The HEROES thread

YellowS4 · October 27, 2006, 6:07am

Hahhaa Jalda. Don’t worry, I’m gonna keep it up all season long. Heroes and 24 will get the treatment.

What bothers me is that ppl think that Glasses Guy is Sylar. That’d be fucken retarded if it was even remotely true.

noodleman · October 27, 2006, 6:13am

LOL the darkness! hahahaha.

maxx · October 27, 2006, 6:17am

glasses father is not a badguy. everyone thinks he is…but its gonna be fuckin someone random like the girl helping the professor x. dont expect the glasses guy to be sylar.

The_Cheat · October 27, 2006, 6:21am

Maybe for season two, they’ll focus on a new set of Heroes with cameos from season one. There will always be someone who wants to destroy/take over the world so getting a villian wouldn’t be difficult.

iMPULSZE · October 27, 2006, 6:26am

Just a thought about season2…

What if at the end of season1, they are able to stop Sylar, but in doing so a rift in time was created becuase the past and future have changed. But, now each character must battle their true self… and evil version of each character of sorts…I guess for Niki this would be odd, but would make total sense for everyone else.

Serpent · October 27, 2006, 6:26am

I live two hours from LA. C’mon SRK, petition for me to get on the show! As an added bonus, Viscant can be my bumbling henchman. I was planning on having him run for president and be my puppet in a few decades anyway, so I might as well accelerate the plan on TV.

Jaldaboath · October 27, 2006, 6:30am

:tup: You had me rolling on floor with the “no homo!” one.

Too bad I can’t see the 24 ones, I’m one season behind so I have a lot of shows to watch before I can jump on the thread.

Jaldaboath · October 27, 2006, 7:47am

Yeah, double post. Sue me.

Millions of viewers of NBC’s Heroes know actor Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura, the bored young Japanese office worker who discovers he has the power to alter time and teleport. What they probably don’t know is that he’s been working behind the scenes for years as one of Industrial Light & Magic’s top programmers.

In an ensemble cast that features solid acting all around, Oka steals the show every time he’s on the screen. The show literally has his Hiro living out the exploits of his own comic book, 9th Wonders.

Since graduating from Brown University in 1997, Oka has worked on more than 30 big-budget Hollywood films at ILM. During that time he has written more than 20 programs and 100 plug-ins for the leading special-effects house. While audiences might not have known his name or face until Heroes, they’ve seen his programming magic on the big screen in films like The Perfect Storm, Star Wars: Episode II, Terminator 3 and the first two Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

“I’ve been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college,” said Oka. “ILM offered me an entry-level position at its Marin, California, headquarters, but they refused to fly me out for the job interview. Fortunately, Microsoft also was interested in hiring me and they flew me out to Seattle, then down to San Francisco and back to Providence.”

Oka ended up taking the job with ILM and remains with the company to this day, despite his hectic TV production schedule. He said ILM was a great place to start in the industry because he learned a lot about the pipeline and how the company worked.

“It was also a way for upper management to determine how much drive we had,” said Oka. “If we wanted to, we could always start our own projects.”

After a year and a half of training, which included some work on Star Wars: Episode I and Rocky and Bullwinkle, Oka got his first big “show” with The Perfect Storm. He worked with John Anderson to create the computer-generated water effects for the film. All of the water effects in that film, as well as water effects in more recent films like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, were the result of code written by Oka.

“That allowed me to get my name out in the ILM community and people wanted me to do a lot of particle work, fluid stuff and modeling for different shows,” said Oka. “I became more of a firefighter, going around from show to show doing short-term work as a hired gun to solve problems on a very quick basis.”

A lot of the software Oka wrote became applicable to other shows. For example, the computational fluid dynamics he worked on in Terminator 3, which allowed liquid metal to take shape, handled the drool in Dreamcatcher. His surface-cracking technology from Star Wars: Episode II worked well for Pirates of the Caribbean.

“The key to digital effects is to do things that are visually accurate but done cheaply and approximated,” said Oka. “I would simulate viscosity or advection, things that are specific to the way water moves. We’d do a cheap simulated effect for these movements and they were used for things like the spray and wakes in The Perfect Storm.”

Oka managed to get his Screen Actors Guild card by performing in a few industrial videos. After working on The Perfect Storm for nearly two full years, Oka moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career in 2001. He appeared in a number of TV shows (Scrubs, Reba, Without a Trace) and films (Along Came Polly, Legally Blonde 2, House of the Dead 2) before Heroes thrust him into the spotlight.

Working remotely from ILM’s Los Angeles studio, Oka has remained active with movie effects, although now he’s limited to one or two days of ILM work a week because of his production schedule.

“I love both acting and programming equally,” said Oka, who enjoys challenging both sides of his brain. “I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist. I have a lot of appreciation for what people do in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. I don’t think I could like one without the other. Eventually, I think the road will lead me down to producing or directing, because it’s more about problem solving.”

Should Heroes’ early success continue for NBC, Oka said he would love to be able to direct an episode in season three or four and bring all of his ILM cronies in to help out.

“I’d make use of my employee discount – buy two effects and get one free,” joked Oka.

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YellowS4 · October 27, 2006, 9:50am

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/res0nance/heroes/supernathanfinal.jpg

Hahah fuck.

Jaldaboath · October 27, 2006, 10:56am

^ Lol.

Wil · October 27, 2006, 1:33pm

I know who Sylar is…yay.

FOBio · October 27, 2006, 11:56pm

i wondered if peter’s powers allowed him to drain other people’s powers from them via touch (just like rogue). if so, then he could permanently keep their powers without them even being around. that’s how rogue got her flight, strength, and whatnot right?

noodleman · October 28, 2006, 12:17am

haha, should’ve put a $ sign on his croch.

Jaldaboath · October 28, 2006, 12:40am

And if he does? then what would it be called? Katamari Damacy?

box · October 28, 2006, 4:30am

I think peter’s powers work in that he has to touch someone to get access their powers. At that point the power has a full energy bar. After it runs out (over time or over usage), peter can’t use the power anymore until he recharges the meter. When he needs a recharge, he just needs to be within proximity of that person (no touching needed).

Stabby · October 31, 2006, 8:02am

Well, at least traitor isn’t evil.

And yay that stuff actually happened in this episode.

I like DL.

Akelexre · October 31, 2006, 8:02am

Dammit this show needs to move faster. Seriously. They should have done the events in this episode in HALF the time it took. And more fight scenes dammit. I’m normally a patient guy, but we’re six eps in already, this show needs to get it in gear.

YellowS4 · October 31, 2006, 8:04am

Lol, Glasses Guy hired the Bio Parents. Pixie, that dirty whore.

DL / Nikki thing is fucked up now.

Dangerous_J · October 31, 2006, 9:00am

DL= the black shadowcat!!

What im wondering is how could Nikki kill those card guys if shes at home. She doesnt’ have telport/space disruption. OR am I missing something ?

Stabby · October 31, 2006, 9:04am

DL: You should get some sleep. You tried to be sneaky last night going out, but I heard you anyway.

Niki: I went out?