I'm sure pretty much everyone has figured out that I haven't been too happy with the show lately, so here's some stuff that made me happy about the show!

lcsbanana has made Jack or, Adventures Reading Against the Text, a constructed-reality vid that is about the Heroes I want to watch (spoilers through mid-S2).

While I'm at it, heresluck made People Get Ready ( ( Read more... )

Er, warning, I get very angry in here.

( Race )

A few folks think it's worth attempting to get our opinions on Heroes to the creator in the hopes that the show will get better.  To that end, I created Save Heroes, the site of a collaborative critique of Heroes Volume 2.  Everyone who has an opinion is invited to add to it, either by posting your thoughts in comments or linking to an existing ( Read more... )

technosage and I were talking about the race problems while she was writing up her Heroes Alphabet for 2x08 (contains spoilers for, umm, 2x08)

This led to me making two posts, the first one was funny About how Latin America was a big place

Then I got serious and wrote down Why Maya and Alejandro's storyline makes me uncomfortable (contains spoilers up to ( Read more... )

I did a general/thematic post here, which is mostly about lines and crossing them, and takes some time out to rant about the gender issues in last night's ep.

( But now I want to talk about race. )

Yup, I wrote a petition to the producers, writers, and NBC to do better by women and POC's on Heroes.

It's not that good and I implore you, if you can do better, please do.

But here it is.

EDIT:
Look y'all I SERIOUSLY will not be offended if someone does this BETTER...If can I hope someone will.

I just saying SOMEONE needs to do this.

You are stuck with me this week because desdenova's suffering from wonky internet while travelling. I send internet-receiving vibes, as internet withdrawal is a tragic and terrible thing.

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I realized today, at the end of a long thought-process, that the dead characters on Heroes divide according to a fairly clear, albeit entirely subjective line. Some of the dead characters are ones I was starting to really like just as they were killed off, and some were ones that died before they received any substantial character development, and ( Read more... )

Hello all! I've just joined the community and I come bearing gifts - if you want to call it that. I started a discussion about racism in Heroes over at and based on some of the suggestions I've been getting from certain members, I've decided to bring it over here to get some other points of view ( Read more... )

Okay, five minutes in, and I'm *pissed*.

( spoilers within )