12 posts tagged “heroes”

Hey ladies and gents,

Long time, no blabber.  Rest assured, I've been lurking about, but I simply haven't had the energy to bore you with my rants, my navel-gazing, and my witty bons mots lately.  I can't say if I'll be back to normal any time soon, but I hope so. 

I know I haven't been sharing my scintillating commentary on Castle and Heroes over on this blog.  But trust me, I've been watching.  And I eagerly await the season finale of Heroes tonight.  And the crowd rejoiced!  Yay!!  This week is going to be a doozy as far as my schedule, but I'll do what I can to share my thoughts on the finale by Thursday evening at the latest.

So what's been going on, you ask?  Like I said this is a brief update, so here you go.

• I gave my two weeks' notice last Thursday at my part-time job.
• Currently, I'm seeking a new part-time job and I'm ignoring those who keep barking at me about X, Y, and Z.  I'm the one who has to endure the condescending insults and the constant harassment about sell, sell, selling the store's credit card to hapless customers during the worst recession since WWII, so the final's decision is mine.  Spank you.
• Still working on my website, but making little substantive progress
• Networking, seeking FT gigs, contemplating grad school, etc.
• Working at my craptastic PT job.

It doesn't seem like a lot, I know.  But my plate is indeed full.  And this week, I'm heading down to Philly for a Mashable Mixer.  But before that, I have an interview with an agency.  Keep your fingers crossed for me, will ya? 

Okay, I think that's all I can share and still be considered brief.  Talk to yous later in the week.

P. S.  Has anyone else noticed that Hulu has added all of Season 3 to their Heroes page?  Yay!  Now, I can watch Ep. 8, "Villains" as often as I want until August 1st.

P. S. S.  Is anyone else on the East coast still broiling from the heat wave?  My room feels like a sauna right now.

In case you haven't noticed, I haven't been blogging about much other than my current fandoms and other non-depressing distractions.  I rarely have anything positive to say about what's going on over here in cold, ass Pennsylvania, so I'm sticking with the vapid and amusing.  I know that many of you have far more serious issues to contend with than I (Love you Jenn!!), so having me sitting here whining about this, that and the other seems more than a little rude.  Almost bordering on offensive.  So I won't.

But if you are interested in what's happening in my neck of the woods  /Al Roker, here's 3 things to help paint a wee picture:

1. Working a 4 1/2-hour shift on your feet feels like working a 7 1/2-shift sitting on your ass.
2. I had an awesome Gmail chat with Madeline last Tuesday that honestly made my week, if not my month.  Thank you Ms. Madeline.  I really needed that shot in the arm.  I haven't discovered any news on the Atlanta front, but I'll keep asking.  Also, thank you so much for the LinkedIn recommendation.  {{{Hugs}}}
3. After I'm finished here, I'm going to crawl back into my cocoon of fanfiction and Adrian Pasdar-related YouTube videos.  It's nicer there than it is out here.

And since I'm here, I might as well share my thoughts on Monday night's new Heroes episode. 

Generally speaking, it was okay.  It wasn't bad or disappointing, just okay.  Which I expected because I never anticipate 3 kick-ass episodes in a row.  I just know better.  So I'm okay with this episode serving as a lovely little bridge between Ep. 15 (the Specials are fugitives now and Nathan is short and hot) and Ep. 17 (Mr. Bennet gets no love; yet we love him even more. **sob**).  So I can't hate on the writers for minding their ebb and flow.

Although she and I don't agree on every issue, mystery_sock on LJ gives a wonderful recap of the latest Heroes that's definitely worth the read.  But before you jot over there, my 3 quick notes on the episode go like this:

1. Claire has just moved into a dead-heat with Maya as my least favorite character on the show.  I knew that HRG deserved a freakin' medal for putting up with her during the second season, but now he's teetering on sainthood.  Poor Noah.  You confused, morally ambiguous bastard.
2. Heroes:X-Men::Nathan Petrelli:Senator Kelly
3. Will Sylar please kill this kid already?  Please.  please.

Wow, I haven't done this in awhile.  Let's see if I remember how.  :-)

Heroes - Volume 3: Villains

Okay, I finally caught up with the Heroes' Season 3 storyline via G4’s all-day Saturday marathon.  Overall, I can’t see why the fans were so pissy about this volume.  Granted, there are definite moments of “Oh you’ve got to be kidding me with this!”  But those where easily met and outweighed with moments of “This show is like crack!  The characterization, the special effects, the homoerotic subtext.  How can you not adore this?"

As for the premiere of Volume 4: Fugitives, my thoughts go a little something like this:

What I feel great about:

• It may be temporary, but it’s something.  President Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu stepped in got the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the execution of Troy Davis pending further review.  I called the phone number issued by Amnesty International that Monday to add my name to the list of people asking the Governor to hear his appeal.  The woman on the phone was rude and scared the hell out of me, but I called.

What I feel good about:

• My part-time job so far.  It’s only been one week, but I like it.  Celebrity sightings so far: Jennifer Coolidge and Debi Derryberry (she’s the voice of Jimmy Neutron).

• My buddy Katie’s alive and well.  And the town rejoiced!  Yay!  She e-mailed me last week.  She says the majority of the power’s still out all over Houston, but she and her doggies are okay.  :-)

• Seeing Dave’s band play at Swinghouse on Sunday night.  Who’s Dave, you ask?  Just some guy.  Something may come of it, something may not.  You know how dudes are.

• I haven’t been that interested in the new fall season so far, but I really liked the 2-hour Heroes premiere, minus a few skanky storyline issues.  I liked: Nathan alive and kicking; Mr. Linderman’s back in town; more of Elle; Tracy/Nikki/Jessica’s new power ... niccceee!

• Using my wordsmith skills to help a buddy with a work problem.  I received a handsome check for my trouble too.

• The House of Reps not passing the bailout bill.  Go.  Read. This is not necessarily a bad thing people.  There are alternatives here.  And even if we don't take them, let's not let panic scare us into handing a $700 billion paycheck simply because George W. says it's dire.  Since when did he have credibility?
  

• Watching the 4th season of Entourage on DVD ... fun times!  :-)

What I feel bad about:

• When you have a buddy who likes you, but you don’t feel the same.  And you want to keep him in your life because he’s a semi-decent guy and has helped you in the past (and you’ve helped him as well); but every time you talk to him, you feel like you’re being manipulated by him or you’re manipulating him in return.  I don’t like this guilt.  Must think on this.
  

• Due to the completion of Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis (new home for the Colts), they’re planning to tear down the Hoosier Dome.  :-(

• Heroes 2-hour premiere's skanky storyline issues, such as:  Africa is a CONTINENT, not a country; must we have another character for Ali Larter to whine her way through; Hiro makes me want to slap him for treating Ando that way; Mohinder makes me want to slap him period; they got rid of Monica, but keep Maya (seriously? WTF!!)

• No definitive work prospects on the horizon yet.  Cue another day of anxiety and worry.
  

• I have misplaced/lost my bluetooth device.  This is not a good year for me and phones.  Damn.
  

I don't know how I feel about this:

• I’m starting to feel sorry for Sarah Palin.  I don’t like this confusion.  Must think on this.
  

• I have an interview next week, but I don’t think anything will come of it.  Don’t ask me why.  It’s a long story.
  

• My bank is now owned by JP Morgan Chase.  It's not great, but it could be worse.  Thank goodness I don't have a mortgage.

I know that they’ve only aired 3 episodes of Heroes so far this season, but at this point, my adoration has found another home on another show on another network: Jericho.  (Currently making my way through the first season DVDs and I’m loving it.)  Now, I’m not abandoning Heroes completely.  Well, not yet.  But I’m becoming very disillusioned by it, and I wouldn’t be surprised that if the show continues on this track that I won’t be watching it this time next year.

What’s my beef?  It’s this: everyday this country gets more and more multicultural, but American network television is still stuck in 1967.  And what’s more pathetic is so many people never even bother to notice.  There’s a group over on Livejournal called deadbrowalking.  It’s essentially a community for sci-fi/fantasy geeks of color.  There, the comm follows the many (and believe me, there’s no short supply) portrayals of CoC (characters of color) in genre fandom and their ass backwards characterization that makes you want to through up your hands in resignation.  The name of the comm is a wordplay on the fact that for years, the “brother” was usually the first one to buy it in a sci-fi action film.

When the members of the comm starting complaining about the writing for black, brown and Asian characters on Heroes last season, I have to admit, I felt a little bit like a traitor because I honestly didn’t see anything all that glaringly offensive.  Well, that was about halfway through the first season.  And now, with a full season come and gone, and a new one well under way, I’m starting to feel a lot less oblivious.  No, I’m past that, folks.  At this point, I’m just f#!king pissed!

Is there some rule on Heroes that states that if you want to add a new character of non-European descent, you first have to kill one off?  Seriously, WTF!  In the first season, we lost both Simone (who I’ve admitted I wasn’t that crazy about) and Isaac.  Well, apparently, they were just getting warmed up because now we’ve lost Kaito Nakamura and D.L. for no fucking good reason.  In exchange, we get the Wonder Twins from Honduras, Yaeko pining for the gaijin Kensei, and the Queen of Star Trek herself, Madame Nichelle Nichols.  Because heaven forfend if we had all these characters on the show at the same time.  That would throw the whole universe out of balance and people’s heads would implode with confusion.

Need I even bring up the fact that the only non-white character who’s actually getting a strong A-storyline characterization is Hiro.  And even he gets to play Cyrano for the white guy in his home country.  Come on now!  I know I’m not the only one calling shenanigans on that bullshit.

Can a CoC other than Hiro have a decent storyline and not die a meaningless death for “the sake of others?”  Case in point:

• Ando: Sidekick and awkward goofball.  Chicks don’t like him because he’s a nerdy, yet passionate doofus following his best friend around the U.S.
  
  
• Micah: Stands around and pretends his mother doesn’t have a problem she can’t handle.  Helped rig an election for Nathan Petrelli and got nothing but sorrow for his trouble.
  
  
• Mohinder: Spent the first season wandering around trying to find out where he fit in in all this, and is now an agent for others’ survival which is probably going to get him killed.  Not to mention that for half the first season, he was written to appear far too clueless for someone so intelligent.
  
  
• The Haitian: Apparently no one ever bothered to give this guy a nickname in over 15 years with the company.  Again, an agent for the survival of others.  He’s a tool with no character development beyond that of mysterious protector and friend to white male #3.  Can a brother get a name tag?
  
  
• Simone: Stood around the first season looking pretty before being accidentally shot in the chest.  I heard she’s actually getting some decent onscreen character development over on K-Ville.
  
  
• Isaac: Never proactive, only reactive, even after he was clean.  Another CoC who served as an agent for others’ survival, and it got him killed.  Why exactly did he have to die in order for Hiro and Peter to find out how to kill Sylar?  Couldn’t he have simply drawn the pictures and got the hell out of dodge?
  
  
• D.L.: Had to put up with the world’s whiniest, crazy-ass baby mama drama, and was then sacrificed in one of the weakest excuses for a character death I’ve seen since Diana Muldaur took a tumble down the elevator shaft on L.A. Law back in ’91.  Question:  How was it that D.L. had the presence of mind to get behind Linderman and go all Kitty Pryde on his brain, but didn’t have the sense to simply hold onto Nikki/Jessica and let the bullet pass through them both?  Yeah, waste of a decent character they didn’t even bother to develop.

But that’s okay, because as long as Claire, the Petrelli family, Sylar, Molly, Matt, and any other Anglicized character they choose to add this season are on the show, no one will bother to notice that the CoC are just window dressing.  It’s Lost The-Jack-Kate-&-Sawyer-Hour all over again.

At least when Ted, Eden, and Candace died, it actually served the story in some fashion.  Unfortunately, it served the same point each time: Sylar will kill you and use your power to kill others.  He killed Eden to escape from the Company’s stronghold and go after Claire, he killed Ted with the intent of using his power to blow up NYC, and he killed Candace to get his powers back so he go create the havoc that the others deferred when he was beaten by the emo kid with stringy hair and flying Japanese dude’s sword.

I’ve become so disappointed so quickly with the writing on this show.  It had so much promise, but in the end, it’s just comes off as another show written by people who have “one black friend,” “one Asian friend,” “one Latino friend,” etc.

Sure, I could go into another rant about how poorly written the female characters are on the show, how with the exception of Jessica they are always needing to be rescued, and how with the exception of Mrs. Petrelli are always whining about their problems far more than the male characters, but it’s late and I'm tired.  So let’s save that venom for another post, shall we?

I’m gonna go back to my Jericho - Season 1 DVDs.  There’s only one prominent CoC on that show, but at least he gets a decent amount of screen time and he’s written like a fully developed human being devoid of stereotype or caricature.  Yeah.  Imagine that.

These are just my random thoughts on the season premiere.  They're not necessarily connected though, so mind the mental zigzagging. 
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Ugh, Nathan.  Poor, drunk, delirious Nathan.  I still love you, even if others don't.  I see your inner struggle, and I adore you for it.  That's why I find you 10 times more interesting than your emo brother, Peter.  But please get better soon.  I hate seeing you look all tore up, although I am glad you kicked your Mama to the curb.  Oh, and what the hell was going on with your face in the mirror?!  Seriously, dude, did you develop another power over the break?  Do you have a little Claire in you now?

Okay, I'll defend Mohinder until the last, but his voiceovers are becoming superfluous.  They're not really profound in any way, and I find myself struggling to tune them out.  That being said, I'll take him over any guy on the show because the brother is fine as hell.  It's nice to see him be a little more proactive; it's great that the writers had that carry over from the end of the last season.  He's mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore.

Also, I'm not into any of the fanfiction aspects of the show yet because, frankly, I'm just not seeing it for most of the characters.  I need something more than "Oh, those 2 would look pretty together" to buy into a pairing.  But someone on LJ mentioned that they can definitely see the beginnings of a Mohinder/Matt-ship in this episode, and I would have to agree.  It could be like My Two Dads, except with more Hoyay!

How interesting was it that it was Mr. Bennet/Butler/HRG/Noah who did something to draw attention to himself after lecturing Claire at the high school.  *tsk* *tsk*  Bad Noah.  (Not really.  How many of us have wanted to do that to some douchie supervisor who thought himself the king of his tiny little world.)  And what's up with Claire's would-be stalker.  That kid seriously gave me the willies.  Dude, I just met your ass, stop following me.  I think he's a plant.  But for whom?

I swear I thought I recognized the guy who played Alejandro.  I think he used to play on General Hospital in the early '00s dating Amber Tamblyn's character, Emily.  Or maybe he just looks like that guy in the dark.  It would be an honest mistake considering I could barely make out most of the blocking in those scenes.  Seriously, I know they're on the run, but would it kill you to backlight for the sake of the audience?  Sheesh!  My kingdom for a lighting scheme.

I'm glad they made that whole David Anders casting thing make sense because I was seriously pissed about him being cast to play a Kensei hero.  But I like this angle.  Granted, it unnecessarily introduces a white male character into a storyline where he doesn't really belong, but if they tell it right, it can work.  Hell, it is Sci-Fi.  The storyline feels a little obvious at this point (i.e. Hiro does all the stuff that he's telling Sark Takezo Kensei about because he's obsessed with this guy's legacy, and when he leaves, he makes sure Takezo gets all the credit so it doesn't screw up the space-time continuum or whatever), but I'm hoping they'll surprise me and do something unexpected instead.

I was sad to see George Takei go, but I read that Nichelle Nichols is going to be on the show this season, and it might be a little weird having them both on the show at the same time.  I wonder if the mysterious shadow that killed Kaito is the same creature/guy that Molly's seeing in her nightmares.  Or if both entities are simply connected, but not the same.  Mr. Nakamura made it seem like he knew the guy before he rushed him.

As for Emo Pete and the mysterious, um, **cough** Irishmen, nice intro.  I like the whole "I'm helplessly restrained with handcuffs, but I can still shoot energy beams from my hands" bit.  Peter, you've changed.  Someone please tell me these guys just happen to be in Eire but are not actually Irish, because only one of them sounded even remotely Irish -- and that was a very weak Dubliner brogue at that.  I'm interested to see where this goes, but I don't want another season of Peter whining all over the place trying to figure it all out.  F'eh.

Oh, and one final thought.  James Kyson Lee (aka Ando) is a cutie.  That is all.

 

  You're Isaac Mendez
 
  Which Hero Are You?
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It's sad to say, but I think this test result is probably right.  Personality wise, Isaac and I probably have the most in common out of all the Heroes' cast.  And yes, even though he was a cutie, I don't relish having my head cut off and my brain sucked out.  On the other hand, I would have the opportunity to shoot Simone.  The only difference between Isaac and I is that I wouldn't be all that upset about it.  (I really didn't like her.)  Hmmm?

Just a few reactions regarding last night’s opus:

• Mohinder is still as fine as hell with a full beard.  And although I am rarely a fan of the full beard on any man, he certainly wears it well.
  
  
• The first big shock, aka “Peter Petrelli to the rescue,” left me cheering like a schoolgirl when he stopped everyone in their tracks to save Hiro and Ando.  However, I’m not sure if I’m all that crazy about the stereotypical, bad boy, Neo-esque makeover, but I’ll give the writers the benefit of the doubt.  Maybe whatever has occurred in the 5 years since the big explosion – where Micah’s “gone,” DL went underground, Nathan became President, Jessica “disappeared,” and Ando died – actually justifies the huge scar across the face, the greasy slicked-back hair, and the funky, “I just don’t care anymore” attitude.  Maybe.
  
  
• A part of me can’t help but want to hate Parkman a little bit for interrogating [read: beating up] Present-day Hiro.  Yeah, yeah, I know he’s a man pulled between 2 worlds and he’s working on the wrong side just to stay alive and keep his kid safe, but whatever!  Stop hitting my boy, you jackass!
  
  
• Oh, and then he had to go and pop my other boy, Mr. Bennett.  No, no.  There are no excuses.  Future Matt is on the list!
  
  
• Did I mention before that Suresh is fine as hell with a full beard?  I did?  Okay.
  
  
• Here’s where I’m a little confused: If Bennett was turning over the “dangerous ones” to Parkman in exchange for letting the harmless heroes go into hiding, did he know that Candice was dead the day Future Hiro asks him for his help?  Future Hiro mentions that he needs DL, Candice, and Molly to help him break out Present Hiro.  At first, Bennett says no, but then Ando reminds him that Hiro helped Peter save Claire.  He’s the reason Claire is alive in the future.  So Bennett seems to acquiesce and grabs the list from Hiro’s hand.
  
  Fast forward to the second big shock (or third if you consider Parkman’s execution of Bennett off-screen the second): Sylar reveals himself to Claire, but before doing so, he says that he couldn’t have gotten this far without Candice’s help.  Since he’s pulling the old glamour switch now, I assume that means that Candice is dead, just like all the other people Sylar killed when he stole their power.  Sooooo, did Bennett know that Candice was dead?  If so, why did he act like he was going to help Future Hiro gather up the people on his list, which included Candice?  And if not, how long had Candice been in hiding before Sylar got to her, killed her, stole her power, met up with Nathan, killed him, and started posing as the President?
  

• Another question.  Who was the chica lying on the floor before Bennett realized Parkman had turned on him?  Was she introduced via the online comic?  If so, that may explain why I didn’t recognize her.
  
  
• Sylar and Peter's fire and ice showdown in the hallway reminded me of Lo Pan and Egg Shen’s final battle in Big Trouble in Little China.  Plus, you just know they were flying back and forth in the air, even if the writers punked out and kept it off-screen.
  
  
• Future Claire’s boyfriend was insipid.  Cute, but insipid.
  
  
• I have to give kudos to Adrian Pasdar.  I know some folks said that they saw it coming, but my dumb behind certainly didn’t.  It wasn’t until the President started talking crazy that I realized that Sylar was still alive.  Pasdar had me believing that Nathan Petrelli had seriously joined the dark side, but in such a realistic manner that rings far too true considering our current political climate.  I could actually see Nathan believing the garbage he was spouting about creating clinics, luring people in with a "cure," but later claiming that the science was faulty.  Notice how he was going to pin that bait-and-switch crap on Mohinder.  Adrian did a fine job, and I, for one, never thought he tipped his hand.
  

That’s all.

P.S. Mohinder’s hot.

I know that I normally lurk on the heroes: discuss group, but I haven't read/heard anyone mention Stan Lee's cameo at the end of last week's episode (Feb 19th).  Did you catch him as Hiro boards the bus and leaves Ando behind?  Our man, Stan, was the bus driver.

I know I missed the license plate number for Mr. Nakamura, so I was happy when I caught Stan's cameo.  But since no one else mentioned it, I'm beginning to wonder if I was wrong.

The O.C.

Awww, The O.C. went bye-bye last night, and I have to admit, it went out on a pretty sweet note.  In pure O.C. style, the finale pulled out all of the end-of-the-series clichés, and then made fun of themselves for pulling out all of the end-of-the-series clichés.  Since I’m not technically a fan of the show and only watched the last 4 episodes because Kevin Sorbo was on them, I understand that I’m not going to be the one who’s completely devastated that the series is ending.  But for the most part, I enjoyed those last 4 eps and I’m happy to see them go out on a clever(ish) note.

The episode began with a fast forward to 6 months in the future from the previous episode.  And for the first 20 minutes, you spend most of your time sitting there wondering, “Now when did that happen?!”  But you’re not anymore in the dark than fans who’ve been watching for the last 4 years.  They too would ask, “When did Ryan and Taylor break up?”  “When did Julie become pregnant?”  “When did she get back together with the Bullitt?”  “Where’s Frank!?”  “And what in the world is going on with Seth & Ms. Save-the-World?”  And it’s from that perspective the show fills in the blanks without being a complete schmaltz-fest for all the teary-eyed fans who are gonna miss their weekly dose of Newport Beach irony.  

Although Taylor’s voice makes me want to knock myself unconscious, I even like her part in this final chapter.  Seth being the “OMG! Most perfect boyfriend ever!” when he told Summer to go and do that voodoo that only she can do so well instead of following him all the way to Providence was definitely an awww! moment.  Oh, and a part of me couldn’t help but feel sorry for poor Bullitt.  That man must have a skin thicker than Kevlar with the way he puts up with Julie’s changes of heart.  But of course, that gives the show an even nicer bow to wear around its neck because even though she leaves him at the altar for the man that she left him for 6 ½ months prior, he takes it on the chin and manages to maintain a friendly relationship with her in the future.

So, in case you’re wondering (and I know you are), the final montage reveals Seth going off to Brown U in Rhode Island, Summer going to UC Berkeley to join G.E.O.R.G.E., Ryan making up with Taylor and promising to K.I.T. while he’s at school in Berkeley, the Cohens moving back to their old homestead in Berkeley with their newly born baby daughter.  [deep breathe]  Julie gets back together with Frank, but also decides to go to college and make something of her life, Seth marries Summer, Julie gives birth to a son, he’s pretty big (maybe 5 or 6) when she graduates from college, Ryan gets a job at a construction company, and as he leaves, he sees a young teen looking listless across the way from his job, and he asks him, “Hey kid!  You need some help?”  The end.

The legacy of The O.C.:  Good ending.  Decent show.  Funny dialogue.  

Heroes

I know I didn’t say much about this week’s Heroes episode, but I never have anything truly constructive to share.  Only reactions to certain moments.  Soooo:

• I’m getting sick and tired of Sylar killing people off.  Can somebody deal with his crazy behind already?!  Bring on Peter to kick his ass.  Instead of him going after Isaac like a short-sighted fool, send him Mohinder’s way.  Let’s see Sylar cross paths with Peter know that he’s starting to control his powers.  I liked Dale.  Sylar sucks.
• Mohinder is still hot.  :-)
  
• Mr. Bennett, even though you’re “trying to protect your family!!1!”, you’re destroying it at the same time.  Your wife is dying, your daughter is running hot and cold, and your son is a moron.  You’ve been controlling things for a long time now, at least it seems that way, but the times, they are a-changing.  You are not in control.  Hey, maybe you and Nathan need to talk.  You both seem to have similar issues.  Claire’s real daddy and her step-daddy have quite a bit in common.
• Peter’s Neo moment on the roof of Claude’s favorite building was kinda cool.  I liked the way he stopped the tranq darts in mid-air and grabbed homeboy before jumping off the roof.  He’s come a long way in a short time.
• But I actually found the fight between Isaac and Peter kind of annoying.  Granted, I understand each character’s position, but I felt like shouting, “You’re both on the same side, assholes!”  Men are dumb.
• I was surprised when Simone took the bullets meant for Peter, but I’m not all that sad to see her go.  As my mother can attest, I was not a fan of her character, so even though I didn’t wish her dead, I’m not gonna miss her very much.  I found her insipid and annoying, plus I have a general dislike of TV characters whose only purpose on a show seems to revolve around being someone’s love interest.  That’s why I never took a liking to Inara on Firefly.  Nothing against Morena Baccarin, but I felt like the only thing she brought to the show was sexual tension, and that bores me after about 2 episodes.  So, R.I.P. Simone.
• And speaking of annoying, insipid chicks, Matt’s wife is very judgmental for a woman who was cheating on her husband not 3 months ago.  That poor guy just cannot catch a break from anybody.  No wonder he has low self-esteem.  

I don’t comment (very much) or post (at all) in the heroes: discuss group because, to be honest, I feel that whenever I become really active in a show fandom, most of the people I meet online tend to suck the enjoyment out of the show for me.  So, although I’m a member of that group, I really just browse compared to full-on participation.  

I enjoyed last week’s episode.  The show hasn’t disappointed me once since it began last fall, and I’m not in any way frustrated with the pacing, characterization or development of the series.  I think Tim Kring has created a damn fine show and balances 11 or so regulars in an ensemble cast consistently well.  And so far, I think the writers have handled the storylines with aplomb.  I don’t have any solid complaints.  The only questions I have are relatively minor, and the most fun I have with any show I go geek! over is waiting for the next episode to continue the tale.  

So I’m tend to stand clear of people who find a shiny new toy, but then get bored with it really quickly because they have the attention span of a newt.  I’m not all that interested in hearing them bitch and moan every week what they think is wrong with the show and how they would have done it if they were writing the series.  So that’s why I have to keep my distance from some of the other fans of the show online, and tend to play in my own sandbox moreso than others.