We got Heroes this year! Yeah!
I really like it, haven't seen Chris yet, a few more episondes to go before we see him I think. Really looking forward to that.
This is a review for the show in our local paper that amused me and so i thought I'd share.......
Beware if you hven't seen it yet *spoilers*
By 'Graham Readfearn'
Super powers are not all they're cracked up to be and I, for one, can claim to have several.
For instance, each morning I bend the space-time continuum, waking up convinced the past seven hours have lasted only a couple of minutes.
Most weekends I am able to become invisible, simply by walking into almost any retail store staffed by under-20's (I'm able to prolong this super power by wandering around with the look of a customer needing assistance in finding a particular item.) Just like Superman, using only my eyes, I'm able to make valuable pieces of glassware jump from the shelves without even touching them (or at least that's what I told my wife).
Unlike Superman though, I am unable to fly.
As a six-year-old, I put this to the test after seeing Christopher Reeve don the cape for the first time on screen.
After launching myself from half-way up the stairs, arms thrust forward, my confidence was smashed as my head connected with the steel heater in the hallway.
This is why I felt for Peter during episode three of Heroes. The male nurse tries in vain to re-create his maiden flight from the last episode, by standing on a short platform (the coward, get up those stairs like a real man).
Each time he lands with a thump (no stitches, though, unlike yours
truly) as a child in a toy cape watches with a mix of puzzlement and bemusement.
But much further advanced in his super efforts is the Japanese office worker Hiro who, by simply closing his eyes really tightly, whisks himself form Tokyo to New York and back again.
Now he needs to convince his friend back in Tokyo that his gift of being able to control time is real and they need to use it to save the world.
We're still a little way from finding out how the group will come together, but there are some seriously sinister moments as the show's pace steps up several evolutionary notches.
What makes Heroes so watchable is the absence of any of the stylised portrayals we've seen of virtually every other super hero to make it from the comic books to the big screens. There are no underpants outside tights or crass one-liners here.
Time-bender Hiro does offer a little light relief, as does the flakiest-of-flaky accents of the genetics professor Mohinder, who regularly drops his Indian Madras delivery for drama school English.
But there's some seriously "gore-tastic" horror on show tonight, as more and more corpses are discovered with the tops of their heads lopped off.
Having already broken several bones and walked through fire, cheerleader-cum-Invincible Girl Claire, wakes up from another dice with death. But this time she finds herself in a spot of bother which could test even her remarkable powers of recovery.
I really like it, haven't seen Chris yet, a few more episondes to go before we see him I think. Really looking forward to that.
This is a review for the show in our local paper that amused me and so i thought I'd share.......
Beware if you hven't seen it yet *spoilers*
By 'Graham Readfearn'
Super powers are not all they're cracked up to be and I, for one, can claim to have several.
For instance, each morning I bend the space-time continuum, waking up convinced the past seven hours have lasted only a couple of minutes.
Most weekends I am able to become invisible, simply by walking into almost any retail store staffed by under-20's (I'm able to prolong this super power by wandering around with the look of a customer needing assistance in finding a particular item.) Just like Superman, using only my eyes, I'm able to make valuable pieces of glassware jump from the shelves without even touching them (or at least that's what I told my wife).
Unlike Superman though, I am unable to fly.
As a six-year-old, I put this to the test after seeing Christopher Reeve don the cape for the first time on screen.
After launching myself from half-way up the stairs, arms thrust forward, my confidence was smashed as my head connected with the steel heater in the hallway.
This is why I felt for Peter during episode three of Heroes. The male nurse tries in vain to re-create his maiden flight from the last episode, by standing on a short platform (the coward, get up those stairs like a real man).
Each time he lands with a thump (no stitches, though, unlike yours
truly) as a child in a toy cape watches with a mix of puzzlement and bemusement.
But much further advanced in his super efforts is the Japanese office worker Hiro who, by simply closing his eyes really tightly, whisks himself form Tokyo to New York and back again.
Now he needs to convince his friend back in Tokyo that his gift of being able to control time is real and they need to use it to save the world.
We're still a little way from finding out how the group will come together, but there are some seriously sinister moments as the show's pace steps up several evolutionary notches.
What makes Heroes so watchable is the absence of any of the stylised portrayals we've seen of virtually every other super hero to make it from the comic books to the big screens. There are no underpants outside tights or crass one-liners here.
Time-bender Hiro does offer a little light relief, as does the flakiest-of-flaky accents of the genetics professor Mohinder, who regularly drops his Indian Madras delivery for drama school English.
But there's some seriously "gore-tastic" horror on show tonight, as more and more corpses are discovered with the tops of their heads lopped off.
Having already broken several bones and walked through fire, cheerleader-cum-Invincible Girl Claire, wakes up from another dice with death. But this time she finds herself in a spot of bother which could test even her remarkable powers of recovery.
Sally

