Supes and Bats in Bowling Shirts: Dexter’s Dark Avenger

Dexter, Season 2 Dexter’s season one self-image begins with the smug self-loathing of a monster, aware that only his conditioning allows him any place in society outside a jail cell. Confronted with two like-minded sociopaths he was unable to force into his mold, he began to see himself as a different and better breed of [...]

that, and NYC blew up…

Heroes interrupted: Volume One in retrospect 1.02 Don’t Look Back I really wanted to give Peter a break.  He was a nice enough leading character the first time I watched these, after all.  But…he told Nathan he’d been standing on that roof all night.  And when we first see Isaac and Simone in his studio, [...]

(extremely pretty) ordinary people

 Heroes interrupted: Volume One in retrospect  1.01 Genesis Where does it come from—this quest, this need to solve life’s mysteries when the simplest of questions can never be answered?  Inadvertently postmodern The superhuman hero genre has historically existed in pulp comics and camp tv and film aimed at a preadolescent audience.  Saving the bulk of [...]

AU pilot

Heroes interrupted: Volume One in retrospect DVD Extra: Original Heroes pilot (72 minutes)   A fascinating glimpse into what might have been, the original ‘Genesis’ includes one major subplot and character mercifully excised from the first season, along with some outer onion layers of characterisation.Terror by numbersThe subplot involves beat cop Matt Parkman and a [...]