Emma
11-06-2006, 06:02 PM
<img src="http://www.fanbolt.com/forums/images/avatars/heroes/101806heroes07.jpg" width="85" height="85" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="right" border="0" alt="Heroes, NBC"> "Jericho?" Forget it. Watched the first one and that was enough. "Ugly Betty?" I tape it every week and hope I get a chance to be in the mood to watch it. So far, so bad.
"Heroes?" Now that's more like it. The new fall show that has my attention - besides "Studio 60: Live on the Sunset Strip" and "Justice" - is "Studio 60's" lead in, "Heroes."
It took a dismal turn last Monday with the sudden return of the jailbird husband of Niki, the online stripper, but hey, I'm still watching and I will be for the foreseeable future. Here, on network TV, is something truly new. In a world where "graphic novels" seem to be gaining new adherents every week, "Heroes" is the first honest-to-apocalypse graphic novel for TV. For an hour every week, "Heroes" gives us a world of dark comic book fantasy about ordinary folk who virtually wake up one morning with "powers far beyond those of mortal men."
Where else, on TV, will you find:
- A wildly nubile high-school cheerleader who is invulnerable? In one jaw-dropper of a scene, she was fileted and spread out on an autopsy table, inner organs exposed. While the pathologist briefly turned away, she awakened, pulled her skin together, hopped off the table and hot-footed it home. In a matter of hours, all her skin lesions had healed over and her organs were ready to bounce around while she did cartwheels on the football field sidelines.
- A Japanese nerd from the future named Hiro who can make time stop at will?
<a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20061105/1074833.asp" target="_blank">Click here for more!</a>
"Heroes?" Now that's more like it. The new fall show that has my attention - besides "Studio 60: Live on the Sunset Strip" and "Justice" - is "Studio 60's" lead in, "Heroes."
It took a dismal turn last Monday with the sudden return of the jailbird husband of Niki, the online stripper, but hey, I'm still watching and I will be for the foreseeable future. Here, on network TV, is something truly new. In a world where "graphic novels" seem to be gaining new adherents every week, "Heroes" is the first honest-to-apocalypse graphic novel for TV. For an hour every week, "Heroes" gives us a world of dark comic book fantasy about ordinary folk who virtually wake up one morning with "powers far beyond those of mortal men."
Where else, on TV, will you find:
- A wildly nubile high-school cheerleader who is invulnerable? In one jaw-dropper of a scene, she was fileted and spread out on an autopsy table, inner organs exposed. While the pathologist briefly turned away, she awakened, pulled her skin together, hopped off the table and hot-footed it home. In a matter of hours, all her skin lesions had healed over and her organs were ready to bounce around while she did cartwheels on the football field sidelines.
- A Japanese nerd from the future named Hiro who can make time stop at will?
<a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20061105/1074833.asp" target="_blank">Click here for more!</a>