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Less Than a Month till Heroes

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There has been a ton of interesting buzz about Heroes recently. Heroes has been one of my favorite television shows. I’ve been keeping up with the (very interesting) online comic this summer. The one released today has me thinking – what is the deal with Hiro’s Dad (Kaito Nakamura)? He is know by street thugs – and scares them away? Sweet! I hope they develop his story more next year. I found the Season 2 preview from ComicCon on YouTube:

Some things I noticed in the trailer:

  • Hiro’s father is in there – so maybe my wish about him will come true.
  • Matt Parkman lives
  • Nathan Petrelli lives!
  • Sylar is for sure alive – but we kind of already knew that
  • Peter Petrelli lives!

Peter and Sylar living was pretty much already a given, from what happened last season. But how did both Nathan and Peter both survive? Here’s my theory:

We already know that Peter survived the original version of the explosion. In the new version, the question would be – could he explode, and then fall from miles up, and survive the fall from that high up? If Nathan was still alive – sure. Here is what I would have done (if I was Nathan): fly as high as I could. Tell Peter to give me a few seconds. Release him, and fly as far away as I could. Remember – Nathan can break the sound barrier. Then, fly back underneath the explosion – to stay away from radiation. Give Peter enough time to heal as he fell, while following him as he fell. When he is fully healed, catch him, and land. Then go cut Sylar’s head off. I mean – seriously – is anyone ever going to get that this dude won’t die unless you cut him into tiny pieces? That may not even work….

The Yamagato Fellowship website (a mock site for Heroes) has an interesting “documentary” on Takezo Kensai, the famous historical Hero that Hiro idolized:

http://www.yamagatofellowship.org/videoPlayer.shtml

Hana Gitelman’s website has also been active recently, suggesting that she somehow survives electronically – maybe on the Internet? They already did that in the X-Files, but it is still a cool concept to explore. Maybe this massacre described in the story has something to do with that new super-villain that Molly was scared of? We’ll see.

The Primatech Paper, Corinthian Casino, Activating Evolution, Nathan Petrelli for Congress, and Hiro’s blog websites have all be quiet recently. The MySpace accounts for Claire, Nikki/Jessica, and Zach are all inactive (page can’t be found). We’ll see what new stuff pops up over the next few weeks.

Interesting Lost Teaser Online

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The Lost official website has a clip of another station orientation film. It’s for a station called “The Orchid.” The dude giving the orientation is going by yet another name. But in the film, he does acknowledge that the work on the island is dangerous, and that the Dharma Initiative is being deceptive from time to time. My theories from the clip:

  • The whispering people noises are happening in the film, while the Dharma workers are working. They don’t seem to care. It must be a regular or expected phenomena to them.
  • The 15 rabbit is held by the talking guy, and then another 15 rabbit shows up in the background. They talk about shifting the rabbit, so I am thinking that there has something to do with time travel.
  • They want to keep the rabbits away from each other, which reminds me of Back to the Future II (and how Marty McFly was always told to avoid running in to himself).
  • The dude that talks on the orientation video is kind of a jerk “behind the scenes” 🙂
  • The Casimir effect he mentions apparently has something to do with levitation and nanotechnology. So, now we have levitation, nanotechnology, smoke monsters, multiplying bunnies, this Jacob person/thing, and purple skies all on Lost island. Maybe they are all on some huge drug trip in reality?

So, I am guessing that the whispering noise is something that happens when something is sent through time.

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Sanctuary For All

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This just caught my eye recently: a web-based SciFi show starring know actors, shooting for “broadcast quality” episodes, called Sanctuary. The first few webisodes are free, but they want you to pay $1.99 for each 15 minute segment. You personally might not like the subject matter (deals with some scary creatures), but you have to at least admit that the concept of releasing broadcast quality material online is a good idea. The Star Wars TV show, which is being produced independently of any TV network, may follow suit.

So far, I like the first two episodes. Every once and a while, I catch a stylistic choice with the CG that I personally wouldn’t have chosen, but that’s really just me. Even with it’s imperfections, I am still more excited about this now than I am about the new Star Wars shows that are being worked on. I know – that’s SciFi blasphemy. But the recent preview of the new Clone Wars CG series was just, well… flat. Could be good – but why do all the characters walk like they are constipated?

I’ve heard some complaints about the price for Sanctuary. The argument being that real TV is free. I guess if you don’t have something called cable that might be a good argument – but not really. No TV is free. Commercials pay for our “free” TV. Those commercials cause the companies to jack up prices to pay for their advertising budget. So, you see, no television is free.

You can view the first four episodes online for free, as they are released, here. Here is the first episode (two are out so far):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K-v4MJScz0

Lost Theory: Jacob Uses People For Entertainment

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Coming up with theories about Lost is much more difficult than coming up with theories about Heroes. With Heroes – you basically know who everyone is and what they are capable of. You know where the current season is going. You just want to know if they are going to succeed or fail. With Lost – you don’t really know any of this. You really don’t even know where they are. Or if they are even alive. I love both shows, and the direction they are both going. It just makes it harder to predict stuff. I already have three more Heroes theories to post, if I ever get the time.

Here is what I think (on Lost): Jacob is some type of supernatural being that is in control of the island. He could do what he wanted on the island because most people could not see him. He brought people to the island to live out some type of vicarious life through them. There have been plenty of other SciFi series that explore this. Usually, it’s an alien species that brings people into some type of virtual reality deal, and then uses their memories as entertainment. Jacob brings people to the island, and then his metaphorical “box” brings in people from their past to see how they react.

Somewhere, somehow the Dharma Initiative found this island and set up their stations to observe the unusual stuff going on. They were able to set up the barriers and the sealed stations to keep Jacob from using them. This started the war between the hostiles and the Dharma. When the hostiles won, the found that Ben was the only one that could “see” Jacob. So Ben became their leader, and Jacob started using the left over Dharma stuff to bring in people. Dharma had been using the sub to bring in people because water acts as a barrier to the effects of the island that causes planes and helicopters to crash.

But, now that the homing beacon is gone and no one can leave the island – no new people are coming. And this is hurting Jacob some how. Or, because Ben can see Jacob, he is able to exert some control over Jacob. You kind of saw this is the current episode. This is also hurting Jacob – so he needs Locke’s help.

Heroes Theory: Death of DL, Ando, & Sylar

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Here is my big prediction for next week on Heroes: DL will be killed by Sylar. Here is my reasoning:

  1. NBC and Wikipedia have already stated that a hero will die next week.
  2. We saw last week (set 5 years in the future) that Nikki said DL and Micah die in the explosion. The online graphic novel also reveals that she didn’t know Peter or Hiro, so she obviously gets separated from her family in the next episode. Especially since she doesn’t die in the explosion.
  3. We see this week that DL can pull other people through walls with his powers.
  4. We saw last week that Sylar has this same power in the future. So far, the writers of Heroes seem to be showing that no two heroes have the exact same powers. So, Sylar probably killed DL sometime around the bomb exploding.
  5. This is probably why FutureHiro thought Sylar could heal himself. When he stabbed Sylar, Sylar got all sinister on FutureHiro and acted like he was hurt, when in reality the blade was just passing through him. He then knocks Hiro back and Hiro teleports out of there.

Because of this, here is what I would like to see:

  1. Hiro goes to attack Sylar, and 20 Hiros appear around him. Each time Hiro tries to kill Sylar, he fails, and then thinks of something new to try, and teleports back a few minutes in time to try his new idea. Each time he appears to the existing Hiro(s) and says “stop! that won’t work. Try this ____” They then try the new idea. Finally, at the 20th time, we see the idea work and they stop Sylar. As the viewers, we only get to see the 20th time, and it works.
  2. During the season break, the online graphic novels explores everything that could have happened in the next five years if the bomb doesn’t stop.

But, knowing how TV writers work, here is the lame thing that actually happens:

Hiro figures out that Ando dying is what set the bomb events in motion. He sacrifices himself to save Ando, and that changes the future, and somehow stops the bomb.

I want Hiro AND Ando to live. Actually, I want all of the heroes to live. Killing characters on TV shows is so cliche now….

Amazing Race All Stars

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The Amazing Race seems to have just appeared on CBS, with little or no advertising. Well, I guess there could have been some advertising, as the shows that I watch aren’t on CBS (Heroes, Lost, and Stargate). Yes, Stargate. SG-1 and Atlantis. Stop making fun of me. What is the name of this blog again? I make no apologies for being a geek…

This is really only an “All-Stars” edition for those that watched every season (except for season 4). So, some of the teams I have no idea who they are. And some (Romber) I wish were not there. No Chip and Kim? No Hippies? Come on….

Anyway, I found out that the racers are filmed after they are eliminated. Apparently, they are sent off to some tropical location to be sequestered from the world until the end of the race. And then complain about how they wish they were back on the race – cold, sweaty, dirty, and smelly. You can watch the videos here, as they are posted:

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race11/elimination.php

My early predications: Rob and Amber will stick around for a while, but then finally get pushed off when the other teams get sick of their tired, old tricks and gang up against them. Yes, I know they claimed they had all new tricks. But then they proceeded to pull out the same old ones. “Mark my words….”

I think Uchenna and Joyce will also suffer the same fate, even though I like them. People will see them as a threat due to the fact that they already won. I’m also pulling for the two all-women teams, because I think they are not as “bad” as some people claim they are. They are just competitive, and the world we live in today treats competitive women differently than they do competitive men. If they were all male teams, they would be seen as “shrewd.”

Heroes… What Can I Say?

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Part 2 of season 1: what did I say about the sword being in a museum? I was half right, huh? HOWEVER, I noticed that there were differences between the painting and the scene in the museum. So, maybe it hasn’t really happened yet? We’ll see. The guy that plays Hiro helped program the CG dinosaurs of Jurassic Park. Hmmmm…..

I am still trying to figure out this Heroes 360 thing. Is that Primatech webpage it? Still, I hear that they will be stopping the bomb thing from happening before the end of this season, and then move on to other stories. That’s a great idea, because I think Lost has proven that most viewers can’t wait multiple seasons for answers or resolution. I like the way Lost is working out, but I know some don’t.

Heroes Still Rocks

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Yep – so far I have been watching every episode of the new Heroes TV show. And, yep – they all still rock. I guess I like Sci-Fi, so maybe I was pre-destined to love this show. But my wife likes it also. If you haven’t seen any of Heroes yet (or have missed some), you can watch every episode online here.

So, my question is, which do you think it is?

IF you “save the cheerleader”, THEN you “save the world”

– OR –

FIRST, “save the cheerleader”, NEXT “save the world”

I tend to go for the second one. Or maybe some kind of combination of both. But I also have a theory about that painting of Hiro “fighting” a T-Rex. Most of those paintings have still come true. For example, Jackie and Claire look the same, so how do we know it wasn’t Jackie getting killed in those paintings? And, they don’t always show what we think they show. Remember the painting of Peter dead? Well, he did die, but then he absorbed the healing powers of Claire and came back to life.

So, the painting of Hiro fighting a dinosaur? I think he is just retrieving the sword from a museum when he starts pretending to fight with a statue of a dino. Why do I think this? Because there is no way that NBC can afford the CGI of a dinosaur in a TV show. Unless there is a Heroes movie in the works? Hmmm…..

Heroes is Best New Show in a While

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My wife and I don’t really get that hooked on TV shows that much. We are still watching the Amazing Race, and I try to catch Lost when I can. I would also love to watch Sci-Fi stuff like Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, and re-runs of Firefly…. but that would require cable. And I’m just too cheap to but cable.

the new show that I am really liking is Heroes. It’s the story about ordinary people that discover they have extraordinary powers. And now they are discovering that they are also destined to save the world. Naturally. Because discovering that you have secret powers is really boring if you just sit on the couch and levitate potato chips into your mouth all day long. Or slices of fruit into your sweetie’s mouth. *cough*Anakin-get-a-life*cough*

Some people think that Heroes is like X-Men meets Lost. Ummm…. well, I guess that would work as a description. They also have a lot of interesting online exclusives that tie into the show, like comic stories that add plot details, a “blog” by one of the main characters, and even MySpace pages for some of teen age characters. Even though statistics show that over half the people that use MySpace are over 30. And, I mean the legal, nice users – not the sicko child stalkers.

So, as I mourn the loss of Alias, I have found a new distraction to get over the pain of never finding out what the heck is the deal with Rambauldi anyway.