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Learn Who Plays Papa Petrelli On HEROES!!
Arthur Petrelli in happier times
Arthur Petrelli in happier times
I am – Hercules!!
Robert Forster, of “Medium Cool,” “Jackie Brown” and “Karen Sisco” fame, will play long-thought-dead Petrelli partriach Arthur on “Heroes.”
No word yet on whether we meet the father of Nathan and Peter in the present, past or future.
Read all of the exclusive from Entertainment Weekly’s Mike Ausiello here.
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and booby babies
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Aug 01, 2008 3:54:52 PM CDT
and will he leave long messages on Mama Petrelli's voicemail?
by onephatnelly
Yo mamma.
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2 members of my "could care less" Top 3.
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And I mean it was Carla Gugino, so who can blame him? Even so, he was playing her father.
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Holy shit, Forster has arrived.
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Anyone who thought he was not going to pop up at some point has not been paying attention.
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for this shit series.
Oh well. -
It was interesting at times, horribly wordy at other times (im still half-crosseyed), and while the buildup to the ending was very fun, the ending itself was fall apart silly. There's a great deal of emotional build-up that has no release - no real payoff. A certain character meets a certain conclusion in the snow and its utterly pointless. And it ends with a big "so was the end justified by the means?" and ROLL CREDITS, its over. Then we get a series of epilogue moments, the first of which (in Florida) was very nice. It should have ended there. Then we get a self-referential geek-moment at the final epilogue that is just flaccid.
All in all it certainly is a great story - way too many words for a comic book. Id give it a 9/10 score.
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What score would you give it if you liked it?! You're a generous chap.
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The missing writers and artists who all went to that island SPOILERS were like making the monster i think. Been awhile since I read it but I believe thats right, they were like working for Ozy engineering the whole thing.
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yeah, you don't remember the writer and the indian artist on the beach talking about the monster they'd designed for what they thought was a movie? the writer concieved the home planet they came from, the artist designed the creature from his notes, the geneticists actually created the thing. also remember they were all on that ship celebrating the end of the project, the writer and the artist were getting it on below decks and the writer realizes they're right next to a ticking bomb... you don't remember that?
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oh, yeah SPOILERS for previous post
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He makes being middle aged cool as hell.
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was Henry Winkler not available?
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But did the guy fake his death or what?
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Neil Diamond when I grow up. Fuck any one of you that has a problem with that.
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because that doofus looks nothing like Robery Forster.
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So Shatner could kick that prick Sulu's ass!!!
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looks like Alan Ruck, or is it just me?
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Then dropkicks Sylar
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Jerry Dandridge himself!
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cuz that is where the missing writer, artist and scientists all are...and the point of that individuals death in the snow being pointless...is the fucking point...you are so used to seeing heroes get a fucking heroic death, that you missed the point completely...oh, sorry it was too wordy for your tastes...next time take out see spot run...maybe that will be more to your liking....god, i love ripping on people who dont get watchmen...as for forster being papa petrelli...who the fuck cares...these fucks keep missing all the great geek out choices...it should be shatner....or aberjenois....fuckers
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The kid is the spitting image
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I wish he was MY dad.
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He should be in this show. Of course they would have to change the name of the show to Hero.
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The acting may have been lite, but it stands to this day as a pretty nice rebuke to CGI-fests that we have now in movies.
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Now I actually want to watch Heroes this season.
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I thought it was the dude from Max's Headroom. Oh well.
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even with the inclusion of an interesting actor the show is proably still doomed.
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Black Hole cool.
Jackie Brown cool.
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just kidding, you stay classy, Robert Forster.
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I fucking adore Robert Forster. Jackie Brown is so, so good.
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(SPOILERS FOR WATCHMEN) Normally, I don't like to accuse people of "not getting it", but in this case you really didn't get it. The science fiction portion of that ending was totally out there, and was a means to an end. That end being the inescapable moral quandary that the hero characters are forced into. The character who had the situation in the snow had that situation because of the very nature of his character: He was the only one totally unwilling to compromise, even for the "greater good." You should go back and read it again, the ending is really pretty amazing, and gives payoff to each character based on their response to the quandary.
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and the rest of you. Chill on ppl not getting Watchmen the first time around. I hated it when I first read it, but I was a snot-nosed teenager who didn't really get it the first time around.
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Apart from bringing the once-alive-then-dead back, they stepped it up by bringing the dead-from-the-beginning back. Might as well call the show Dead Rising. The biggest mistake they made with the show wasn't time travel, but super healing. Super healing just sucks out any real tension from the show.
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Maybe the bloated ponytailed hack has a place in Heroes mythology?
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Season 1 was good, season 2 was shite. We know Nicky is back because NBC showed us a big old commercial with Ali Larter saying, "We're back!" Peter and Nathan's dad is not dead, HRG was given Claire's blood to live. I have a feeling that the Menudo wonder twins will be back as well. /sigh
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Here's the first 15 minutes of 'The Second Coming': http://tinyurl.com/5ukoay
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Just sayin...
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especially when i have to watch tb after tb extolling the virutes of lost...and they fuckin took the 4 year story arc from watchmen....right down to the freighter with the bomb...and they admit it...and so many of their fans dont get it...and i loved watchmen from the very first issue...
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I stopped after a few episodes into Season 2.
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So it's that dude's job to do nothing other than sit around writing speculative thoughts about Heroes and LOST, and getting to see episodes before everyone else does? Who did he blow, God?
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Season 2 of Heroes was wretchedly bad. Can't believe they went ahead with a third, and Robert Forster sure ain't enough to reel me back in.
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Producers should have cast him instead.
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Aug 02, 2008 5:28:54 PM CDT
Papa Patrelli in that photo looks like John C. McGinley
by iamjack'suserid
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That would have been great casting, love him in everything. Don't know who Robert Forster is though.
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I like Forster, but the only thing I can think of that he was great in was Jackie Brown.
As for the guy who stopped watching after a couple episodes in to Season 2, I don't blame you. The last third or so the show redeems itself and becomes watchable again. Not enough that you "need" to start watching again, but I'll give the third season a try. I won't stick around this time if it goes to shit again.
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