In which I am a shameless fangirl

[adinarj]

Q&A with Milo

A few choice excerpts that made me squee.

So you won't tell us about the time that the girl kept calling you Jess and -
[Laughs] That happens every day, what are you talkin' about? I get it all. When people call me Chris Pierce from American Dreams, it definitely gets a big smile from me.

Have you noticed changes in how Heroes fans

Comments

[forsquilis]

I'm hoping we get back to the feeling of the first season: that kind of base human emotion, that level where these people that have these abilities are understanding them still.

Milo is so right. I was just telling someone this the other day: I would get bored if it was nothing but "let's meet even more new people and watch them freak out as they adjust to their abilities!" But there was a very human level of emotional connection in the first season that seemed to really be lacking this year. I didn't really feel a bond with any of the new characters, and worse, I had a very hard time maintaining the ones I'd developed last year. It kind of worries me because I get the sense that the showrunners might be about to respond to fan unhappiness by trying to go bigger and badder, when I have a growing feeling that what fans want is smaller and more personal.

I think that's why Monica was my favorite new character, even though she had the most "boring" storyline overall. Watching her try to pound ethics into the boys' heads was a lot like watching Peter in the first few episodes last season, especially putting up with Nathan's crap lie about his "suicide attempt" to aid his political motivations. I miss that feeling that, yeah, these people might be called on to "save the world", but their everyday real life and its problems doesn't just stop.

[adinarj]

Oh, I know! That's what brought me in so much. It wasn't the cliffhangers (it was a little bit) but I cared about these characters. I wanted to see their interactions. If these characters didn't have powers, I would have enjoyed watching them together anyway because that's the heart of the show. They forgot that this year.