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Heroes - BBC2 (No spoilers, even from bbc3, please!)

kyser_soze said:
The reason the narrator's voice changes is cos sometimes if Mohinder and sometimes it's his DAD reading from his Dad's book...
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That makes a lot more sense...anyway, anyone else think the narration makes the show feel a little bit like the classic martial arts series Monkey?! :D
 
Kid_Eternity said:
That makes a lot more sense...anyway, anyone else think the narration makes the show feel a little bit like the classic martial arts series Monkey?! :D
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It's all part of the comic-book sensibility. Your typical installment of a comicbook serial has a 'voiceover' recap on the first page (you know, text in rectangular boxes, overlayed on moody shots of the characters and scenes) before launching back into the action proper.

Same for the subtitles, which are excellent - I wish that style was used for all subtitles, it's so much easier to watch.
 
Crispy said:
Same for the subtitles, which are excellent - I wish that style was used for all subtitles, it's so much easier to watch.
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I liked them when they were a novelty - they are a distraction now and I don't like them - subtitles should be out of the way at the bottom, so they don't interfere with the action
 
But subtitles at the bottom mean your eyes have to flick up and down to read the words and the actors' faces. With the words by the faces, you can take both in at the same time. It's much more natural, and you feel much more immersed in the action. In most shots, they've clearly left sapce for the subtitles anyway. I think they're a very clever touch, and not novelty at all.
 
I dunno - I don't find that at all - no flicking for me - I find it harder to take in the subtitles right next to the action TBH
 
Crispy said:
It's all part of the comic-book sensibility. Your typical installment of a comicbook serial has a 'voiceover' recap on the first page (you know, text in rectangular boxes, overlayed on moody shots of the characters and scenes) before launching back into the action proper.

Same for the subtitles, which are excellent - I wish that style was used for all subtitles, it's so much easier to watch.
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I was thinking more the cod guru/philosophy vibe. :D
 
Kid_Eternity said:
I was thinking more the cod guru/philosophy vibe. :D
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Well that's just because it's a cheesey american TV show :) It's all part of the ridiculous melodrama!
 
Crispy said:
But subtitles at the bottom mean your eyes have to flick up and down to read the words and the actors' faces. With the words by the faces, you can take both in at the same time. It's much more natural, and you feel much more immersed in the action. In most shots, they've clearly left sapce for the subtitles anyway. I think they're a very clever touch, and not novelty at all.
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The director said he wanted the subtitles to look like speech bubbles in a comic
 
Orang Utan said:
I dunno - I don't find that at all - no flicking for me - I find it harder to take in the subtitles right next to the action TBH
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But then, you're also not a fan of comic books so it probably seems much less natural to you. I find the Heroes subtitles so much more integrated and suitable than they would be if they were running along the bottom of the picture, because it's just like reading a comic :)
 
I'm not sure I'd like it if subtitles were always like that, but in this context (esp where there is really only ever a dialogue between a max. of two people on screen together) it works really well.
 
100% justified, my mum, who's usually good at these sort of things, took ages to work out what was goin to happen, which was funny

also, all the other cheerleaders seem to have outfits that are a bit baggy, claire's the only one who's is errm, tight in the right places shall we say, not that i was looking
 
(just watched bbc2 repeat) ok that was a pretty sick way to die - slicing the lid of a can off just as your having your head sliced open.:eek:

and hiros got him self stuck in a christmas photo - oops:D

and Mr. Bennet looked like the good guy - right up to the point he revealved his responibilty for Claire's mum's death and forced the woman with hypnotic suggestion to force Issac to take heroin
 
Sorry if this has been been over already but is Clare's dad a baddy? A proper baddy? I mean, he wants to save her cuz he loves her but what's his connection with Mohinjar's dad?
 
5t3IIa said:
Sorry if this has been been over already but is Clare's dad a baddy? A proper baddy? I mean, he wants to save her cuz he loves her but what's his connection with Mohinjar's dad?
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I could tell you, but then i'd have to wipe your memory. ;)
 
5t3IIa said:
Sorry if this has been been over already but is Clare's dad a baddy? A proper baddy? I mean, he wants to save her cuz he loves her but what's his connection with Mohinjar's dad?
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I think he's on the "good" side but has slightly dubious means of achieving his ends.

Morally ambiguous :)


(that's not based on any knowledge of anything btw)
 
I might have missed an episode but if Clare's parent's died who were the people who came to see her? :confused:
 
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