I kept thinking 1 thing as I watched the 2nd Episode of Season 3…

I mean, we’ve got another guy that shoots fire, another guy that can miraculously heal, and another guy that can paint the future.

And About Monica’s power… please see this article–> wwv.heroes.com/most-ridiculous-hero-power-ever-are-we-idiots?

I’m not alone in this sentiment.

A Heroes Authority, SmellyPirateHooker, said,

I mean, come on, Tim Kring. You’re what, 25 episodes into the series, and you’re re-using powers like crazy?! To support this statement, I was forced to research and open up excel sheets. You jerks better appreciate this. Below, I present my findings…

Painting the Future: ·Isaac Mendez ·Usutu the African guy

Super Memory Skills:

·Charlie (who works at a Diner) ·Monica (who works at a Diner)

Pyrokinesis (Making Fire):

·Meredith (Claire’s Mom) ·Flint (the Convict guy from Lvl 5)

(To distinguish these two, his is blue while hers is fire-colored)

Cellular Regeneration (Super Healing): ·Claire Bennet ·Adam Monroe

Telepathy: ·Matt Parkman ·And his Dad

Flying: ·Nathan Petrelli ·Claire’s boyfriend, West

Collecting Other People’s Powers: ·Peter Petrelli ·Sylar

And Now Let’s Just be REALLY Honest…
Re-hashed Repeats of Already-Used Superhero Powers:

·The German Magnetic Guy = Magneto

·Claire and Kensei = Wolverine

·Parkman and his dad = Professor X

·Jesse the Convict = Banshee

·Claire’s Mom = Human Torch

·Daphne = A female Flash

·Tracy Strauss = girl version of Ice Man

·Nathan Petrelli, West Rosen, & Niki Sanders = Are All Really Just Trying to Be Superman

Which reminds me of my un-published Season 2 take-away…

The only difference between Heroes in the Present and the Heroes in the Future = Hair Gel.

Hey Tim Kring, I got a great suggestion for your next Super Hero Power… How about when Mohinder gets angry, I mean REALLY angry, he grows larger, rips out of his shirt and gets super-strength! And he turns Green. –Shawn Butler

So, a Translation Service offers translation into German and is doing the same translation that I just completed, but has no industry experience. She says she has access to an engineer that she uses as a resource to improve the accuracy of her translating. She states that it took 7 hours for the first 2 pages of the document (out of 8 total) and claims it will take 40 to 50 hours to complete the translation. There is no reason given for this time estimate. We pay by the hour.

We have no way of checking that the translation she has provided so far is correct or of verifying that it has taken her as long as she claims. Essentially, our options are:
1) to allow her as much time as she estimates and pay her as much as she requests,
2) to bargain and negotiate based solely on my experience that the Spanish took 1/5 the time she is estimating (and still no guarantee that she is providing usable translation),
3) to find another source that is somehow verifiable and perhaps works faster/cheaper.

She has us at her mercy. Basically, we are going to take whatever she gives us, and we are going to pay her whatever she asks. It’s Doc Terminus’ Magic Dragon Elixir. The only way to test it is to try it. And if we get back pages full of German words, we have to go ahead and pay her. If only we had someone that knew our industry and was fluent in German?

In October we are going to begin sales into France. We don’t speak that language either…