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Warning: If you have not watched Heroes there will be SPOILERS. You shall not pass!

(Or…I guess you could but then you’d know stuff.)

Anyway.

The trailer for Heroes Bex posted…very very pretty visuals and etc but I could do without the singing. Some instrumentals over Mohinder’s speech would’ve worked just as well. Perhaps some strings or something.

I know it’s an aesthetics kind of thing but it just bugs me to hear the singing. It makes it less dramatic and more like…some sort of music video soap opera.

Now, on to the things from the show:

Peter’s been around a lot of people…if his power requires him to just BE around them then he should have: Eden’s power, Hiro’s power, and Simone’s dad’s powers.

And whomever else I’m forgetting. Wait! Sylar! Would he get all of Sylar’s powers too?

Power dynamically speaking…do they have the manifest when he needs them? Will he be talking to…I dunno, Nathan or something and want to make him listen to him and then do the Eden thing?

If so, then if Peter ever decides to go evil dang.

No wonder Sylar is still around…those two are the only ones who can probably stop each other. I suddenly have it in my head of the two switching sides, Sylar good, Peter evil.

It certainly would be a curve ball, wouldn’t it?

I love the way this show works. It’s rare that I’ve actually been on the edge of my seat waiting to find out what happens on a show in such a long time.

They don’t follow the usual formula. It’s so…I don’t know. Dynamic. It’s realistic, and yet…things seem to mesh together so well that when you go back and watch it from the beginning it’s interesting.

I’d like to find out more about the previous generation of Heroes. Powers…etc.

Also, I’m a little confused…I was at Wal Mart and I could’ve sworn it had ‘New Season 9/24’ on the display for Heroes…Am I hallucinating? Is this the new season for Origins or what?

Upon closer inspection…well crud. It IS Heroes Origins. And I missed the first one. Hmmm. Hopefully it’ll be online. I know what I’m watching tonight if it is.

Heroes Trailer!

It’s so artsy! Analysis to come! 

More T-Shirt Info

Okay, kids, I’ve added the black t-shirts to our Cafepress Shop. Check ‘em out, buy them, show me your love. More are coming.

Also, because I bore easily and like making t-shirts, I’m also going to shamelessly plug the other designs I’ve made. One has a cute little bear… the other has a very disturbing Cthulhu-esque fetus. Enjoy!

Sew Your Own Hermione Skirt

Stumbling around the internet, I came upon this tutorial for sewing your own double pleated wrap skirt, inspired by what Hermione wears in the movie. Skirts are usually pretty easy to sew, and this one doesn’t look too bad at all.

Think I might just give it a whirl myself. Check it out.

T-shirt time!!

I finally cracked open a t-shirt shop for the site! Check out the graphic:

 It’s a fun design that says “Geek Girl” in binary, with some drips and grunge and flowers and squiggles and female symbols. Good times.

This t-shirt design will only be available for a limited time! Order it now! A new design will be coming next month! Black t-shirts with this design are coming within the next few days.

Guitar Hero III Brain Melter

I was staring slack-jawed at this video. It’s insane and utterly impossible.

PETA… seriously, guys. Come on.

From PETA’s website:

“All animals have the same parts—have a heart, go vegetarian.” That is the message of PETA’s ad starring Traci Bingham, the curvaceous vegetarian actor, known to TV viewers from Baywatch, Comedy Central’s Strip Mall, and variety of other shows on BET and MTV. The sexy ad encourages people to view animals as something other than walking entrées.

It encourages people to view animals as something to screw.

Ugh.

Supergirls Gone Wild

There’s a great article here about someone I never knew existed: a female Robin. Admittedly, I’m more of a Marvel girl than a DC girl, but Stephanie Brown still came as a surprise to me. Why have I never heard of her? Well, apparently she wasn’t around long. After being a huge disappointment to the Dark Knight, she was tortured and killed. From the article:

Her grisly demise hit fans hard, particularly the female readers who’d only just started enjoying the thrill of a Robin they could identify with. After the two previous boy Robins had retired and died, respectively, their uniforms were preserved behind glass inside the Batcave. But Baman never got around to memorializing Stephanie. More than two years later, a grassroots campaign based at the website Girl-Wonder.org is still aggressively lobbying DC Comics to give Stephanie her two-dimensional due. And the flames of discontent only grew higher when DC editor Dan DiDio told female fans at a recent comic convention that in his book, Stephanie “was never really a Robin.”

Of course, sudden-death plot twists are nothing new in comic books. (Just ask Captain America, who was whacked earlier this year after an illustrious 60-year crime-fighting career.) Neither are angry readers: Comic-book fans are known for their fanatical love for their favorite characters—and their ferocious scorn for anyone who dares to mess them up. But the new wave of feminist fangirls has taken this obsessiveness even further, geeking out about the ways that superwomen are shortchanged by dumb story lines, flat characterization, and titillating art. They love their comics as much as the sweatiest fanboy—and they hate nothing more than when real-life problems like the glass ceiling intrude on their escapist fantasies.

I can understand that we aren’t the target audience for comics. But it would be awesome to have a few female characters who aren’t blatantly hot. Girls with brains. Girls with a sense of humor. What I desperately want is more girls like Gert.

Gert was the best character in the terrific comic series Runaways. Take a look at her to the left here. She’s chubby, she’s Jewish, she’s got glasses and purple hair. Beyond that, she was smart, sarcastic, cynical, and funny as hell. Spider-Man told her she’d be the leader of the Avengers some day. These are the characters I love.

What happened to Gert? She died.

I have a hard time coming up with smart, funny women in comics. She-Hulk is about it. Men still lust after her, though, and she doesn’t seem too terribly offended by it, though her alter ego is.

Then there’s the ugly girls. Marrow, for instance. Marrow was a kickass character. She was ugly, nasty, vicious… but also had another dimension to her. She could be artistic, protective, gentle. She reformed, too! She actually went through some character development!

What happened to Marrow? She got hot.

Any wonder I’m reading more and more indie titles?

Anyhow, read the article, it’s pretty awesome. Girls Read Comics is a fun blog, too, check it out.

Chicken with Pears

Kevin Smith to direct Heroes!

Yesterday at the Comic-Con International, Kevin Smith took the stage for two things. First, he plugged his new show Reaper, which is all about “the adventurous exploits of a videogame-playing, ambitionless slacker who becomes a bounty hunter for the devil.” Sounds badass.

Second: to announce he’ll be directing the premiere episode of Heroes: Origins!

OMFG YAY!!!!

Now, we’re still waiting for more information on Heroes: Origins, which is to be a spin-off the best television series ever made. All we know is there are going to be six episodes that introduce six characters. One of them we vote onto the show. It should debut in Spring of 2008 during Heroes‘ mis-season hiatus.

Articles on this awesomeness can be found here and here.