'Villains' ought to make Heroes' fall return worth the wait
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I don’t know about you, but I don’t think much at all about Heroes these days, mainly since it became clear that Season 2 was a wash and Tim Kring and Co. wouldn’t be returning with new episodes until the fall.
That’s totally cool with me. I understand the show is costly and time-consuming to produce. Any effort to rush out a handful of new episodes this spring would likely result in sub-par results to little purpose. I wasn’t as harsh a critic of the recent season as some (though Alejandro and Maya certainly tried my patience), but I’ll be the first to admit a little time and a creative reboot couldn’t hurt.
Well, after perusing a recent BuddyTV report on what’s to come when the “Villians” story arc finally gets under way, I’m feeling confident it’ll be worth the wait.
The info is based on footage Kring and writer Jeph Loeb screened at the Jules Verne Adventures Festival back in December in L.A.
Spoilers follow…
According to the report, Elle (Kristen Bell) runs into Sylar (Zachary Quinto) and hints that she can be just as scary as him. Also, Mama Petrelli (Christine Rose) steps up within The Company, while the lockup where the most dangerous killer heroes are kept is breached.
Also, at some point all the main heroes are dead and there are something like 12 Sylars on the loose. I have to think that’s a glimpse of some kind of alternate future along the lines of New York after the bomb. And it sounds like Ali Larter will be back, though Niki won’t, and Adam (David Anders) finds a way out of that grave.
Good stuff, right?
While I’m on the subject of Heroes, I remarked recently that I didn’t totally disagree when former bit player Thomas Dekker, now starring in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, called the relationship between Milo Ventimiglia and Hayden Planetarium (not her real name, but funnier and easier to spell) creepy.
But I do take issue with his decision to comment at all. Bad taste, my friend.
Well Ventimiglia doesn’t quite fire back, but he does address the issue, which apparently has been drawing some attention from people who pay attention to such things.
When you’re in the public eye, you try to keep whatever you can private,â€? he tells the March GQ. “People can speculate and talk. But what can you do—stop living your life?
He’s not even annoyed by the insipid portmanteau the fangirls have given them: HALO (get it?).
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