Is there a legible brand name on the side of the building?
Surprised no one mentioned what ticked me and the wife off most about this episode. The new stuff with the cop and Hiro and Cyler and Mohinder’s new girlfriend and all was interesting, but there wasn’t enough of it! The first half of the episode was all recap! Hello, we saw the first episode, we don’t need to see it all again. Buffy and Angel made an artform of the “previously on…” montage, compressing whole seasons of convoluted backstory into less than a minute. In comparison, this seemed very ham-handed.
We’re still intrigued, but not as unreservably hooked as we were last week… 
I would actually disagree with that. I think it’s a pretty sad commentary on somebody’s writing or directing if he can take 36 hours of TV plot development and compress it down to eight five-second video clips. Might work for George Lucas, but for somebody who’s actually writing dialogue? Forget it. I have friends who started watching Buffy around season 5, and the previouslies never made a lick of sense to them. We would spend the entire episode explaining the backstory to them.
However, that is not an excuse to have the first half of any episode being a recap. Lost and Survivor at least has the decency to have the occasional recap episode all by itself, so you can avoid them if you don’t need them.
The only excuse I can see is that they expected word-of-mouth to bring in a lot of new viewers the second week. Kind of like how the show within Studio 60 turned out.
You must feel like Claire when the other cheerleader took the credit, haha. “I didn’t do it for the recognition”… no, she didn’t do it at all!
(Actually, I melded your input and Otto’s “prognostipainter” into “constipainter” and Otto coined “constiported”. So, the credit for discovering constiportation should be split between the three of us.) 
The first two episodes were originally a two hour pilot.
Laughed? I called my wife to tell her. It was probably the funniest thing I’ve read all week.
I’m such a geek for Clue
Now back to your regularly scheduled hero thread.
Ok, let’s see. We have Super Hiro, the time/space teleporter. Nikki, the dissociative (not really a super power in a strict sense, but then I always had a soft spot for Rose & the Thorn). Claire, the indestructible (?) girl–let’s call her “nigh-invulnerable,” like the Tick & (post-CarolDanvers-powersucking) Rogue. And in NYC: Isaac the precog who draws just like Tim Sale (Yeah, I noticed Jeph Loeb’s name in the credits, too); & the brothers who fly, & Isaac’s girlfriend who knows one of them… And Mohinder & cute neighbor girl, who don’t have any super powers, but may know what’s going on more than those who do. This ep also introduces Officer Parkman, who reads thoughts but doesn’t know he reads thoughts…
All in a show created by Tim Kring, who also gave us Crossing Jordan. Gore is to be expected, as apparently is a brainy Hindi.
OK, fine. Here’s the thing. This is my show. It’s not how I would have done it, but this is the kind of show I conceived of almost twenty years ago while mowing my aunt’s lawn. It’s a live-action TV series with an X-Men-type concept but all new characters, which introduces the characters as individuals who can do weird things, & then puts them together. And there’s a smart guy who doesn’t have powers who’s taking the Professor X function of tracking them down, maybe becoming a leader & teacher of the rest.
People don’t understand how into this I am.
Oh, I’m not convinced Syler is Claire’s dad. It doesn’t seem to fit. I assumed Syler was a last name, even if Syler Bennet weren’t almost too weird to be a name.
Not at all sure what Invisible Girl’s game is.
Have David Bowie’s “Heroes” running through my head, as by Magni sung to Eyrun.
Watched Grey’s Anatomy last night, & it was riffing on superheroes. Cute story about a kid who can’t feel pain, which seems to me like Nikki–weird “powers” that could exist in the real world. And yeah, I remember Crazy Jane, who had multiple personalities with different powers, but so far… well, we haven’t really seen Nikki’s “Thorn,” have we?
RE: Nikki, we have no reason to believe she is a good person. I’m also thinking the mob burial ground map may have just been a map tucked in the pocket of one of the thugs who came to kill her…(am I reaching?)
Also, the couple who were killed with their brains scooped out, one was frozen and the other pinned to a stairway with kitchen utensils. I’m thinking this was their own powers turned against them type of thing. As far as the artist, how could you turn his power against him? He sees his own death and has a heart-attack? I dunno.
Oh, and are we supposed to believe the artist can only paint the future when he is in a drug haze?
The cheerleader girl is such a snot. I assume we will see her redeem herself sometime. I hope so, I can’t stand her as she is now.
I will stick around to watch this. I wonder if they will do an X-Files type thing where they advance the overall story some weeks, and then some weeks are just interesting stories that happen and don’t affect the overall story at all.
she’s not a snot - she’s troubled and is trying to keep this huge secret. If she were a snot, she’d have said something nasty to the girl who stepped up and took credit, who, by the way, did it out of friendship - she saw Claire’s reaction to the fire chief and sensed Claire wanted no glory, so she “took the bullet” - that Claire is pissed of about the parade is her own fault, with credit comes perks.
The little flying brother might just be mimicking other powers. He had contact with Isaac the Prognostipainter, then drew a picture of the future while in his hospital bed.
nah - he was just doodling
There’s an invisible girl? I don’t remember seeing an invisi…oh very funny.
Heh, I keep hearing the theme song to this old porno, also called “Heroes.”
No, but if you have $39.95 and a valid credit card…
Interesting idea. Maybe not just mimicking powers but temporarily stealing them. It didn’t appear he could fly and his older brother had to fly up and grab him, but then his brother couldn’t hold on, and the younger brother flew. We haven’t seen them both fly at once, have we?
I seriously doubt that. That girl was the same one that was trying to interfere between Claire and the football dude that she was flirting with. They didn’t really seem like the best of friends.
I don’t think the Flying Nurse is temporarily stealing powers. Remember, he starts out dreaming he can fly – and that was before he met the prognostipainter.
And the cop? I hereby toss out the name ThoughtPolice.
Also, didn’t he levitate on the roof without touching his brother at the end? Then again…
…multiple entertainment rag sources have given away the spoiler that his power is indeed taking/borrowing other people’s powers in some way.
Cool! Kinda wish I hadn’t read the spoiler, but it’s always nice to know I guessed right.
That’s not unheard of. I remember a SF short story from the 50’s, I think, in which an inventor could make a machine to do literally anything, provided he was blind drunk at the time.
It looks like the prognistipainer’s deal is that he’s in such denial about his power that the only time they can manifest is when he’s not in control. If so, if he ever accepts his powers, he’s going to be come amazingly powerful.
I was also wondering, with the painter, is if maybe it’s a Lathe of Heaven kind of thing, where he’s not predicting the future, he’s creating it?