by Racialicious guest contributor Elton Joe
Word on the tubes is Heroes will return in September . In the meanwhile, dedicated fans can check out promotions such as NBC and Sprint’s Create Your Hero, which, through fan voting on lists of attributes, has culminated in two new characters, Santiago and Audrey:
Santiago
Santiago is twenty three. […]

by guest contributor Elton
Heroes Volume 2, “Generations,” is over.
The season began with an exciting change of scenery, as Hiro Nakamura accidentally teleported to feudal Japan and met the legendary Sword Saint, Takezo Kensei, who turned out to be a lying, cheating, spiteful scoundrel of an Englishman named Adam Monroe. As Hiro tried to repair […]

by Racialicious guest contributor David Zhou
As Volume Two of the Heroes saga nears its end, the plot lines come together and the series develops a climactic peak. But at the same time, gone are the opportunities for the writers to tell backstory, and while this is good for simply the quality of each episode, it […]

Note from Carmen: This post is about Heroes’ new online promo, Create-Your-Hero and is a critique of Week 1’s choices
by guest contributor Elton
What pathetic attempts at corporate creativity have resulted from the writers’ strike. New characters are now being created from a grid of four variables: Gender (male/female), Place of birth (Asia, Europe, […]

by guest contributor Elton
This week’s episode revolves around the deaths of two fathers, Noah Bennet and Kaito Nakamura, and the struggles of their children, Claire and Hiro, to come to terms with the tragedies.
The episode opens with the funeral of Kaito Nakamura, who, a few episodes ago, was killed in a plunge off the Deveaux […]

by Racialicious guest contributor David Zhou
What is his name?!?
There is too much to be said about how a black character from Haiti, referred to as The Haitian and used as a weapon by dominating, white forces, still has yet to earn a name. Is his name too ethnic for us to pronounce? His history too […]

by guest contributor Elton
As I had hoped, several of the loose threads that had been hanging around since the Season 1 finale are resolved in this week’s episode. Matt Parkman comes to little Molly’s rescue by confronting his deadbeat dad, Maury, a.k.a. the nightmare man. Amnesiac Peter Petrelli, drawing on an ability he […]

by Racialicious guest contributor David Zhou
Yes.
It finally happened.
Hiro Nakamura got some action from the girl we’ve come to know as Yaeko… and was then screwed over by a double dealing white man named Takezo Kensei. (I’m joking, but…)
There were, though, many peculiar little things about this kiss scene. (I’m not going to complain too much […]

by Racialicious guest contributor Elton
One consequence of the sheer number of separate storylines in Heroes is that it feels as if the story is only being advanced a fraction of an inch each week. It’s becoming impossible to squeeze the entire cast into each episode. Last week, Hiro was absent for the first […]

by Racialicious guest contributor David Zhou
The introduction this season of new characters of color has become increasingly of interest in the discussion about race on Heroes. In this Monday’s episode, we have learned more about the Honduran siblings trying to immigrate illegally into the States. As strikingly, we see in this episode for the first […]