of the advert  )


So there we have it - all cleared up now.

*Coughs*

For those of us who keep a wary eye on the Heroes ratings, you might find this live feed interesting to keep an eye on as the season goes on. As far as I can tell, it's generally pretty well informed and has a good track record in terms of past results of what gets canned or not. Anyway, as of the time of writing, comfortingly, Heroes is apparently doing well enough that it isn't endangered (yet anyway). So yay for that - let us hope for green and then we can all relax. Be warned - there's the odd spoiler for other shows in the headlines for the site visible on the page.

Live Feed's TV Series Survival Status Chart 2009-10

(If in the statistically unlikely event that you couldn't care less if Heroes lives or dies, it also has (I think) all the major network shows so you can follow your own pet show instead)

Can they let us know when we can expect Adrian back, please? The show just is not the same for me without him. The fact that they deemed he had to be credited for appearing this week is in retrospect amusing but it didn’t half get my hopes up. Ah well. Still, goodish episode.


( Spoilers for episode & Adrian Pasdar drawing ).

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not really trusting my instincts that well as to what is good TV and what's trash. All I know is that after giving Vampire Diaries a kicking last week, I thought that this week's was a corker. well, by the standards it holds itself to anyway.

( Spoilers for ep )

This show's just about keeping me interested. I'm beginning to accept there's not going to be that much depth and that each week I'm going to be shouting at the TV about odd plot turns or what are apparently plot holes. But fortunately as a Heroes fan I can probably deal with whatever FF cares to chuck at me on this score.
( spoilers for episode )

On a totally different subject, I'd like to wish the happiest of birthdays to linaerys. Her wonderful Heroes stories, plus how engaging, friendly and kind her posts were where what spurred me to start making contact with people here on Livejournal. Have a good one, Lin!