Are we wfronting Torchwood? Either way, wow. I quite enjoyed it, despite the problems I had with it. It set up some very interesting premises for the series. Also, could it be any more canonically gay? No one has to tell me twice that Russel Davies is a big honkin' fangirl at heart.

It certainly made me miss Wales, though, with all those accents.

We're definitely whitefonting Torchwood. It hasn't aired in a US market.

just finished the second ep of Torchwood.

dude!! did anyone else catch why that hand was so important to Jack? it's totally the Doctor's hand that was chopped off in The Christmas Invasion!!!

I lovelovelove all of the characters except Owen. he can die anytime now.

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

I like the feathered 'do on her,

It must be the old Farrah Fawcett thing kicking in for me. I liked Rachel Nichols when she did that too. And Amy Acker. And SMG. And Julie Benz.

Torchwood. WOO HOO!!! Sorry you felt the need to drag your cursor over this.

You know, I liked that little "rough language" warning at the start and the rough language that followed. Not to mention the world didn't come to an end as a result of that language having been broadcast. Here, those shits would've generated multiple FCC fines.

Loved the teaser for Heroes.

A general thought on Heroes.

They've really set them up to be a whole lot stronger together than alone.

Think about the characters:

Regen!Cheerleader - OK so she can come back from death, not to mention lesser injuries. But killer in way that causes substantial brain injury (as the Quarterback did, or with a burst from an automatic weapon or a grenade or whathaveyou ) and she will stay down a while. So the villain kills her really hard, dismembers her and seprates the parts. At that point she probably won't come back, and if she does, so much the worse for her. But if the villain wants to be on the safe side he or she can follow dismemberment by incineration and seperate storage of the ashes.

SuperStripper: apparerently super strong, but no evidence of invulnerability.

Hiro - pretty hard to do anything if sees you coming, but taking him by suprise, and a second rate thug can take him down.

The same thing for the rest -all of them are pretty vulnerable to anyone who knows the nature of their powers.

But put them together. Between the prophet, the time traveler and the mind reader it should be pretty hard to take any of them by surprise. Rejen!Cheerleader can take damage for anyone who is taken by surprise, and the rest of the team can then keep villains too busy to do anything she can't fix - getting her body out of harms way if need be until she regens.

Super!Hiro, given the other to run interference can - hmm well that could be a problem. You could end up with Super-Hiro and his team of sidekicks. Keep Hiro from being taken out in the intitial blitz, or better yet get him advance information (some of which he can do himself) and he takes care of heavy lifting.

Passing thought. Is Super!Stripper neccesarily going to end up one of the good guys?Everything we've seen her do so far is well-intended or self-defense. (Though I wonder who the guys she killed *before* the debt collectors were.)

OK not really a likely path in the near future; they have an omnipresent conspiracy, and a serial killer who may or may not be part of that conspiracy. They don't really need part of the team to go bad immediately; maybe down the line.

Actually the flying Senator superficially seems like a better candidate; he is not a nice guy. But I notice in spite of having nothing to gain, he did fly and save the little girl. Yeah he got satisfaction of how much it would piss off his brother to know that he, and not the semi-saint is doing the rescuing. But still his attitude towards his ability to fly is pretty sensible given his ambitions; it contributes nothing to what he wants to do, but could serve as a major stumbling block. So ultimately when it came to an imediate choice, it was save the girl and risk his career. He will end up on the team in the short term. Once it is clear that the risk is nuclear war, self-interest plus not being a psychopath will get him involved. But just because there are lines he won't cross now, does not mean he can't change. I wonder if his future holds leather pants?

Their vulnerabilities make them interesting. It's almost as if they'd come out of an RPG which has the actual name Hero System.

Let's see: lots of Previouslies. . . then Hiro and Ando get tossed out in the desert by a diner. Ando leaves.

(That might have been in the first act.)

Glasses Guy and Mysterious Black Guy have Nathan Petrelli in custody -- they chase him and he comes to a fence. But before they can do anything he ZOOMS into the sky and away.

That's it -- that's the teaser.

I thought it was awfully kind of the pissed-off gamblers to drop Ando and Hiro off near a diner.

Good episode.

It was.

I loved the way Nathan landed -- I hope he has some skin on the bottom of his feet left.