Save The Cheerleader, Save The World...

I am truly enjoying the new hit show, Heroes. It's subversive in a very cool way. It's not trying to be subversive. But, it's the first show that just assumes that it's normal for people to be poor, to be drug addicts, to be rich, to be privileged, to be unprivileged.

It's addressed the pervasiveness of date rape, the various types of sexism that permeate society from the overprotection of Heidi to the ongoing abuse that nearly destroys Niki.

It's shown people from the various stratas of society, and treated them all like humans. Rich, poor, middle class. No parodies, no pretending that they're innately different. From working class cop with severe dyslexia to rich and ambitious poltiician, they're all shown as flawed humans, as fucked up I am. As fucked up as you are. No nobility in poverty. No romance to a needle stuck in a vein. No No pretense that wealth brings nobility or venality.

Nope. It's a story about normal people from all walks of life. Basically, it's a story that has the subversive message that ordinary people matter, and are capable of being extra-ordinary.

It's true. Evolution or not, we're all extra-ordinary.

OK, that's enough of being a media whore.