Two Things

[sdelmonte]

1. I am going on out on a limb and declaring the total supremacy of New York pro football. The Jets are 8-3, the Giants 10-1, the two teams to be going to the playoffs at the same time(for only the 6th team), and the notion of a Jets-Giants Super Bowl is, possibly for the first time, not so outlandish.

Having said this, I am probably cursing at least one team.

2. Got caught up on the train wreck of a TV show that is Heroes. On a show with so many good actors, how on Earth did we get stuck with lousy Robert Forester as the totally dopey and uninteresting Arthur Petrelli. It's the perfect confluence of bad with bad.

The Ten Year Old Hiro thing is pretty dopey, too, but give Masi Oka and James Kyson Lee for making it more fun than it should be. And I have to say that I loved Hiro's reaction to what's happened to Marvel's heroes since he was ten. "The Hulk is Red?" is particularly funny because that writer who did that is former Heroes producer Jeph Loeb. It's also ironic given that Hiro isn't the only one who isn't keen on this development.

Comments

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but I must respectfully disagree with your judgment of Robert Forster's performances as Arthur. I've enjoyed his work in various films and shows as long as I can remember, and I think he's probably better than anyone else they could have found at putting across the very matter-of-fact, urbane ruthlessness of this character. (And here I hadn't thought anyone on this show could be even more of a heinous monster than Arthur's wife, Mama Petrelli...!)

Is it the character as written, the actor or both you have a problem with? And who would you prefer as the actor, or what improvements in characterization? Just wondering...

[sdelmonte]

I think it's mainly the character, though I am not getting the sense that Arthur is particulary urbane. But Arthur just seems like a hodgepodge of character traits slapped together to form an ubermenace that comes from nowhere and that has never felt like a threat. I keep comparing him with the master of such things, John Glover's Lionel Luthor on Smallville, and find him wanting.