Heroes season 2 NO SPOILERS

[Buddy]

Watched ep1 last night.

Wasn't impressed.

[Noisybast]

Heh, have you ever thought of running your own Roger Mellie-style TV reviews column, Ump?

"Next week, we take a look at the upcoming Doctor Who special: SHITE!"

[worldshown]

I quite enjoyed it when I saw it, though it was a bit slow bedding in characters into their new surroundings.

Although, according to Wikipedia, the makers didn't do their homework when it comes to one of the new characters. Apparently Japan only had dealings with Holland in the 17th century.

[Bolt-01]

SPOLIERS! Some of us are still only watching this for the first time on the BBC. Sheesh.

Guess I'd be better just avoiding any thread about this...

Bolt-01

[worldshown]

Come on, I was at least trying to be vague.

[Buddy]

I've read the story details for the next few weeks and it looks like it'll all pan out in the end.

Guess I'll just have to try and be a bit more patient.

[Bico]

SHOME SHPOILERSH (ISH)









Not very subtle in some of it's exposition, is it?  "We're gonna bring this company down!" isn't really the kind of thing people say several months into a masterplan, I imagine - certainly not over an unsecure mobile phone.  I would have thought it was the kind of thing they got out of their system  *before they start* the masterplan.  The Irish accents were a bit... hm.
Are they REALLY going to rip off the 'Colossus' little sister has the Legacy Virus' storyline from X-Men?  That was turgid and dull even in comics - god knows how it'll pan out on the screen.

Heroes has always struck me as being a victim of it's own hype - it's an okay show that's never shown the level of originality or invention it's actually credited with, presumably because of the traditionally non-sci-fi audience that watches it and perhaps thinks that a great many things that have been seen so many times (the Watchmen riff or the episode set in the future, for instance) have never been done before on tv.
BSG and X-Files ploughed much the same furrow, and like both those shows, if you aren't in on the lovin' you might look upon it as rather too po-faced and slightly ashamed of it's fantasy leanings.

[Art]

That accent is like being stabbed in the ear every time I hear it.

[Bico]

There are lots of Englishmen in Cork.  By statistical probability, at least one of them has to be a robber.

[the shutdown man]

I quite liked the episode, it didn't have the same urgency as the series 1 pilot, and it seems like it may take a while for the "big season plot" to become obvious this time around, but still I liked it.  

Some Ep 1 Spoilers (if you haven't seen it, and if you haven't, what are you doing on this board).....

I particularly enjoyed the scenes with Mr. Bennet gritting his teeth at his crappy day job.

Also, what was the deal with Nathan briefly seeing his own badly scarred reflection? Is this the "wounds within", or was he actually burned, and somehow healed?

And as much as I liked that final scene, WHY did they attempt the Irish accents? AND they threw in phrases like "For the love o' Pete!" . All it needed was a "Stroke me clover!" and the circle would have been complete. Usually I've noticed it's better for Americans not to even bother trying with the Irish accent.

[Bico]

In fairness, I only know a couple of Japanese phrases, and there were still a few bits of spoken dialogue I noticed were inaccurately subtitled (Hiro doesn't say a four-letter word, for a start, he says he's in "a pinch"), so there's probably Japanese speakers who think his and George Takei's Japanese accents are bloody terrible.
The Iraqi bloke in Lost has a wandering accent, too.  he sounds very English in a lot of scenes.

[Art]

Well, there'd be a reason for that...

I also noticed that the awful "english" guy, when speaking Japanese, seems to do it with a definate American accent.

[Roger Godpleton]

I'm guessing this will be on BBC sooner rather than later though.

[Bico]

Depends if they want to pay for the second series.  A good barometer of this is if Jo Whiley ever suddenly stops gushing about how brilliant it is for all of five fucking seconds - chances are the Beeb have dropped it (see also 24, The Simpsons).

[Steve Green]

The BBC have definitely bought S2 and will show it in 2008.

In fact, I think they bought it before S1 aired.

- Steve