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Three exciting previews here for everyone who's still bothering to watch Heroes. The first and best is from the BBC's Heroes: Unmasked and, because it's the Beeb, will only play for UK viewers. However, it's about three minutes of behind-the-scenes footage, clips and interviews so is worth watching - if only to see who's absolutely definitely going to be in… the first episode of the the fourth volume. And doesn't Ali look fetching in red?
The second is pretty much the same but is shorter, lacks some of the interviews, and is in YouTube quality but should be viewable by Americans and Canadians:
The last is the US "next episode" preview so everyone's probably seen it, it's low quality and you can't really see much. But doesn't Ali look fetching in a sort of pinky-lilac? Hope you're all having some happy holidays!
December 30, 2008 | Reply
Zeljko Ivanek! That is seriously the ONLY THING that's making me tune in for the next episode. Lost confidence in it completely about 5 episodes in to the 3rd season and haven't watched since. But I've been a fan of Zeljko's ever since his appearance in the first season of 24 and that Emmy win was massively deserved!
December 30, 2008 | Reply
Loved Zeljko Ivanek ever since the first episode of Touching Evil, when he managed to be even better than Ian McDiarmid who played the same role as the UK version.
Otherwise, remaining reasons to watch Heroes:
1) The hope it's going to get better again
2) Ali Larter
3) The hope they'll kill off Claire. HP has been seriously annoying this season.
December 30, 2008 | Reply
1) Yes, I do still hold out hope it will get better and if they change Bryan Fuller's job title from supervising producer to exec producer I have no doubt it will be possible...
2) Each to their own I guess, I'm more of a Kristen Bell guy and I doubt we'll see her again...
3) Yeah, HP was annoying from what I remember of the early part of the season, but she can do good stuff - see season one's 'Company Man'(written by who else: Bryan Fuller!). She was very good in that, impressed me...
December 30, 2008 | Reply
1) I've been considering Tim Kring as the root of all evil for a while, particularly since he writes bad episodes when given a chance. But it's starting to occur to me that the problem is the number of comic book writers on staff. Most of the problems with season three strike me as the problems you'll find in most comic books: poor, inconsistent characterisation; repetitive, implausible plots; etc
2) KB and HP are way too young for me to countenance without feeling dirty afterwards. AL is perfection*
3) HP was good in the first season for sure. Just of late she's annoyed me.
* Facts stated on the Internet may be exaggerated for comic effect. Or they might be true.
January 1, 2009 | Reply
It's not so much the number of comics writers, it's who they are. Jeph Loeb is a terrible hack, frankly. If they'd got the likes of Brian Bendis, or JMS, or Warren Ellis on board (the last being very unlikely), you wouldn't see those problems.