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4 February 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

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Review: Heroes 3×14 (aka Volume 4×1)

3 February 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

The Hunter in Heroes

In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, NBC
In the UK: “Simulcast”, which apparently means some time within the next month or so

So Heroes is back.

Woo.

Do I hear a hoo anyone?

No? Why’s that then? Ah, you got hacked off with it. Too many odd character flips and complicated storylines that made no sense? Sounds about right.

But wait. Sit up and pay attention at the back. This is an all new Heroes. A refreshed Heroes. A Heroes that’s going back to basics.

Promising a clean break with the overly complicated past storylines that estranged its audience (this being the third such clean break promised), Heroes is trying to recapture the glory days of season one with this, its fourth “volume”.

With Nathan gone bad after the last volume, his new plan as junior senator for New York is to cosy up to the US President (Michael Dorn – Worf off Star Trek) and make him go Guantánamo on his fellow super-powered friends, who are all just trying to live normal lives now.

And that means – in case you missed all the advertising – if the heroes are to survive, they’ve all got to work together. The question is does this all add up to new and improved Heroes or is it well and truly time to call it a day?

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For Toby: the mysterious disappearing Ali Larter in the Heroes Superbowl commercial

2 February 2009 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

I wasn’t going to do this (honest) but since Toby has tried to spot Ali Larter in the Heroes Superbowl commercial and can’t – because she’s been edited out – let’s play a game of Spot the Larter then. First, count the number of Heroes in the huddle at the start of the promo:

Heroes Huddle

Six blokes, right? Now, let’s have a look at the break after their huddle:

Heroes + Ali

Six blokes and… oh wait, who’s that on the left? Then they head off to play. Six blokes again:

Heroes of the Superbowl

Then there’s a line up: again, who’s that on the far end?*

HeroesLineUp.jpg

They play, Peter throws long and who’s that in the middle of the field, waiting to catch?

Tracy goes long

But someone else gets there first:

Heroes interception

Here’s the behind the scenes interview to show she was there for the filming and you can see some some of the footage she shot for the ad, And here’s the ad so you can watch for yourself. Sigh. People are going to think I’m obsessed… Curse you Tobes.

*PS Can you tell I have no idea about American football or am I bluffing well?

UPDATE: In case you weren’t convinced by that line-up pic, here are two official promo pictures supplied by NBC – look to the top left:

NBC Superbowl pic

And in the middle at the top:

Another NBC Superbowl pic

Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: Subversive

26 January 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Ali Larter pretending to be Allegra Coleman

Today, in our first reader-submitted Random Act of Ali Larter (thanks Stu!), Ali Larter is being subversive. Is it because being a “straight from the hip” kind of gal, there’s probably a few things she’d like to say about the producers of Heroes right now but can’t?

Maybe.

Is it because, while still a jobbing stage actress, she colluded with one of the writers of Esquire to satirise the reporting of celebrities – by pretending to be rising starlet and alleged girlfriend of David Schwimmer, Allegra Coleman, something only revealed to be a hoax by a later press release from the magazine? And despite that all being a hoax, it launched her career, inspired a book and even got a mention in Hitch?

I don’t think so. That was a while ago.

Or is it because she’s secretly siding with the Republicans who want to vote against Obama’s $825bn economic stimulus plan and destroy the world economy from within?

No. Actually, the first one seems more likely, so let’s go with that. What do you think?