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neadods ([personal profile] neadods) wrote2007-02-27 07:23 am

Assd. Stuff

AAAAAAAHHHHHHH! *squees and runs in circles* I thought George was a one-off guest star! Claude! Bad guy being seduced to the mutant side of the force! Claude! Baby Hiro! CLLLLAAAAAAUUUUUUDE!

What I love, love, love about this show is how they answer questions - they even *tell* you which questions they're going to answer - and then they open up five more cans o' worms. What makes the mutants (for lack of better verbiage, I'm slipping into X-Men terminology) work willingly with the company? Does George know? Who was Claude protecting?

And damn, that "I think you're better than tha-" *BLAM!* scene got me right in the gut. I'm with M: how did he *survive* that?

In short, Heroes rocks more than a geology college in a quarry.

And yet more musings on my stuff, complete with a "I think I know what I'm going to do, but it helps to have validation" poll.

I'm setting up new shelves for my DVD/VHS collection, and as I move things, I'm culling out old VHS tapes that will be donated to the library where I grew up. Now, some things are easy to dump, because I have them on DVD. It's the ones I don't that I wonder whether I should keep or not. (Bear in mind that things set aside for the library won't actually be delivered until around Christmastime, so I can always fish something out if I really need it.)

[Poll #936225]

We will return to our regularly scheduled Who squee soonish. If nothing else, one of the new shelves has become a "fandom du jour" shrine with all the videos and tie-in books. V. handy to have them all at once; I'm thinking to see if the DWMs will fit somewhere there as well.

[identity profile] bulky-monster.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I know! This show just fills me with so much glee, it defies my tendencies towards exaggerated description.

I can't even think of writing fic about it, because unlike EVERY SINGLE ONE of my other fandoms, they leave absolutely nothing to be desired.

[identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I can find room for the occasional drabble (scroll back my fic tag and you'll find Claude getting lucky in a rather depressed way), and eventually the crossover impulse will become overwhelming. But big stories? No way, there's no room for them! Everything is so obviously mapped out in the smallest detail.

[identity profile] bulky-monster.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, admittedly, huge crossover cravings here too. Also with "The Office" US, for some reason. I want every science fiction hero ever to end up on The Office, just so I can play with Jim and Dwight in outer space.

But yeah, I agree the detail leaves no room. Anyway they give just the right amount of emotional responses to drama, as well as appropriately paced character development, so there's no temptation towards "missing scenes" or revealing vignettes, at least not for me.

I'm saving your drabble and other fic for tomorrow at work, btw, thanks ;)
lizbetann: (hiro)

[personal profile] lizbetann 2007-02-27 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
As illustration for how meticulous the creators are in how they put the show together...

Last year at a con, there was a panel about myth building in TV. At the time, I was gently mocking the two show runners for a new fall show (Heroes) because every question that came up, they answered with, "Well, on 'Heroes' we..."

Now I know that they answered like that because they had actually considered ahead of time such questions and worked out answers. And it makes me love them so much.

I need more Heroes icons. Seriously.

[identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no Claude icon and there is no Claude community. These things are wrong.
lizbetann: (doctor who)

[personal profile] lizbetann 2007-02-27 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Well... you could just have a blank white icon and call it "Claude". ;)

[identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
*amused snort*

[identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
PS - which con was this? Because we need to go back and give them great big hugs.
lizbetann: (zen fen by lumin)

[personal profile] lizbetann 2007-02-27 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
San Diego Comic Con last year. And I only saw the panel because I was holding seats for people who wanted to come in for a larger panel later. (I also saw Forest Ackerman, Ray Harryhausen and Ray Bradbury basically sit around and let us listen into them having a reminiscence party for the same reason. ;)

[identity profile] bulky-monster.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I know! Unlike some shows *coughLOSTcough* they actually have some idea of what's going to happen next. And they give us clues about it, yet still keep us in suspense. The show is genius :)