Watching Heroes

As I’m sure my friend DaveP over at Pop Buzz UK would agree, the Brits are awesome and continue to prove it with shows like Doctor Who and Torchwood. Heck even their promos for shows are way better than anything we ever see in the states. Look at these 4 promo spots produced to promote the Season 1 finale on BBC 2 for the evidence:

Noah Bennet (H.R.G.)

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Is Heroes facing the dreaded “sophomore slump”? Many think so. Some shows, like LOST, managed to pull out of the slump and return to greatness. Others, like Twin Peaks, never regained the confidence of fans and were cancelled. Will Heroes be able to come back?

Today the web is buzzing with articles proclaiming Heroes to be in trouble. Some offer solutions to the problem, like an article in the Boston Herald, which suggests a Sylar killing spree would cure some of the woes facing the show. Others, like Buddy TV, say give the story a chance. They seem to think the story will move along and come to a fan-satisfying resolution.

I believe we haven’t seen the best of Heroes Season 2 yet. I haven’t given up hope and I think there are many other fans like me out there. Last week’s fight scene between Matt and Nathan was enough to keep me tuning in.

What’s your opinion? Are Heroes’ glory days over or is the best yet to come?

Take a look at these fantastic Heroes Season 2 publicity stills of the cast. (These may be a little spoilery so only click if you dare.) (more…)

Rhapsody.com is featuring a trio of playlists dedicated to some of our favorite Heroes characters - Hiro Nakamura, Niki Sanders and Claire Bennett. Each playlist includes songs that are relevant to the character and the events surrounding them. Hiro’s includes tunes like Time Won’t Let Me and Deja Vu. Claire’s features the classic cheerleader tune Mickey and Bruised but not Broken by Joss Stone. Niki has songs like Rip Her To Shreds and Misguided Angel on her playlist.

If you have a Rhapsody account, you can stream the tracks directly. If you don’t, you can still view the playlist and see what songs they have chosen, then you can add those tracks to your iTunes, or other music service.

Here are the links:

Hiro’s Playlist
Claire’s Playlist
Niki’s Playlist

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Grab this widget to add to your MySpace page, blog or website and let’s count down to the Heroes season premiere!

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Are you a social network junkie, fiending for some new apps for your profile? Well, somone has taken the time to develop a nifty little countdown app the tracks the time till the next installment of our beloved Heroes saga. there is also a little snippet of code for you blogger types to install this widget on your favorite bloggity blog. You can get this fantastical application here.

Heroes may be off for the summer, but NBC is cranking out content like these Inside Heroes clips or commentary on earlier episodes like this replay of .07% (episode 19) all the way through How to Stop an Exploding Man (episode 23). For those of you fiending for your Heroes fix, this should hold you over for a bit.

I was looking at somw fan art for Heroes, and came across some awesome work by an artist that goes by the name of ~ratscape on Deviant Art.

These images are tremendous and very inspiring. Definitely a must see for any
Heroes fan. It should also get your juices pumping for Episode 20, airing tonight

I think my favorite is the one of Nathan, although they all are breathtaking.

One of the major plot points being dealt with in the graphic novel and in the upcoming episodes, are Hiro’s attempts at manipulating the timeline to prevent the explosion. The current season runs along the thread where Hiro has set Peter into motion to save Claire. Here are a few things that would have been altered, had Peter not been there to save the cheerleader:

1. Sylar would have the ability to heal. They point out in the graphic novel that Hiro stabbed him once and stopped him, but Sylar recovered. This was his primary motivation for trying to stop Sylar from getting her.
2. HRG would still be at Primatech instead of trying to destroy the tracker that Primatech uses to keep tabs on tagged heroes. His need to protect Claire would be gone and he would be after Sylar for killing her.
3. This also means that the Haitian would still be working for Primatech
4. Ted would have detonated in Texas, because Claire would not have been there to stop his chain reaction.
5. Peter would be dead (assuming that the confrontation with Sylar still occurred), because he would not have been able to recover from the glass shard in the skull
6. The Petrelli family dynamic would have altered, because Nathan would have never learned about Claire being alive.

Will Claire surviving be the key to stopping Sylar and the explosion in NYC?

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TVGuide.com has a great article by Michael Logan. It leads into episode 19, which we’ve just seen, but has some really great insider info into the final 5 (not Cylons) episodes of Season 1. He talks quite a bit about how dark the next few episode are going to be and how difficult it was for the cast to make the transition:

April 23 also brings the death of yet another hero, but that’s nothing compared to the body count on April 30. That episode, titled “String Theory,” is set five years in the future. “It’s a cautionary tale — a look at what will happen if no one stops the bomb,” Kring says. America has become a veritable police state, and people with special abilities are being hunted down, arrested and registered with the feds. Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) is president, Mohinder is his chief medical adviser, and Matt (Greg Grunberg) is head of Homeland Security. Claire (Hayden Panettiere) has gone undercover as a greasy-spoon waitress. Niki (Ali Larter) has turned stripper and is romancing Peter, who has an unexplained scar running across his face. And in the hour’s wildest twist, sweet, funny Hiro (Masi Oka) has become the country’s most wanted terrorist.

The fanboy’s new look — soul patch, samurai ponytail, military-style jacket and boots — is downright scary. “Present-day Hiro gets to meet future Hiro and realizes, ‘That’s not who I want to become,’” Oka says. “Mentally, I have to go to a very different place with this. No one on the set wants to talk to me. I’m giving out that vibe. No jokes.”

No one’s laughing at Matt, either. “His power in the government really goes to his head,” reports Grunberg. “He’s got the Haitian (Jimmy Jean-Louis) working for him so he can stop anybody’s powers when he needs to. He literally kills off several popular characters in this episode. It’s awesome.” But, truth be told, the actor is a little worried about Hiro worship. “I really slap the crap out of Masi,” Grunberg says. “He’s the star of the show, and here I am kicking his ass mercilessly. The fans are gonna hate me!”

An excellent article for sure. you can read it in it’s entirety here.

Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund

April 16, 2007, will be remembered as one of the darkest days in the history of the Virginia Tech community and the world beyond.

To remember and honor the victims of those tragic events, the university has established the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund to aid in the healing process and generate financial support.

The fund will be used to cover expenses including but not limited to:

• Grief counseling
• Memorials
• Communication expenses
• Comfort expenses
• Incidental needs

If you plan to give, please click the link below:

NBC is offering a Heroes online experience for those of you who like to internet on your mobile phone. The mobile site offers Hiro’s blog, photos, wallpapers, access to the message board and a few other goodies. If you feel like you need your Heroes fix on-the-go, point your mobile phone brower to http://heroes.mlogic.mobi.

I’m gonna snag me one of those wallpapers for my phone. You know I’m
crazy like that.

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Do you have some theories aabout Sylar or Claire? Do you want to share them with the world? Head on over to NBC and check out viewer submitted theory videos. Pretty interesting stuff.

It seems that the production of online webisodes has caused a little bit of drama over at NBC Universal.

NBC Uni said the WGA has asked showrunners on “The Office,” “Heroes,” “Crossing Jordan” and “Battlestar Galactica” to refuse to provide materials for use in show webisodes or for other Web-based content. NBC Uni is asking the NLRB to force showrunners to provide the requested materials and argues that such cooperation is mandatory under existing guild contracts.

This bit of news affects our beloved Heroes as well. I guess it was only aa matter of time before this type of situation came to a head. With Television shows becoming more multimedia to reach out to the largest possible audiences, some one was bound to get bent over potentially lost money. Hopefully this won’t affect us as viewers or cause any interruption in our regularly scheduled programming.

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For many of you, Peter Petrelli or Hiro Nakamura have been the standout Heroes of NBC’s hit show Heroes. I’ve done a little digging and uncovered this scoop, that reveals the true heroe of the Heroes saga. Check it out here.

c’mon, you have to admit it IS funny.