Bell is one of very, very few actresses I'll forgive for being yet another blonde, especially on Heroes. And she doesn't sound like she has to be a Sue to me- the simple connection between all those storylines is that she works for the Company, which can make her either pure evil or somewhere in the middle of the moral spectrum.
As for the star factor- I realize Chris Eccleston isn't all that well-known in the U.S., but in the UK he's a big-time TV leading man and he fit into the ensemble just fine. Not that many people watched VM, in the end; Bell is in no position to swamp a big sophomore show like Heroes. (I'm far more frightened of the cults surrounding actors like Jason Dohring and James Marsters, myself.)
So I guess I'm still on the squee side of things, though you have good points about the ways this can go wrong- especially because I don't have enough faith in the Heroes writing team to rule out those things happening.
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As for the star factor- I realize Chris Eccleston isn't all that well-known in the U.S., but in the UK he's a big-time TV leading man and he fit into the ensemble just fine. Not that many people watched VM, in the end; Bell is in no position to swamp a big sophomore show like Heroes. (I'm far more frightened of the cults surrounding actors like Jason Dohring and James Marsters, myself.)
So I guess I'm still on the squee side of things, though you have good points about the ways this can go wrong- especially because I don't have enough faith in the Heroes writing team to rule out those things happening.
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