Two days late…
Let me run down for you a “schedule,” if you will, of my typical Monday night.
I generally get home between 5:30 and 6 and get started on dinner. After everyone’s eaten, me and the wife spend 45 minutes or so playing with the daughter before it’s time for her bath/getting ready for bed/reading a book to her/her going to sleep. After that (now around 8:30) I spend 30 minutes or so with the wife talking (because we really don’t see each other much) before turning my attention to homework for 3 or 4 hours before I pass out from exhaustion.
That doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for television viewing.
Thankfully, I’ve got one of those nifty DVR’s (I love you Time Warner!) for all my television recording needs. Monday is an especially important night because I’m a big supporter of all things Heroes (the wife really likes Journeyman, which is pretty solid and it’s set in my adopted hometown of San Francisco, so I’m compelled to watch) .
Last night, I was supposed to be writing a paper. Forces conspired to make this impossible. Forces, in this case, referring to my wife being forced to work late for some “budget related” reasons that necessitated in me picking up the daughter from day care (day care, mind you, in Lake Forest, and I work in Hemet…). But that, as you might guess (or, might not, whatever) meant that the wife and I had to switch cars, since her car has the kid’s car seat in it. Well, in all the hustle and/or assorted bustle of juggling the kid and whatnot, I forgot my books and laptop in my car. After getting some dinner with the kid, she fell asleep on the ride home, and once we were home she was just coherent enough to let me changer her diaper, put on her pajamas, and drink a bottle while half asleep on the couch before completely passing out.
What does any of this have to do with Heroes, right? Well, I now had one fully asleep 15 month-old, no accessible school material, no wife at home, and a few hours to kill. So, lucky for me, I was able to get caught up with my favorite group of broadcast, live-action, comic booky characters.
Spoiler Alert!
I have to say that Kensai turning out to be Adam Munroe, in hindsight, was pretty obvious. And I did catch on before it was revealed at the end of Monday’s episode. But nevertheless, it’s a plot twist I really like.
As an aside, I wonder if David Anders is always going to play a villain? I mean, yeah, he’s good at it, but can’t someone give the guy something else to do?
Anyway, this season is, I think, just as solid as what I saw from last year (which, admittedly, I had class on Monday last year, and no DVR, so I only saw about half of it) and at least this “chapter” will be resolved before they run out of scripts.
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November 8th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
And wouldn’t you know it, now I read this
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20158840,00.html
But I honestly disagree with some of what Kring says here. I think the Claire romance is needed. Claire, almost more than any other character, really doesn’t want her powers (Nikki, of course, doesn’t want to be an unstoppable killing machine, but that’s a little different…). She wants to go back to being a normal, teenage cheerleader who likes boys and occasionally goes out with them. Sure, making Claire’s love interest a one time abductee of her father was, probably, cliched; better to have had him have abilities, but never had contact with the company. But she NEEDED to have a love interest because she’s a 17 year old girl. I don’t care how powerful you are, if you’re a 17 year old girl there’s at least one boy you’re pining for!
Also, as we’ve seen, now, Hiro’s romance was needed as the catalyst for the viral apocalypse that Peter witnesses in the future…
Although, my wife’s response to Kensai being Adam Munroe was, “All over one kiss, it’s not like Hiro did her!” and there’s some merit in that point of view. But, then you have to consider that Kensai was betrayed, not just romantically, but philosophically by Hiro. Kensai was taught that he could be good and honorable, and the one who taught him this was, in his mind, the exact opposite. Add to that 300 years of seething, and well, apocalypse here we come!
November 8th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
I’ve heard about this show, “Heroes”. Thankfully, Season 1 is on DVD and the wife and I have Netflix. It should be arriving in time for when reruns hit the airwaves due to the writers strike. I look forward to watching it. On a different note, I know you said there would be a delay in us getting comics, but can you perhaps provide an estimate as to when the next one will arrive? Or perhaps you can draw stick figures with bubble text to give us some filler?
November 8th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Trust me, you don’t even want to see my stick figures…and Gilgrim…well, I can’t really “speak” for him. I mean, I could, but I won’t. Needless to say, there is some shit, and it may or may have not hit the fan. Plus, there’s some deadline or other he’s got for his non-Normality related work. So to completely not answer your question…soon?