can we talk about how m-effing excited i am for this show?
of course we can!
for your reading pleasure, i will use bullet points.
- this is a show about normal people who discover they have amazing powers. it's all very x-men without a school or a bald guy in a wheelchair... and we know how i geek out over the x-men.
- milo ventimiglia. he's not a dream boat, necessarily, but i've been watching him since he was jess on gilmore girls and chris on american dreams. oh, and his birthday is exactly one week after mine. he, lindsay lohan, and i really need to look into some sort of joint birthday party.
- hello, asian-american representation! masi oka plays a japanese man who discovers he can teleport. hooray for diversity!
- i love me some mutants.
- it's a show about growth. the characters aren't superheroes from the get-go. they're everyday peeps who have to learn what these new powers mean.
- greg grunberg plays a beat cop who finds he can read peoples' minds. greg grunberg is great. he was sean blumberg way back in the day on felicity and was delightful as agent eric weiss on alias. plus, as i've just now discovered on imdb, he could participate in the bremildsay birthday blowout... making it the brelinmileg birthday blowout. i think i just said something dirty in norwegian.
- one character is an impervious, quickly-healing, tissue-regenerating high school cheerleader. helloooooo, clearly the only thing better than hugh jackman as wolverine is a high school cheerleader as wolverine.
- similarly to lost, the writers have been quite genius in leaving the premise open to introducing new characters at any point in time, and with the breadth of stories and characters to draw upon from the comic book world, i am sure we will see this ensemble cast expand and contract over time.
- i don't know who she plays or where she came from, but there's a woman named tawny cypress on the cast. tawny. cypress. if she's not a stripper or a drag queen, i'll be shocked and amazed.
what i'm not excited about:
- ali larter. oh, you know her. of final destination 1 and 2 fame. and that horror film, varsity blues. yeah, that's her. not-so-very-excited about her being on this show. fingers crossed that they drown her in the ensemble. or just drown her.
posted by brett @ 7:10 AM
7 Comments:
oh woe is me... another show I will fall in love with that will be cancelled before its time. But it looks like this season will be fun!
And I share your love of Greg Grunberg. Felicity and Alias are the best shows ever, and I loves me some Sean and Eric!
Um...I think that you are not giving Ali Larter enough credit...after all, she was Brooke Taylor Windham "queen of the work-out video" who actually had to have lipo in order to keep her thighs thin...in Legally Blond. She was GENIUS in that movie :-)
DELTA NU FOREVER!
one character is an impervious, quickly-healing, tissue-regenerating high school cheerleader. helloooooo, clearly the only thing better than hugh jackman as wolverine is a high school cheerleader as wolverine.
Oh.My.God. Pinch my nipples and call me MutantProf, I am so there!
If only SciFi had picked this up instead, we'd have 2-3 seasons ahead of us.
And I always loves me some Greg Grunberg.
I was so thrilled when I saw this show's breakdown! Can't wait! I'm digging out my years of stashed X-Men and Justice League comics in celebration!
milo v. makes me tingle downstairs.
hey brett! my sister was messing around online and found this blog. i just wanted to say hi and to share in your feelings on my name. i don't really know what my mother was thinking. i always said she obviously wanted me to grow up and be a porn star, but, alas, here i am a legitimate actress.
for the record, cypress is a native american tribe down in florida, broken off from the seminoles. tawny was the name of miss america 1975. my mom liked it and when she looked it up, the definition was "golden brown". she thought that would be fitting.
anyway, enjoy the show. it's gonna be awesome.
sorry i'm not a drag queen.
-tawny cypress
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