Heroes
 

I started to watch this series on Netflix's free downloads, and I have to say that I haven't seen this kind of addictive story telling since Babylon 5. It starts out slow but when it picks up speed it does it with monumental force. The characters are likable and intriguing, the story additively intoxicating, and the experience very rewarding.

If you haven't seen this series yet, rent the season 1 dvd's and go for a joy ride that has been absent from television since the end of Babylon 5. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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My wife and myself are enjoying this too. Season 2 is currently being shown.
Got to admit that having the non-English characters speaking their own language when talking in their countries is good, but I do get sick of the sub-titles after awhile.

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At least it is large blocky easy to read print

My wife has really enjoyed the on-line comic for Heroes.

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I enjoyed season 1. Haven't enjoyed season 2 so much. I actually haven't gotten around to watching this weeks epsiode yet. They were going to make a second series called Heroes: Origins but what with the writers strike and, it is rumoured, the awful ratings the latest series has gotten that's been cancelled. From reviews I've read the Latin wondertwins aren't very popular. I have always liked Marvel's Taskmaster though, not so sure about the black girl version.

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What I like about the show is the intelligent writing. The fact that you don't see people running around in costumes like superman or the X-men. (Shudder)

Its about character development and interpersonal explorations. I love how they turned the good guys into bad guys and the bad guys into good goods in episode 19. Most effective and it served to illustrate a much more dominate darker side of why it is so important for them to kill Styler and save the cheer leader. The guy who you thought was the least important of them all turns out to be the most important. The character development arcs with Hiro and future Hiro were cool. Like I said in my opening post, I haven't seen this kind of good writing since Babylon 5 was taken off the air. (LOST - well its just lost.)

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Well the writings good I agree, but it's not entirely original. Micah's cousin is just a copy of Taskmaster, and the whole threat last season was a copy of Watchmen.

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Well, when it first came out last year, I thought of it as X-Men lite. But I agree, it is a darn good show. But I'm still wandering whatever happened to the girl who could connect with the internet with her mind. She showed up to talk to Ted, the radioactive man, and then they talked to Parkman. After that, she never was seen again. I bought the dvd set, and there were no deleted scenes concerning her. I just wander what happened?

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...She wandered away.(Snark!)

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Maybe she caught a virus? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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I quite enjoyed the first season, haven't seen the second though, since I'm so busy being edjamakated, but from what I've heard it's kind of gone downhill, which I kind of figured. The poor writers burned themselves out on the first season, and now they've nothing left for the 2nd. Which is why they're all going on strike, to give themselves some thinking time. :p

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Hana Gitleman (The Israeli woman who could access radio and stuff) went up into orbit in a space shuttle to destroy a satellite that could keep track of supers (maybe with that scar thing people Noah Bennet abducted got) She went on a space walk and the satellite started to descend to earth so she used her powers to meld with it. So now she is one with the internet. Not a joke. It was covered in the comics I understand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hana_Gitelman

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That's my problem. I barely got to time to log onto here. I keep forgetting to go to the NBC website and check that out. Maybe one of these days I'll do that.

But this week's episode was great. Not only does Hiro get to talk to his dad before his death, he finds out who kills him. That sneaky sob Adam, who apparently isn't a time traveler, just a long lived (anti)hero. But how did he get his other powers? Like Peter, or like Sylar? And speaking of Sylar, I wander what happened to his powers, and if he'll ever get them back. Not that Suresh will help him, unless it's with a case of lead poisoning! but I'm glad Noah Bennet didn't die. I just wander who gave him Clare's blood? I don't think Bob would have, after shooting Elle. Must have been Suresh. And Parkman is finding out just how far apples land from trees, what with him "pushing" people to do as he bids. Very interesting episode.

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I wasn't sure what to make of the series when it first came out, but now I've become a complete addict of it. They really did a terrific job with all the character developments, as well as maintaining a very interesting storyline.

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I got a bit bored with the current series, so much so that I kept recording the epsiodes to watch later although I never got around to it. Last week though I was doing the same thing when they had the "last time on Heroes" bit and I eneded up sitting down and watching the whole thing. Last season was a bit of a rip off of Watchmen whith the whole plot to bomb New York and cause world peace when everyone starts working together. The current season seems to be a rip off of an X-Men animated arc where Cable came from the future to stop a world plague by giving the plague to Wolverine who creates the antibody. Not entirely original but then I guess when you're working within a genre you can't help but end up similar to 40 years of comics.

A good question would be what happens to Peter's Irish friend. If they stop the plague she is stuck in an alternate future that won't happen.

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What other powers? I haven't seen him display any other powers. He needed Peter to get him out of the Company facility. He apparently doesn't fly. He's pretty damn good in combat, which you would expect from someone with 400 years of samurai training http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif, and he's invincible. That's pretty much all I've seen.

Geoschmo

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I was confused about Adam's powers as well. When Bob told Nathan about Adam he mentioned that a blizard in Florida could have been a hurricane that wiped out a city. From that I gathered he had weather control powers eg "Storm". But maybe he just organised the company. What I would like to know is why Adam would convince the companies founders to use their powers to help the world, after all he was traitorous scum 400 years ago and he killed Hiro's father. Why was he apparently good in between?.

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I don't think the series likes to differentiate between good and evil clearly. It more about perspective and point of view of each individual in series then the standard good/evil concept.