WHAT WHAT WHAT.

[apocalypsos]

Showtime's turning Perry Moore's Hero into a series?!

Woohoo!

Oh, and also ... I still have a job. The usual sucky demeaning energy-depleting waste of a job, but I still have it.

Comments

[slashfairy.livejournal.com]

my dad used to say, 'rich or poor, money helps.'

also, that looks really intriguing, both book and show idea. *keeps eye on it*

[purple-smurf.livejournal.com]

If Hero stays in development hell, I will cry. They don't usually announce anything if it isn't gonna be made, right? Right??

(very glad you still have a job, btw)

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Modified yay.

[pekover.livejournal.com]

Re. Hero - I hadn't heard of it before, but it sounds interesting.

I'm a high school librarian in a small town, and am always looking for books that might help some of the more closed-minded kids ease into the larger, more accepting world...would you say this book would be suitable? By that I guess I mean - I'm hoping the hero is clearly gay, but the book isn't so graphic that I'm gonna get in trouble if some red-neck kid protests that he was 'tricked' into reading it because it was in the Sci-Fi section, rather than on the Senior Fiction shelf.

Thanks for any opinions...

[goddessleila.livejournal.com]

Sorry to stick my nose in, but Hero isn't graphic at all, in terms of sexuality, and it has a genuine and awesome romance that's... well, *real.* As in it's people, not romance-people, if that makes any sense. I think this book is absolutely perfect for any close-minded kids out there who might be willing to open a few mental doors.

I gave it to my mom to read it, and she immediately declared it one of the best things she'd read in a while. And my mom, while not a bigot in any sense (at *all*) is usually pretty shallow and mindless in her book choices. But she was willing to babble on about this for about an hour after she read it.

[pekover.livejournal.com]

Excellent, thanks - I'll put it on my 'to buy right away' list!

[goddessleila.livejournal.com]

On one hand, I'm thrilled, because that book, to me, is the quintessential superhero book, right up there with Watchmen, and Identity Crisis, and Kingdom Come, which are the three comics that I have not just enjoyed, but have made me think.

On the other hand, I'm terrified they're going to fuck it up, because as much as I've been enjoying True Blood on a shallow level, that is not the series, and not even close to the characters, I've loved since the first book came out. It's almost a parody of the book series.

On the (third?) hand, it's on Showtime, not HBO. Showtime has less of a chip on their shoulder about throwing in sex and violence just to be "edgy," and spends a lot more time building characters instead of manufacturing drama. If they just spend one season, or *maybe* two, covering the events of the book and don't leave it open-ended just so they can keep the series going and make more cash... Yeah, I can see it. It could be really fantastic.

[expastic.livejournal.com]

*SQUEAL*

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that has so much potential. Awesome.