Heroes: Stuntcasting President Worf
Star TrekStargate:AtlantisFireflyBy Lisa Fary
Cake didn’t try hard enough to fix everything. Maybe cake could have prevented Sylar from launching into the worst spoken word performance ever. Had a slice of cake been shoved in his hand, perhaps he would have lost interest in playing Saw with the Company gang.
Although, even cake probably couldn’t have saved another black character, Knox, from certain death. As much as I dig President Worf, I’m not going to get too attached. Michael Dorn is black and this is Heroes. At least one thing President Worf isn’t going to have to worry about is getting shot by Peter Petrelli.
Hey, Peter! You and a gun? Not threatening. Here’s a hint: pull the trigger. Future!Peter could do that. Present!Peter did once, too. Remember in the Haitian jungle? All those guerrillas?
Oh, wait. Those guys were all black. Maybe President Worf should worry if Peter comes around with a gun.
In the meantime, President Worf has given the Flying Senator the go ahead to build a prison for the supers. So, in the space of a single episode, Nathan Petrelli went from Superpowers will save the world! Let’s give ‘em to the Marines! to Concentration camps will rocket me to the presidency!
Nathan’s only Super Marine, played by stuntcasting guest star Chad Faust, was killed within minutes, now that the obligatory nod toward The 4400 has been made as well as dumped on the floor and set on fire, but not before giving Mohinder a much needed exfoliation. That was disappointing (the death, not the beauty treatment) because that kid had the potential to be a really scary attack dog to carry out Nathan’s evil plan. But, Chad Faust was too much of a reminder that the Red Promicin storyline was lifted from basic cable.
Heroes, if we’re going to stuntcast, let’s stuntcast (and move away from the Star Trek co-stars). Here are some guest stars I’d like to see in volume four and beyond:
Clancy Brown. His imposing size and voice get him typecast as the villain most of the time. Let’s see him play against type as a good guy.
Ron Glass from Firefly. Let’s try not killing him off.
Ernie Hudson. Come on. You know you want to see a Ghostbuster on Heroes. Let’s try not killing him off, either.
Bruce Campbell. As himself. With superpowers.
Carrie Fisher. The Heroes girls need a mentor to show them how to be strong, how to be their own people, how to have their own thoughts, and if necessary, how to turn a bikini into an instrument of death. Carrie Fisher, superpowered or not, should play that role. She could co-mentor the Heroes girls with Gina Torres, who hopefully won’t get killed off.
How about it, Heroes?
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Lisa Fary’s early exposure to classic Battlestar Galactica in 1979 is largely responsible for her lifelong interest in science fiction and her childhood ambition of being an intergalactic space cowgirl. She thinks diagramming sentences is a fun alternative to Sudoku.
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