The following are impressions of the premier of Heroes Season 3. It contains many spoilers. All I will say here is that i’m disappointed that the story and the feel of the first season didn’t return to the show I anxiously and eagerly watched back to back. It was at least entertaining though. I had a headache as I watched it, so it may have contributed to my bitterness. So without further adieu…
SPOILERS AFTER THE CUT!
Tim Burton’s Catwoman portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer was just plain sexy. From Wikipedia:
“Catwoman was portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer in the 1992 movie Batman Returns. As recreated by Daniel Waters and Tim Burton, Selina Kyle is depicted as a lonely, frustrated woman pushed over the edge into obsession and crime after her boss, tycoon Max Shreck, tries to kill her to keep her from revealing his plot to build a power plant that would steal Gotham’s electricity.
“Mysteriously revived by alley cats after Shreck pushes her out a window, Selina Kyle’s repressed rage allows her to transform into the clever supervillainess Catwoman. Shortly following her transformation, she joins forces with The Penguin. As a masked figure operating under the guise of a theatrical public identity, Catwoman finds a reflection of herself in Batman. In the ballroom scene, to Siouxsie & the Banshees’ “Face to Face,” the two masked crimefighters, Batman and Catwoman, dressed as their alter-egos, Bruce and Selina, discover their dual personalities, thus exposing one of Burton’s main themes — duality — in the film. In the film’s climax, she electrocutes Shreck by kissing him with a Taser in her mouth; Batman never finds her body. She is seen one last time at the end of the film, looking at the Batsignal in the sky.
“When Tim Burton was set to direct Batman Forever, his intention was to use The Riddler as the main villian and possibly have Catwoman return. As Burton was replaced, this never came to pass.”
 The boyfriend has been sent off to Germany today, but not before I made him take me to see The Dark Knight last night. I was never a huge fan of Batman as a comic book while I was growing up. I preferred the team superhero dynamics within titles like Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, The Avengers and of course, X-Men (such an awesome series during the Chris Claremont years!) and the other X-related books. But I was a big fan of the Tim Burton Batman movies, and fell in love with it all over again with Batman Begins. Christian Bale makes an awesome Bruce Wayne… note that I said Bruce Wayne, instead of Batman. In terms of Batman villains, The Dark Knight brought back such a wicked tradition with the characters in this film. It was pure nerd fun.
It was a good ending to a busy week. I just had a lot of stuff going on for the past little while, and even though work may still be a little busy for me, I think at least I can come home when I can and just relax without having any other projects and stuff hanging over me. I may add some Batman movies to my collection this week and just chill.
Last night we went to see Dethklok and it was the most brutal show ever!
The entire evening was pretty neat. I took off from work early so I can catch a bus and be in Toronto by 5pm. The boy was running late, so I had about an hour to hang out in front of Union Station. It was a great day, the sun was out and it was neither too hot nor humid. I ate a street vendor veggie dog… no corn relish. I should have gone to the vendor that had corn relish.
In any case, there was a guy feeding the birds. I find it fascinating how birds seem to have crumb detection from crazy high altitudes and from behind buildings. A little girl in a pink dress started chasing the birds around in a gleeful bout of cuteness. A hippy-ish ragged looking guy walking by gave a random pretty girl on cell phone a blue silk rose then simply walked away, which I thought was really sweet. A group of goth kids started waving to a bunch of bored tourists on a double decker, then shouted DETHKLOK RULES! And that made my day up to that point right there.
We had a nice dinner at the Mill St. Pub in the Distillery District. I was fascinated with the area. I worked in the neighbourhood about ten years ago, and it never looked like this. After that, we walked over the Koolhaus. Â I managed to plead to security for the survival of my homemade cookies (made from scratch the night before!) She OK’ed them when I finally told her it was homemade and I had come straight from St. Catharines and had nowhere to stash them. Â Yay for being whiny!
Dethklok was so much fun! Being that it is a fictional animated band, you’re not really supposed to take them and the music seriously. But me and the boy love the music and there was so much energy and enthusiasm from the audience. The live performance along side of big screens showing Dethklok videos was just brilliant.
Today, I’m tired and sore. Doing yoga the night before, getting to bed at 3am because I’ve been playing Sims 2, and then being on my feet pretty much all night last night would do that to me. I got up really early because the boy had to catch a flight to Nashville for NAMM, which his job is sending him too. He’s in the air right now. I’m on his macbook (/gasp!) typing this post out. In the next hour, I’m going to head over to Mississauga to visit my family.
