Heroes: SPOILERS!!!

Well, the cheerleader did stop the one guy from going nuke and destroying maybe a city block or two last week. And Peter saved her. And Didn't Hiro save some folks when a car or something was exploding?

 

Linderman is a crime boss. He ordered the deaths of the big guy who used to work for him and the two FBI agents, among others. Xavier has been more and more of a prick over the years, but he'd never order a murder.

I do think Linderman is more than just a pure bad guy, though. Excellent casting choice, too.

 

By the way, since it is a similar target audience, did a lot of people here try to download the Spider-Man 3 clip? I let mine run for 30 minutes and finally closed it, but I found it elsewhere this morning.

Hope this link works for anybody interested. Remember, this is supposed to be taken down tonight. For anybody interested in the movie, it's worth watching. It may give away a little too much, though.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/31776

 

Shameless bump...to counter the B-list and C-list movie actor threads.

 

Saw last night where the final five chapters start on April 23.
Wikipedia also reports the show has been picked up for a second season.

 

OK, so Heroes returns tonight and the commercials make the final five chapters look pretty damn good.

My biggest question, though, is has it been picked up for another season? The way they said "The final five chapters begin Monday" made it seem like that's going to be all she wrote. Will the show get a second season?

I hope so because before they took a seemingly interminable hiatus, it was one of my favorite shows on TV.

 

Heroes doesn't return until next week. You get two episodes of Earl tonight.

The NBC promos I saw over the weekend say that the final five episodes start, "a week from Monday."

 

Dammit all! When will this hiatus ever end!

 

The current season of 22 new episodes year means that there will be 30 weeks without a new episode. Add to that the trend of not showing repeats (for some shows) and you won't see a show more than you'll see it.

 

It would be nice if they just had a fall/winter season and a spring/summer season. Could be completely different shows if they wanted, but have 22 episodes per season. That gives you 44 weeks of new programming, with only eight to fill up with repeats or crap. Heck, you could cut it to 20 episodes and still have 3 months of repeats.

For instance, NBC could have had a fall/winter season with Deal or No Deal, Heroes and Studio 60 on Monday nights and then done a spring summer season of Deal or No Deal (I mean, face it, Howie hasn't got shit else to do), Friday Night Lights and The Black Donnellys on Mondays. Do Law & Order and SVU one season and Crossing Jordan and Criminal Intent the next. Etc., etc., etc.

Of course, that would mean giving more creative people jobs (a good thing, I think) and I suppose it would probably cost the studios a bunch of money, but wouldn't the audiences be consistently higher if they were consistently able to watch new programming?

I know it's a pipe dream, but it would beat the current format (for the viewers, anyway). And I'd bet the first network to do it would reap huge rewards, at least in the short term.

 

FYI: The show returns tonight. I'll be DVRing for later viewing.

 

Wow...forty minutes after the return and nothing?!

Man, I missed this show....spent an hour being reminded of exactly why. The best being a hero going down for good....well, unless the time traveler screws it all up by fixing things.

Next week looks amazing. Can't have a comic-book TV show without an episode devoted to a look at a potential future....