4 posts from May 2007

So I think that Heroes star Peter Petrelli is dead. If you don't watch Heroes you have no idea what I'm talking about and you missed a great show that premiered last fall. You should catch up this summer or when it's released on DVD.

Anyway, I think Peter Petrelli is dead for the same reason that J K Rowling had to kill off Dumbledore at the end of book six of the Harry Potter series. Dumbledore had to exit the scene before the last book because he was a fair opponent for Voldemort. That's not dramatic. If Voldemort is to be defeated, he has to be defeated by Harry Potter.

The Peter Petrelli situation is similar. Peter becomes more and more powerful over time, and eventually he would become too powerful to write interesting stories about. So he has to be dead*. There is no other way. Sylar had to die for the same reason, and yeah, I think he's dead too.

* He could also turn evil, but since Peter is utterly noble, that's not in the cards.

Last night's episode of The Sopranos featured Yeats' The Second Coming. Obviously the tone of the poem mirrored AJ's own feelings of impending doom, but what does the poem portend for the show?  Only two episodes left.

Let's say you are hired as the new coach for some kind of sports team. What do you tell the press to give fans hope that the team will improve under your leadership?  You can't slag the players because they have to play for you, and it's discourteous to slag the previous coach. One day you'll be the previous coach and you don't want people talking you down when they replace you. There seems to be one thing you can say that's politically correct in the culture of coaching, and that is that you will improve strength and conditioning. Every new coach talks about how he's putting in a new strength and conditioning program that will make everything better. The sad thing is, until recently I actually believed it.

I've been watching Lost from the beginning, but I'm kind of wishing they'd wrap things up.  Turns out, that won't be happening anytime soon. The creators of the show have signed on for three more seasons, albeit of only 16 episodes each. That means we won't find out the fate of our favorite (and least favorite) castaways until the spring of 2010.  I'll probably just be reading the recaps on Television Without Pity by then.