Here we go folks: Welcome to a first look at season 4 of Heroes. Most exciting aspect? The addition of Prison Break's Robert Knepper as an evil Carnie leader. Probably not worth all the hype it's getting? Claire's sapphic college experiences. Glad to see Madeline Zima of Californication and The Nanny as her roommate, though.
We're hoping people start coming back to Heroes. Yeah, it faltered a bit the last two seasons or so, but those who stuck it out know that it was worth it and, hopefully, this next season the show will turn itself around, even if Bryan Fuller did bail.
Came across a great video mashup featuring footage from "Heroes" and the song "Jizz In My Pants" from "Saturday Night Live".
Great footage, decent syncing and funny idea. Even better is the fact that I found this video via Greg Grunberg's (aka Heroes mind reader Matt Parkman) twitter feed.
Being a DVR addict, I rarely see commercials...Usually just when I'm in the midst of doing something with the TV on in the background, not really paying attention, or when watching something on the DVR and not being able to find the remote come fast forward time.
For the last two weeks I had been seeing the Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman) Insight commercial during Heroes and then today I just happened to catch it during a rerun that was playing while writing a previous post. This evening while watching Law & OrderGossip Girl on the DVR I was scrambling to find the remote and wait...is that Hayden Panettiere on this cell phone commercial?
Youtube...search...Hayden...how the hell do you spell that?...Panettiere...at&t...It is!
And then there was the related video, another Insight commercial featuring Chuck's Zachary Levi. Huh. NBC stars are really getting out there. I wonder, though, if this is all just coincidence or if NBC is making deals for it's actors. The fact that both Greg Grunberg and Zachary Levi are in commercials for the same car, in the same ad campaign, makes me think so. But where does the phone commercial fit in and why haven't I caught it on NBC yet?
Update:5/05/09 Just caught a new Neutrogena Deep Clean Cream Cleanser starring Hayden Panettiere. She's actually been a spokesperson for a while now, but this is the first new one in quite some time. Funny, too, is that it aired during Gossip Girl, the same show her cell phone ad ran on.
Tonight's season finale of Heroes was pretty fantastic at times. The death of Nathan, Peter's limo surprise for Sylar, seeing the syringe disappear from Danko's hand, Parkman erasing Sylar's mind, the cleansing bonfire, the surprise return of Nikki. Good stuff all around.
Except for the one scene which could have probably been the greatest the series had ever seen.
I'm talking about when Peter and Nathan tag teamed Sylar in the hotel room, of course. Their walk and talk down the long hotel corridor, the build up, I was expecting a battle of biblical proportions, a fight to end all fights...And we got blue light shining on Claire's eyeball. What a freakin' cop out.
Whether it was budget cuts or time constraints it was pretty disappointing. The story lines for both the end of Volume 4 and the beginning of Volume 5 lived up to my expectations. It's a shame the execution didn't.
I somehow forgot to mention Heroes in my previous post. After they fired the writing staff a few months back I was worried about continuity. I wasn't sure a new team could pick up where the previous left off and keep the quality. Granted, things were getting a bit slow, so I'm happy they made the change and things seem to be picking up.
I've been really enjoying the Rebel story line. They should have created a promotional campaign around it - I think it could have rivaled "Save The Cheerleader, Save The World". I'm picturing NBC Nightly News commercials being hacked into, ghost text messages to fans, et al. Anyone at NBC listening? Probably not.
Last week's episode ended with Petrelli family in some kind of abandoned compound called Coyote Sands, lover lorn duo Danko and Noah at war and Ando and Hiro delivering Baby Matt Parkman to Matt Parkman.
I'm guessing Coyote Sands is either where they created the superhumans or an internment camp from a previously failed attempt to corral them. The Matt Parkman Sr. and Jr. storyline could be exciting. I'd love to see what happens when they, er, work together...as much as a toddler can participate with an adult and I'm guessing Noah is on his way to Coyote Sands to team up with the Petrelli's and Mohinder (who set his sites on the compound last week) to officially declare war on Danko. Exciting.
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