SciFi Surplus #071 Heroes Council
September 13, 2008
Topics: Heroes, NBC, iTunes, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator Salvation, The Dark Knight
We’ve got a great show on the way! SciFi Surplus is all about giving you an alternative to regular talk radio. We give you timely news that you care about and discuss geeky topics from science fiction, fantasy and anything genre related. We’ll also throw in other stuff as necessary. And, of course, we try to work in as much fun as we can. Our topic in the Council of Great Relevance is the television show Heroes. Where has it been and what might get it out of the funk after the last strike-shortened season. In the news is a truce between NBC and Apple, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, the Governator, and even more Batman.
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I’m Casey and joining me on the show today is…
- Producer Girl Friday (in spirit)
- Vince
- Jeromy
Let’s get our geek on!
Anti-witness News
- NBC Shows Are Back On iTunes
- Doctor Who Gossip Puts McCann Back and Zeta-Jones In A Movie
- Dollhouse Stops Production To Fix Scripts
- The Governator On The Set Of T4. Link to picture.
- The Dark Knight Makes A Play for Oscars
- Hadron Collider Now Online. Link to the drinking game at io9.com.
The Council of Great Relevance
- Heroes Shown in Volumes
- What makes it good?
- What makes it bad?
- Favorite characters?
- Online comics.
Third Part of the Show
- Casey’s Reaction to Fringe Pilot
- Casey’s Reaction to True Blood
- Ace of Cakes Flame-war at TrekMovie.com
Credits
- Producer for this show: Girl Friday
- Producer: Randy
- X.O.: Vince
- Chief Writer: Bob
- News Director: John
- Audio Manager: Darren
- Attorney Princess: Steph
- Science Officer: Jeromy
- Sugar Mama: BriAnna
- Voice Talent: Dan
- Voice Talent: Dave
- Voice Talent: Nathan
- Host: Casey
September 15th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Some clarifications on my thoughts on Heroes:
-”Weak-ass powers” meant that the powers were lame, not necessarily weak. The Wonder Twins powers were not original or engaging, and Vince was correct that I was thinking of them when I wrote that.
-Sylar’s power is about being able to understand how things work. I imagine he would be able to look at any piece of machinery and know how it works, and in this case, the human brain is merely another piece of machinery which he must see/feel/experience in order to understand how it works and use that knowledge to develop that power in himself. I don’t think he ate the brains (ZOMBIE!), but had some way of understanding the inner workings of the specific brain to figure it out.