Heroes

I just started watching Heroes recently and I'm enjoying the show. The rag tag set of characters and their emerging powers is simply fun to watch. I'm especially keen on the Japanese character, Hiro Nakamura, who can bend time and teleport. His real name is Masi Oka, a Brown alum 1997. There's a great article on Wired about him and his transition from a computer programmer as an undergrad to special effects wizard (it seems water is his speciality) at ILM, and finally an actor. There's even an in-character blog that provides commentary about himself after each episode.

The character is still stereotypically geeky for an Asian and there's so few of them both on television and the big screen. It's certainly not breaking any stereotypes about Asian masculinity. But ... it is a fanboy's dream of living their life straight out of a comic book. And there is a lovable appeal about him ... oh geez is this the "William Hung" effect again? Where you're so dorky and geeky, yet sincere, that people can't help but fall in love with you?