Watch it. It’s a lot more enjoyable than butting heads with True Believers

My daughter just bought season one on DVD using some of her birthday money, I just haven’t gotten around to watching them yet. I will though just to get her off my back about it.

I saw the pilot and first episode after. For whatever reason, I’m not interested. Perhaps I’ll fast-forward through the show once the DVDs are on Netflix.

Fast forward: I’m going through the series on Netflix and it’s sort of growing on me. Too bad it took them more than half of the season to get to the point

Just watched tonight’s Heroes, poor Hiro.  Curse those mono no aware moments!

The SciFi network has been rerunning the episodes on Fridays before Doctor Who on 11/29 they are doing a marathon of all the episodes to date.

TV is just interesting enough to leave on, and stupid enough not to be pay too much attention. I watch a lot of Public Broadcast we call it PBS in the US. I do like to watch TV Land. All in the Family, Leave it to Beaver, Gilligan’s Island, I still after 46 years cannot decide Ginger or Mary Ann. But I am leaning towards Ginger, Even though she is like 77 years old. I would be willing to bet that men would still line up around the block to fuck her. Interesting fact about Gilligan’s Island. They started shooting the day JFK was assassinated, Look very close at opening credits ( Pics around Pearl Harbor ) You’ll see the flags are at half staff. And as for “Leave it to Beaver”, I just try to imagine what I would say to that stupid little shit Beaver if I was Ward Cleaver. ” Dammit Beaver, WTF!!! Get your head out of your ass for Christ Sakes ”

Heroes is the best show on the tele (outside of Galactica, Atlantis and Numb3rs) right now. I love this show, because it defies most comic book standards by actually showing these “Heroes” struggling as normal people, most of them unaware or just awakening to what is happening to them. You have some who use their powers for good, some for evil, and some do both (kind of like real people!).

I find the two most fascinating characters to be Mohinder Suresh and Issac Mendez (the doctor’s son and the painter).

I am just wondering who decided to play god and manipulate their genetic code…

I watch a bit of commercial-free ABC and SBS TV in Oz because they’re more likely to have programmes that make me think, but not always.
I rarely find commercial TV’s stuff thought-provoking but don’t mind people who find it so although it’s probably a more damaging mind-altering drug than the ones in which I prefer to imbibe.
Escapism is still escapism.

Frank L Wright: TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

I’ve just been listening to a one of your countrymen, John Cabot-Zinn, on the radio in an interview, advocating meditation – to come to a non-judgmental awareness of our self.
There’s sweet fackall about him on the net – he’s not a nethead.

John Cabot Zinn writes “Guess what? When it comes right down to it, wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that’s what you’ve wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that’s what’s on your mind. Whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. The important question is, how are you going to handle it? In other words, “Now what?”

Good stuff. 

Chris is a brilliant actor and is sure to be a great addition to the case of Heroes (which I’ve been keeping track of via bittorrent).

I was skeptical at first about Heroes, but it’s quickly grown on me.

I was the same way. I figured it would either suck or be canceled, but I watched it anyway. Every week (with a couple exceptions), I have been left at the end of the show going “OMG! Don’t stop there!! What happens next??? I don’t wanna wait another week! Waaaaaaaa!”

It’s like someone with a clue about comics snuck into NBC and beat up the programming executives and forced them to air the show and then hypnotized the viewing public into actually watching it. It’s like X-Men without the tights and a bit more “real life”…but not so much real life that you can’t see someone teleport through time or fly or have mutant healing powers…