Before I talk about this week’s return of Heroes, let’s get the results of the LOL-Heroes vote/drawing out of the way. The winner of the drawing for the graphic novel is … “helix9”. And for the LOL-Heroes, first place was split (at 6 votes each) between Dick In a Box and MacGruber, and third place went to Petr Is All Mad Bout Invisible Fish Hook (with 4 votes). Many thanks to everybody who participated!
Now on with the show. This week, on Heroes …
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This week, on Battlestar Galactica …
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Heroes returns Monday, with a new creative team, and hopefully with an improved show. But even if it isn’t, rest assured I’ll still be here with a fresh batch of LOLheroes every week. In honor of the second half of the season, I’ve compiled the 50+ LOLheroes from the first half on one page, created a few new ones, and I’M GIVING AWAY A PRIZE.
In the comments, let me know WHICH THREE of these were your favorites. If I get enough votes between now and Monday, I’ll add them up, and let you know which were the top-ranked. Everybody who participates will be placed in a drawing for a free hardcover edition of the Heroes: Volume 1 graphic novel, which compiles all 34 web mini-comics from Season One.
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A friend of mine gave me a heads up about a television show I definitely plan to watch as soon as it makes its way across the pond from the UK. It’s called Being Human and deals with: “George, Mitchell and Annie, three seemingly normal flatmates struggling to keep their dark secrets from the world, and follows their struggle to fight both their curses and the enemies who want to bring them down.” Their secrets? Mitchell’s a vampire, George is a werewolf, and Annie is a ghost. I know, right? I’m betting I can even get my wife to watch this one with me.
BBC ran the pilot for Being Human last year, and it scored wild ratings. Now it’s back this month with a re-shot pilot (some of the original actors were recast) and five more episodes. If you search around on YouTube, you can apparently find the original pilot chopped up into parts. And if you happen to live in the UK (or have the software necessary to trick BBC into thinking you live in the UK), you can watch the first two episodes on the BBC site. If you do, let me know what you think.
This week on Battlestar Galactica, for better or worse, there is no talk at all of Earth or the Fifth Cylon. Which I’m guessing will piss some people off. But on the plus(?) side, Adama and Roslin DO shag, after Roslin rejects more chemo in favor of living what’s left of her life to the fullest. That’s right. Two old tore up people — one by alcohol, the other by cancer — doin the nasty. Try to get THAT visual out of your head. Fortunately, we only see them post-coitus. And is it just me, or did anybody else flash back to the bald chick from the first Star Trek movie there at the end?
Anyway, although Tyrol and Callie also presumably shagged at some point, it apparently wasn’t soon enough in their relationship to have made Tyrol their baby’s baby daddy. That honor goes instead to “that guy” we always see hanging around the hangar deck, whom a drunken and disillusioned Tyrol beats the frak out of and puts in charge of watching his sick not-kid. Which now officially makes Hera the only Human-Cylon hybrid on the show … that we KNOW of.
And in political news, Adama is pissing off much of the fleet — civilians and soldiers alike — by fortifying the alliance with the rebel Cylons and attempting to install Cylon FTLs on all ships. Tom Zarek & the Quorum (whose next gig will be at the Marriott off exit 40 in Parsippany next Friday) are fomenting anti-Cylon dissent from the top down, and one-legged Felix Gaeta (with Zarek’s guidance) is holding secret meetings and riling folks up from the inside out. And my guess is that it’s all going to get very ugly, very fast. Mutiny, anyone?
Battlestar Galactica is back, for the first of the final ten episodes. The story picks up exactly where it left off last June (which, by the way, was about 3 months too frakking long), with the humans and Cylons standing on the shore of a seemingly ruined Earth. And as far as I’m concerned, it did not disappoint at all. As promised, questions are being answered and mysteries are being revealed.
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In preparation for their 2009 remake of the classic 1967 TV series, AMC currently has all 17 episodes of The Prisoner available for commercial-free viewing on their website. This is one of those shows that as a geek I’ve always been aware of, but never got around to watching. So I’ve decided to take advantage of this opportunity in the brief lull that’s left before all my shows come back from haitus (Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Heroes, Smallville, etc.).
Having watched the first episode (“Arrival”) last night, I’m actually struck by similarities with one of those shows … Lost. And I’m sure I’m not the first person to make that observation. A man trapped in a quirky village on a beach, which for all intents and purposes may as well be an island, surrounded by futuristic technology, overseen and manipulated by a mysterious organization. And then there’s the matter of that menacing giant white balloon. I defy you to look at how that thing behaves and NOT think of the smoke monster.
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This week, on The Sarah Connor Chronicles …
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This week, on Heroes …
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I’m kidding, of course. We’re a month away now from the return of the Battlestar Galactica final season — from the episodes that will definitively (or allegedly) answer all of the questions everybody has — and I have to say, I’m frakking PSYCHED to watch it. But what I’m less psyched to do? Is talk about it. Seriously.
I mean, I get it. I understand how excitement about this awesome, well-written, watershed TV show can lead people to speculate and theorize and post spoilers and read spoilers and start blogs and visit blogs and comment on blogs and so on and so forth. And for about two weeks after last June’s big cliffhanger, I was right there along with the crowd. “Dude, there is no way that’s actually Earth! Hera’s the final cylon? You’re crazy, and here’s why …” But then my interest quickly dropped off, to the point where I instituted — without really telling anybody — a kind of self-imposed “Battlestar Blackout”.
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