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Mon, May 21, 2007

Heroes

Posted at 9:08 pm MDT to Media

I got interested in this show about mid-way through the season. It has a big cast in a nice tangled storyline. Some flat out nasty people, but also a lot of shades of gray and cases where

And for a show on prime-time network TV it has an impressive amount of subtitled dialog. Two of the dozen or so main characters are a couple of otaku (media fans) from Japan, who are trying to save the world, and much of their dialog is in Japanese and subtitled. There have also been conversations in subtitled French.

The character who does a lot of the narration is from India.

George Takei plays an ambiguous character, the father of one of the Japanese Heroes (who is named Hiro). They did a very nice sword-training sequence with Takei's character and Hiro last week... there had been an extended quest for an antique katana that provided Hiro's oportunity to grow up and into his power.

Tonight was the season finale. Mostly satisfying, except that I'm not entirely sure that Sylar (a psychopath who SERIOUSLY needs to be disposed of) was permanently killed.

And the teaser for season two put Hiro near Kyoto in 1671. In a field with warriors on horseback. Very promising.

I suspect there was a hint that next season will explain part of why the super people have their talents

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