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handful_ofdust) wrote2008-09-24 09:09 am
handful_ofdust) wrote2008-09-24 09:09 am
More Love, Hataz!
Adding to my earlier general fuck-ya Heroes love post, because I can:
1) It’s been really amusing for me to note throughout this two-year tour how many of the characters on this show that I’ve come to love most are the ones most people dismiss out of hand: Sylar, Niki/Jessica (-Gina/-Tracy Strauss/-whoever comes next), Maya and Alejandro, Mohinder. Not that I don’t love everybody else, because I certainly do…but come on! Gabriel Gray, messing around in other people’s cortexes like the watchmaker he used to be, collecting powers whether they’re personally useful or not with the geeky obsessiveness of the ultimate Pokemon addict! (I really hope someone somewhere’s been keeping a list, and that we’ll actually get to see him use more than just “his” telekinesis). Nikessinacy, apparently developing new skills for each new iteration! Maya and Mohinder, the royal couple of stupidly trusting vs. incredibly dumb decisions! (And now not only have they fallen into bed together to defuse the sting of both getting fucked by Gabriel, lit and fig [and possibly lit again], but Mohinder’s gone all Fly, and shit—a plot twist apparently fuelled by the fact that somebody figured out how Sendhil Ramamurthy really does look like a younger, hotter Jeff Goldblum!)
2) Meanwhile, on the elder/wiser side of the equation: Noah Bennet. Noah, Noah, Noah—down on Level 5 where the walls are green, bouncin’ his ball like Steve McQueen. Such a freakin’ badass that his former employers essentially committed him to a superpowered prison despite his having no powers whatsoever, save sheer naked badassery. And still played by the guy who once played Steven Carrington on Dynasty! That just doesn’t get less funny.
3) And finally, I’m becoming increasingly amused/affectionate towards the show’s utterly gratuitous pattern of male/female character color-coding, at least amongst A) the white people and B) the Petrellis (which is why Angela of the Petrellae being dark-haired is both so significant and hilarious). The doubling is becoming steadily funnier and funnier, as what began with Peter and Sylar as not-exactly-mirrors of each other has now widened to embrace Claire and Elle (I’m really hoping Claire can at least learn basic Company shit from Elle, since Noah so palpably won’t teach her). Plus, everybody has such a very well-defined “type”: Claire ends up with a dark-haired guy who can fly, pretty much in order to avoid fixating incestuously on two dark-haired guys who can fly; Nathan just can’t seem to keep away from those trashy blondes with incendiary powers, even after becoming a religious maniac. It’s psychology via US magazine!
At any rate. I have to go get my teeth cleaned and run errands, so I’ll leave you with two characters-everybody-hates vids, both from iMeem: “One of a Kind” by obsessive24, about Sylar, here (http://www.imeem.com/obsessive24/video/tRxt8Bd0/obsessive24_heroes_oneofakind_tv_video/), and “The Wreckoning” by charmax, about Niki/Jessica, here (http://www.imeem.com/charmax/video/6OFaqzIh/charmax_heroes_wreckoning_vidding_tv_video/). I am One, I am, I am, I am/On top of the world, you get nothing done…; I came, I saw, I kicked some ass/This pain I cause, it makes me laugh…
1) It’s been really amusing for me to note throughout this two-year tour how many of the characters on this show that I’ve come to love most are the ones most people dismiss out of hand: Sylar, Niki/Jessica (-Gina/-Tracy Strauss/-whoever comes next), Maya and Alejandro, Mohinder. Not that I don’t love everybody else, because I certainly do…but come on! Gabriel Gray, messing around in other people’s cortexes like the watchmaker he used to be, collecting powers whether they’re personally useful or not with the geeky obsessiveness of the ultimate Pokemon addict! (I really hope someone somewhere’s been keeping a list, and that we’ll actually get to see him use more than just “his” telekinesis). Nikessinacy, apparently developing new skills for each new iteration! Maya and Mohinder, the royal couple of stupidly trusting vs. incredibly dumb decisions! (And now not only have they fallen into bed together to defuse the sting of both getting fucked by Gabriel, lit and fig [and possibly lit again], but Mohinder’s gone all Fly, and shit—a plot twist apparently fuelled by the fact that somebody figured out how Sendhil Ramamurthy really does look like a younger, hotter Jeff Goldblum!)
2) Meanwhile, on the elder/wiser side of the equation: Noah Bennet. Noah, Noah, Noah—down on Level 5 where the walls are green, bouncin’ his ball like Steve McQueen. Such a freakin’ badass that his former employers essentially committed him to a superpowered prison despite his having no powers whatsoever, save sheer naked badassery. And still played by the guy who once played Steven Carrington on Dynasty! That just doesn’t get less funny.
3) And finally, I’m becoming increasingly amused/affectionate towards the show’s utterly gratuitous pattern of male/female character color-coding, at least amongst A) the white people and B) the Petrellis (which is why Angela of the Petrellae being dark-haired is both so significant and hilarious). The doubling is becoming steadily funnier and funnier, as what began with Peter and Sylar as not-exactly-mirrors of each other has now widened to embrace Claire and Elle (I’m really hoping Claire can at least learn basic Company shit from Elle, since Noah so palpably won’t teach her). Plus, everybody has such a very well-defined “type”: Claire ends up with a dark-haired guy who can fly, pretty much in order to avoid fixating incestuously on two dark-haired guys who can fly; Nathan just can’t seem to keep away from those trashy blondes with incendiary powers, even after becoming a religious maniac. It’s psychology via US magazine!
At any rate. I have to go get my teeth cleaned and run errands, so I’ll leave you with two characters-everybody-hates vids, both from iMeem: “One of a Kind” by obsessive24, about Sylar, here (http://www.imeem.com/obsessive24/video/tRxt8Bd0/obsessive24_heroes_oneofakind_tv_video/), and “The Wreckoning” by charmax, about Niki/Jessica, here (http://www.imeem.com/charmax/video/6OFaqzIh/charmax_heroes_wreckoning_vidding_tv_video/). I am One, I am, I am, I am/On top of the world, you get nothing done…; I came, I saw, I kicked some ass/This pain I cause, it makes me laugh…
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From friends' reviews and recommendations, I have gathered that if I were to start watching Heroes, this is the character I'd home in on.
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In other news, yeah, did the writers give Claire flying boy on purpose? Because that *instantly* sprang to my mind.
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As for Noah, Hell yeah! But I do recall some people being supposedly disappointed in last season's climax to the whole Painting Story; it worked for me, of course, A) because Noah is better than not Noah and B) because his first line "after" mirrored Claire's great bleeped-by-cut reaction "after" in Season One. (I'm trying to keep it spoiler-free here, guys!;))
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If I thought this show had better writers, I'd wonder if they were going for some sort of Rome-esque dirty wrong incestuous plotlines on purpose. Maybe it's the actors, struggling to make it Epic against the odds. Fighting to save...Republic? The world? from...something...
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