----- Original Message ----- From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <brin-l@mccmedia.com> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 7:09 AM Subject: Re: Dick Cheney's least favorite TV show?
> >> "Heroes" posits a world in which a small number of persons have >> been >> born with extraordinary powers drawn from the standard science >> fiction repertory. The powers include levitating objects, mind >> reading, flying, miraculous healing, bursting into flames and, as >> with the painter Isaac Mendez (Santiago Cabrera), prophesying the >> future. The plot that drives the first season has to do with a >> prophetic painting by Mendez that shows New York City being blown >> up. The bomb is not mechanical but is a human being, a mutant, who >> cannot control his powers and will ultimately explode in the midst >> of the city if not stopped. For much of the season the mutants do >> not know exactly who will explode or when, but they know it will >> happen unless they prevent it. >> > Quoting Him: > > Above all, I never cared for the whole Nietzchian ubermensch > thing... the notion -- pervading a great many myths and > legends -- that a good yarn has to be about demigods who > are bigger, badder, and better than normal folk by several > orders of magnitude. It's an ancient storytelling tradition > based on abiding contempt for the masses, that I find odious > in the works of A.E Van Vogt, L.Ron Hubbard, and wherever you > witness slanlike super beings deciding the fate of billions > without ever pausing to consider their wishes. > > Amen > Ignoring for the moment that the heroes of Heroes are fighting against the "Slan-like superbeings" and that you mis-characterize the series completely: To aspire to greatness is not in any way a bad thing, nor is wishing for a greater reach. The history of the human race is a story of such aspiration. xponent Thomas Orley - Enhanced Human Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
