Heroic
Canadian channels occasionally show shows at different times than the American ones. I think Lost shows up in its old timeslot, not the new one. Gilmore Girls shows up later than in the US.
But lately, it’s been not a different time on the same day, but a different day. An *earlier* day (presumably because they know no one’s going to watch Global for a show airing later than the US channels). So, we get one of the Law and Orders early, which doesn’t matter, because I watch it whenever I feel like it — but we also got Heroes early this week and, I think, from now on.
Early meaning I have already seen it. (It’s one of the few shows I watch the day it airs instead of when I am bored.) And it’s getting very, very good. We hear more about the mysterious company Mr. Bennett works for. We get another week with no boring Niki. (Alas, also a week without Hiro (more or less), Isaac, Mohinder, the Petrellis.) I realise I confused the invisible man with another guy which is likely why parts of the episode were a bit puzzling.
I’m sure the show is about to go on a break, because we’re at episode 17 of (I assume) 22, and there are a lot of weeks to go until May. Alas. Because I really want to know how this is going to turn out.
February 26th, 2007 at 10:58 am
You confuse the invisible man with the radioactive man? I used to do that. Invisible man looks city-homeless, while radioactive man looks like a crazy mountain man. That help?
I thought that the big networks basically stopped doing this in Canada. I thought the only diffs where in the cable channels for things like Battlestar.
February 26th, 2007 at 11:41 am
I thought they stopped, but no. Or maybe they just started again. The time-shifting isn’t new (they need to coordinate the most popular shows from 5 networks), the date-shifting I think now goes in the other direction? I don’t really know. Nor do I care, because I got to see Heroes early.
I confused invisible man with new creepy company man. I think. Because invisible man, when he was not creepy homeless, looked like random businessman.
This episode was really good.
February 27th, 2007 at 9:48 am
That was a really good episode! We had a minor scare when My Love misread the tv grid and thought they had moved Heros to the same time as Battlestar Gallactica. But no. Phew. (We can only tune one channel at a time on the satellite, so we can’t watch one and tape the other.) He thinks it was an Oscars stunt, but we’ll see if it happens again.
New creepy company man is really truly creepy. I enjoyed little Hiro. Also the thinking in Japanese was a good trick.
Yesterday, just as I tried to comment on this post, your site became unavailable. Conspiracy? You decide.
February 27th, 2007 at 11:30 am
I think that Global did it because they have some other show playing on Monday nights now. I don’t know, but I don’t care, because Heroes early!
Also, did creepy company man not look a lot like invisible man? And that is a huge swerve in personality for Mr. Bennett.
February 27th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Yes, I can see the confusion. I only just barely recognized invisible man in his clean-cut days. “Wait, is that…? It must be.”
I’m not entirely ready to trust Mr. Bennett. Protecting Claire? By being a complete ass all these years? Hmm.
I must say I’m pretty annoyed by the perky Neutrogena ads featuring the actress who plays Claire. During the show. Seems a bit tacky to me.
February 27th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
I thought it was the creepy company guy again, who was also invisible. It took me a while, though accents helped.
I trust that Mr Bennett was protecting Claire for many years — or intending to, or thinking he was; I do not trust that he was worried about any of the other heroes, though now he might have been in order to protect Claire. But I think that, though you can argue a lot with the execution of what he did, you can’t really say that he wasn’t trying to keep Claire away from the people at the company.
Also, is Israeli woman a hero working for the company? Cause I thought she was with Matt and radioactive guy.