Our good friend Brian Jefferson turned me on the TV series Heroes last year, and I was looking forward to last night's season premier.
I was not disappointed. But the part that really made me cheer probably doesn't mean anything to 99.9% of viewers. One of our heroes, Hiro Nakamura, has been thrown back in time to 1600s Japan - and ends up in Otsu, a small city outside Kyoto that I visited this spring. (The famous haiku poet Basho is buried there.)
Sometimes it's the little things that draw you in to a work.