Heroes: just in case you’ve avoided the programme thus far and don’t know the plot…
The story revolves around the regenerative powers of the world’s most unconvincing cheerleader (seriously, she looks like she’s 29 years old, not like the High School student the producers are trying to kid us that she really is!), her slightly menacing (in a two-dimensionally acted manner) step-father and a bunch of – as yet unrelated – dysfunctional but similarly superhero-endowed misfits.
The star of the pack is brilliantly portrayed by Christopher Ecclestone who manages to project just the right combination of paranoia and invulnerability with a convincingly hard-edged, streetwise, take-what-I-want-and-move-on style.
I don’t particularly like it.
Yet why do I want to watch it?
I think it’s eating away at my subconscious in a subliminally-messaged kind of way…
‘Watch Heroes on Wednesday evening; you know it makes sense. See the world’s oldest teenager show the full range of her acting abilities from A to B. See Christopher Ecclestone act as though he really doesn’t want to be there… is he acting? See the stupid ex-policeman and his equally stupid wife in stupid ways.’
Actually, I think I’m waiting for someone to step on Mr Muggles, the irritatingly-carried-everywhere show-dog that belongs to the mother of the World’s Oldest Teenager.
Want to know what I’ll be doing next Wednesday evening?
Yep.
Watching Heroes.
Just don’t ask me why.
B.
I almost stepped on my neighbours’ dog this morning. The little thing is generally to afraid of me to wander around my legs much, but today he saw in me an opportunity of going back home (apparently, he was refusing to stay outside, probably due to the patent lack of healthiness of the air). He then gave me a very reproachful look (that was totally unexpected for a dog that’s the size of a rat).
(Sorry, I can’t find anything to say about Heroes.)
Two words
Hiro Nakamura.
The guy is a legend. A LEGEND. I love him, I really do love him. I want to marry him and have lots and lots of cute, half-Welsh-half-Japanese, awkward children.
And Peter Petrelli’s rather delicious. I wouldn’t mind having children with him either.
Anyway. Which episode are you on? Have you learnt about Claire’s dad’s past yet?
(And Claire is only a year older than me in real life…she *is* a teenager =P)
I quite like Hiro – he’s a beguiling character; but I prefer the Ninja version of him we glimpsed in an earlier episode.
And yes, I know that the actress who plays Claire is young, but my point is that she doesn’t look as young as the character she portrays – it’s bad casting.
We’re on episode 275, just about to watch episode 276. We’ve just seen Peter Petrelli’s love child (the one he had with Nikki, not the psycho one he had with Jessica) rob the bank in Cincinatti – while over in Dallas Hiro has teleported himself back to November 22nd 1963 and is just about to assassinate John F Kennedy.
Oh yes!
*blinks*