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Wow! That thing looks awesome!
todd - get this. it\'s the bomb.Quote from: alexanderzurflu;145809Quote from: FreeSpirit;145799since Tka & I will be at Osiris watching the best funk/jazz group ever!
:point: Be careful on that limb, looks like it\'s about to snap.
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Season finale. SWEET!
Holy ****!! WOW!! I don\'t want to give anything away cause I know there\'s a handful of people who won\'t have seen it yet, but wow. One of the best season finale\'s I\'ve ever seen. So can\'t wait for season 2. Will def have to check up on the ongoing graphic novel through the summer, so I can get
my fix.Quote from: wikipediaWhen the series premiered in the United States, it was the night\'s most-watched program among adults aged 18-49, attracting 14.3 million viewers overall and receiving the highest rating for any NBC drama premiere in five years.[3] On October 6, 2006, NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly announced Heroes had been picked up for a full season.[4] On January 17, 2007, Reilly announced Heroes had been picked up for a second season.[5]. The second season of Heroes will consist of 24 episodes,[6] and the first season of new spinoff Heroes: Origins will include 6 episodes.[7]
a spinoff already?Quote from: zap2it.com\'Heroes\' Expands Universe with \'Origins\'
Stand-alone episodes will help NBC cut down on repeats
By Rick Porter
May 14, 2007
NEW YORK -- You want more "Heroes"? NBC is going to give you more "Heroes" next season.
The network has hit upon a way to keep the show repeat free for nearly the entire season, ordering more episodes of the show and embarking on a quasi-spinoff called "Heroes: Origins." Combined, the shows will account for 30 original episodes next season.
"We\'ve got something I call the \'bulk-up challenge\' for next year, which is trying to stay more consistent in our scheduling for the audience," NBC chief Kevin Reilly told reporters Monday at a press conference announcing the network\'s 2007-08 schedule. "We asked [\'Heroes\' creator] Tim Kring to come up with an idea, and what I love is not only did we bulk up with 30 hours next season, but also a whole new idea which I think is going to take the show to the next level."
The "Origins" series will consist of six stand-alone episodes, with each one introducing a new character and telling his or her back story. They\'ll take place within the "Heroes" universe but won\'t be tied into the main arc of the series, although one or two regular characters may pop up.
It will also carry an interactive element: After all six "Origins" episodes air, viewers will be able to vote on which character joins the main show the following season.
The idea for "Origins" springs from positive fan reaction to several side characters introduced this season -- Reilly cites Charlie (Jayma Mays), the waitress with the perfect memory, as an example -- and a desire to avoid momentum-draining breaks like the one the show took earlier this spring.
"I don\'t think the audience minds taking a week off, particularly during the holidays," Reilly says. "It\'s just the long hiatuses or weeks worth of repeats where we get in trouble."
Just how the "Origins" episodes will be scheduled along with the main "Heroes" storyline has yet to be worked out. The most likely scenario, Reilly says, will be to have "Heroes" start its second season in the fall and run more or less straight through its 24 episodes, with perhaps a short break during the holidays. "Origins" would then follow at the end of the season. Another option would be to run "Origins" "as a chunk" in the spring, before the concluding episodes of "Heroes."
"I\'ll tell you one thing you won\'t see is \'Origins\' peppered throughout," he says. "I think that would be difficult for the audience to navigate."
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I was left wanting with the finale.
It seemed fairly anti-climatic as the final battle was pretty weak and you could predict the ending by just paying attention.
It was good and had some OMG! moments yes but it could have been better I think. I did enjoy how it left things to continue right into the next season and this whole Origins idea is straight from Comics. It should help to flesh out the Heroes Universe more. -
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I was left wanting with the finale.
It seemed fairly anti-climatic as the final battle was pretty weak and you could predict the ending by just paying attention.
It was good and had some OMG! moments yes but it could have been better I think. I did enjoy how it left things to continue right into the next season and this whole Origins idea is straight from Comics. It should help to flesh out the Heroes Universe more.
i agree man, i could have def. had a better battle at the end with Sylar but i thought everything else was pretty good. i wasn\'t expecting all that to happen, along with the introduction to a new super villain....... I def. think Hiro\'s dad was the samurai guy. i\'m looking forward to the next season. I\'m intrigued by what Origins will bring..... as long is it can tied me over till Heroes starts up again i\'ll be happy. -
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I\'m intrigued by what Origins will bring..... as long is it can tied me over till Heroes starts up again i\'ll be happy.
It\'s not gonna be before the next season it\'s gonna be during the next season.Quote from: zap2it.comJust how the "Origins" episodes will be scheduled along with the main "Heroes" storyline has yet to be worked out. The most likely scenario, Reilly says, will be to have "Heroes" start its second season in the fall and run more or less straight through its 24 episodes, with perhaps a short break during the holidays. "Origins" would then follow at the end of the season. Another option would be to run "Origins" "as a chunk" in the spring, before the concluding episodes of "Heroes."
"I\'ll tell you one thing you won\'t see is \'Origins\' peppered throughout," he says. "I think that would be difficult for the audience to navigate."Quote from: leith;145968I was left wanting with the finale.
Isn\'t that kinda the point though, to leave you with a desire for the next season? I know what you mean though it wasn\'t quite action packed enough, but I think they can\'t blow it all out right outta the gates. I can see this show going for quite awhile, so they gotta have somewhere to go and build to, and remember that Peter is not the Peter he was in the future episodes, with the control over his powers and what not. I don\'t know to each their own but I thought it was great. -
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I was left wanting with the finale.
Quote from: Me!;146071Isn\'t that kinda the point though, to leave you with a desire for the next season? I know what you mean though it wasn\'t quite action packed enough, but I think they can\'t blow it all out right outta the gates. I can see this show going for quite awhile, so they gotta have somewhere to go and build to, and remember that Peter is not the Peter he was in the future episodes, with the control over his powers and what not. I don\'t know to each their own but I thought it was great.
I\'m watching the Season Finale of a 23? episode series. I\'m pretty sure I have plenty of desire for the next season already.
I just feel a bigger ending would have created more of a desire than what we got. I mean we watch these characters developing their powers all season for this one specific task and it goes down like that? :idunno:
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I was left wanting with the finale.
Quote from: Me!;146071Isn\'t that kinda the point though, to leave you with a desire for the next season? I know what you mean though it wasn\'t quite action packed enough, but I think they can\'t blow it all out right outta the gates. I can see this show going for quite awhile, so they gotta have somewhere to go and build to, and remember that Peter is not the Peter he was in the future episodes, with the control over his powers and what not. I don\'t know to each their own but I thought it was great.
I\'m watching the Season Finale of a 23? episode series. I\'m pretty sure I have plenty of desire for the next season already.
I just feel a bigger ending would have created more of a desire than what we got. I mean we watch these characters developing their powers all season for this one specific task and it goes down like that? :idunno:
It set up alot of different things for the next season which was cool for continuity though I will agree there.
fair enough broseph, fair enough. It was more of an emotional finale than an action one, so I def know what you\'re saying, but I was satisfied, pretty much what I\'ve expected from the rest of the season. -
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yah, when i saw Nikki come in and hit Sylar i was waiting for all of the rest to follow suit and start battling him. but he did sneak away into the sewers so he will be back.
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what?! chris you\'re a great guy and all, but that was the suckiest bunch of suck to ever waste my time! they spent time showing peter learning to use all the various powers he\'d gathered, but the one power he\'s been closest to his entire life, flying, and he what? forgot he knew how to do that?!! bullshit! why didn\'t he just fly off and not kill his own brother?! why didn\'t anyone think of that episodes ago when they knew there would be a show down with peter blowing up at the end? \'hey guys, you know what? when i start to go nuclear, i\'ll just fly up into the atmosphere to a safe level and let it out. problem solved."
and then with all those heroes around, knowing that sylar is a hard-to-kill bad guy and they just forgot to keep an eye on him? nobody bothered to look over to where he\'d been and saw the huge trail of blood?! why would all those people trying to kill sylar, you know, NOT go into the sewer and grab him? he\'s obivously not getting that far, what with the massive blood loss and all.
so weak, so lame. there\'s no way i\'m watching this show next season, as it made me feel dumber just watching this episode. not that the rest of the season was particularly engrossing, more like cotton candy for the mind. like lost\'s retarded cousin. that being said, i can only hope that lost won\'t cheese out as **** as heroes did, but this whole season has been borderline mind-numbing and this finale just sealed it. it was a pleasant, thoughtless way to kill an hour, but then to wank it off so insipidly was damn near insulting!! like no one is going to notice the gigantic gaping plot holes and logical inconsistancies presented in the finale... i like shows that make me think or that don\'t require any thought at all. but don\'t give me something that is only going to make me think about how crappy it was!! -
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what?! chris you\'re a great guy and all, but that was the suckiest bunch of suck to ever waste my time! they spent time showing peter learning to use all the various powers he\'d gathered, but the one power he\'s been closest to his entire life, flying, and he what? forgot he knew how to do that?!! bullshit! why didn\'t he just fly off and not kill his own brother?! why didn\'t anyone think of that episodes ago when they knew there would be a show down with peter blowing up at the end? \'hey guys, you know what? when i start to go nuclear, i\'ll just fly up into the atmosphere to a safe level and let it out. problem solved."
and then with all those heroes around, knowing that sylar is a hard-to-kill bad guy and they just forgot to keep an eye on him? nobody bothered to look over to where he\'d been and saw the huge trail of blood?! why would all those people trying to kill sylar, you know, NOT go into the sewer and grab him? he\'s obivously not getting that far, what with the massive blood loss and all.
so weak, so lame. there\'s no way i\'m watching this show next season, as it made me feel dumber just watching this episode. not that the rest of the season was particularly engrossing, more like cotton candy for the mind. like lost\'s retarded cousin. that being said, i can only hope that lost won\'t cheese out as **** as heroes did, but this whole season has been borderline mind-numbing and this finale just sealed it. it was a pleasant, thoughtless way to kill an hour, but then to wank it off so insipidly was damn near insulting!! like no one is going to notice the gigantic gaping plot holes and logical inconsistancies presented in the finale... i like shows that make me think or that don\'t require any thought at all. but don\'t give me something that is only going to make me think about how crappy it was!!
I don\'t know, I like it, the show drew me in, was always watching with a big group of people which adds to it.
Am I gonna say it\'s not hokey?
no.
Cheesy?
no.
Do i like it anyway.
yes.
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for the record, its not your liking of the show that\'s got me riled up, its the **** poor quality of the finale. i only developed the disdain due to the finale, in fact. i do harbor a bit of resentment that it got way popular and studio 60 got cancelled. the difference in intelligence levels between those two shows was huge, yet the simpler of the two won out in the public\'s mind. but that\'s ok, like i said, i don\'t mind watching mindless tv sometimes. but this finale was insulting. we\'ve been watching all season but the finale treated us as if we hadn\'t been paying any attention. why spend an entire episode showing us peter learning to use his powers on his own (without the original power holder being near) then, for the finale, completely iognore that entire episode. i still don\'t get it. why couldn\'t peter just fly himself off?? it wasn\'t ever explained that he couldn\'t do that, hell, the season started off with him flying! now, all of a sudden, he forgets that he can fly??
to be honest, i feel like the ending was rushed - like maybe if they\'d had another half hour/hour then it could have wrapped up a bit more neatly. but as it stands it was insulting. everyone suddenly forgets their main purpose for being there in the first place (to get sylar and stop peter from blowing up) and just let sylar crawl off? nikki et al can be excused, they were there to get micah, but everyone else just stopped bothering to pay any attention to *the* bad guy of the series?? again, i felt insulted by that. i know that reality works a bit differently in comic book world, but really? the best they could do (with a damn fine premise going into it) was to have all the characters suddenly get a case of the dumbs?
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I\'ll def give you the whole why didn\'t Peter just fly away himself thing. But as far as why weren\'t they watching Sylar thing, he was um "dead". Nikki and D.L. were watching Micah and Molly, and Claire and Noah (HRG) were I\'m sure taking care of Parkman, he did get shot multiple times. I dont\' find this aspect of it to be too unbeleivable, but as I said I hear ya on the Peter flying thing.
btw: Watched Studio 60 a couple times couldn\'t get into it. Maybe it\'s just cause I missed the first few cause after teh first few Heroes the Weeds season was ending. -
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Peter did not fly away himself because he was in the midst of blowing up(read using a power). He has yet to learn how to use 2 powers at one time fluently. No big surprise there really when Nathan flew in.
As for Sylar sulking away we do have to remember this is a comic book based type of series. The Villian sulking away to fight another day is a device way overused in hero comics so no big surprise there either.
My biggest complaint was/is the way the battle went down. Too short and not enough "teamwork" which it seemed with the combination of powers there would have made for some spectacular TV. I mean I understand they are no X-Men but they are capable of kicking some ass.
Let us see it!
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just watched the last episode last night....terrible. I probably will not watch going forward, but who knows, what else do I do on a monday night. Where else could this possible go in the future? I think they just lost a TON of viewers with that finale.
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i\'ve been skimming these posts, and skipping over the sections with details, but the finale has been getting blasted on pretty much every board i\'m on..
haven\'t seen mike chime in yet.. curious to hear his opinion, as a regular contributor to this thread.
we got 3 more episodes in last night. we\'re through 9 so far, and like i said before, still loving it. -