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BIGASS HEROES POST. [Aug. 17th, 2007|03:34 pm]
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HAI GUYS.

(No fanfic yet, but I'm working on it. Three four fics on the go at once, AARGH. :P But here's something nice to pass the time.)

So, I got the SFX Heroes special! :D The first something like 50% is given over to episode synopses and reviews from all of S1, plus Did You Spot?s and Memorable Moments and Best Lines and stuff. And, because SFX is awesome, these are full of snark and squee and in fact are fun to read like woah (despite the fact that they seem to have a vendetta against Isaac ;_;).

Then there are a bunch of interviews with the cast and the casting directors and the writers and anyone who happened to be hanging around at the time, and features on the effects and stuff. WHEE. :D

Did you know that when Hiro freezes time, everyone has to stand very still and not blink?

Or that Greg Grunberg auditioned for Nathan Petrelli (XDDD ♥), and Chris Eccleston was originally offered the role of Sylar?

Or that, according to figures, over two million people stopped watching Heroes after the summer hiatus (haha, pwned, all you Yanks, we don't have a hiatus in England! :P)? Tim Kring blames Daylight Savings Time. "When the sun stays out longer," he says, "people venture out to have sex. How can you compete with that?"

Ahahaha, Kring referred to himself as "the Grim Reaper". xD

And in some places, they talk about S2. :D

Greg Beeman, who I believe directed Homecoming amongst other episodes, says: "some of the characters you have come to know and love in fact DID die [in the season finale]." Please don't be Matt. Please don't be Matt. Please don't be Matt.

Tim Kring says there will be more episodes in S2 along the lines of "Six Months Ago", "Company Man" and "Five Years Gone", meaning sort of breathers from the main plot, maybe focused on character development, which he calls 'departure' episodes. "Rather than being a horizontal line, [6MA] was a vertical line that went down and dug deep", says the Kring.


According to Adrian "The Human Chin" Pasdar:
"I can't get specific, but I think that the [Petrelli] family as it's been structured between the four of us -- myself, Peter, Angela and Claire -- is going to open up a bit. You're going to have more insight into how that all came to pass. And it's either going to unfold like a cheap sweater, or it's going to be put back together very carefully by some talented people from the outside. We're all privy to what happens at the end and it does posit a new place that season two will pick up from.

"I do manage to pull some information, prior to the scripts being released; sometimes I don't. But I'm never confused by anything. It's always well laid out. Having said that, there are surprises when we read the scripts. We're just as enraptured reading them as, I think, the audience is watching the show. They're that exciting to read."

Christine "Ma Petrelli" Rose says:
"I've had a lot of thought put into [season 2], as to what really my motives are. There are still a lot of questions that I hope might be answered in the second volume, called 'Generations'. That title might intimate there'll be more news about what has gone on before, what might go on in the future. I thought at the beginning that it was my husband who had the powers, and so it's just been a thrill ride."

Masi "I Have Great Powah" Oka says that the question of where all these here power thingamajees actually come from will be properly answered "sometime in the future".


Sendhil "Just About Sexy Enough To Be Forgiven For My Shirt" Ramamurthy has this to say:
"The Sylar character profoundly changed Mohinder. He grew so much in those episodes -- it was very much an awakening for him. I enjoyed working with Zachary. I hope that I get back together with Sylar at one point or another. I know I shouldn't, because that means I'm going to die, but we bounce off one another well."
Okay, that wasn't so much to do with season 2, but I figured y'all would enjoy finding innuendo in it. :P He also said:

"I'm excited about how [season 2] starts for [Mohinder]. He's so much stronger, which I think makes sense for this character. He's come from a foreign country, landed in this place and has no idea what's going on, so he's grown a much thicker skin. My character is travelling around the world for the first four or five episodes, so I'm in contact with no-one, just meeting the new characters. In particular, there's one new actor coming up who I'm so excited to work with: Richard Schiff... his character is going to have a profound effect on mine. I have no idea where they'll take it, but it's going to be cool and to work with an actor of his calibre is going to be great."
Whee! :D


Sir Zachary of Quinto has little to say about the second season, but he did say something awesome: that he's been deliberately adopting bits and pieces of the mannerisms of characters Sylar's killed. GO TEAM ZACH! ♥
"For me, it was a choice that I made in 'Distractions', when I went to the Bennet house as the paper salesman. I made the choice to lay on the sickeningly sweet, loosely Southern accent on top of whatever I was doing in the scene," he said, as he valiantly fended off the advances of the smitten interviewers. "It was the genesis and then it continued for me as an actor to draw on the characteristics of the other characters that I was killing. There were choices I made in scenes to bring echoes of those characters to what I was doing. I just felt like I wanted to give it another layer for people to plug into."
All of which makes me want to jump him tell him how freakin' awesome he is finish writing That One Fanfic, which has, in the plan, a plotline which is totally justified by that. Yes.


And on top of all that: NEW HEROES!

1. Ricky the Irish Thug Gang Ringleader Person, played by Holt McCallany.
2. Maya, the Anonymous Woman with Undisclosed Powers, played by Dania Ramirez.
3. Yaeko the Japanese Princess, played by Eriko Tamura.
4. Takezo Kensei the Samurai Warrior and All-Round Hiro Fan Object, played by David Anders.
5. Detective Fuller the... Detective, played by Barry Shabaka Henley.
6. West the Flying Man, aka Claire's New Boyfriend! (He'll be the one in the preview who looked entirely too much like Brody the Hellbastard, then, and confused the heck out of me. *nods*) Confident and Mysterious and played by Nick D'Agosto.
7. Someone the Something, played by Sendhil's new BFF Richard Schiff. Maybe he's the guy from the preview who's taking over stalking duties on Mohinder.

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS. I CAN HAS SEPTEMBER NAO?
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