It would be a pity to throw away whatever French I've learnt in semester 1. J'aime apprendre le francais. I have to admit that learning French has added colour to my life, and the lessons were fun when I wasn't being grilled on verbs. "WHAT IS THE VERB! THE VERB IS MISSING. WHAT VERB IS IT?" The stuff of nightmares. And apparently the French don't find many things interesting. But that's a story for another day.
Can you identify the people in these 6 pictures? If you can, you are a Heroes nut like me. I love the Parkman doughnut one. It kinda explains how he got so fat. Its a police thing.I'm crazy about Heroes as I find the powers really cool. Ok some of them. The power to paint the future is really sad in my opinion because you can't really use it to save your life. Sylar comes along, and you start painting? Lol. Not to mention the white pupils thing is really kinda freaky.
No point though asking people which hero they would want to be, because if they had half a brain, they'd pick Peter Petrelli. I mean like duh. He's IMBA. He absorbs powers just by being near people who have them. He's Supermarvel man. The result when Marvel comics decides they should just concentrate every imaginable superpower into one guy. I bet the people at Marvel are kicking themselves for not having thought of him first.
In fact, the theme of the show shouldn't be saving the cheerleader, but saving Peter instead. I bet Sylar hates him because Sylar actually has to kill to do what he does. Life sucks when you're the bad guy. But that makes a really bad slogan, plus people would rather save cheerleaders. Its that whole damsel in distress and gorilla in heat thing. Plus cheerleaders look better when they are being saved. Yes I am biased. So what.
Despite all his powers, Peter makes a really lousy hero at first, cos he actually lost to Sylar when they met in Mohinder's apartment, despite the fact that he can actually stop time, walk over, smile at Sylar, sing him a nursery rhyme, moon him, then smash his head in, then throw him out of a window. And no one would even know about the mooning.
A picture of the Heroes cast. Guess which one is Sylar, the bad guy. No prizes. I swear its the eyebrows and the unshaven look.The series actually plays out quite well, although it starts very slowly at first. If you survive the first 2 episodes, you're hooked. I like the numerous plot twists in it, and the ending for season 1 was really good.
The only thing I'm really uncomfortable about in the series is Hiro's voice. When he says "Yata!" or "Flying man!" in that shrill voice of his, I'm sure I'm not the only person who cringes and wishes he could stop time too. If only to stop it just before he says "Yata!" and stuff something into his mouth. Actually I do stop time. I pause my video slider, and I move it slightly forward. My attempt to alter the space-time continuum.
And when he talks about saving the world, you can't help feeling that he's a little crazy sometimes, even though you KNOW what he's saying is the truth. I actually think post-apocalyptic Hiro is much cooler. No geeky glasses, and no annoying mannerisms. But he's a bitter little fart cos his best friend died. Boohoo. Well you can't have everything.
If you are really bored, watch Heroes. It makes a good time killer.