Heroes
POSTED BY: Cybersnark
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 15:35
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I think you are right Cybersnark, it must be several people working together that caused the carnage we saw in the house filled with cops and feds. Two distinct, yet unrelated powers. Must be at least two different people.
I also agree that the removal of the brains is for study. I am thinking that some cabal within the government will be responsible for the brain removal and they are using metahumans as wetworks teams. Obviously the government would be eager to get their hands on people with super abilities.
Can't wait for next week's episode.
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Only in America...
I found this article this morning on my favorite tv website, zap2it.com
Quote:
Garbage Disposal Maker Sues NBC Over 'Heroes' Scene
Company says its product cast 'in unsavory light'
October 3, 2006
The company that makes In-Sink-Erator garbage disposers is suing NBC, claiming that an episode of the new show "Heroes" makes the product look bad.
Appliance maker Emerson filed the lawsuit in a St. Louis federal court Monday, seeking to block rebroadcasts of the "Heroes" pilot. In the episode, a high-school cheerleader (Hayden Panettiere) who has the ability to withstand injury sticks her hand into an In-Sink-Erator while it's running, mangling her fingers (which return to normal within a few seconds).
Emerson's suit claims the scene "casts the disposer in an unsavory light, irreparably tarnishing the product" by suggesting that serious injuries will result "in the event consumers were to accidentally insert their hand into one."
The suit, however, is more about NBC's use of the In-Sink-Erator name than the content of the scene, the company says. "It's a trademark thing," spokesman Dan Callahan tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
NBC hasn't commented on the suit.
Emerson is asking for a ruling barring future broadcasts of the pilot, which is available on NBC's website and has already aired on NBC Universal-owned cable networks USA and Sci Fi. It also seeks to block NBC from using any Emerson trademarks in the future.
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This show is freaky awesome.
Although I don't agree with some aspects, I just can't turn it off or look away.
Whats pissin' me off the most is the cliff hanger endings. End the episodes so we don't get pissed off at the end of a great show. Its buggin' me!
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Mavourneen, that is America, land of the lawsuit and home of the offended.
I hope that NBC's lawyers pound them into dust.
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Siler was the name of the guy responsible for the gruesome murders. He is also the one on the professor's answering machine. I think all the characters are realizing their powers but I don't think they are all "heroes". Just like Siler, I think Stripper Mom is developing a power as a, for lack of a better word, VILLAIN.
Anybody else get that feeling?
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I really like heroes so far. Finally another primetime sci-fi epic sort. (I dont have cable, and as much as i love house and bones and stuff, they arent exactly sci-fi.) I dislike the name, becuase so far, they seem like regular folk n stuff, "HEROES" sounds too grand and important. Oh well, if nothing else its an Xmen or mutant X clone, but whatever, nothing wrong with that. Looking forward to more.
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Man I am loving this show. Hope both it and Eureak! last awhile.
I think the brain removal has to indicate some sort of dark secret govermnent agency (like the NID on Stargate SG-1)tracking the heroes and studying them. But what's their goal? ... Or maybe it's aliens!
I think the Cheerleader's Dad might be Syler.
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Actually, I recall reading somewhere that there would be super-villain(s) emerging. Whole point of the show is asking what people would do with these powers --it's not the powers alone that make heroes, it's how they're used.
"With great power comes great responsibility." --Ben Parker
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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
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Well I hope they can keep it up, cause so far I'm hooked.
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I think I’m really going to enjoy these SciFi Friday nights. My time is very limited, in that it is difficult for me to schedule many nights of tv shows. As such there are many shows that I can’t keep up with, that I might otherwise want to. But having Heroes, Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica all in a row on the same night and channel is great.
Heroes sounded like a dull premise when I first heard of it, and seeing the soap opera-ish beautifulness of the characters made me cringe. Truth is I only watched it because I was eating dinner before Doctor Who, and the channel was tuned to SciFi. But I’m rather impressed that they seem to be meshing together an intriguing story out of this rather thin subject.
Like the X-files and BSG, they are employing the art of realism to render a sense of credibility to a quite fantastic issue, which is a good idea, considering that the story hinges on whether the audience buys the superpower thing. That realism requires some pretty graphic images and some very mature content, though, which I’m sure adults would have no problem with, though I’m concerned that this show probably needs to be on a little later in the evening because of it. Realistic depictions of implied prostitution, drug use and the graphic images of mangled bodies is pretty mature content but it’s not overdone for shock value and it does work. It forces you to accept the thin story as plausible. I don’t have any problem suspending belief to accept what would otherwise be a totally unbelievable story.
My favorite characters so far are Claire, Hiro and Niki. Claire, I like in part (I’ll just admit it up front) because Hayden Panettiere is one the most beautiful actresses I’ve seen. She sort of reminds me of a young Tatum O’Neil. But I also like the contrast of the beautiful cheerleader with the horrendous injuries, but like StoryMark, I was wondering what her problem was. I think however that maybe I was over thinking it. Essentially, her problem is that the she’s a flighty, ditzy cheerleader who cares principally about her popularity, and her reaction to her power is to view it as an anathema to her social standing. She comes across as warm and affectionate in some cases, but shallow and impulsive in others, and that, I think, is probably the most well-written and sympathetic characterization of the a typical beautiful 16-year cheerleader.
Hiro is the only character that seems to lucidly and openly embrace his power with enthusiasm. He is also clearly the most stereotypical, being a Trekkie nerd. That he is also Japanese is almost an ethnic slur, but it does make sense to put the person with his particular powers outside of the country, and Japanese ethnicity does suit the character well. He also provides much needed comic relief to show that is oddly enough very grim.
Niki is probably the most mature character in terms of the kinds of scenes she is depicted in: prostitution and extremely graphic murder. One very graphic image of her victims looked like the remains of a high explosive. It seems clear that she may end up as a villain, but a very sympathetic one.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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