At first I was afraid, I was Petrellified

[alexsarll]

Well, that Heroes finale was even more of an anticlimax than the first season's. I suppose I should hardly be surprised, I did spot the writer's name at the beginning. Jeph Loeb could write, many moons ago, but nowadays his name serves more as a biohazard warning than a credit. I suspect that unless I hear extremely good word on the third season - among it, that Loeb has taken an enforced sabbatical - then I'm out.
I don't think it helps matters that the BBC are screening it on Thursdays, the day when those of us who still go to the source for our superheroics are coming home with an armful of stranger, better, truer stories in the same vein.

Chris Morris on CERN; as against certain strands of celebrity journalism, he is at once entertaining and (for the general reader) enlightening. I like this sort of polymathic behaviour; Stephen Fry is the obvious example, but one of the joys of Alex James' Bit of a Blur is the way he loves space exploration every bit as much as cheese, champagne, beautiful girls and all the other splendid things in the world. A lot of autobiographies would do well to take a lesson from Alex James; he can admit that he's moved on in life to the extent of a total volte-face, without feeling the need to retrofit a load of moralistic wangst to the days of debauchery. Drink, drugs and shagging are the right thing for a rock star to do; "All happy endings imply gardens." There is no contradiction between these two statements.

Other links of possible interest: missing scenes from butchered silent classic Metropolis have surfaced - sadly without colour-tinting and Queen soundtrack, but I'm sure that can be fixed - and Iain Sinclair on 'The Olympic Scam'.

Tomorrow doesn't just mark the anniversary of some silly colonial insurrection - it'll also be 106 years since the election which returned Britain's first Labour MP, Kier Hardie. He must be so proud of Tony, Gordon and chums.

Comments

[kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com]

It's ages since I saw the Heroes finale but I seem to remember thinking "is that it?". Mainly because the series had been so short but I can't help thinking they just had to quickly change things because of the stupid writers' strike.

[baphomette.livejournal.com]

I've scanned the post & the comments on account of being an entire season behind, but AHAHHAHA at the title of this post ;)

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

I am determined not to tune into the 3rd series of Heroes though morbid curiousity might get the better of me.

"Alex James bassist in Blur" gives a recommendation in the front of my university tutor's pop cosmology book.

[renegadechic.livejournal.com]

theres a new trailer on youtube... or there was. someone took it down.

basically it sounds like 12 dangerous "heroes" broke out of the company and are gonna mess some stuff up. looks pretty dark! i think im the only one who liked the last series. yeah it was slower, but i think a ridiculously epic ending would probably be a bit "so where do we go now?"

[tintintin.livejournal.com]

Love the Sinclair piece. There's no-one to touch him when he gets that bilious, vitriolic bit between his teeth, and the rape of Downriver and East London has been his bete noire for decades.

[returntosender.livejournal.com]

I heard the most ridiculous rumour about season 3 Heroes, which if true will mean I stop watching immediately. It is a pity.