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Weekly Roundup: Heroes Is An Amazing Show
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My fiancée bought me Heroes: Season One on DVD a few weeks ago and it’s amazing. We’ve been watching an episode or four every few nights and basically need to pull ourselves away from watching all of them at once. We weren’t able to watch it when they were first on television because of my Monday night classes and we started falling so far behind that the prospect of watching multiple episodes via the internet wasn’t particularly appealing. Now that we are caught up and missed only episode 1 of the second season, it’s about time to keep current again!
Now, some of the characters on the show have some typical comic book character abilities: telepathy, clairvoyance, persuasion, regeneration, invisibility, flight, time travel, walking through walls, cutting people’s heads off and stealing their powers. Now, some of the secondary characters have some crazier powers like being able to locate other “heroes” and ultra-sensitive hearing, so that got me thinking… what power would I really want? (answer below) What power would you want?
- FMF quotes a statistic from Kiplingers that more than 60% of parents expect to pay for their kids education. I think 100% of parents should but that’s just me.
- Flexo summarizes how the recent education bill has helped new students.
- MBH shares his thoughts on Maxed Out.
- With HSBC dropping their rates, Nickel has moved his funds over to a new Bank of America account.
- JD talks about how you can use Quicken to analyze and fix your bad spending habits.
- NCN illustrates the debt snowball tactic.
- JLP talks about the changing face of healthcare, which is about the GM-UAW.
- Jeremy also takes a look at the GM-UAW contract.
- Would you rather pay more taxes (that go for health care) or pay more for health care?
- Lazy Man would like politicians to adjust the Roth IRA contribution limits based on cost of living in different areas.
- Golbguru writes about the tools of financial phishers, it’s worth reviewing.
- Sun has invented a new country, Chindia, and he’d like to invest there.
- Of course, a roundup wouldn’t be complete if it didn’t include something about subprime. SVB writes about the causes and consequences of the subprime implosion nuclear death whirlwind.
- Consumerist has a Devil’s Advocate post listing 5 ways credit cards can make you happy.
- Three’s a crowd but My Retirement Blog takes a look at the Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Association, a huge component of the GM-UAW contract agreement.
- ANd here are three things you need to be careful about with short sales.
I’d probably want the ability to fly. Or walk through walls. 
You?
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One of the new characters in the second season has the power to turn objects into gold. That might be helpful. (I was a little disappointed by the episode, but I guess I had high expectations.)
I guess if I were to have a superpower, I’d like the ability to read minds, like Parkman, but less painfully.
Thanks for the link!
I have never seen the show but I would like the power to make politicians tell the truth.
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I think the shape-shifter girl had a really cool power. I’d either take that or the ability to persuade people.
DVR, it’s a great value
Full episodes of Heroes are free on NBC!! http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/video/episodes.shtml
my hubby and I love the show too!
I would like to have the power to have the annual returns on my portfolio increase by 3% (without increasing risk, Duh!) Either that, or the power to turn Doctor Phil and into a quivering puddle of Jello. Both powers have their appeal.
Maybe the power to heal everyone?
I beieve that you should pay for your own education, not rely on your parents. That way you will work harder for what you want and value it more. If you or your parent want to pay for your kids education, how about placing it in a savings account every year and when the student graduates, give the lump sum to pay off their student loans or a down payment for a new home?
I watched every episode of season one of Heroes as it came out and so I was very eager to see the premiere of season two. I was not impressed by the first episode and I wrote about that on my blog.
The power I think I would have liked is the ability to read people’s minds.
The power to read minds would only be good if you could turn it off. Otherwise, it would be unimaginably horrible.
Flight is good in once sense. But eventually you run into a bird or somthing and you die.
I’ll take regeneration. Have a heart attack? leave a note for doctors to cut out your heart. then you just grow a brand new one and you are fine.
Heroes is not amazing, it was unusual for a network show, but also completely shallow and uninteresting. The plot was garishly weak and the finale was a slap in the face, though you couldn’t have expected much more from such badly written and transparent hero figures.
By the end I was really hoping he would just murder them all and eat their brains, saving the world from a season two of this nonsense.
I couldn’t agree with you more. I love that show!
I recorded the first episode of season two yesterday, and am eagerly awaiting to have a chance to watch it.