Guh. *thud*

Dear Heroes writers, producers, et al:

Can the next showdown between Peter and Sylar please, PLEASE happen completely sans shirts?

Pretty please? I'll bake you a pie.

Better yet, I'll buy y'all some (more) pencils!

Lustingly,
Jean

TV Boyfriend Tuesday: Heroes Edition, part 2

Bonus House!


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In other news: if you want to know why I'm not blogging much, read this.

TV Boyfriend Tuesday: Heroes Edition, Part 1

It has come to my understanding that Heroes just has too damn much hotness to be contained in a single post. So consider this first in a series.

Jess who now?





Senator Delicious





Who's your daddy?




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Yes, I know the captions are lame. I have a headache. Just hush and enjoy the pretty.

A Bit of Heroes Casting News

Kristen Bell has signed onto the cast of Season 2. More info on what part she'll play is here (scroll down a bit).

Yay! And now I get to hope that Jason Dohring will join her there when if Moonlight gets cancelled.

Samurai Sark!

David Anders (alias Sark) has been cast to play the ancient samurai warrior Kenzei on Heroes. (Article contains BSG spoilers toward the bottom.)

Yay! But also, wha...?

I remember when George Takei rallied a huge protest over Jonathan Pryce getting cast as the Vietnamese lead in Miss Saigon. Given his involvement in this show, I'm guessing that the fact that Anders is a white guy actually plays into the story somehow. I guess if Tom Cruise can be a samurai....

Link via Asking the Wrong Questions.

ETA: On a hunch, I looked up the word Kensei, which turns out to be not so much a name as "an honorary title given to a warrior of legendary skill in swordsmanship. The literal translation of "kensei" is "sword saint". Thus, the term is considered by some to imply a higher degree of perfection (possibly also encompassing a moral dimension)...." Interesting. I think that leaves room for inclusion of warriors of non-Japanese descent.

Why Heroes is da' bomb

My street slang is so five years ago.

Like most of my greatest TV obsessions, I got in late on Heroes. See, I have this rule--or at least I did until a few months ago--where I don't watch TV on Monday nights. I'm not sure when exactly it became a rule. Probably back when I was working on my degree, and there was nothing on Monday nights I couldn't stand to miss (this wasn't quite before TiVo, but it was before TiVo made it into my house), and I figured there ought to be ONE night a week devoted to studying instead of television. Since then I've used Monday nights to get stuff done, or to catch up on reading, or, more recently, to hang out and watch movies with the hubby. Monday nights weren't for television. That's why I didn't give Heroes a shot from the beginning.

But then, as obsession-worthy shows are wont to do, it started to generate a lot of talk. On the web, among my friends, even among my family, people kept telling me what a great show this was, and that they couldn't believe, superhero comic book geek that I was, that I wasn't watching it. I explained my Monday night rule, and resolved to stand by it--at least until I found out Jeff Loeb, author of some of the best Batman stories ever and future writer for Buffy: Season 8, was a co-executive producer and staff writer. I couldn't just keep turning my nose up at that.

So I tuned in on a Monday night. And tuned right back out again. What can I say? It was a slow episode. Did I mention that it took me a season and a half to start liking Farscape?

Thank Heaven for rerun marathons on the SciFi channel and slow TV nights. A few weeks after my initial attempt to give it a chance, my husband chose just such a night to go to bed early. I turned the TV on for company while I worked on my knitting. It was SciFi, it was a Heroes marathon, and I didn't feel like surfing to see what else was on.

I started out knitting and ignoring. And then I was listening. Soon, I was watching, and wishing I could keep Hiro Nakamura for a pet. Then a shot of a cheerleader flayed open on an autopsy table ended with her coming back to life, and that was the end of the episode, and oh my LORD how could they end it like THAT and I had to see more NOW.

I watched the rest of the marathon. By the end, I was pretty much hooked.

Thanks to more marathons and Friday night reruns on SciFi, it didn't take me long to catch up. It was the last run of new episodes, though, that got me to declare this my new favorite show, and very possibly a brand new obsession. I haven't been anywhere near obsessed with a series since Buffy went off the air four years ago, so that's really saying something. The last few weeks of hiatus have been both excruciating and exquisite, and most importantly, finally over. New episodes start tonight, leading up to the season finale, and these are the questions that are burning in my little fangirly heart:

- Is Peter dead?

- Is Mohinder?

- Is Not-Bad Glasses Daddy, who, by the by, has gone from awesomely menacing to just plain AWESOME? Is Mama Bennett dead, too? And OMG, what about Mr. Bojangles Muggles?

- Is Sulu evil?

- Is Mama Petrelli evil/in bed with Linderman/working against Linderman/really protecting Claire?

- Who's Claude hiding? Are he and the Hatian in it together?

- Is Nathan going to find out about Claire? Will they finally get to meet? Will Claire's two daddies team up to protect her and help save the world?

There are more, and I'm sure after tonight's episode there will be a whole new list. I can wait for answers. I'm just thrilled I don't have to keep waiting for this wonderful show to sweep me away.

My Heroes

I used to have this little ritual I did whenever I watched Buffy (and Angel after it, but more to keep up the tradition than anything). My TV stand was on casters back then, so every Tuesday night I would roll the TV right up to the couch, where I would sit with my face about six inches from the screen for the entire episode. It didn't feel right to watch first-run episodes any other way. I wanted to be as close as I could to the action, to immerse myself in that world, with no room for any peripheral distractions.

I haven't felt the desire to do that with any other TV show since.

Until last night, about a minute into Heroes.

I couldn't, of course, because my TV's no longer on casters, and the little armoir I've got it in is hard to move. I considered camping out on the floor in front of it, but, well... if you've seen my floor, you'd understand. So I had to settle for literally sitting on the edge of my seat for the whole hour.

You guys, I think I might finally have new favorite show.