If you ever have the occasion to write a tv show set it, say, in Boston, remember these two things: 1. sometimes less specifics are better, and 2. there's a whole career where people find information for other people all day long. And I'm pretty sure your story-editing intern also knows how to google in her sleep. These handy words of advice come ( Read more... )

I finished season two of Heroes sometime last week, and I've been silent on the subject, because I'm not really sure what to say about season two, except that it kept the bad things from season one and made them worse, and it kind of sloshed the good parts over the side. ( spoilers for whatever it was that happened in season two, besides more declarations of not-so-brotherly-love between the Petrellis )

This afternoon I watched the finale of season one of Heroes, which, despite my already low expectations of the show, I found decidedly unimpressive. I think it's because nothing happened that we hadn't already seen happen. ( spoilers for How to Stop and Exploding Man )

I've watched through ( .07% and Five Years Gone, with a few minutes into The Hard Part )

Just a short thing about what was apparently the NCIS season finale: ( you know it has to be the season finale srs bsns when it's an episode almost entirely devoid of the quirky interactions you've come to value more than most any plot )

Let's get the bad out of the way first: ( spoilers from Run! through Parasite )

Oh, man, 15 hours of Heroes in and I finally get Sylar being as creeptastic as I'd hoped.

( spoilers for Heroes season one through Distractions )

I watched 9 hours of Heroes last night, and am primed to watch at least four more hours today. I really can't tell you how much I love being able to marathon a show, especially one that I am not entirely invested in. When you're watching a show on DVD, it's fine if you hit an episode that didn't impress you - you just move on to the next one. I ( Read more... )