Episode 3: Fight or Flight (or Flop?)

The third episode of The Company is here. Based loosely on episode 205 of Heroes, “Fight or Flight””.

In this Podcast we cover the following:

1. No Claire and West - Best Episode Yet?
2. Nightmare Man - Crappy or Creepy?
3. Is Hiro’s storyline even important?
4. The big deal about the new Character, Elle.
5. The Virus!!!!
6. The Heroes “Unreal” Tournament results and Shout-outs to Listeners!

Oh…and forgive us for our off-topic tendencies and lack of enthusiasm in the beginning of the podcast…we were very tired. Music provided by:

cdk from ccMixter.org.

For discussions about the episode or anything else Heroes related…please visit DiscussHeroes.com

Recorded on Wednesday, October 24, 2007.

For current voting on the Heroes Showdown “Unreal” Tournament, please visit

http://www.discussheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=361

 

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Demi Blog #2: Cancellation Proclamation

The Heroes fanbase is a torn community.

Some of the fans are so frighteningly dedicated to the series that they will blindly defend it by throwing out all logic. Other fans are too critical of the series citing that it “copies this” or “its just another X-Men clone” without taking it for what it is…an entertaining television show. And then there’s the middle of the spectrum. The fans that watch and enjoy the show and indulge in speculation and theories, but also keep a watchful eye on the quality of the programming they are watching. This is the category where The Company and many of our listeners fall into. I think it goes without saying that I’m a little worried about the quality of Heroes and its future. The ratings are not as good as they were last year and, although it is starting to pickup, the second season is just not as good as the premiere season (even with the anti-climactic season finale last year).

So what if the worst happens…down the road Heroes is canceled…Will it go down in history as one of the greats that was cut before its time, or will it be thrown to the wayside as a “X-Men wannabe” television Sci-Fi fad? Will it be able to join the ranks of other television shows that have exceeded the 100-episode threshold, or just fade into the bowels of network television history? Let’s take a look at some of the major ill-conceived cancellations in recent years:
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N.G. Blog #2: Casting Call

Let it be known that this blog was not the one promised by N.G. during the podcast.  If you have issues with that, please comment on this blog and flame him for his lack of podcasting etiquette.  Thanks -Demi

Casting Call

Hi all, N.G. here, and this is my second blog: Casting Call. I realized the other day that when Heroes premiered, they had no real star to get them recognized. Don’t misunderstand me, I believe all (well, almost all) of the actors on Heroes are great, but none had any real star power pre-show. NBC basically relied on the white coach’s daughter from Remember the Titans, John Shaft in a bit role, and Greg Grunberg who was in a movie with the greatest actor of all time, Sir Kevin Bacon (the Sir was added by myself to show respect). So basically what we have in today’s blog is my fantasy Heroes cast. Because people care what I think, right?

Playing D.L. Hawkins… CHRIS TUCKER: This was the first choice I made in casting, and possibly the easiest. He would have brought a nice, light tone to such a dark character. Also, aside from phasing through objects, two sweet added powers would be high-pitched banshee wailing, and the ability to get confused for Chris Rock. Imagine D.L. screaming at Micah, “Micah, my man, Micah, Micah, AHHHH!, Do you understand the words coming out of my mouth?”. Priceless.

Playing Claire Bennett… BRITNEY SPEARS: She needs the money, stability, and attention a lot more than Hayden, and lets be honest: did you see Crossroads? Better than Schindler’s List. Mariah Carey was a close second for this one.

Playing Nathan Petrelli… ONE OF THE CAVEMEN: Yeah, from the Geico commercials and that new show on FOX. Duh.

Playing Micah Saunders… HALEY JOEL OSMENT or DAKOTA FANNING: Yes, I’m aware that Osment is, like, 40, and Fanning is a girl, but they are probably the greatest child actors ever, and, I mean, there actors, they could act like a young boy. And, they have acted alongside a plethora of great actors like Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, and others, which would make them perfect alongside…

Playing Gabriel “Sylar” Gray… GARY BUSEY: Who is your go-to guy when you need someone crazier than a shithouse rat? Who was in Black Sheep, Lethal Weapon, and Point Break? Who, if given the chance, might actually bust someone’s head open and look at their brains? That’s right: Busey. Just look at that crazy twinkle in his eye… a lot scary than Zachery “Mr. Spock” Quinto.

And finally,

Playing Peter Petrelli… Carson Daly: You guys know the whole situation in Darfur? Yeah, well take the inverse of that and multiply it by how awesome it would be to see Keira Knightley naked and then take that to the nth power and you still only have half the awesomeness that is Carson Daly.

Nuff said,

N.G.

Episode 2: The Kindness of Strangers

The second episode of The Company is here. In this Podcast we cover the following:

1. Angela Petrelli lies about murdering Kaito Nakamura.
2. Claire and West have a second date.
3. Nathan and his old self.
4. Maya, Alejandro, and Sylar
5. Micah and his cousin Monica
6. Molly, Suresh, Parkman, and the Nightmare Man

Oh…and we also talk about our new Heroes Showdown Tournament at the end of the episode.

Music provided by:

Waldhorn 33, cdk, and Shadow_C from ccMixter.org.

For discussions about the episode or anything else Heroes related…please visit DiscussHeroes.com

Recorded on Wednesday, October 17, 2007.

For current voting on the Heroes Showdown Tournament, please visit 

http://www.discussheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=361 

 

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Woo Blog #1: Allegory of the Washer/Dryer Combo

Welcome to Woo’s Smorgasblog, The Pot Luck of Blogs. Every week, my anti-genius will be regurgitating the weeks’ meals in an alphanumeric format so you can enjoy what I enjoyed. Yay for you, right? Yeah, yay for you.

This week I engineered a new allegory type thing. I call it the…………..

Allegory of the Washer/Dryer Combo

The liquid detergent flows from the bottle to the washer in a fluid motion. It mixes with water and the detergent fairies grow, so I throw my boxers and socks in there to get it magically scrubbed. When the detergent fairies use their fairy dust on my threads, it get clean and what not. I then throw my clothes into the dryer, so the dryer demons can use their hate and anger to torch my clothes. However, they run out of hate, so they don’t get to destroy my clothes-instead they just leave it nice and warm for me. This really burns them up on the inside, so they eat one of my socks to get back at me. Losing a sock doesn’t really bother me that much, but it tears up the sock’s partner who is forever doomed to the bottom of the sock/underwear drawer. That sock will never again get to travel the country again, see the sights and such. It will be left in the dark forever.

So you see, I’m the sock in the dark. The other sock isn’t important. The country is Heroes. I will never get so see Heroes, but it doesn’t really bother me that much anyway.

~Woo.

Socrates Blog #1: Allegory of the Cave

Hello everyone. This is Socrates here and this is my first official blog. I am going to try to make this short and sweet, partly because I already touched on this subject in last weeks podcast and partly because I do not want to take up your whole lunch break. So let’s get to it!

The Allegory of the Cave

Okay, so first things first, one would need sufficient background on the allegory of the cave in order to fully understand how it relates to the Heroes plotline. So here is a general excerpt from Wikipedia.org’s page on the story:

Imagine several prisoners who have been chained up in a cave for all of their lives. They have never been outside the cave. They face a wall in the cave and they can never look at the entrance of the cave. Sometimes animals, birds, people, or other objects pass by the entrance of the cave casting a shadow on the wall inside the cave. The prisoners see the shadows on the wall and mistakenly view the shadows as reality.

However, one man is released from his chains and runs out of the cave. For the first time, he sees the real world and now knows that it is far beyond the shadows he had been seeing. He sees real birds and animals, not just shadows of birds and animals. This man is excited about what he sees and he goes back to his fellow prisoners in the cave to tell them about the real world. But to his astonishment, they don’t believe him. In fact, they are angry with him. They say the shadows are reality and that the escaped prisoner is crazy for saying otherwise. According to Plato, the world outside the cave represents the world of forms while the shadows on the wall represent objects in the physical world. The escape of the prisoner represents philosophical enlightenment and the realization that forms are the true reality. Most people are like the prisoners in the cave. They think the shadows are reality. Philosophers, though, are like the man who escapes the cave and sees the real world. They have true knowledge.

The most obvious example of the allegory of the cave shown in Heroes would definitely be the storyline involving Peter Petrelli. Peter has essentially lost his identity and has no real idea of the person he used to be. In this sense, Peter is like the prisoners chained in the cave. He only knows of what he can see. He only knows his self in its current state. The real question at hand that Peter has to confront and resolve is whether or not to open the box that supposedly holds his true identity. Peter now has a tough decision to make: be content with his current self and act as the prisoner or open the box, rediscover his true identity and break free from the chains to see reality in forms and not shadows. Everyone is entitled to choose what they feel most comfortable with. I know what I would choose; what would you?

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
~Aesop

The New Relationship

Hope you enjoyed me and N.G.’s blog, later today will be a thought-provoking blog from Socrates.

The reason for this post though is to officially announce our new relationship with DiscussHeroes.com

DiscussHeroes.com is an awesome online forum community that have alot of Heroes based discussions.

We are proud to announce that they will be the official forum of The Company. We will have our own section where people can post stuff directly about the show, but for other discussions we will use the pre-existing dedicated forums from DiscussHeroes.com. We hope this will help encourage growth for both our podcast and their forums.

So…we welcome all the DiscussHeroes.com Forum goers and encourage all of our other listeners to please visit their forums and participate in some great discussion!

-Demi

Demi Blog #1: Missing Powers

Hey everybody…

I just got finished posting a huge blog on like six different powers that weren’t present in the Heroes universe yet, but it didn’t process with the server and I lost it! I’m very upset right now, but I’ll go ahead and give you a summary of the powers I picked.

1. Super Speed

Possibly the most important power not yet shown on Heroes, Super Speed has encompassed comic books from Superman to The Flash. Will we see it soon? N.G. and I have agreed that we think one of the original Company members possess this power, although he seems to think its Peter and Nathan Petrelli’s father….which I’m not so sure of. I am sure that this power will be in included in this series. I’d bet my life savings on it…One, because my life savings is literally equal to zero, and two, because its so essential to a comic book setting.

2. Superhuman Senses (non-hearing)

We’ve seen Flight, Superhuman Strength, and Enhanced Hearing….what about the other classics? Where’s the X-Ray vision? Where’s the seeing three miles away? Also, and I know this is a stretch, what about superhuman smelling? I mean, Wolverine and Sabretooth had it…which leads me to another power…

3. Animal Mimicry

I know, I know…its a bit far-fetched…but animals are an integral part of the superhero universe. Many characters in comics have emulated the abilities or likenesses of animal i.e. Black Cat, Spiderman, Wolverine, Sabretooth, Toad, Batman, Catwoman, Penguin, etc.

4. Magnetism/Force Fields

We’ve already seen powers that have dealt with metal…Sylar can change the molecular structure of things (including metal) to cause them to melt without reaching melting point, Bob can use alchemy to change the chemical compound of things (including metal into gold)…but what about magnetism. We know how awesome Magneto is, and how helpful could it be to use an electro-magnetic force-field to protect you or your group from danger? I think we may seem some type of this sooner or later…perhaps in a new character with electric abilities *hint*. But speaking of metal what about..

5. Mechanical Prowess

I know its not really a power, but come on…its as big in comics as anything else. The ability or skills to make your own powered gear to fit your needs i.e. Batman. I know that NBC is pushing Bionic Woman down our throats but for the love of all that is holy please just drop it and put an Ironman type character in Heroes…Then you can put some of that advertising money into Heroes and Journeyman and replace Bionic Woman with some crappy mid-season show like..oh I don’t know…American Gladiator Redux (which is actually coming to NBC soon).

There you have it…I had more but I’m done writing. I leave the rest open to you guys. If you have a power that hasn’t been seen on Heroes that you think is worthy enough to be brought on the show, let us know! Leave us a voice-mail at 205-383-4781 or for you international folks (or people that just feel like doing it) send us an audio message as an attachment to thecompanypodcast@gmail.com.

Also e-mail us anytime at that e-mail address with your opinions, comments, or questions and, if they aren’t stupid, we’ll put them on the show!

-Demi

Exciting Announcement!

Well everyone…I didn’t think I’d make a post until the podcast this Friday (other than the blogs of course), but I have some exciting news.

We have made our first steps into becoming the podcast we aim to be.

We have come to an agreement with an existing Heroes community that will provide us with a forum. I think this will be a mutually beneficial relationship as we will get our own forum section (mainly for show related discussion, as the forums does a good job with everything else), and in return they will get the word out about their online community.

Although I cannot officially announce our partner at the current moment, look for more information coming up later in the week about this exciting new conglomeration.

As always, thanks for visiting and please…listen, subscribe (just click the ’subscribe to iTunes’ link on the right side of the page..or use the other subscription/feed services, and spread the word!

Oh..and read the blogs, too! Yesterday N.G’s first blog was posted. It was a little…gay…but…still funny (because we could actually see it this season or next). Today’s blog will be from me and will be about the powers we have yet to see on Heroes. For a quick link to all the blogs posted, click on the Blogs link under the Categories menu on the right. -Demi

Episode 1: Kindred

Hey all! The first official podcast from The Company has finally been edited and is up for download!

This podcast is based around the third episode of the second season of NBC’s Heroes titled “Kindred”.

It was supposed to be up yesterday, but we took the extra time on editing so that it would sound up to par with what we were hoping to bring you on this first podcast. Please know that there are still some audio kinks that we hope to have worked out in these next few weeks.

Some issues covered in this podcast:

• Fear (Peter, Hiro, Mr. Bennett)
• Relationships (Peter/Caitlin, Claire/West, Mohinder/Matt???)
• Identities/New Beginnings (Peter, Hiro, Sylar, Claire)
• The Last of the “Series of Eight” Paintings by Isaac Mendez.
• Whatever Woo spurted out (j/k)

We hope you enjoy it, we enjoyed making it! Make sure to spread the word and check the site next week for Blog entries from the Hosts!

 

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