heroes, interrupted

i'm a huge fan of heroes. i am.

i was on board the heroes train after i watched their pilot a couple of months ago. unfortunately, travel interrupted my weekly does of the show, so i was not able to sustain my interest. last january, before another trip, i did a heroes marathon and within two days, i was on board the train once again.

i was not about to let the possibility of seeing the cast in person when i found out that the show is included in this year's paley television festival, a project of the beverly hills-based museum of television and radio. so i inquired. turns out tickets for heroes have been sold out. awww.

fast forward to the night when my friend shau and i went to the brothers and sisters event. (this should be another post!) we met a lovely filipina who was working at the museum and she was very kind to hook us up with tickets for heroes!

so that saturday, we trooped to the directors guild of america on sunset boulevard to be at the heroes event. the creator selects an episode to show to the audience, then the entire cast goes onstage for a discussion. afterwards, the audience is given the chance to ask questions. how lovely.

i tried to get all of them in one photo but it was just too wide, so i cut creator tim kring (left) and the guy playing ali larter's wife and the moderator, access hollywood anchor tony potts (right). so those in photo are (goodness, i am not too sure about their names. hahaha. i know the characters they portray in the show!) isaac mendes (the artist who can paint the future), suresh (the son of the indian professor who compiled the list of all the people who have special "gifts"), mr. bennett (claire's father), parkman (he reads people's minds), claire bennett (the cheerleader whose power is spontaneous regeneration, which means that she's not going to die. ever!), hiro (he teleports and he can manipulate the time-space continuum), peter petrelli (the absorber. he absorbs the power of people around him), nathan petrelli (he flies!), niki sanders (has an alter-ego with a superhuman strength), micah sanders (communicates with machines). phew.

heroes is currently in hiatus and will be back on april 23. four more weeks!