Fair point...
...I suck, and I need to start reading my flist again, I'm so far behind it's just stupid, hence tomorrow will be the day of flisting! BUT, I've been watching Heroes, yes, I'm late to the party again, but silvernatasha lent me the first series on dvd, then I stole the rest off iron-nerd so I've been mainlining, and I'm now in S3. There are some points I want to flail/whine/bitch about, but I'll put them behind a cut in a minute, and in any case, this comes first, because I've been thinking it for the last two days, and I've finally had to make it...
...Yeah, Sorry. I was going to put the same quote (it's the first Stanza of Philip Larkin's 'This Be the Verse', just in case you wanted to know) with the picture of The Company, but there's still one or two of them I don't know (whether they were supposed to be revealed properly in S2 before the writer's strike killed all the plot creativity or not I have no idea, but I know their names are all on stickynotes when Matt has it at the end of S2.) and I don't want to stare at it too closely. Also, any excuse not to have to stare at Angela Petrelli is a good thing...
Anyway, on to the wank...
Okay, so Season One is confusing but awesome with a slightly anti-climactic ending, and if you read the wikis a thankfully removed-before-airing plot involving Matt and a terrorist hiding in a cupboard who used to live with him. Yeeah...
So S1 has its ups and downs, but is generally awesome, and thankfully long enough to have a few separate plots running side by side and eventually running together. There are characters of awesome and characters of many lots pretty, who I'll tell you about in my next post because I've promised to do a Pretties of Heroes Post so there will be hotness and picspamming. The whole of the first series is obviously an introduction to the characters (there are too many to intro in just the first episode) and then there's a world-needs-saving plot for them to take care of.
I was a bit weirded out by Issac Mendez's accent, mostly because I've only heard Santiago Cabrerra with an English accent for Merlin and the American one is awful. I was amused by how much of it I'd seen completely at random and apparently only just taken in, although I managed to get the Hiro/Ando plot stuck in my head. I also came to the realisation that I like S1 Claire, at least, much, much better than any other Season because she's not so much of a whiny cow. Also politician!Nathan is a twat and I don't like him either (I do like beardy!Nathan, but not Jesus!Nathan, so it's probably an inverse correlation to how pompous he is or it's a reaction to the beard. With which he looks like Steve Carell). I in no way reserve a special place in my heart (and other places) for the bits of the series where Sylar is locked up in the cells at The Company and gets to be barefoot and strung-out looking whilst wearing what are essentially white pjs, something he doesn't repeat until S3 sadly. (Six Months Ago and Fallout are gooood ZQ episodes.)
There's also the brilliant portion of the series taken up with 'Sylar and Mohinder's Wacky Road-Trip!' which makes me laugh. Melting household objects? Seriously? And Super-hearing? Why did you think it would be a good idea? Why? You know you have to get used to the powers, they don't just work like a light switch, how did you think it would be a good thing to be able to hear a pin drop thirty miles away and not know how to control the power so you don't get deafened by Mohinder slamming the car door a yard away? Pillock.
Before I forget to include her, I'd also like to say that I loved Simone, she was cool, and really pretty, and given that we met Tawny Cypress at a con and she did weevil!face for us she really should have been in it for longer, but she was cool nonetheless. Also Audrey Hanson, the FBI agent who works with Matt. I've just got to say that I love her to pieces, possibly because some of the fic I've been reading has her written incredibly well, but also because she is just that damned awesome, and hells yeah for kick-ass, awesome ladies. Also she admits to having a mini-crush on Matt at one point, which is unfeasibly cute and sweet and lovely (and I agree wholeheartedly with her that he's a sweet, funny guy, it's just such a pity he's denser than a neutron star when it comes to things like people crushing on him). There needs to be more Audrey in this thing! Other awesome people who need mentioning are Claude Rains (not his real name, obviously), the Invisible Hobo-Doctor, and Zach, who was brilliant and all kinds of awesome and makes West in S2 look even more like a complete prat just by being the anti-prat.
Season Two started well, bringing the wonders of Peter-without-emo-fringe and Nathan-with-a-beard, and you can see it was heading for another lot of twisty-turny plot devices when the writer's strike fell smack-bang into their laps, and they had to cut everything short and leave quite a few plots completely unresolved. The main one being the whole Caitlin-stuck-in-the-future thing, which bugs me like the gaping plot-hole that it is, but did mean that I didn't have to listen to the shittest fake-Cork accent I have EVER heard. Swings and roundabouts really.
It's a great shame to be honest, because I think S2 had the potential to be fantastic, there were some brilliant things building and okay I also have obviously fallen head over heels for M3 (or the House of M, as Bethan puts it) which in no way has biased me to read ridiculously good fic about Matt and Mohinder learning how to be good parents to Molly and fucking up because they're human and that's what happens, but it's still all so domestic and- ...*cough*... I mean, I'm not sappy and romantic at heart, really. I am also in no way biased by the number of Sylar appearances going up and thus there being more ZQ for me to ogle, nuh uh, no way. *big glasses and a grandad cardigan* *GUH!* Thing? What thing? *innocent*
I can't really say much more about S2, there isn't that much of it to start with and I prettymuch just want to witter on for ages about M3 and why they're fantastic, Gabriel and why he's pretty, and Alejandro and Maya and how annoying they are. I should probably say something about Adam but other than 'he's a twat and an evil bugger, but I like him anyway', I can't think of anything to say.
I suppose I should also talk about Elle and Bob, Bob ("just call me Bob") who has the shittest power ever, and uses the phrase 'for the greater good' more often than I like, and Elle, who I actually do like quite a lot because she's wicked and sexy and she toys with Peter and she's all screwed-up with Daddy-issues and her power is actually quite brilliant and there are a dozen other reasons, but those are the good ones. There's also Monica, Micah's cousin in New Orleans, who is fucking kick-ass, as well as being lovely. The problem is that there's not enough time for anyone to really develop as characters, everyone gets a half-journey of self discovery instead. Apart from poor Ando, who doesn't get to go adventuring again, but has to get stuck working instead while Hiro galavants off into the past to play at being soldiers and bringing him back souvenirs.
Season Three has started with creepy Petrellicest (why is it more creepy when it's Peter/Claire than when it's Peter/Nathan? It should be the other way around surely, seeing as they're brothers?) and has answered few of the questions left hanging in S2, but has introduced a whole lot more questions, the very least of which is 'Is EVERYONE a sodding Petrelli??? FFS Angela!' and 'Why are you even pretending that you're not ripping off X-Men? Come on, get real.'
On the other hand Future Gabriel is so much 'unf!' I would hit that like a frigging steam train, and I just go into paroxsyms of glee whenever ickle-Noah is on screen. In the absence of someone claiming to be his mother, niblick_iii decided ickle-Noah is actually a de-aged Noah Bennet and Gabriel adopted him, which is now completely and totally canon in every way. It's so unbearably cute you'll need insulin I swear. The other thing about S3 is the introduction of new characters and the fact that no matter which Petrelli you are, death never seems to take properly.
I waver on the Mohinder/Maya thing because on the one hand you have a man who until a few weeks previously was living with another man and raising a daughter with him and who hitherto had taken absolutely zero interest in the pretty girls around him in favour of concentrating on his job, and on the other hand it gets me shirtless Sendhil Ramamurthy, which I wholeheartedly agree with, and am convinced should be an essential part of any balanced diet. Half-naked Sendhil at least once a day. That'd do me the power of good I can assure you.
Tracy is just to fuck with everyone's heads, I can see that already and it's working, I already love Daphne to bits, speedsters are always the nicest superheroes in the comics anyway, and she's just lovely and a bit insane, kinda like Elle Bishop only more indie-punk. (I have this idea that Daphne, Elle, Monica and Audrey run off together and fight crime and be awesome. Then they go and rescue Caitlin from the future (who by this time has sorted out her dreaful accent into one that doesn't make people's ears bleed) and Yaeko from the past (who is by now a deadly Samauri warrior) and then they just shoot all over the world through time kicking butt and occasionally getting into lolarious adventures!)
I've only just met Matt's Turtle. I can already tell he's going to be a superstar.
Anyway, I've probably babbled enough, so I'm gonna go read my flist and gather together the pretty pictures for the picspam later.
Yatta! (I had to do it once! Sorry.)
P.S. I am sorry about comma abuse, overuse of ellipses and the word 'awesome' being used to describe everyone. It's been a long day.
...Yeah, Sorry. I was going to put the same quote (it's the first Stanza of Philip Larkin's 'This Be the Verse', just in case you wanted to know) with the picture of The Company, but there's still one or two of them I don't know (whether they were supposed to be revealed properly in S2 before the writer's strike killed all the plot creativity or not I have no idea, but I know their names are all on stickynotes when Matt has it at the end of S2.) and I don't want to stare at it too closely. Also, any excuse not to have to stare at Angela Petrelli is a good thing...
Anyway, on to the wank...
Okay, so Season One is confusing but awesome with a slightly anti-climactic ending, and if you read the wikis a thankfully removed-before-airing plot involving Matt and a terrorist hiding in a cupboard who used to live with him. Yeeah...
So S1 has its ups and downs, but is generally awesome, and thankfully long enough to have a few separate plots running side by side and eventually running together. There are characters of awesome and characters of many lots pretty, who I'll tell you about in my next post because I've promised to do a Pretties of Heroes Post so there will be hotness and picspamming. The whole of the first series is obviously an introduction to the characters (there are too many to intro in just the first episode) and then there's a world-needs-saving plot for them to take care of.
I was a bit weirded out by Issac Mendez's accent, mostly because I've only heard Santiago Cabrerra with an English accent for Merlin and the American one is awful. I was amused by how much of it I'd seen completely at random and apparently only just taken in, although I managed to get the Hiro/Ando plot stuck in my head. I also came to the realisation that I like S1 Claire, at least, much, much better than any other Season because she's not so much of a whiny cow. Also politician!Nathan is a twat and I don't like him either (I do like beardy!Nathan, but not Jesus!Nathan, so it's probably an inverse correlation to how pompous he is or it's a reaction to the beard. With which he looks like Steve Carell). I in no way reserve a special place in my heart (and other places) for the bits of the series where Sylar is locked up in the cells at The Company and gets to be barefoot and strung-out looking whilst wearing what are essentially white pjs, something he doesn't repeat until S3 sadly. (Six Months Ago and Fallout are gooood ZQ episodes.)
There's also the brilliant portion of the series taken up with 'Sylar and Mohinder's Wacky Road-Trip!' which makes me laugh. Melting household objects? Seriously? And Super-hearing? Why did you think it would be a good idea? Why? You know you have to get used to the powers, they don't just work like a light switch, how did you think it would be a good thing to be able to hear a pin drop thirty miles away and not know how to control the power so you don't get deafened by Mohinder slamming the car door a yard away? Pillock.
Before I forget to include her, I'd also like to say that I loved Simone, she was cool, and really pretty, and given that we met Tawny Cypress at a con and she did weevil!face for us she really should have been in it for longer, but she was cool nonetheless. Also Audrey Hanson, the FBI agent who works with Matt. I've just got to say that I love her to pieces, possibly because some of the fic I've been reading has her written incredibly well, but also because she is just that damned awesome, and hells yeah for kick-ass, awesome ladies. Also she admits to having a mini-crush on Matt at one point, which is unfeasibly cute and sweet and lovely (and I agree wholeheartedly with her that he's a sweet, funny guy, it's just such a pity he's denser than a neutron star when it comes to things like people crushing on him). There needs to be more Audrey in this thing! Other awesome people who need mentioning are Claude Rains (not his real name, obviously), the Invisible Hobo-Doctor, and Zach, who was brilliant and all kinds of awesome and makes West in S2 look even more like a complete prat just by being the anti-prat.
Season Two started well, bringing the wonders of Peter-without-emo-fringe and Nathan-with-a-beard, and you can see it was heading for another lot of twisty-turny plot devices when the writer's strike fell smack-bang into their laps, and they had to cut everything short and leave quite a few plots completely unresolved. The main one being the whole Caitlin-stuck-in-the-future thing, which bugs me like the gaping plot-hole that it is, but did mean that I didn't have to listen to the shittest fake-Cork accent I have EVER heard. Swings and roundabouts really.
It's a great shame to be honest, because I think S2 had the potential to be fantastic, there were some brilliant things building and okay I also have obviously fallen head over heels for M3 (or the House of M, as Bethan puts it) which in no way has biased me to read ridiculously good fic about Matt and Mohinder learning how to be good parents to Molly and fucking up because they're human and that's what happens, but it's still all so domestic and- ...*cough*... I mean, I'm not sappy and romantic at heart, really. I am also in no way biased by the number of Sylar appearances going up and thus there being more ZQ for me to ogle, nuh uh, no way. *big glasses and a grandad cardigan* *GUH!* Thing? What thing? *innocent*
I can't really say much more about S2, there isn't that much of it to start with and I prettymuch just want to witter on for ages about M3 and why they're fantastic, Gabriel and why he's pretty, and Alejandro and Maya and how annoying they are. I should probably say something about Adam but other than 'he's a twat and an evil bugger, but I like him anyway', I can't think of anything to say.
I suppose I should also talk about Elle and Bob, Bob ("just call me Bob") who has the shittest power ever, and uses the phrase 'for the greater good' more often than I like, and Elle, who I actually do like quite a lot because she's wicked and sexy and she toys with Peter and she's all screwed-up with Daddy-issues and her power is actually quite brilliant and there are a dozen other reasons, but those are the good ones. There's also Monica, Micah's cousin in New Orleans, who is fucking kick-ass, as well as being lovely. The problem is that there's not enough time for anyone to really develop as characters, everyone gets a half-journey of self discovery instead. Apart from poor Ando, who doesn't get to go adventuring again, but has to get stuck working instead while Hiro galavants off into the past to play at being soldiers and bringing him back souvenirs.
Season Three has started with creepy Petrellicest (why is it more creepy when it's Peter/Claire than when it's Peter/Nathan? It should be the other way around surely, seeing as they're brothers?) and has answered few of the questions left hanging in S2, but has introduced a whole lot more questions, the very least of which is 'Is EVERYONE a sodding Petrelli??? FFS Angela!' and 'Why are you even pretending that you're not ripping off X-Men? Come on, get real.'
On the other hand Future Gabriel is so much 'unf!' I would hit that like a frigging steam train, and I just go into paroxsyms of glee whenever ickle-Noah is on screen. In the absence of someone claiming to be his mother, niblick_iii decided ickle-Noah is actually a de-aged Noah Bennet and Gabriel adopted him, which is now completely and totally canon in every way. It's so unbearably cute you'll need insulin I swear. The other thing about S3 is the introduction of new characters and the fact that no matter which Petrelli you are, death never seems to take properly.
I waver on the Mohinder/Maya thing because on the one hand you have a man who until a few weeks previously was living with another man and raising a daughter with him and who hitherto had taken absolutely zero interest in the pretty girls around him in favour of concentrating on his job, and on the other hand it gets me shirtless Sendhil Ramamurthy, which I wholeheartedly agree with, and am convinced should be an essential part of any balanced diet. Half-naked Sendhil at least once a day. That'd do me the power of good I can assure you.
Tracy is just to fuck with everyone's heads, I can see that already and it's working, I already love Daphne to bits, speedsters are always the nicest superheroes in the comics anyway, and she's just lovely and a bit insane, kinda like Elle Bishop only more indie-punk. (I have this idea that Daphne, Elle, Monica and Audrey run off together and fight crime and be awesome. Then they go and rescue Caitlin from the future (who by this time has sorted out her dreaful accent into one that doesn't make people's ears bleed) and Yaeko from the past (who is by now a deadly Samauri warrior) and then they just shoot all over the world through time kicking butt and occasionally getting into lolarious adventures!)
I've only just met Matt's Turtle. I can already tell he's going to be a superstar.
Anyway, I've probably babbled enough, so I'm gonna go read my flist and gather together the pretty pictures for the picspam later.
Yatta! (I had to do it once! Sorry.)
P.S. I am sorry about comma abuse, overuse of ellipses and the word 'awesome' being used to describe everyone. It's been a long day.