I was pleasantly surprised with the depth of this show. Several similarities with Six Degrees, several characters meeting/interacting and influencing each other. Six Degrees is more or less a soap opera format whereas Heroes is more science fiction, bizarre encounters.
I really like the diversity of the characters, socio-economic, racial, age. It really has the promise of an intriguing story line. The Japanese young man is the comic relief, he had me laughing out loud. The artist was really hot and super intense.
Totally blown away with the surprise abilities of the brothers. Haven’t quite figured out what super power the Vegas stripper has. Very strange. And it looks as if they will be adding more “heroes” in the weeks to come.
Overall, writing and acting above average. Looking forward to future shows…
I really liked it as well, and am looking forward to seeing what will happen.
I started off slightly annoyed, when the hot professor said something about humans only using 10% of their brains, and was worried that if the writers were lazy enough to use that urban legend in one of the first lines of the show, that the writing of the show wouldn’t be too great. Fortunately though, that was the only major thing that bothered me in the pilot, and the rest of the writing and acting was pretty good. The special effects in the scene with the brothers at the end of the episode was iffy, but not every pilot can have a huge budget, and I can look past somewhat bad special effects, if everything else about a show is good.
(On a purely shallow note, I am especially looking forward to more of the guy who plays the professor turned cabdriver, Sendhil Ramamurthy. Why can’t any of my professors be that hot?)
Also, for anyone who missed the pilot, I believe NBC is running it again tomorrow at 7 PM Central time.
I really like the Japanese guy and the Texas Cheerleader. The artist does nothing for me.
I had a theory that the guy with the flying dreams wasnt actually the flyer. His brother the politician is and he just has psychic powers. Then the painting showing him flying kind ruined that… And then the ending confirmed that I am awesome.
Okay, Girl Who Kills People Without Remembering was sort of blah to me. Guy Who Paints The Future was very cool, in an intense sort of way. Constipated Clock Stopping Man was very entertaining, although I spent the entire show trying to determine if he was Franklyn on Scrubs (he is).
The painting of The Flying Nurse may actually have been a painting of the falling nurse. The Flying Governor doesn’t have the same ring to it, but I can deal with that. Honestly, my favourite hero-character was probably Masochistic Cheerleader.
The writing sort of fell flat on me, but I will likely keep watching because the show has an interesting premise. Like the first Spiderman, times seven.
Now that would kinda make sense. I spent the whole time her character was on screen trying to figure out what her “power” was, and I’m still not sure. Her mirror image is haunting her??
Anyway. I made a point to watch 'cause I liked the premise, and I’m going to continue watching to see how they develop the characters. I was struck, just as the OP was, by the similarity to Six Degrees in the way some of these characters seem to have intersecting paths, but I hope it doesn’t become too much of a crutch - with these people spread out around the country, there’s going to have to be a pretty convincing reason they all come together (if they do).
I was disappointed. I thought that once you got past the intriguing premise, it was about as predictable and formulaic as possible, with fairly insipid writing. Maybe watching it directly after Studio 60 wasn’t such a hot idea.
I’ll give it one more episode, then it’s off the DVR.
Intriguing. I didn’t like the pseudoscientific lecture the prof in India was giving at the beginning. The world of the show is sufficiently similar to the real world that it has “X-Men” as a comic book. Yet the prof is talking as if real-world science were similar to comic book science (that “10% of the brain” nonsense, and the same bullshit description of evolution as in “X-Men”).
The coincidental meetings were also getting annoying – until two major pieces of evidence showed up indicating that they might not be coincidental: 1) The cheerleader’s adoptive dad is apparently part of a (government?) organization that is monitoring or possibly opposing the phenomenon of emerging powers; 2) the previews for next week indicate that a comic book seems to be mirroring what’s happening to the characters – is the show really some kind of metafiction?
I liked the Texas cheerleader casually pushing her broken ribs back into her chest. They grow tough girls in Texas.
I liked it a lot. I wish it were on some other night of the week instead of conflicting with Vanished on FOX but the fact that I had to tape it worked out since I had to watch a couple of scenes over to figure out what was going on.
Re the scary mirror lady, I have a feeling that the reflection is a hallucination as opposed to being her power. I’m really hoping that the powers don’t veer off into “manifests clones out of reflective surfaces” territory.
Was it just me, or were the writers going way out of their way to avoid using the word “mutant”?
I rather liked it. This is going to be about a screwed up bunch of misfits who happen to have powers. The drama I think, if the writing is good, will come from the foilbles of these characters.
Let’s see you have well meaning but aimless Doctor who has some form of psychic link to his brother.
The Brother (Super Candidate) is a selfish Jerk who uses people and is a self described “Shark” who can fly.
Indestructable Cheerleader who seems to be Queen of the campus and can not deal with the fact she is not normal. She seems to have a little self destructive streak going too. Not to mention an Evil Stepdad!
A heroin adicted seer. I’m thinking the Comic alluded to in the previews may be his works.
Super Hiro: A misfit in his own nation, and likely to be one in New Yorkas well.
Then finally, Web girl: She has a super genius son and some form of evil doppleganger that takes the form of her reflection and protects her. It is a pretty nasty reflection seeing as it tore that one guy in two (Say what is with US networks anyway… you can’t say Fuck or show a nipple but Having a guys guts spilled out on the carpet and showing his torso split from the legs is considered fine for prime time entertainment! Sheesh!)
I have a feeling we won’t be seeing big super battles but rather personal stories as each character fights their personal deamons and each other (you know the usual tensions that come up when a diverse group is thrown together)
Hopefully it will get better as it goes but I rather liked this start.
I liked it enough to tune in to part 2 of the premiere next week.
Liked:
Super Hiro, of course.
Emo cheerleader. Speaking of her, what was up with her mom’s reaction to her fire comment? The mother would have to know about the girl’s power, right? Unless it developed recently (omg fast!evolution) I guess. Seemed like she was just covering it up in front of Hollywood Mass Produced Annoying Little Brother #14013. Also, she did the dive of the tower thing six times, and screamed every time? And American Beauty Boyfriend ran over ever time yelling her name as if she was dead? Seemed like they didn’t think that scene through all the way. Nice touch with the ribs though.
Interested to see what Mohinder’s role is in all this. Liked his character too.
Didn’t like:
Stripper!Mom and her whole story. Her "power’ strikes me as the most convoluted (I know, this aint the discovery channel, but hey), and her story grates too. Plus I just don’t like Ali Larter. And who loan sharks 30 grand for private school? If the kid is smart enough to build Insert Made Up High Tech Part Here in his bedroom, he’ll be fine at any school.
Not big on Tortured!Artist guy, but the paintings were cool.
Anyway, I’ll definitely give it a few more watches since it doesn’t conflict with anything else I’m watching (I can’t watch MNF live any more - too much beating from the announcers - gotta DVR it and skip through their chatter).
I assumed that it was the first time she jumped from the tower, but attempt number six to kill herself. It might have also been the first time for the boy to know about it. The boy wasn’t her boyfrient, since when she thanked him for filming it, she said she would talk to him at school in front of other people, like that she usually is above that and that they’re in different social circles.
I’ll give it another week, but it definitely is on my cut list. It certainly will lose out to 24. I don’t have much TV watching time, so shows need to set their hooks really deep if they hope to land me. This one didn’t with its premier.
