[Hey, kids. If you've been reading all my recaps this season, then you know I try to keep the snark to a minimum. This time, though, I offer my apologies in advance to the snarkophobic.]
After last week’s thesis entry, we have a short Heroes recap for you this week. Although there did seem to be a theme around the pitfalls of pride (Peter’s “I’m the most special!” and Mohinder’s every other word), I’d rather not focus on it. Instead, let’s face it: “Dying of the Light” was more irritating than entertaining or enlightening.
Which leads us to:
Big Irritation #1: They’ve got to get rid of the narration and those pre-show intros once and for all. The good-vs.-evil paradigm in the show itself is at least a bit more subtle and a bit less polar than they let both the promo department and Mohinder tell us it is. It’s getting a little insulting that they find us so stupid.
[SPOILERS AHEAD]
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We started out this week just recapping some shows, you know, like we do. But thanks to Heroes and The Sarah Connor Chronicles, we ended up talking about when and what you can forgive in serial sci fi writing. Watch it here!
Stuff We Watch:
- Heroes: “One of Us, One of Them” and “I Am Become Death”
- The Sarah Connor Chronicles: “Allison from Palmdale” and “Goodbye to All That”
- True Blood: “Escape from Dragon House”
- Fringe
- The Sarah Silverman Program: “High, It’s Sarah” and “Mongolian Beef”
Stuff We Play:
- Mega Man 9
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Reviews:
All this and the return of the Aquaman Conundrum! (patent pending)
This season of Heroes is still getting us to question who the “heroes” and “villains” really are. We’ve already seen one possible future that shows us who moves toward which side, but now they’re letting us see more of the characters’ motivations. In “Angels and Monsters”, the disparate storylines start to converge into one bigger arc, and two themes were stressed: vigilantism and proper guidance/support for “specials”.
In good fiction, as in life, there is no clear line between good and evil. That’s why we like it so much when a character acts not just for the sake of Good or, say, just to make things better for Satan, but has complex motivations with complex results. Though Heroes has had a seemingly simplistic morality for a while, with characters being explicitly “heroes” or “villains” without too much explanation of why they do the things they do, this episode not only blurs the line between good and evil, but questions whether there is any line there at all.
[Beware! Take Care! Spoilers and conjecture ahead!]
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This Saturday was National Coming Out Day, though that’s an odd name for an increasingly international observance.
We’ve both been out since the Carter administration, so in lieu of coming out (again), we’re celebrating with this list of our favorite out actors in sci fi and horror. And just think, not too long ago we would have had trouble coming up with a list half this size!
As usual, pick your favorites and tell us in the comments who we might have overlooked.
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I would normally stick this in our FriendFeed and call it a day, but I was curious to get other people’s thoughts on Watchmen character Ozymandias. MTV’s Splash Page quotes actor Matthew Goode, who plays Ozymandias in 2009’s Watchmen film:
“What he’s about is trying to save the world. … He’s also incredibly fit. He’s possibly the greatest physical specimen on the planet.”
“And yeah,” added Goode, “he’s possibly homosexual.”
To be honest, I never really thought much about Ozymandias’ sexuality, but there are some aspects of the character that could be read as “gay”, including some stereotypical ones used only by those with very primitive gaydar.
- His idol is Alexander the Great.
- Bubastis. Gays in media love the cats, but here’s a recent NY Times article on straight men who love their cats too. Perhaps too much? [Adam, I'm looking at you.]
- He kept his intelligence “in the closet”, you might say, by pretending to be a mediocre student.
- Those clothes!
- As Goode said, he’s “possibly the greatest physical specimen on the planet.”
- He’s in the perfume business.
And, in a theory so improbable it might just be used in the fourth season of Heroes:
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