David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. Hey, fanboys! Read this "Heroes" post, already.
Warning: Spoilers ahead. Sure, they’re all crap I made up, but they’re spoilers nonetheless.
When “Heroes” returns for Season Two in September, “The pressure’s on,” Jack Coleman, who plays the once-sinister, now kinda-good-guy HRG, Claire’s dad, who began the season busily rounding up the heroes and now is helping defend them, said Monday evening at the NBC TV Press Tour party.
“The second season’s very important,” he said. “Having said that, we’ve established ourselves in the marketplace, but it’s not clear everyone who watched will return. We have to give them a good reason.”
Of his character, Coleman, naturally, couldn’t say much, but he did offer, “He may be on the side of the angels, but that doesn’t mean he’ll behave like one.”
Adrian Pasdar, whose character Nathan ostensibly died in the first-season finale, was also at the party. “Poor Adrian,” Coleman sympathized. “He’s here and there’s not much he can say.” Referring to the show’s relatively high body count amongst regular characters, Coleman said, “Adrian put it best – he said, ‘I thought I signed up to do a show called “Heroes” and instead I show up to do a show called “Survivor.”’”
For his part, Pasdar described his role at the party as providing “subterfuge, misdirection, tap-dancing,” adding, “It’s funny – last year, they encouraged us to talk to anyone about everything. This year, they’ve told us not to say anything.”
So, he offered a few scenarios that might account for how they’ll manage to get Nathan back on the show:
* dream sequences
* scenes taking place in the future
* special “What-If?” episodes
Notice he didn’t say that Nathan might still be alive. So that’s probably the case. Milo Ventimiglia, whose character Peter died with Nathan (or so we were led to believe), will be back, as well.
Pasdar was wearing a full beard, hence a query as to whether it was for the show, followed by “Can you even answer that?” “Eventually, I’m gonna be worn down,” he said, adding, appropriately cryptically, “Typically you don’t see characters with beards this thick on TV.”
He could talk, however, about his wife, Natalie Maines, and her once-controversial dis of our Decider-in-Chief. “It’s kind of a bitter pill – you never want to say ‘I told you so’ for something so devastating. The world today is more of one mind – it wouldn’t be a shocking thing to say today.
“It was prophetic in its wisdom, but it was a tough thing to go through. But for a little, five-foot-three, barefoot girl from Lubbock, Texas to elicit such an international reaction is pretty remarkable.”
Oh, and he did say that Mohinder turns out to be evil, Claire turns out to be a space alien scouting for her race’s impending invasion and Hiro will get kicked off the show for making a homophobic remark. Masi Oka, who plays Hiro, will argue that Hiro made the remark because it was in the script, but creator Tim Kring will cite a strict zero-tolerance policy and that Masi should’ve known better than to utter the line in the first place, so Hiro will end up as a character on “Bionic Woman.”
There were other people from “Heroes” at the party, but they wouldn’t talk to me.