Nov 7, 2006 1:26 PM

Reading

I love to read. I really love to read boring stuff. I read history books that deal with The Templar Knights and have waaaay before it was fashionable to do so. I read about film makers. right now I am reading about Andy Milligan and it amazes me how some people get movies made.

If you ask a lot of people they admit to not reading a lot.

Seems that might be a bit of incorrect data.

I am speaking of the new NBC show, Heroes.

I am already chained to my television on Mondays as it is. If FOX's Prison Break, which is like TV crack to me, isn't on then Hell's Kitchen is and that is also addictive to me.

Since I already had the television on I thought, why not see how this whole Heroes thing is going to play out.

I'm hooked like a junkie on heroin. Sure, I've been a comic book geek for longer than a lot of you have been alive and this feeds that. But, it does it to my pseudo grown up persona. I say pseudo because I'm not real good at being a grown up. I leave that job to my wife who is very good at it. Heroes plays to that geek, but it's also pretty good television.

Plus, it makes you read.

One of the main characters, an oriental man named Hiro can bend time and space. He speaks broken English at best and the rest of his dialogue is in subtitles.

You have to read subtitles.

LAst week 14 million people watched Heroes so, they had to read some of it or they would miss it.

I'm impressed that a prime time network show had the cajones to do a show that relied on one of it's characters to being subtitled. And I don't mean occasionally. There are huge exchanges of dialogue between Hiro and his friend.

This is a wonderful thing.

That's all I got.