On reflection, Heroes had its moments. It's just that most of them were in the first season. But it still delivered Mr Bennet being horribly awesome or Hiro and Ando being charmingly goonish often enough to keep chugging along, often despite itself. And season two was one of the unintentionally funniest things I've seen in quite a while.

Heroes just ended with a really good episode. What the hell happened there? I mean, Bennet was totally badass and Claire did something smart and Hiro and Ando were useful and a minor bit of casting worked really well and I was actually happy to see someone turn up and we actually got to see a superhero battle... it was just weird. I feel all... ( Read more... )

An A-Z of superpowers that could mess you up

Since d_fuses wanted to see if the alphabet idea was meme-able, I suggested this list, and I finally pounded it out.

Apparently Heroes is back.

Huh. Is T-Bag trying to do Irish? Or Southern? Or... what?

It's the troublesome near-stepdaughter from Californication!

Hey, they actually let us see a superhero fight! weird.

And Stupid Idea 1 returns to cause trouble immediately. Well, yeah.

Oh well, at least HRG still got it.

Never mind, Being Human's on again

Heroes bumbled along reasonably watchably, nerfed the most horrendously broken of the good guys so that Peter actually has to show a glimmer of intelligence from time to time, did something interesting with the still-very-broken Sylar, and continued to provide ways for HRG to demonstrate his awesomes. And then it got to a jaw-droppingly ( Read more... )

One wonders whose bright idea it was to put Ashes To Ashes on directly opposite Heroes. Sure, everything gets repeated three times, but still.

I haven't checked to see if BBC3 and BBC4 also put on their major genre shows at the same time...

Or maybe they only would if they were named after a famous Bowie song.

So with "Cold Snap", Bryan Fuller returns to writing Heroes and immediately we get charming screwball comedy dialogue, visual invention, maudlin developments, plot twists, Angela Petrelli being badass, Swoosie Kurtz, Hiro and Ando being huge fun and more. Now let's see what happens next week.

The car company that made the ad I saw last night with a bunch of models in tight jumpsuits pretending to be Ghostbusters and trapping a Stay-Puft knockoff made of stuff (the only thing I could identify offhand was a bicycle) in the car's boot, implying that it's spacious - or comes with free stuff-minimising proton packs - must be very pissed off ( Read more... )

Push being an obvious place to start, a much more gun-happy episode of Heroes in which Johnny Storm and Layla Miller fight supervillains in Hong Kong and a bunch of fancy editing techniques. Dakota Fanning playing drunk and carrying guns is very strange, even if you don't know the comic character she's otherwise exactly like that everyone had her ( Read more... )

Peter Petrelli did something smart!