You know that feeling, when you've just finished something gargantuan, or seen something incredible, or felt something awesome? You know how your first urge is to preserve that feeling? By sharing?
I just finished watching the entire series 1 of Heroes, the science fiction drama television series, created by Tim Kring. After being aired in America on NBC in September 2006, it came to the UK Sci-Fi channel in February this year. It had great success, and soon it made its way to BBC 2 where I caught it for the first time. For the first time in over a decade, BBC 2 surpassed its sister channel, BBC 1 in numbers of viewers.
After a fairly slow starting couple of introductory episodes, the series really began to heat up, with the Heroes beginning to use their newly discovered powers and some of the main story arcs being introduced. Mysteries abound and some of the antagonists surface. But as in any good drama, all is not what it seems and the many, many plot lines begin weave themselves together into a strong, emotive storyline.
The acting is superb, with each actor perfect for their part. I can't think of a single cheesily-American-accented over-actor with corny lines, or a single walking-cliché. Every character is believable and a Hero in their own right, and with the complex storyline they become deep and genuine.
As well as fantastic characters and brilliant storylines, there are of course the heroes' superpowers. With a fantastic special effects team, the action is exciting and realistic. Spontaneous regeneration, flying, telekinesis and radioactivity are all part and parcel of the show, along with literally hundreds of other powers in the incredible world created in the vivid imagination of Tim Kring.
Heroes manages to create that sublime combination of action, plot, and drama. It appeals to everybody; fans of comic books, fans of drama, fans of suspense and action, and fans of a shows where a new world is created and builds up slowly but surely to a fantastic finale.
From me, it gets a solid 95% Fantastic in every way: I'll be buying it on DVD as soon as I can get funds!
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Watch Heroes Online:
Season 1
1. Genesis
2. Don't Look Back
3. One Giant Leap
4. Collision
5. Hiros
6. Better Halves
7. Nothing to Hide
8. Seven Minutes to Midnight
9. Homecoming
10. Six Months Ago
11. Fallout
12. Godsend
13. The Fix
14. Distractions
15. Run!
16. Unexpected
17. Company Man
18. Parasite
19. .07%
20. Five Years Gone
21. The Hard Part
22. Landslide
23. How to Stop an Exploding Man
Season 2
1. Four Months Later
TV-Links Source
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Buy Heroes from Amazon.co.uk
Monday, September 24, 2007
Monday, September 3, 2007
No Doctor Who Series 5 in 2009!
Following previous article: "No Tennant in Series 5?"
The BBC have confirmed that there will be no series 5 in 2009. Instead, Tennant will star in 3 Doctor Who specials. A full length series 5 will be aired in 2010, but the Doctor Who spokeswoman was unable to comment whether or not Tennant would return for it.
BBC News Article
Doctor Who Website Article
Instead of playing the time travelling hero in a 2009 series, Tennant will be doing some more classical acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company (the BBC say it isn't confirmed, but he's in the RSC program).
What a disappointement! 3 specials won't be enough to quench the thirst of Doctor Who fans! Hopefully when it comes back full time in 2010, the producers and writers will have made the show even better. I get the feeling this "gap-year" might be a result of the complaints the Doctor Who team were issuing about their work conditions: (long hours, no breaks, etc...)
The BBC have confirmed that there will be no series 5 in 2009. Instead, Tennant will star in 3 Doctor Who specials. A full length series 5 will be aired in 2010, but the Doctor Who spokeswoman was unable to comment whether or not Tennant would return for it.
BBC News Article
Doctor Who Website Article
Instead of playing the time travelling hero in a 2009 series, Tennant will be doing some more classical acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company (the BBC say it isn't confirmed, but he's in the RSC program).
What a disappointement! 3 specials won't be enough to quench the thirst of Doctor Who fans! Hopefully when it comes back full time in 2010, the producers and writers will have made the show even better. I get the feeling this "gap-year" might be a result of the complaints the Doctor Who team were issuing about their work conditions: (long hours, no breaks, etc...)
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Brian wins £100,000!
Thats it then. Big Brother 8 is over. We get our lives back. Well, that's something...
Fans of the show will know that last night, Brian walked out of the Big Brother house as a winner, and £100,000 richer. He received 60.3% of the vote and followed Amanda and Sam in second place, Liam in third place, Ziggy in a slightly disgruntled fourth place, Carole in fifth place, and Jonty (and Munkitty Tunkitty) in sixth place. When asked what he would spend the money on, Brian replied "I'm gonna go shopping!"
Series 8 has been an interesting one. Channel 4 narrowly avoided a race row right at the beginning, thanks to Emily's racist comment, Charley has been dubbed as one of the most hated people in Britain (and she's milked it), we've had spankers, gay museum obsessives, twins, old people break dancing... the list goes on. But unfortunately, we were left at the end with 6 (well, 7) people who all got on. Which made for quite a boring last week. But isn't that the whole nature of the show? If you vote out the people you hate, then the people left in the house should all be nice... right? Surely we should vote out the boring people, and keep in the people who provide the best entertainement. In that respect, should Charley have won? Or the twins? I suppose we wanted the money to go to Brian, and it did...
Anyway, Big Brother's over, and that signals the end of the summer. The days are already getting shorter (in England anyway) and soon the leaves will be dropping off the trees and we'll be wearing scarves and long coats. How depressing ¬.¬
Fans of the show will know that last night, Brian walked out of the Big Brother house as a winner, and £100,000 richer. He received 60.3% of the vote and followed Amanda and Sam in second place, Liam in third place, Ziggy in a slightly disgruntled fourth place, Carole in fifth place, and Jonty (and Munkitty Tunkitty) in sixth place. When asked what he would spend the money on, Brian replied "I'm gonna go shopping!"
Series 8 has been an interesting one. Channel 4 narrowly avoided a race row right at the beginning, thanks to Emily's racist comment, Charley has been dubbed as one of the most hated people in Britain (and she's milked it), we've had spankers, gay museum obsessives, twins, old people break dancing... the list goes on. But unfortunately, we were left at the end with 6 (well, 7) people who all got on. Which made for quite a boring last week. But isn't that the whole nature of the show? If you vote out the people you hate, then the people left in the house should all be nice... right? Surely we should vote out the boring people, and keep in the people who provide the best entertainement. In that respect, should Charley have won? Or the twins? I suppose we wanted the money to go to Brian, and it did...
Anyway, Big Brother's over, and that signals the end of the summer. The days are already getting shorter (in England anyway) and soon the leaves will be dropping off the trees and we'll be wearing scarves and long coats. How depressing ¬.¬
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