Next Week Heroes will explain how they "killed" D.

Gee, I wonder if they killed him off???

http://www.heroestheseries.com/quick-heroes-news-july-27-2007/

"Leonard Roberts, aka D.L. Hawkins, may not be in Season 2 of Heroes (if everything we’ve heard is correct), but that doesn’t mean he’ll be jobless, either. Leonard has already landed and will be appearing in the production of E.M. Lewis’ Heads, to be presented by the Blank Theatre Company August 14-September 23, with an official opening August 18."

 

Gee, there's a real shocker. But thanks for the update.

 

:x ALL I KNOW IS IF THEY DO KILL HIM OFF THEN I'M NOT WATCHING IT ANYMORE...PERIOD~!!! :evil:

 

I had to commend NBC with the grapes to create an interracial couple with a son but I only knew it was a matter of time before the brother would make his disappearance.

 

I don't give NBC props for anything. Interracial pairings between black men and white women on primetime TV are nowhere near as rare as they are on daytime TV and Hollywood movies. Other shows have done far more than what NBC did with Heroes IMO.

My problem with NBC (well, actually the creators of the show) is the typical lack of development of a storyline for the guy. Fans often complain about boring characters and writers/producers/networks use that as an excuse then to justify their limited screen time or storylines. Truth is there are no uninteresting characters, just unimaginative writers. Plus there are writers who are either too lazy or too biased towards other characters to spread the wealth around for characters who don't get much attention. And that's called playing favorites.

By the way NBC rarely included the guy in any of its promos for the show nor did I rarely see him in any previews for individual episodes. They allowed his character to go through these long gaps in which we, the viewers did not get to see what was going on in his life. Best example was when his wife was released from jail but he didn't know it was her alter ego who was in control. It would have been helpful for us to see how she pulled off fooling him and her son for weeks before he caught on. But to do that TPTB would have to give us scenes in which the three of thembeing a happy family (with Ali larter's character playing the role of loving wife and husband). Did NBC want to show such moments? Especially if it included any bedroom scenes between husband and wife? Think about it. If its a white male character or even an Asian there is no way the producers/writers don't show us what's happening in that house. The fans would demand to know whether or not "Jessica" is actually putting on such an act that she is even sleeping with the husband of her alter ego, blah, blah, blah. White writers and network executives never ignore the possibility of titilating sex mixed with deceit and betrayal when its involving white people. But somehow that idea never crossed their mind with DL, who is black of course. And speaking of intimacy DL and the blonde didn't even really kiss until the last episode. The producers appeared even afraid to show them in bed together, post-sex. That timidity is not something I can applaud NBC for. Bleh.


Stargate Atlantis. Lost. Heroes.

These sci-fi shows are getting mighty good at either giving a black male character nothing to do or hurting the character via character assasination before giving them the boot from the show. Progress.

 

Thank God i never watched the show anyway. It wasn't worth it to me, as are most "programs" on TV today.

 

I concur. The show wasn't very interesting anyways other than the 'irregular' IR relationship they had in the show.

 

Unfortuntely, they made DL Hawkins the black character in "Heroes" a criminal. Why do these TV writers almost always make black men have some type of criminal?

 

Well when you have influences such as the KKK excercising their rights--"by force and terror, to prevent all political action not in accord with the views of the memebrs, to supress the schools in which colored children are taught and to reduce the colored people to a condition closely allied to that of slavery"(Pres. U. S. Grant 1872')--it doesn't suprise me that to this day people are still advocating those same principles.

 

No offense but that's an exaggeration and a tired one at that. Most black male characters on TV the past twenty years have not been criminals or former criminals, not even close. Its like griping that most black women still play maids and/or most blacks actors are always getting slave roles. That may have been true 30 or 40 years ago but not so now. Most black men on TV are "good" characters with no criminal records. The problem though is that most are also underdeveloped and too one dimensional. If the people behind "Heroes" wanted to make DL a former criminal then so be it. Just make him fascinating. Give him his own great storylines. Problem is they gave him nothing to do and didn't even provide him an edge that would come with being a former jailed convict. And considering he was framed I'm not even entirely sure he was a legit criminal either. The writers ddin't know what to do with him.

 

But if you notice they never really showed him kissing her like stated earlier hell they even do it with the dude from "My name is Earl" I don't think that brother kissed her yet on screen, but they had the black woman on heroes getting kissed down by two different white dudes. I have to say at least on soap operas they have the bm/ww couples kissing.

 

I'm not shocked. They get rid of the brotha in everything. They ethnic cleansed "Lost," and we all know Dr. Burke is gone off "Grey's." And when they brought back "Battlestar Galactica," Boomer and Col. Tighe who were black in the original became a white guy and an Asian chick in the new version.

Brothas can't have shit.

 

I've said this a thousand times, but i still fail to comprehend why you guys are dying to see a "prominent" interracial pairing on television. You know it isn't going to happen, yet keep hoping.

 

Most of the members on this site know this, yet why do producers of these shows tease audiences with interracial pairings only to have a break up or have something tragic happens to them.

People who are in interracial relationships (including members on this site) should feel insulted.

 

That's exactly my point. If you don't want to get insulted, how about not tuning in for starters?

 

Well considering soaps come on every day and must fill airtime and consider their romantic nature, its pretty hard for any couple to "never kiss" on air. But when it comes to love scenes that's where soap producers are relunctant whenever its a black male-white woman (hell, a black man can't have sex with any woman of any race on soaps these days). But its moot because there have only been a few black male-white female romantic pairins in its fifty or sixty year history. And right now there are none I can think of. It remains to be seen what happens with the going-ons on Guiding Light.

 

Actually there have been prominent interracial pairings on TV shows (even daytime involving black men and white women). On primetime its more likely to happen then in the movies. And considering the theme of this overall message board you don't have to be the smartest person in the world to figure out why some folks here are "dying' to see such pairings. People like to see their lives reflected in the shows and films they watch and in the books they read. Not that they need to see it all the time but they like to see it more consistently. Gay people are the same way. Go to any TV message board and you will find gay viewers who express their desire to see more or any homosexual characters and couples on their TV screens.

 

Its one thing if you're talking about an individual show or even one network (like a cable network). But that's a somewhat ridiculous comment if your suggestion is to avoid all Tv altogether in order to not be insulted.

Should Christians not have a voice if they feel Hollywood shows are insulting their way of life? Should gay people not have any oportunities to see characters like themselves? Should Arabic people just try to ignore TV because it depicts them only as one dimensional terrorists? Or should these groups hope, anticpate or demand better?

By your logic people should simply accept "defeat" when TV does not present characters who don't insult them or shows that do not have any characters like them. These folks should flee to the safety of an unplugged TV set rather than expect more diversity and representation from their television sets. That would be like Brazil, a country with a majority black population but almost zero black characters on TV. When the rare black person complains about this he is denounced as being racist and is told to accept the situation. Fortunately America isn't Brazil and is much more diverse in its casting. Still American TV has a long way to go before its as diverse as its actual population (racially, religiously, sexual orientation, politically, etc). And there's nothing wrong with being positive about the prospects of seeing the type of people or couples that mirror who you are.

With that being said I have stopped watching soaps the past year because it did get too insulting. Yet I ahve written letters to network execustives about daytime over the eyars to complain about this. I still tune in from time to time thinking thatt it will change in that genre one day.

 

Oh boy... :roll:

 

What's wrong?