Interview:R.D. Hall - Revision history

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	'''''Ryan Stewart'': How did you come about working for ''[[Heroes]]''?		'''''Ryan Stewart'': How did you come about working for ''[[Heroes]]''?

	''R.D. Hall'': I came about working for ''Heroes'' in November, I believe. I got the call from [[Greg ~~Poretta~~]] who animates the graphic novel videos. He's based out of New York, and he went to art school with another artist I met at [http://www.nycomiccon.com/App/homepage.cfm?moduleid=2577&appname=100453 NYCC 2006], [http://www.judahdobin.com/ Judah Dobin]. He's a phenomenal artist. Well, I guess the guys at NBC told Greg to find some more writers to work on the scripts during the WGA strike. He contacted me in November or December, and he wanted me to get on it as soon as possible.		''R.D. Hall'': I came about working for ''Heroes'' in November, I believe. I got the call from [[Greg Porretta]] who animates the graphic novel videos. He's based out of New York, and he went to art school with another artist I met at [http://www.nycomiccon.com/App/homepage.cfm?moduleid=2577&appname=100453 NYCC 2006], [http://www.judahdobin.com/ Judah Dobin]. He's a phenomenal artist. Well, I guess the guys at NBC told Greg to find some more writers to work on the scripts during the WGA strike. He contacted me in November or December, and he wanted me to get on it as soon as possible.

imported>Ryangibsonstewart: update link

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	RH: I went to Wikipedia and I talked to some friends who are Hindi. Another thing that I found that was really interesting was a concept called [[Wikipedia:noosphere\|noosphere]]. This philosopher [[Wikipedia:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin\|Chardin]] came up with this idea where it's this big ball of human thought, this big space where all human thought went to. What if later on, this thing became sentient because as our communication becomes modernized, and we communicate with each other on such a lightning pace (as we are right now on the internet), then all of the communication comes to one place, the internet? Now, this is before the internet that he came up with this idea, around the early 1900s. Well, that's exactly how a body works! All these different cells communicating to run your body, your mind. So if all these things come together in an [[Wikipedia:Omega Point\|Omega Point]], they become one being, not little pieces, but one being.		RH: I went to Wikipedia and I talked to some friends who are Hindi. Another thing that I found that was really interesting was a concept called [[Wikipedia:noosphere\|noosphere]]. This philosopher [[Wikipedia:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin\|Chardin]] came up with this idea where it's this big ball of human thought, this big space where all human thought went to. What if later on, this thing became sentient because as our communication becomes modernized, and we communicate with each other on such a lightning pace (as we are right now on the internet), then all of the communication comes to one place, the internet? Now, this is before the internet that he came up with this idea, around the early 1900s. Well, that's exactly how a body works! All these different cells communicating to run your body, your mind. So if all these things come together in an [[Wikipedia:Omega Point\|Omega Point]], they become one being, not little pieces, but one being.

	You know, a lot of the ideas of noosphere have to do with [[~~corinthianlasvegas.com#October~~ ~~24, 2007~~\|those drawings]] Drucker made as a child. He saw all this stuff above him. That made me think about the noosphere, because I'd done some reading on it before. Everything is above his head. When he was a child, he wanted to grasp that. I think that's what drove him to discover this sort of thing.		You know, a lot of the ideas of noosphere have to do with [[Drucker's drawings\|those drawings]] Drucker made as a child. He saw all this stuff above him. That made me think about the noosphere, because I'd done some reading on it before. Everything is above his head. When he was a child, he wanted to grasp that. I think that's what drove him to discover this sort of thing.

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2008-08-21T19:59:06Z

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	'''''Ryan Stewart'': How did you come about working for ''[[Heroes]]''?		'''''Ryan Stewart'': How did you come about working for ''[[Heroes]]''?

	''R.D. Hall'': I came about working for ''Heroes'' in November, I believe. I got the call from ~~{{link\|~~Greg Poretta}} who animates the graphic novel videos. He's based out of New York, and he went to art school with another artist I met at [http://www.nycomiccon.com/App/homepage.cfm?moduleid=2577&appname=100453 NYCC 2006], [http://www.judahdobin.com/ Judah Dobin]. He's a phenomenal artist. Well, I guess the guys at NBC told Greg to find some more writers to work on the scripts during the WGA strike. He contacted me in November or December, and he wanted me to get on it as soon as possible.		''R.D. Hall'': I came about working for ''Heroes'' in November, I believe. I got the call from [[Greg Poretta]] who animates the graphic novel videos. He's based out of New York, and he went to art school with another artist I met at [http://www.nycomiccon.com/App/homepage.cfm?moduleid=2577&appname=100453 NYCC 2006], [http://www.judahdobin.com/ Judah Dobin]. He's a phenomenal artist. Well, I guess the guys at NBC told Greg to find some more writers to work on the scripts during the WGA strike. He contacted me in November or December, and he wanted me to get on it as soon as possible.

imported>Ryangibsonstewart: cool link that RD suggested I add...

2008-08-12T18:23:14Z

cool link that RD suggested I add...

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	'''RS: I know you did some research on mind uploading. Can you tell me what you learned about that and how it applies to Matt. They attached something to his forehead, the machine went "beep", and he's dead. So it was very quickly told, it got the point across. I know there's some people who liked Matt, he's a young guy who they can identify with as an outcast. Some people want him to be alive, but he's gone.		'''RS: I know you did some research on mind uploading. Can you tell me what you learned about that and how it applies to Matt. They attached something to his forehead, the machine went "beep", and he's dead. So it was very quickly told, it got the point across. I know there's some people who liked Matt, he's a young guy who they can identify with as an outcast. Some people want him to be alive, but he's gone.

	RH: Yeah, he's gone. He didn't get uploaded with the information or anything like that. Hana and Drucker already were purushas, Matt isn't. As for uploading, there's this futurist, [[wikipedia:Raymond Kurzweil\|Raymond Kurzweil]]. He's an inventor and a futurist. It's probably someone else's concept, but he talks about a concept called [[Wikipedia:Technological singularity\|singularity]]. Depending on who you ask, a lot of it has to do with [[wikipedia:Transhumanism\|transhumanism]]. When you die, you can upload your brain into a computer so it can live forever. Some people think in fifty years, it can be done. What he's saying is within twenty years, we can map the human brain and figure out how it works. When they get past that hurdle, they can figure out how it works and apply it to a computer system. Now I'm not here to say it's right or not, I'm just here to tell a story. But the idea that once we're at this singularity point where we're all in this database after we die, we would mesh with computers.		RH: Yeah, he's gone. He didn't get uploaded with the information or anything like that. Hana and Drucker already were purushas, Matt isn't. As for uploading, there's this futurist, [[wikipedia:Raymond Kurzweil\|Raymond Kurzweil]]. He's an inventor and a futurist. It's probably someone else's concept, but he talks about a concept called [[Wikipedia:Technological singularity\|singularity]]. Depending on who you ask, a lot of it has to do with [[wikipedia:Transhumanism\|transhumanism]]. When you die, you can [http://grinding.be/2008/05/22/researchers-develop-robotic-brain-computer-interface/ upload your brain into a computer] so it can live forever. Some people think in fifty years, it can be done. What he's saying is within twenty years, we can map the human brain and figure out how it works. When they get past that hurdle, they can figure out how it works and apply it to a computer system. Now I'm not here to say it's right or not, I'm just here to tell a story. But the idea that once we're at this singularity point where we're all in this database after we die, we would mesh with computers.

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	'''RS: [''laughs''] And I just know mine would be plaid. Or it would be pure black.		'''RS: [''laughs''] And I just know mine would be plaid. Or it would be pure black.

	RH: Black as my soul. [''laughs''] That's something you would say if you were a horror writer. One of my favorite quotes is from [[Wikipedia:Stephen King\|Stephen King]]. Someone asks King, "Why do you write the things you write?" Mr. King replies, "It's because I have the heart of a small boy." And as everyone goes "~~aww~~", Stephen adds, "and I keep it in a jar ~~under~~ my ~~bed~~."		RH: Black as my soul. [''laughs''] That's something you would say if you were a horror writer. One of my favorite quotes is from [[Wikipedia:Stephen King\|Stephen King]]. Someone asks King, "Why do you write the things you write?" Mr. King replies, "It's because I have the heart of a small boy." And as everyone goes "Aww", Stephen adds, "and I keep it in a jar on my desk."

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	'''RS: I did. I had the theory that she might have been Angela's mom. She's in her 40's and Angela would probably be in her 20's at the time. So I kind of thought she might be Angela's mom. Who knows?		'''RS: I did. I had the theory that she might have been Angela's mom. She's in her 40's and Angela would probably be in her 20's at the time. So I kind of thought she might be Angela's mom. Who knows?

	RH: Yeah. I saw her whole "catch your death" scene (on page five). She's one of my favorite characters, and I thought of her in the novel as a young [[Wikipedia:Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis\|Jackie O]]. By that time, she would have been married to [[Arthur Petrelli\|Arthur]] a few years. Arthur's already built his wealth by that time, obviously. I just saw her as that kind of vibrant [personality]--carefree as far as the way she looked, but very determined. She had a plan. That's the way I saw her.		RH: Yeah. I saw her whole "catch your death" scene [on page five]. She's one of my favorite characters, and I thought of her in the novel as a young [[Wikipedia:Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis\|Jackie O]]. By that time, she would have been married to [[Arthur Petrelli\|Arthur]] a few years. Arthur's already built his wealth by that time, obviously. I just saw her as that kind of vibrant [personality]--carefree as far as the way she looked, but very determined. She had a plan. That's the way I saw her.


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	'''RS: So was Linda stealing all these powers from other people or was she just killing people and taking their auras?		'''RS: So was Linda stealing all these powers from other people or was she just killing people and taking their auras?

	RH: She could do it to anyone, powers or not, like she says in the last of the second novel, ''[[Bounty Hunter]]''. So if they had powers, she could take them and make them her own like [[Sylar]]. But it was an aura; she just sucked the life out of them. She wasn't in the whole brain thing.		RH: She could do it to anyone, powers or not, like she says in the last of the second novel, ''[[Bounty Hunter]]''. So if they had powers, she could take them and make them her own like [[Sylar]]. But it was an aura; she just sucked the life out of them. She wasn't in the whole [[brain]] thing.

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	'''RS: Oh gosh. Then, that would be my first thought too. My kids may have to read this one day.		'''RS: Oh gosh. Then, that would be my first thought too. My kids may have to read this one day.

	RH: Exactly. Okay, we're on the Tavara story. We've changed this during editing, but when I first got the ~~piece~~, the [[Linda's informant\|mystery woman]] was [[Angela Petrelli]].		RH: Exactly. Okay, we're on the Tavara story. We've changed this during editing, but when I first got the beats, the [[Linda's informant\|mystery woman]] was [[Angela Petrelli]].


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	'''RS: I did. I had the theory that she might have been Angela's mom. She's in her 40's and Angela would probably be in her 20's at the time. So I kind of thought she might be Angela's mom. Who knows?		'''RS: I did. I had the theory that she might have been Angela's mom. She's in her 40's and Angela would probably be in her 20's at the time. So I kind of thought she might be Angela's mom. Who knows?

	RH: Yeah. I saw her whole ~~sketch~~ your death scene. She's one of my favorite characters, and I thought of her in the novel as a young [[Wikipedia:Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis\|Jackie O]]. By that time, she would have been married to [[Arthur Petrelli\|Arthur]] a few years. Arthur's already built his wealth by that time, obviously. I just saw her as that kind of vibrant [personality]--carefree as far as the way she looked, but very determined. She had a plan. That's the way I saw her.		RH: Yeah. I saw her whole "catch your death" scene (on page five). She's one of my favorite characters, and I thought of her in the novel as a young [[Wikipedia:Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis\|Jackie O]]. By that time, she would have been married to [[Arthur Petrelli\|Arthur]] a few years. Arthur's already built his wealth by that time, obviously. I just saw her as that kind of vibrant [personality]--carefree as far as the way she looked, but very determined. She had a plan. That's the way I saw her.

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punct, (sorry about the ton of tiny edits -- it's just easier to read and edit at the same time tonight)

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	'''RS: And that came from [[NBC]]?		'''RS: And that came from [[NBC]]?

	RH: Yeah. After that, I wrote it up and that's why, she may have appeared to talk like Angela would be if she were younger. Did you notice that?		RH: Yeah. After that, I wrote it up and that's why she may have appeared to talk like Angela would be if she were younger. Did you notice that?

imported>Ryangibsonstewart: I don't know what I was saying at this point, but at least this way it makes a little more sense! :)

2008-06-13T01:47:00Z

I don't know what I was saying at this point, but at least this way it makes a little more sense! :)

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	'''RS: If only there it were ~~like~~ a little pink bunny afterwards, that would be perfect.		'''RS: If only there were a little pink bunny afterwards, that would be perfect.

	RH: Maybe it comes from having children. As soon as I was assigned that, I thinking of my little kids on Christmas, getting a puppy and having it dying in their hands.		RH: Maybe it comes from having children. As soon as I was assigned that, I thinking of my little kids on Christmas, getting a puppy and having it dying in their hands.