Heroes season 2 NO SPOILERS

[Byron Virgo]

BBC bought first UK screening rights for series 2 at the same time as they bought the repeats of series one. 24 and The Simpsons were both Fox productions, who raised the price to the point where the BBC argued they could no longer afford to bid for the rights when they came up for renewal (purposely so in the case of 24, allegedly, as Fox wanted to move the show to the News International-owned Sky, a practice later repeated with Lost, despite the significant drop in viewing figures).

[Radbacker]

Just to be smug, we're getting this Fast tracked to our local station(free to air not cable) and it starts next week which only puts us about two weeks behind the US.  They're also fast trakcking Bionic Woman(next week)so I'll gove that a go as it'll be on before Lost.  season 3 of Prison Break started this week too(though I dont watch that).
No sign of BSG season 3 at all so I guess it'll be DVD for that one.

CU Radbacker

[the shutdown man]

Saw episode 2 last night, liked it, but they're still no closer to fixing those monstrous Irish accents, in fact they just added some more people trying to use them.

But it occured to me that they seem to be lifting a bit more from Watchmen this series; In series 1, we had a shady genius who has a plan to unite the world by manufacturing a disaster. Now, in Series 2 so far, it seems someone is trying to pick off members of the older generation of heroes. Granted, they have many influences, and they've been able to give it all a good feel of originality, but still....

[Bico]

There's no such thing as original ideas anymore - we're just gradually boiling everything down into one great big melting-pot of mediocrity - or so the 14 year-old kid on Stargate SG1 says, anyway, and if *anyone* knows about great big melting-pots of mediocrity, it's the writers of Stargate SG1.

It's down to whether or not it entertains you, I suppose.  You could argue that beyond this, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, but I'd like to think that so far, the good in Heroes outweighs the bad.  I'm quite enjoying Hiro's journey through feudal Japan - complete with English accent.

[Bico]

Hiro's journey - "hero's journey" - I just got that!
That's dead clever.  Whatever they're paying these writers, it's not enough.

[the shutdown man]

For the life of me, I can't figure out whether or not the sarcasm in your second post also applies to your first.

Assuming that it doesn't, I agree with you, and I'm not complaining as such. I love Heroes, and even with the obvious similarities, I think it's a great story. All I'm saying is, they got away with it once. Is it a good idea to go back to the same well again?

[Buddy]

Episode 2 improved on ep1.

And yes, those Irish accents, why do Americans think the Irish say 'Boyo'??

James Cromwells character in LA Confidential did the same thing. I couldn't work out if he was supposed to be Irish or Whelch!

[Buddy]

Sorry that should be *welsh* i think.

God I'm tired.

[Bico]

"For the life of me, I can't figure out whether or not the sarcasm in your second post also applies to your first."

If it entertains you, does it matter?
But so you know - no.

[paulvonscott]

Wel, no spoilers on this thread has certainly spoiled a lot for me so far, cheers!

[the shutdown man]

Well there have only been two episodes so far, how are we actually supposed to say anything about Series 2 without sailing into spoiler territory?

[Buddy]

No spoilers from me.. I'm just saying if I like it or not.

But yes, the thread says NO SPOILERS so people, if you are including some sort of plot point or whatever please uses the spoiler tag. That's what it's there for.

[Buddy]

No spoilers from me.. I'm just saying if I like it or not.

But yes, the thread says NO SPOILERS so people, if you are including some sort of plot point or whatever please uses the spoiler tag. That's what it's there for.

[Buddy]

Bugger... double post... sorry...

[worldshown]

Just watched episode 3.

Doesn't look good for Mr. Bennett