The concept of the hero is an important part of how we see the world. Whether it’s real life do-gooders or the protagonists of our favorite stories we enjoy learning about and honoring heroes. In this episode we examine the concept of the hero. We discuss the core traits of the hero. We delve into our pasts and talk about the heroes that were important to our development. We also debate the place of the anti-hero and whether we’ve taken the concept too far. We also get into the heroes of the real world as well discussions of how sometimes even mundane acts of bravery can be heroic.
Due to time constraints there is no five minute controversy in this episode.
This week Eric, Tom, Assad, and Daviorr join the cast.
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The 42cast has reached 200 episodes! We’d like to thank our audience for making this possible. As a treat for this episode we’ve invited back our most prolific guests. We discuss what has been going on in the geeskisphere since Episode 100, and we give our opinions on what has been the good; the bad; and the ugly. We also talk a little about what goes on behind the scenes on The 42cast. Watch out as Nathan goes on not 1, not, but 3 rants in this episode. It is not to be missed!
This week we talk all about Heroes, the NBC drama that took the world by storm back in 2006. Heroes treated the idea of superpowers in a serious manner and paved the way for so many series that we know and love. Just about everyone agrees that Heroes started strong and then fell apart, but no one agrees on the when and how. In this episode we try to get to the bottom of that and examine if the Heroes Reborn reboot was a worthy successor.