My five cents on Heroes

I must admit that I pretty much have come to like the Heroes TV series. I'm now in the 2nd episode of season 2 (thanks to hulu – internet TV). Heroes is fairly easy to keep interesting, you just throw in a new hero with a new ability and viola you have a new story arch.

I also pretty much like the actors: Peter is a cutie, Sylar is a great bad guy and Zachary Quinto a cool actor and his Sylar character is quite different from the new Spock. Though, if there is one critique point that I have for Heroes it is that the bad guy's motivation is rather lousy. He wants to have all abilities to be something special… dah… anyway.

Then there is of course the Japanese league, Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura is a blast, though I'm not very fond of him tumbling around in the 17th century now in the second season. That felt like they have to desperately find a new story for him after he fulfilled his destiny concerning Sylar. Anyway, he is a cutie too and the only "real" Japanese by the way. His buddy Ando is American (though his Japanese is excellent and I can only hear but a tiny tiny accent). His dad George Takei speaks good Japanese, but you can hear from a mile away that he is American (lol). Anyway, Takei is great and I regret that his character disappeared from the series.

Claire and her dad are wonderful as well and Mohinder is another highlight. Which brings me to another point, the thing I like most about Heroes is its cultural diversity.

"Literary fiction", what snobs perceive to be "real art", still deals mostly with rich white people, whilst the "trivial" genres like SF and fantasy have embraced our planet as a whole and in Heroes there are black guys, Latinos, Asians, Indians and white people and it doesn't matter at all what color your skin has or where you're from. They're all humans and material for fascinating characters.

I think this is the biggest accomplishment of Heroes, that it so completely crosses the cultural, language and skin color barrier and that it is also "brave" enough to let the characters speak in their languages and have subtitles. Heroes is fun TV and I'm looking forward to the rest of season two and seasons three and four on hulu.