Tonight’s episode: “Landslide.”
Word came down from NBC today that not only is Heroes returning next season (like that was ever in question) but that there will be a spinoff called Heroes: Origins. I’ve heard that Daniel Way is Executive Producer on that one.
I’m not sure how I feel about a spinoff so soon in the run of a successful show. I’d rather they just focus on getting the show out with a minimum of long breaks between new episodes. Unfortunately, that’s not on track until season three. In the meantime we get this odd Heroes/American Idol spinoff. Strange days, indeed.
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I don’t think it’s really a spin-off so much as (hopefully interesting) filler that’ll cut down on repeats and fill the season out. NBC ordered a total of 30 episodes of “Heroes”, 24 of which will be regular “Heroes”, and the remaining 6 will be “Heroes:Origins”, so I assume they’ll run during the same time slot. Hopefully they’ll play like the Hiro in the future episode. That was really a filler episode, but I loved it.
A new show that takes place in the universe of another, pre-existing show is, by definition, a spinoff.
Regardless, I’m intrigued but wary.
Incidentally, tonight’s episode was A-W-E-S-O-M-E.
Sylar has a week to live, man. He’s officially teetering on the precipice of being the worst of all comic characters, the undefeatable villain who somehow always loses. (See iFanboy’s discussion of Black Bolt in this week’s Marvel Zombies; Sylar has reached the point where he could say “DUCKIES” and talksplode everyone else on the show.)
You’ll never see Kitty Pryde put her phasing powers to use that way. Very satisfying dispatching, that. On the other hand, you had the Hiro sparring match… “Man, this is fun, but it seems like there was something else I needed to do… what was it?… pad an episode of a TV show?… oh, no, the most important, urgent thing ever. That’s right.”
That Daniel Way joke was totally not funny.
I’m still in the middle of the episode, but I’m loving it.
YOU TOO CAN LEARN MASTER SWORDSMANSHIP IN 1 HOUR!
Boom.
Well, DD: Yellow was sitting on the top of that stack. Hulk: Gray was the next one. The Silver Surfer was the forth book. What was book 3 and 5? These ones were well tucked away. All Marvel exposure.
I really need a course like the one Hiro got from his father. One class, couple of hours, the off to save the world! Pure cheese, but I loved every second of it!
C.
Quote: “Well, DD: Yellow was sitting on the top of that stack. Hulk: Gray was the next one. The Silver Surfer was the forth book. What was book 3 and 5? These ones were well tucked away. All Marvel exposure.”
Actually those were there because they are Jeph Loeb books, who writes for Heroes. He also writes for Marvel currently.
He also is the only writer I don’t like. His Spider-Man Blue was the worst as was Daredevil Yellow, and his new books at Marvel (Wolverine, Fallen Son) suck too. He’s a boring comics writer, but luckily most other Marvel books rule.
If you want some good jeph Loeb Comics read his The long haloween and dark victory two very good storys about batman.
Great episode, and looking forward to the finale.
From Heroes Fansite “Heroes Revealed”:
“As mentioned in the official description of episode 23, most of the action during the season finale will take part at Kirby Plaza. And everybody knows what
It’s named after Jack Kirby as a tribute to one of the absolute giants in the history of comics, if not *the* giant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kirby
“YOU TOO CAN LEARN MASTER SWORDSMANSHIP IN 1 HOUR!”
I also thought about that, but maybe Hiro stopped/slowed time. That way he could have spent as much time as he needed. Just a thought.
You can read about the new Heroes: Origins series next year at brilliantbutcancelled.com:
http://blogs.brilliantbutcancelled.com/newswire/2007/05/heroes_spinoff.php
You can read about the new Heroes: Origins series next year at brilliantbutcancelled.com:
http://blogs.brilliantbutcancelled.com/newswire/2007/05/heroes_spinoff.php
If you want some good jeph Loeb Comics read his The long haloween and dark victory two very good storys about Batman.
Batman: Hush is also a good read, while not on the level of Dark Victory or The Long Holloween it’s a gorgeous story that shows why Jim Lee was once so great (I think it’s his best work) and more than almost any other story it really shows the expanse of the Batman family and their opinions of each other.
Sylar has to die next week. Period.
Okay, after reading the Brilliant But Cancelled write-up, I acquiesce. It is a spin-off. I guess I misunderstood how it was going to work. I was thinking of it as “Heroes” supplementary material, but apparently it is a series in and of itself.
Like “Maude”.