September 17th, 2008City of Heroes, City of Villains
The new season of Heroes premieres this Monday in the US and Canada and October 1 in the UK. It’s made up of two volumes (”Villains” and “Fugitives”), and while Season 2 left a lot of us underwhelmed, I’m excited to see some of the new villains we’ve been hearing about this past year.
Bonus content is generally a good thing, but this summer’s series of webisodes, “Going Postal”, left me scratching my head. I’m trying to think of something good to say about this three-parter, but all I can come up with is that Angela Petrelli (Christine Rose) makes an appearance in the last installment.
There were a lot of awkward aspects (the writing, the editing, the acting), but the pointlessness is what struck me most. This is not a rhetorical question, and I’d love to hear your thoughts: was there any reason to watch other than Heroes-fandom? And did anyone read the graphic novel of the same name?
You can see the whole thing in about ten minutes, and Hulu was nice enough to make them embeddable:
In related news, io9.com picked up the casting call for Heroes webisodes 4-8 today. Here’s your chance for Internet stardom! If you get cast, you can send my agent’s fee via Paypal.
Heroes Webisodes 4-8 - Casting Call
Shoots: Sept. 24th, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA.[RACHEL MILLS]
20’s. FEMALE. Ex-military, beautiful, athletic build, and mysteriously
troubled. OPEN TO ALL ETHNICITIES / GUEST STAR[RYAN HANOVER]
20’s. MALE. Quick tempered, plenty of attitude. An Asshole jock-type
(but not uber muscular). OPEN TO ALL ETHNICITIES / GUEST STAR[DAVID SULLIVAN]
Late 20’s Early 30’s. MALE. All-American, Rachel’s love interest.
David is a good guy through and through. Actor will need to bring a
physical-believability to a Jekyll-Hyde transformation. OPEN TO ALL
September 18th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Darnit! that Hulu only airs in the US. sigh. I must say though Lee, that pic of Echo looks kinda like you in that mask you were wearing in the last vlog!
September 18th, 2008 at 8:46 am
um…. “constrictor man”??? What a stupid ass low budget excuse for a power.
While i think the prospect of a boy version of black canary is kind of cool, the production value of these shorts is a little disappointing
September 22nd, 2008 at 5:55 am
Keith: Ha! He’d need to gain about 100 pounds. ;)
You can see the episodes on YouTube as well.
Jason: Yeah, I could even re-create the Constrictor Man effects on the vlog using just my handycam. :D