Struggled to find any shops stocking anything more than cheap flimsy High School Musical advent calendars? Well, languish without one no longer. For the next twenty four days, in cahoots with Ben Baker and his faberiffic Dead Air Society, Out On Blue Six will be opening the doors of a special virtual advent calendar, behind each of which you’ll find a good, bad or just plain inexplicable Christmas single with a humorous commentary attached. How did popular eighties arcade game characters celebrate the Festive Season? What is the sound of a troupe of Victorian wassailers on ‘drugz’? Where is Jaymi Bantok? All will be revealed over the coming weeks…

To start proceedings in fine style, here’s a terminally peculiar single trying and failing to cash in on one of the most easily cash-in-able phenomena of the entire Twentieth Century, as previously mused on here…

FOR all those living in the New York area or plan to be in the city next week. Heroes‘ Adrian Pasdar (a.k.a. Nathan Petrelli) will be signing autographs at the NBC Experience Store at 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Monday, November 30th from 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

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Mês passado foi confirmado que um dos personagens principais de Heroes irá morrer, o site E! Online descobriu quem baterá as botas na quarta temporada da série.

O personagem que vai morrer é Nathan Petrelli, interpretado por Adrian Pasdar, segundo o site o ator descobriu a novidade ao ler o roteiro! Que falta de respeitodos produtores da série.

Depois da polêmica do beijo lésbico, agora surge essa novidade, tudo para tentar salvar a série do cancelamento. No começo Heroes prometia ser uma grande série, com uma história inovadora,  mas foi perdendo a graça com o tempo e hoje sobrevive pela insistência da NBC, emissora que transmite a série nos EUA.

Nos últimos meses alguns rumores circularam pela internet sobre a possível saída de um personagem de Heroes. Até que ontem (2) os boatos se confirmaram. E quem deixará a série será … Adrian Pasdar, que interpreta Nathan Petrelli, um ambicioso político de Nova York que tem o poder de voar.

De acordo com o TV Guide, os representantes do canal NBC ainda não falaram oficialmente sobre o fato. Mas segundo fontes de Michael Ausiello, especialista em “furos” televisivos da Entertainment Weekly, o ator ficou sabendo da morte de Nathan apenas momentos antes de gravar a cena, o que o deixou muito chateado com a produção do seriado.

Fonte : Heroes Brasil

NBC’s Heroes has finally decided to kill off an original cast member from the show. I put all my hopes in that fact that it would be Hayden Panettiere’s character of Claire Bennett, but alas, she cannot die. Instead, Heroes has opted to off Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar). This is an interesting choice seeing that they’ve “killed” him before 3 times but he has miraculously comes back.

But this time, it’s for good. Greg Grunberg who plays Matt Parkman stated in an interview that the Petrelli Brothers were “safe”, but I guess he got incorrect information. Pasdar’s exit from the show came as a surprise to the actor. Apparently, he found out that he was getting the boot from reading the script (ouch).

No word on when Pasdar’s last episode on the show is, but be sure that he will not survive season 4. Let’s see if this death will help the show. I doubt it seeing that he’s “died” already.

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Nikki Finke is reporting that Adrian Pasdar, who plays Nathan Petrelli, has been let go from Heroes.

While some people, like my eternally naysaying friend The Notorious RJP (Welcome back, by the way, Robert!) are insisting that this is a terrible move and yet another example of Heroes heading downhill fast, I look at this as a good thing for the show, if not for Pasdar.

I never really liked Nathan, he was always one of the most annoying yet boring characters on the show.  Turning him into an even bigger douche last year didn’t help his case at all and the only really interesting thing that could be done with the character has already been done when Sylar killed him and then was forced to take over his personality.  With Sylar’s own consciousness reasserting itself in his body, everyone should have known that “Nathan’s” days were numbered.

What makes this very interesting to me is that I was just reading about an interview that Greg Grunberg, who plays Matt Parkman, did where he stated that the upcoming death of a main character was not one of the Petrelli brothers.  Thus it looks like we’ll be seeing two major characters leave this season.

Edit: The title of this post originally had a question mark because there was a slight possibility that Nikki Finke was wrong, but I’ve just read an article by Kristin Dos Santos on E!’s website not only confirming that Nathan is gone but that his death is the one that has been rumored all along. This indicates that either Greg Grunberg was either throwing up a smokescreen or that there’s another death that hasn’t been leaked yet.

Was talking to D. Got reminded of this dialogue from Heroes. When I heard this dialogue for the first time, it was an Aha! moment for me. The dialogue goes something like this.

Daniel Linderman: There comes a time when a man has to ask himself whether he wants a life of happiness or a life of meaning.

Nathan Petrelli: I’d like to have both.

Daniel Linderman: Can’t be done. Two very different paths. To be truly happy a man must live absolutely in the present – no thought of what’s gone before and no thought of what lies ahead. But, a life of meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.

So profound and yet so simple. IMHO, things get “complicated” because we do not want to pick a side. We want it all. We want to be eternally happy and also have a life of purpose. We somehow hope that we will be the exception to the rule.

Our man Nietzsche got it right when he said Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man

For all you believers in HOPE out there, I got one thing to say – Sucker!

…well it was a very close-run thing, but just edging half a point ahead (and actually due to his specialist subject rather than his expert knowledge of the Large Hadron Particle Collider) is A Ben Baker Of Keighley – congratulations on becoming the Out On Blue Six Telly Addicts Champion Of Champions 2009. And here to present your prize is Annwan Glover, TV ”Slim Charles” (Wire):

‘Normal’ Out On Blue Six will resume shortly…

Yes at last… it’s the answers that at least seven of you have been waiting for!

Round 1
1. Eve Myles’ Tits from Torchwood
2. Strain 138 of the Shanti Virus from Heroes (honestly, why did so many of you confidently state it was the Sonic Screwdriver?)
3. The objects next to the Music Box from Camberwick Green
4. Gene Hunt’s ‘oops from Life On Mars
5. Alan Driscoll’s picture of Ant & Dec from CD:UK
6. Dexter’s breakfast from Dexter
7. Little Ted’s drum from Play School
8. House’s cane from House
9. Captain Jack’s Peak Cap from Doctor Who
10. Bubbles’ shopping trolley from The Wire

Round 2
1. Hartley Hare from Pipkins
2. Ant Jones from Grange Hill
3. Hugo ‘Hurley’ Reyes from Lost
4. Roland Rat
5. TV ‘Clown’ (Test Card)
6. Gareth ‘Gaz Top’ Jones
7. Gabriel ‘Sylar’ Gray from Heroes
8. Porkpie from Desmond’s/Porkpie
9. Gwen Cooper from Torchwood
10. Michael Parkinson from whingeing

Round 3
1. 1986
2. Merry Christmas Santa Claus
3. Invasion Of The Honeycombes
4. False
5. The Gift
6. Jaymi Bantok
7. Some children invaded the stage and dismantled Nookie Bear
8. Patrick Troughton
9. Nicholas Lyndhurst’s hair turned green before an important meeting (though Patrick Troughton took up ‘keep fit’ was also accepted)
10. Clarke Peters off of The Wire

Round 4
In order: Hey It’s My Birthday Too, Falcon Island, The Krankies’ Joke Machine, Children Of Fire Mountain, and the Monty Python sketch was ‘Blackmail’

Round 5
1. Mr Rusty, Zebedee, Dougal, Dylan
2. Nathan Petrelli, Gabriel Gray, Adam Monroe, Elle Bishop
3. Proposition Joe Stewart, Ziggy Sobotka, Dennis ‘Cutty’ Wise, Michael Lee
4. Hartley Hare, Topov, Tortoise, Pig
5. Alan Moore, Philip Smith, Spooner, Brenda Rose
6. Peter Hazel The Postman, Mickey Murphy The Baker, Captain Snort, Windy Miller
7. Hubert Davenport, Timothy Claypole, Dobbin, Hazel The MacWitch
8. DC Chris Skelton, DCI Gene Hunt, WPC Annie Cartwright, Nelson
9. Basil Fawlty, Sybil Fawlty, Manuel, Polly Sherman
10. Hugo Reyes, Ethan Rom, Ana-Lucia Cortez, Desmond Hume (though the last two transposed were also accepted)

Round 5
1. A robot from a BBC English Language instruction series
2. A Walk In The Black Forest by Horst Jankowski
3. It was pebble-dashed on the inside (and later knocked through to be ‘like living in a cave’)
4. Spitting Image and Good Morning Britain
5. Precognitive Dreaming (though he dreamed he could fly, so half a point if you said that)
6. Rubovia
7. Brenda, Spooner, Vienna The Cat
8. Head Tomorrow Person John
9. The BBC Schools Diamond music for secondary and primary programming respectively
10. True
11. Professor Humboldt (though somebody AGAIN suggested ‘Cripper’ Wilson)
12. PC Potter
13. The Master Of Zephon
14. ‘Bubbles,’ ‘Thirteen’ and ‘The Haitian’
15. Lancelot Link – Secret Chimp
16. Prisoners who escaped from Level 5 of Primatech in Heroes
17. Shortlisted but rejected candidates for House’s medical team
18. Alfresco
19. The Lost Islands
20. With a poisoned Key Lime Pie
21. He tethered it to a drainpipe
22. Trick question – they all were
23. Ronnie Corbett
24. Psychology
25. Paul, Basil and Rosalie

…and the scores are just in, and way out in front is Eve Myles. But heading the actual results table of the 2009 Out On Blue Six Telly Addicts Hoedown are Robert A. Stanley, a Ben Baker of Keighley, and Garreth F. Hirons Presents Garreth F. Hirons’ Team Featuring Garreth F. Hirons (Garreth F. Hirons), all of whom now go through to the Champion Of Champions round. Lucky contestants, please state your chosen specialist subject in the comments box, and prepare to go head to head…

In meiner Recherche zur Heroes Serie stach mir sofort eine Meldung in Auge: “Heroes war dieses Jahr der am meisten illegal beschaffte TV Download im Internet” – noch vor Lost. Einen heftigeren gleichzeitig besseren und schlechteren Superlativ kann man für eine Serie eigentlich in diesen Zeiten nicht finden. Die von Universal produzierte und von NBC in den USA bzw. RTL2 in Deutschland ausgestrahlte Staffel ist ein weltweites Phänomen. Einerseits kosten die illegalen Downloads Milliarden, andererseits sind sie verantwortlich für die unbezahlbare Mund zu Mund Propaganda, mit der erst ein weltweites Phänomen möglich wird.

Leute, wie ich, hören dann aus 10 Quellen, dass die Serie toll ist. Vielleicht waren nur 3 oder 4 davon Käufer der DVD’s oder echte Fernsehzuschauer, vielleicht sogar noch weniger. Fakt ist, ich habe trotzdem sehr lange und preisbewusst gewartet, bis ich mir die geteilten Boxen der Staffeln 1.1 und 1.2 mit insgesamt fantastischen 23 Folgen gekauft habe. Aber ich habe sie wahrscheinlich nur wegen eben dieser Empfehlungen gekauft, die mir ein ums andere Mal im Netz und im persönlichen Umfeld begegneten.

Vorweg schließe ich mich der großen Mehrheit der Kritiker an und empfehle die Serie jedem Leser mit der Einschränkung, sich die Serie besser nicht im Fernsehen anzuschauen. Werbeblöcke, eine Woche Wartezeit und ggf. das Verpassen von einzelnen Folgen, sorgen dafür, dass man der Story – besser den verschiedenen Stories – aufgrund diverser Einzelgeschichten, sowie räumlichen und zeitlichen Sprüngen nicht mehr richtig folgen kann.

Vorsicht ist ansonsten beim DVD Konsum geboten, weil man schnell Blöcke von 3-4 Folgen hintereinander weg schaut und sich trotz Arbeit am nächsten Morgen um 2 Uhr nachts ernsthaft überlegt, noch eine Episode dranzuhängen.

Um nicht zuviel zu verraten, reiße ich die Story nur kurz an. Die Evolution der Menschheit bringt schon heute Individuen mit außergewöhnlichen Fähigkeiten hervor – Usain Bolt kann nunmal, ob gedopt oder nicht, schneller laufen als seine Doping Kollegen. In der Serie Heroes sind diese Fähigkeiten etwas phantasievoller ausgeprägt. Manche Menschen können fliegen, durch Wände gehen, heilen durch Handauflegen – sie übersteigen in der Summe das Repertoire von David Copperfield (oder Tiger Woods) knapp.

Manche dieser Fähigkeiten sind aggressiv, manche Inhaber dieser Fähigkeiten agieren aggressiv. Manche Menschen mit aggressiven Fähigkeiten sind hilflos und wollen sie gar nicht, sie verstecken sie so gut es geht. Andere Menschen fühlen sich durch ihre Fähigkeiten zu etwas Höherem berufen. Die Charaktere, die uns gezeigt werden versuchen auf menschliche Weise, damit fertig zu werden. Eine klare schwarz-weiße Grenze existiert nicht. Wenn man beispielsweise Highlander geschaut hat, weiß man um den Unterschied.

Wie in der Realität gibt es radikale Charaktere, die das Geschehen in der Serie polarisieren. Es entsteht eine Haupthandlung, in der ein sehr negatives Ereignis durch eine Reihe von Idealisten verhindert werden soll. Allerdings ist bis zum Ende der Staffel nicht klar, ob dieses Ereignis von einem guten, einem neutralen oder einem bösen Charakter ausgelöst wird.

Das klingt geheimnisvoll, zeigt aber, wie vielschichtig jede einzelne Episode durchdacht ist. Selten handeln die Hauptpersonen unverständlich oder konstruiert. Die Serie gefällt mir einfach sehr gut und bleibt jederzeit spannend. Es gab eine Serie, die praktisch das gleiche oder sogar bessere Rüstzeug hatte, wie Heroes. Die Serie hieß “Das verschwundene Zimmer” (Trailer). Die Fähigkeiten waren hier an Gegenstände gebunden, die weitergereicht werden konnten, das Grundprinzip war aber gleich. Schade, dass diese Serie nicht ebenso zum Welterfolg wurde. Vielleicht hätte man in diesem Fall mehr illegale Versionen über eine Agentur in Tauschbörsen hochladen sollen.

Heroes conta a história de um grupo de pessoas comuns de diferentes partes do mundo que começam a descobrir habilidades extraordinárias. A série foi criada por Tim Kring, mesmo criador de Crossing Jordan, e estreou em setembro nos EUA, quando foi assistida por cerca de 15 milhões de telespectadores no canal NBC.Enquanto um eclipse total acontece, um professor de genética é guiado pelo desaparecimento do pai a descobrir uma teoria secreta de que existem pessoas com poderes extraordinários vivendo entre nós.

No Japão, um simples funcionário de escritório é capaz de parar o tempo. Em Los Angeles, um policial decepcionado com a vida começa a escutar o pensamento das outras pessoas. Um jovem sonhador tenta convencer seu irmão de que ele pode voar. Uma líder de torcida descobre ser indestrutível. Uma stripper de Las Vegas percebe que sua imagem no espelho tem um segredo. Um talentoso artista pode pintar o futuro.

O que eles não sabem é que estão um passo à frente na evolução da humanidade e que seus destinos já foram traçados. Os mistérios e segredos destes verdadeiros heróis são desvendados a cada episódio.

Agradecimentos pelo texto: UP

1ª, 2ª e 3ª temporada:
http://up.tl/serie/97ae638c5f/Heroes.html

4ª Temporada:
S04E01 – E02: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OIL671MU
S04E03 – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JGKZSZO7
S04E04 – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HP0HD84E
S04E05 – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CUIYM9VN
S04E06 – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1LQZNWZE
S04E07 – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=795LLQ9S
S04E08 – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4REPMLCA
S04E09 – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WQVO9DLQ
S04E10 – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CS5DCWRS

Episódios indexados através do site up.tl

OBS: o formato dos episódios são AVI e sem legendas. As legendas podem ser encontradas no Legendas.tv (o cadastro é gratuito).

Dear Heroes -

I know I said it last year, but I’m serious this time. You and me, we’re done if you let me down this season. I keep holding on to hope, but if I have to sit through another implausible storyline where all the characters I love act like crazy people I don’t even recognize, I will go mad myself. So you’ve had your 100 millionth chance, and I’m not going to just sit around forever.

Love, Nisi

Phew! Now, I don’t mean to be mean but that just had to be said. However with the season premiere behind us now, I can vouch that things are definitely on the ups in Heroes-verse. As Peter said, “There’s a lot of change going on with me.” Volume Five is title “Redemption,” and could they have picked something more fitting? The tone of this season is very similar to the first season that made it a breakout hit. It’s dark and mysterious, as if each week we’ll be ripping off layer after layer until we’re finally illuminated.

The focus has returned to the show’s characters and how they balance being normal and extraordinary at the same time. It’s about their thoughts and emotions, and not so much about throwing as many battles as humanly possible into an hour or two in this instance. It’s a thin line to tread, being too character driven or acting like you’re making a live action comic book. The truth is we want both, but not if one is a detriment to the other.

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
“Redemption” will focus on a band of circus folks who actually have REAL powers. Robert Knepper (aka T-Bag from Prison Break) joins the cast as the carnies’ leader Sam, a man with a power I still don’t get but has to do with a compass. Not much has been revealed yet about their motives, but it’s clear they’re about sticking with their own. The things we have learned are that Sam wants to travel back, possibly to change his brother’s death, who’s buried during the show’s opening. I’m sure you can guess who he turns to, but how finding our other Heroes will help his plan is still to be determined.

Sam has the ability to control earth, but he can also create powerful tattoos. He uses another carnival worker Lydia’s ability to discern information from these tattoos when they’re put on her body, and he also uses a tattoo to choke Edgar when he gets a little mouthy for his liking. Edgar is another carnie with lightning fast speed and some sweet knife-wielding abilities. When Sam sent him out to find a compass, that’s important for some reason I’m sure they’ll clue us into later, he’s a little doubtful about following Sam’s lead. Maybe another hero with a conscience?

IT’S 9 O’CLOCK. DO YOU KNOW WHERE OUR HEROES ARE?
Peter is still Mr. I Need to Save the World, but he’s doing it on a much smaller scale nowadays. He’s working as a paramedic using his powers to help people who would most likely be goners if the man attempting to save them didn’t have super strength and super powers. Sadly, he’s regressed socially, ignoring calls from both his mother and Nathan.

Claire starts college but quickly becomes the odd frosh out when her roommate seemingly leaps to her death from their dorm room window. She also meets a new friend who finds out Claire’s abilities when she sees her bloodied and broken after jumping from the aforementioned window in a forensic experiment. Her friend Gretchen is played by Madeline Zima (Californication), and she was such a naughty girl on that show, I can’t really trust her just yet.

Tracy has been murdering people left and right, seeking revenge on those who tried to hunt her down and kill her last season. Danko’s still holding a grudge, but can you really blame her. It’s a kill or be killed world. A perfect example of how the show’s direction is changing, and hopefully will continue to do so, is the fact that the focus isn’t about the chase in this case. It’s about how Tracy reconciles what she’s done with what she knows is right. And the fact that Noah offers her a helping hand (even after she tried to kill him), and erased Danko’s mind to forget her and give up his hunt, gives her a second chance. Unfortunately, it’s the last chance for Danko since Edgar takes him out.

Noah, on the other hand, is getting the second chance that I think he deserves. As the poster boy for everything the Company did wrong, he’s gotten the short end of the stick. His wife still isn’t speaking to him, so he’s living a sad and lonely life. He gets a smack in the face when he calls her and a man picks up. Ouchie! All Angela wants to do is pull him back in though all he wants is his family back. And when he does get involved by finding the compass, Peter acts as his bodyguard but only for a short time, rescuing him from Edgar but leaving him with the compass. Since Edgar won’t give up, in the end Noah ends up without the goods and in the hospital. Poor HRG.

But there are two in an even worse state. Nathan, who we know is really Sylar without Sylar’s consciousness and with all of Nathan’s memories, has begun to realize that something is off. Powers he never had are starting to emerge. And when he turns to Peter, who went through a similar abilities transition, he gets no love back. Good thing he doesn’t notice how warily Angela regards him since she sees Nathan acting as Nathan but looking like Sylar in her visions.

It’s actually so burdensome that she turns to Matt, the one who locked Sylar away, to help straighten Nathan out once more. But like so many other Heroes, Matt just wants to spend time with the family he neglected and almost lost. What he did last season, though, haunts him quite figuratively. Sylar taunts at him saying what he did left a piece of him in Matt, and he wants his body back.

And across the world, Hiro is still not doing so hot since he still has the nosebleeds.  Taking it easy, he’s not doing the grand version of saving the world anymore without his time traveling powers, so he starts a cute little business with Ando called Dial-A-Hero. During  his first and only assignment so far, he freezes time but then ends up freezing himself. While he and Ando try to figure out what’s going on, he ends up going back in time and meeting Sam. He pushes Hiro to use his powers to help other people by rewriting the past. But having always thought you shouldn’t change time because of the butterfly effect, he’s hard to convince. But when he does something so small as to prevent Ando from spilling a slushy on his sister Kimiko’s favorite dress when they were kids and when he returns to the present, Ando and Kimiko are in love. Is he a fairy godfather or playing with fire?

WRAP IT UP
Just know that things are looking more and more like the Heroes so many of us loved before they went off the deep end and stated writing like they were writing fan fiction. This season is off to a promising start, but it’s happened before, and I will not get my hopes up this early on. So far so good though. Heroes, you can still take me out on that date next Monday if I didn’t hurt you too bad earlier. I can’t promise you any more than that.

Season 4, Episodes 1 & 2: Orientation & Jump, Push, Fall (originally aired September 21, 2009)

Mondays at 9/8C on NBC

Photographs courtesy of NBC Universal, Justin Lubin, Chris Haston

Originally published on Poptimal.com: Pop-Culture Reviews from People Like You

Wow, sadly Heroes has actually not really improved. Well, its horribleness has never resulted in me hating the series luckily, it just makes it even more entertaining. Re-telling the 2 hour premier would probably be murder, not because so much really happened, but there is simply so many characters. This season, we are even introduced to more characters! We now have the circus freaks, one guy can somewhat control people using ink, some other person can say everything about a person when ink guy creates an image on her back (how do you even figure out you have that power anyway?).

There also is some sort of storyline involving a “broken compass” that only works in the hands of someone with powers and Milo (I mean Peter) has gone back to his medical job and is saving people when all hope is gone. Ali Larter somehow continues to live. The writers on the show should really stop pretending to kill her off, it brings us so much happiness and then disappointment. At least it seems like everybody wants her killed off at least. Anyway, Matt has always been one of the worst characters, simply because he is so boring and is always doing the same thing, but at least now the scenes that include him tent to include Sylar.

Sylar continues to be that one shining light in a pile of tar. He just looked so cool in this episode completely messing up Matt’s life by demanding to know where his body is. I really hope in the next episode he gets a lot more screentime. It was also actually kind of funny when he picked up the baby and it just looked so frightened! It was without a doubt the most upset baby I have ever seen. I wonder what the director did to make that baby look like it did…

Claire is being stupid as she always is. By that I mean, jumping out of windows and someone figuring out her power, you know, the usual. I am surprised they didn’t play the lesbian card yet in this episode because we all know it is coming and I am sure they would get more viewers when they show off their romance. On another note, the episode itself was not that great, The fact that it was 2 hours really didn’t work. They probably could have easily sunk it all into one episode or spanned it over more than a week, but 2 hours in a row just got me bored and tired. Well in the end, let’s just say here’s to hoping we see more Sylar in following episodes!

Do you think Heroes is still slumping back into the terribleness of season 3?
How awesome was Zachary Quinto?!

Episode Rating: 7.0/10

Can’t wait for the next season of Heroes (September 21st). I gotta tell you, I’m looking forward on seeing how this Nathan/ Sylar situation plays out. I’m sure we’re gonna be in for a great season!

Am 2. September startet auf RTL2 die 3. Staffel von “Heroes” mit der 1. Folge “Die Wiederkunft”.
Wer sich die Spannung nicht nehmen möchte, sollte an dieser Stelle besser nicht weiterlesen, denn nachfolgend wird die erste Folge ausführlich thematisiert.

Wer hat Nathan Petrelli bei der Pressekonferenz erschossen, auf der er die Welt über die Existenz der Heroes informieren wollte? War es Peter oder ein geheimnisvoller Fremder in dessen Gestalt, der aus der Zukunft gekommen ist, um eine verheerende Katastrophe zu verhindern, die durch Nathans Offenbarung in Gang gesetzt werden wär? Doch Nathan erwacht wenig später von den Toten und verkündet vor laufenden Fernsehkameras, Gott habe ihn ins Leben zurückgerufen, um sein Werk zu vollenden. Dieser angeblicher Gott erscheint in Gestalt von Lindermann und prophezeit, dass große Aufgaben vor ihm und Nathan lägen.

Derweil hat Hiro Nakamura das Erbe seines Vaters Kaito angetreten. In einer Videobotschaft verkündet ihm dieser postum, dass sich in seinem Privatsafe die Hälfte einer chemischen Formel befinde, die, falls sie in die falschen Hände geraten, das Ende der Welt herbeiführen könnte. Natürlich öffnet Hiro den Safe, doch das Papier mit der Formel wird ihm umgehend von Daphne entwendet, einer Frau, die sich fast mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit bewegt. Um die Prophezeiung seines Vaters zu überprüfen, beamt sich Hiro in die Zukunft, wo er erleben muss, wie sein Freund Ando ihn tötet, um an die Formel zu gelangen.

Unterdessen wird Claire in ihrem neuen Zuhause von Sylar heimgesucht, der durch den Angriff nicht nur ihre Regenerationsfähigkeit, sondern auch ihre Unsterblichkeit als Kräfte dazugewinnt.

Wenig später will Suresh, der Molly in ein Flugzeug mit unbestimmtem Ziel gesetzt hat, nach Indien aufbrechen. Doch Maya, die den weiten Weg aus Südamerika gekommen ist, in der Hoffnung, er könne sie heilen, weist ihm einen neuen Weg in seiner Forschung. Die Fähigkeiten der Heroes entstehen nicht, wie sein Vater angenommen hat, im genetischen Material des Blutes, sie werden bei Stress durch eine Adrenalinausschüttung aktiviert. Suresh stellt daraufhin aus ihrem Blut eine Substanz her, die in jedem Menschen besondere Fähigkeiten auslösen können. Zu Mayas Entsetzen beabsichtigt er, es an eigenem Leibe auszuprobieren, hat er doch immer davon geträumt, auch etwas Besonderes zu sein. Der Wissenschaftler setzt sich die Spritze und entwickelt augenblicklich übermenschliche Kräfte…

Die erste Folge der 3. Staffel startet mit verwirrenden Zusammenhängen, bei denen man direkt neugierig wird und auf baldige Lösungen hofft.
Ob RTL2 aber auch die Szene zeigen wird, wo Claire mit offenen Kopf auf ihren Wohnzimmertisch von Sylar bestohlen wird?

A finales de Septiembre (el 21 para ser más exactos), se empezará a emitir en la televisión americana el quinto volumen de Héroes, Redención (es decir, la cuarta temporada), y visto lo visto, no pinta nada mal. Nuevas incorporaciones en el reparto tal y como viene siendo habitual, en este quinto volumen serán Madeline Zima (Mia en Californication) y Robert Knepper (Prison Break o Transporter 3).

Pero ¿se resolveran finalmente todas las dudas que se plantearon durante la tercera temporada? ¿Retomaran ciertos hilos que al principio del volumen 3 parecían muy importantes y a lo largo del 4º volumen se diluyeron para dejar paso a otras subtramas?

Nosotros aún tendremos que esperar hasta 2010 seguramente para ver que ocurre con todos estos héroes y villanos, que si bien siempre tienen un buen arranque, a mitad de los volumenes pierden fuelle para acabar con un buen final pero que deja un sabor agridulce por la rapidez de los desenlaces que muestran.

Para ir abriendo boca os dejo un avance que mostraron en la Comic Con sobre este quinto volumen:

Y para los que no controlan demasiado bien el ingles, el trailer con subtítulos en español, que aunque es más cortito, aclara muchas cosas de lo que se ve en dicho avance:

Karelia

Last week’s five-part Torchwood extravaganza may well have been totally unexpectedly astonishingly good (even if they did kill off Ianto for no good reason, and the ending was so annoyingly poor it would have shamed the producers of Life On Mars), and may well have finished up threatening to dethrone the ratings-toppings ’supersoaps’, but perhaps the truest measure of its popularity is that during those five days, no less than sixteen thousand, two hundred and seventy three readers alighted on these here pages in search of, you guessed it, ‘eve myles tits’. Unfortunately there is no way of accurately measuring how many of them stayed around to read a load of nonsense about Charles McHaltenwood and ‘Dinners’.

Meanwhile, somewhat slightly lower down the search stats came ‘copy of rolf on saturday’, ‘nathan petrelli can work a photocopier’, ‘phil cool spitting image gallery’, ‘what are those plastic eyeballs on springs called’, ‘tv ark go to work’, ‘katanga katanga katanga’, ‘aa gill earth song’, and ‘when is grimleys on?’. Funny you should ask…

Os traigo ahora las buenas nuevas sobre la nueva temporada de “Héroes” que ya ha comenzado el rodaje de la que será su cuarta temporada.

Primero que ya se han dado a conocer los primeros títulos de los episodios 1 y 2 de la temporada nueva. Estos son: 4×01 Orientation (como el tercer episodio de la segunda temporada de “Perdidos”) y 4×02 Jump, Push, Fall… ¿os sugieren algo?

A los fichajes que  ya se conocían de Robert Knepper y Madeline Zima que ya os anunciábamos semanas atrás se ha conocido el nuevo de Rachel Melvin, que interpretará a la nueva compañera de universidad de Claire, Annie, la que sería ya la segunda. Aunque parece ser que está sí que tendrá poderes y además se rumorea que conocerá los de Claire, lo que no sabemos cómo influirá en la trama de la temporada. A esta actriz la hemos podido ver en “Los mejores días de nuestras vidas”.

Rachel Melvin será Annie, en Héroes.

Por otra parte hay que destacar que “Héroes” ha sido nominado en 7 categorías a los Saturn Awards. Entre ellos destacar especialmente la mejor edición de una serie en DVD (para la segunda temporada), mejor serie, mejor actor secundario para Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Petrelli) y Milo Ventimiglia (Peter Petrelli), mejor actriz secundaria para Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet), mejor aparición estelar para Kristen Bell (Elle Bishop) y Robert Forster (Arthur Petrelli). Parece ser que nuestros héroes particulares podrían triunfar en estos premios ya que estas abundantes nominaciones dicen bastante de la calidad que la serie está llevando.

¿Qué os parecen todas las informaciones? Es posible que tengamos un veranito cargado de spoilers y rumores antes de que empiece la nueva temporada.

eu odeio ônibus.

- Moça, dá licença?
- Que que é mermã? Tá achando que eu sou o Peter Petrelli? Tá achando que eu vou voar pra você poder passar? Eu vou descer no próximo ponto.

Já não basta um ônibus lotado, com 1454645 pessoas na minha frente, sendo que eu tenho que descer no próximo ponto, ai me aparece essa indivídua me pedindo “licença” e me empurrando disfarçadamente. Cara, a menina nem era cega, dava pra ver que o ônibus tava tão lotado que eu não precisava nem segurar, porque era impossível eu cair ali.

Eis que então me aparece um anjo.

- Moça, quer que eu segure sua mochila?

- Você é lindo Ah não, obrigada, eu já vou descer. – O cara era tão lindo que eu quase deixer ele segurar minha mochila pelos 5 segundos que restavam para eu ficar no ônibus, mas eu resolvi ser educada.

Ai lá vou eu, toda serelepe, fazer a prova de TMD na PUC-SP, termino a prova em menos de 15 minutos porque eu sou inteligente demais enveje-me e pego o ônibus pra voltar.

Pronto. Mais uma. E eu nem tinha passado a catraca, a indivídua já vem me encher o saco.

- Moça, você vai descer no próximo?
- Não.
- Mas eu vou. Dá licença?
- Perae que eu vou virar a Kitty Pride aqui e vou passar através de todas essas 543466 pessoas pra você poder passar Espera um pouco, porque não tem como passar agora.

Alguém me mata.

To go with our fancy new header I thought I’d just go ahead and spoil Heroes for you. No, not really. But maybe. But probably not. I had a vision of how Heroes would end, be it this season or next or a few more from now and I’d like to share it with all of you.

So everything’s going to hell in a hand basket. A major American city is about to blow up, Claire’s having a bad hair day. HRG has gone bad.. or is he good.. or is he bad again? who knows. Sylar has everyone cornered in a room and he’s hell bent on not letting anyone go this time. Peter’s hair has grown so long he can no longer see. Parkman has fathered a couple dozen kids but cant seem to remember any of their mother’s names. The music swells! and just when you think all is doomed, Angela Petrelli wakes up in her house, in bed beside her husband. A young Nathan and Peter run into the room and jump onto their bed.

GASP! IT WAS ALL A DREAM!

- a dream that will still come to pass

DUN DUN DAHHH!

Yeah. I thought it was awesome. At least caps worthy. There are a lot of factors that make this a plausible ending. One, it’s terrible but kinda awesome – mostly cause I thought of it. Two it allows them to be as flexible as they like with however much time they have. Three it’s kinda a mind fuck that will infuriate their already encourageble fans.

So what do you think?  am I off my rocker? would this be the worst possible thing Heroes could do?  Where do you see it going? And lastly, do you think they’ll actually come up with something better?

let me know
-DoubleBitch

Si creíamos que no íbamos a saber cosas de “Héroes” hasta el estreno de la nueva temporada, estábamos bien equivocados. Tim Kring, creador de la serie, ha dado a grandes rasgos las que serán las líneas argumentales aunque sin avanzar demasiado para no romper el encanto. Y es que pensar que a la semana que viene ya se empieza a rodar por lo que deben tener bastante clara como será parte de la trama. (Posibles spoilers)

Temas a destacar de la nueva temporada: la trama girará en torno a cómo las personas con habilidades viven su vida ajenos a todo ¿ocultarán sus habilidades a los demás? No se ha dejado claro.

Los hermanos Petrelli intentarán llevar sus vidas a la normalidad. Peter tratará de recobrar el sentido de héroes, salvando vidas ¿volverá otra vez a ser el enfermero perpetuo? Tendrá relación con una poderosa mujer que tiene muchas cosas que ofrecerle, mientras que Nathan comenzará a descubrir cosas sobre sí mismo, que mira que es complicado ya que en realidad no es Nathan sino Sylar. Matt por su parte se sentirá culpable de lo ocurrido con Nathan ya que él es el artífice de todo, e intentará recobrar a su familia (se ha confirmado la presencia de Matt Jr.).

Se intentará crear otra nueva compañía en parte gracias a Angela Petrelli, Tracy Strauss y Noah, aunque reflejara otra nueva línea centrándose en las personas. Y se rumorea ya la posible muerte de uno de los personajes, en especial el personaje que se baraja es Hiro, que seguirá con sus dolores de cabeza y sangrando a causa de usar sus poderes.

En cuanto a las nuevas incorporaciones tenemos en primer lugar a Madelina Zima (de “Californication”) que interpretará a Gretchen, la compañera de habitación en la universidad donde estudiara Claire. La eterna animadora tendrá que aprender a llevar una vida normal, aunque el tortuoso divorcio de sus padres y un suicidio en el campus universitario compliquen las cosas. Además también llegará Robert Knepper (de “Prison Break”) que dará vida a Samuel, un personaje bastante retorcido aunque estará en el bando contrario, papel que le pega a las mil maravillas.

También se pueden añadir a estos dos fichajes (que vemos en la fotografía) el de Ray Park, un especialista del cine que ha sido conocido por interpretar a Darth Maul en “Star Wars: Episodio I: La Amenaza Fantasma”. Seguramente será uno de los personajes viviendo en el circo que dará mucho juego en la nueva temporada. Y también entra a formar parte del cast de la nueva temporada Deanne Bray que supuestamente vendría a interpretar el nuevo interés amoroso de Peter Petrelli.

¿Qué os parece lo que está por llegar? Tiene buena pinta… aunque es mejor no aventurar nada ya que eso parecía la 3ª temporada y después fue una gran decepción.

"Heroes" by Levi Yeomans

Season 3 left me wishing I was Hiro Nakamura to teleport into the Future, in order to start watching the upcoming 4th Season.

Before I started to watch Season 3, I read many comments on the web, where people would just complaint about it.

I did not understand the comments.

After watching it I can: Heroes got political. Really political. Apparently for the american public that did not work.

Orange suits, people being taken to secret locations just because they are different, exceptions to those rules, power hungry politicians, all that reminded me of a not so far past, as well as the present.

But I am not one of those fans that think that the series is just without flaws.

On Season 3 some things really got on my nerves:

Molly, the saviour of the known world, the tracking system, the one that no one could live without, had your own description here, was left out of the whole season, gone, ignored, not even a “Oh I miss Molly” from Parkman, nothing: it was like she never existed. Shame on you Mr. Tim Kring.

Sylar acquires the ability to shape-shift. On the first shape-shifting experiences all was well: when he turned back into Sylar we would keep the clothes that were worn during the shape-shifting time.

Then he shape-shifts into Nathan Petrelli and guess what?  The clothes as well. WTF??!!!

This would deserve an explanation because, if there is none, it can only be taken as a really sloppy production.

Why does Peter Petrelli always fucks up? And why doesn’t he remember that when he goes at it again? Is the character based on Dori from “Finding Nemo”? I suppose so.

At the end of the day, I don’t know how I will take these following months without it. I feel lost. And LOST is also an amazing series.