Heroes Season 1(#9)---11/20/06-'Homecoming'

[Dracomeander]

Well, let's examine your thinking. Did they pick ordinary-looking schlubs to play the male leads, or did they cast really handsome men? With the exception of Hiro (the Screech of this group), wouldn't you say they went way more towards the hunk route? And would you call Nikki "ordinary-looking"?

We shall see. Like I said, I didn't catch the preview, but I gotta wonder if they're gonna a throw us a curve ball after concealing his face for so long, and then just having someone step forward and say "yep, Sylar, that's me, nice to meet ya".

With the exception of Ali Larter, most of the leads are very ordinary looking people who spend a lot of time with personal trainers to keep their bodies well toned, Masi Oka not withstanding.

That is the difference between Hollywood and real life. The stars in Hollywood work hard to keep their bodies in a shape that allows everyday folk to fantasize about them.

 

[Felon]

With the exception of Ali Larter, most of the leads are very ordinary looking people who spend a lot of time with personal trainers to keep their bodies well toned, Masi Oka not withstanding.

That is the difference between Hollywood and real life. The stars in Hollywood work hard to keep their bodies in a shape that allows everyday folk to fantasize about them.

Point taken, but you miss mine. Not every Hollywood actor has a personal trainer. If you want average-looking people without six-packs to play your characters, you can get'em. I'd also have to debate that guys like Mojinder and Peter, with their dimples and chiseled features, would do pretty well at a singles bar even without doing fifty situps a day. For Heroes, they wanted pretty people, not schlubs.

Basically, they follow the same formula used by predecessors like Lost. You have one or two guys there to go against the Hollywood type (like Hurley), sort of like a token minority. Then when somebody says "geez, look at all those gorgeous people who crashed on that island", the contrarians can chime with their refusal of acknowledgment by saying "I hardly think Hurley's a stud" and from there they can equivocate other characters like Jack and Sawyer as being average-looking.

 

[Dracomeander]

I got your point. But I have to disagree with you that you think the actors of Nathan and Mohinder are beyond the ordinary.

Even in overweight middle America, I know lots of people just as good looking if some of the excess weight were removed from their frames.

And that doesn't even begin to address the Sylar issue. If Sylar were the type of villain that depended on charming his victims, then I would concede that Sylar should not look like an ordinary schlub. But everything we've discovered about Sylar so far indicates that he avoids interpersonal confrontations. By extension, there is no reason for him to be more than ordinary looking.

 

[Felon]

I'm digging around to see if I can download that damn preview, because I want to see this guy who says he's our big, bad supervillain.

 

[Taelorn76]

I'm digging around to see if I can download that damn preview, because I want to see this guy who says he's our big, bad supervillain.

There is a picture of him in the dinner in this thread.

Also your seem to be taken back by people contradicting you opinion, when you are in fact just as guilty of contradicting theirs

 

[Felon]

There is a picture of him in the dinner in this thread.

Yeah, man, I posted that image. But I didn't know if that was the same guy from this preview for next week's episode I'm hearing about.

Also your seem to be taken back by people contradicting you opinion, when you are in fact just as guilty of contradicting theirs

The major distinction you're not taking stock of is that my position has been defensive; I staated my opinion, and other folks disputed it. Some just took pot shots. When folks open fire on my point of view, I'm entitled to assert my position.

Moreover, as I assume you're referring largely to my comments to Wayne, I will add that IMO there's a big difference between engaging somene in debate and tersely contradicting everything they say (as aptly demonstrated in a well-known Monty Python skit). It's the difference between engaging someone in a fair duel and just sniping from the bushes and dashing off (and in this case it's sniping at somebody who's already fending off a handful of sparring partners).

 

[Fast Learner]

I also thought the dialogue between Claire and her buddy was quite good and enjoyable, and perfectly realistic (in the screenplay way, of course, where what would normally take an hour to say is said in 8 lines).