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Heroes
What did I think of it? I liked the concept (ordinary people, albeit predominantly good looking ones, develop superpowers and deal with them as if they are "issues"), and I liked the way it all started to slot together, although they might as well have just made all of the superheroes American, rather than chuck a token Indian bloke and a Japanese wage slave in for "international" effect (having said that, I really like Hiro, not least because he is called Hiro - you only get to make that joke once). It has a touch of Lost about it (first season anyway - I bailed out of the second pretty early on and have never felt tempted back), although the characters aren't as varied in shape and age. Where's the Hurley? Where's the Locke? Maybe there are heroes we've not met yet. Either way, despite not a single face I recognise in the cast, I was certainly hooked enough to watch the second episode straight after the first, and now I want the third, to see how they avert the bad thing in the painting. It drew quite a crowd to the Sci-Fi Channel on Monday night: 460,000, their best figure since launching, which is nice for them. (Poor old Nip/Tuck, which we're still faithfully watching on Sky One - it gets a piddling 230,000.)
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They do throw in a token ugly hero later. And *SPOILER* an ex-Dr Who.
Remains entertaing though...
Yet another programme I would devour - I love the idea - but I can't watch it because I can't get the sci-fi channel! I hear that it will be on 'council' telly in the summer, but more and more I'm relying on boxsets and, gasp!, ITV for programmes like 'entourage' - which I love.
Now finally working my way through season 4 of 24, with season 5 waiting by the telly, both of which I missed when Sky took over from the BBC. So much to watch...!
All this boxset tv when would it be cheaper to buy a full sky subscription? I really liked the idea of "heroes", the whole what would happen if everyone was a superman from "unbreakable?" and the work of Alan Moore in comics.A really ordinary looking super hero would interesting don't you think.
Good point, sir. But you do get to watch 'em again, and there's all those documentaries on the last dvd in the box, and you own it! Oh, and the 24 boxes were £17.99 on play.com...
we do have a bt vision box (we were on the trial for it so got it free) which is pretty good for the hard drive recorder and the on demand movies are getting better, but you still only get freeview channels. unfortunately I have to leave the house from time to time as well, otherwise I would definately have the sky thingy...
ordinary looking heroes? not on TV. As Andrew said, "...ordinary people, albeit predominantly good looking ones..." but it would be nice to have a hero that looked as ordinary as me!!
Interesting observation about DVD telly - I grew so used to watching two or three episodes of The Wire on the trot on DVD, I'm now utterly frustrated as I'm only able to watch one a week on FX. It's killing me!
Agreed. Drip-feed tv sucks. I want control. I watched a lot of the Heroes episodes directly on the NBC website where they stream them for US, (but not UK!) users (I assume because the advertisers have not had the chance to get their UK revenue) If you disguise yourself as a U.S user though... sneaky I know.
The technology/tv revolution is almost upon us. Can't happen soon enough..
I've given up on the Wire for now. Until I can watch 2 or 3 episode at time, it's too frustrating... So back to the Sopranos season 6...then the West Wing and Six Feet Under (never seen an episode of either!)
Heroes gets better and better. There are more characters to be introduced yet and it doesn't fall into the Lost trap. That show is still not exciting me like the old days.
Valentine, I simply cannot express my jealousy that you've never seen Six Feet Under or the West Wing. What delights you have ahead. I'm almost the end of the last series of Upstairs Downstairs but then it's back to the very beginning I think.
Put Upstairs Downstairs away AC. I understand The Duchess of Duke Street AND Bouquet of Barbed Wire are now available as DVD box sets.
Andrew, in the interests of public service, I should draw to your attention an article in yesterday's Guardian Guide that linked to some sites where you can get all your favourite TV shows. And this isn't some dodgy download but, apparently, the entire episode at the touch of a button. www.alluc.org (but you didn't hear that from me).
There was also a nice update on Idris Elba - he's been in the Top 10 hottest men in Hollywood poll 2 years running and is slated to show up in 4 (count 'em) Hollywood movies this year.
I watched last night on video and I thought was very good. But I am annoyed by the fact that american series like LOST or PRISON BREAK waste the time with adverts and those ".... Last episode in...." or next on" blah , blah blah!
Get on with it I say. at the end we only watch 30 minutes of it.
But I will keep watching it :)
seems that TV is ona roll on good series
:)
A Couple of other things on dvd tv, all this rightful praise of american drama, does miss the point that I noticed watching box set of west wing , the actual programmes are very short, if you exclude the "previously bits" and the five minutes in title sequence west wing is about 35 mins long, that's excluding all the traffic shots of washington etc. If spooks and life on mars are shown in american they would last 2- 2.5 hours. Also is it series 1 or seasons 1?
Valentine, I've already broken into the Barbed Wire box set, and it looks rather tame now. But still good.
BLTP, I think it's "season" for US shows, and "series" for our own. In the same way that I think it's fine for Americans to ask, "Can I get a latte?" in non-American coffee shops, but absolutely FORBIDDEN for Europeans to pick up this daft phrasing habit. Can I get? Do you mean, Can I have? Or, May I have? If you want to get a latte, you're going to have to come round to this side of the counter and actually foam the milk up and pour it out. (They don't say please at the end of "Can I get?" as it doesn't sound right. That's another minus for using the phrase.)
That said, we should respect the Americans for coming up with the best DVD telly in the world, and use "season". (Also, some of their series last so long, they do actually span seasons. Ours go for a few weeks!)
Heroes - Ace and skill! And it gets better.
As for familiar faces... Greg Grunberg who places the LA cop who can mind read was in Alias and the pilot of Flight 815 in the first episode of Lost.
Adrian Pasdar - the politican Nathan Petrelli - starred in the short-lived Profit and played the young kid in Near Dark.
I rather enjoyed the first two episodes. I just wish Sci-Fi channel showed it in widescreen.
I can't bring myself to subscribe to Sky on principal, for the same reason I won't buy the Sun. This is terrible as I am a football fan so have to regularly vie for a seat in a pub if I want to watch most of Arsenal's games. Is my victory over Murdoch a pyrrhic one?
I wanted to get in to Heroes, but being Sky+ less, I didn't have the time to watch the first double episode last week before this week's third episode.
When you're committed to the 3rd Season of Lost (better than series 2 by far, the Others are more compelling than the Lostaways), Life on Mars and Ugly Betty (it's good light hearted Friday night viewing), whilst ploughing your way through all seven series of West Wing on DVD even though you saw them on telly first time round, thinking you might like to get the Wire on DVD too, plus you need to find time to watch football, read the Guardian, go to work and interact with your kids, something had to give and I'm afraid it was Heroes. (I suggested work or the kids but that didn't wash)
Oh, and I started watching Friday Night Lights on ITV4 and got hooked on that (despite it being oh so American) in one episode.
Anyone know when we're getting Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip over here? You can't beat a bit of Sorkin.
Phil B,
I hear that studion 60 has been cancelled mid series (sorry mid season) so unless it's on line somewhere we probably won't see it at. have they evr put out half a series on dvd?
have they evr put out half a series on dvd?
Oh, heck yes. Commader in Chief, the Geena Davis drama that premiered in the Fall 2005 season, only ran 18 episodes in total and was put out on DVD in the US and UK.
Quickly canned shows like Profit went to DVD. And of course there was Firefly.
16 episodes of Studio 60 were broadcast. Supposedly the show is on hiatus while the Paul Haggis midseason drama The Black Donnellys takes over the Monday timeslot.
I don't believe so. I keep praying they would release unaired eps of Boomtown season 2 to give proper closure to the show (they ordered the run after all), but a second season dvd with the 6 aired episodes is unlikely. Shame, I liked it.
As for Studio 60, I wouldn't have thought they'd cancel the show with the investment being made and the wealthy demographic watching it.
Question is, Can Paul Haggis do better with the Black Donnellys?
i'm on episode 17 thanks to sneaky downloads - i watched the first 13 in a couple of days - totally hooked and mental - now i've decided to save a bunch up again for that 3 hour buzz
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