it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a new nbc tv show called Heroes

I think the comicbook is the most amazing thing about it so far. Normally, if you have a comicbook in a superhero setting it brings up all kinds of questions that get left unasked and drive me crazy. This time they're actually asking those questions. Like the kid with the red towel around his neck watching the nurse jump off the jungle gym.

Hiro is definitely my favorite character, not just because he has the way coolest power. Wants-to-fly guy is totally not going to fly until the season (possibly series?) finale, when all HOPE is LOST. I kind of can't believe this show is on network tv, I mean, that person was PEGGED to the wall with like SCISSORS and MARKERS and shit, blood everywhere!

QUERSTOINS:

Does anyone think "Sylar" is actually "Las Vegas Niki" or whatever (mirror girl) when she blacks out?

What's up with the black man who the pilot from LOST couldn't mind-read? Is he blocking it? Does he know who he is and is just all zen-like mind-blanking it? WTF.

Also, I'm pretty sure cheerleader's dad is Sylar, who I'm also pretty sure is eating the brains of the sub-X-Men or whatever we want to call them, to take their powers. If he eats her brain though this is bad news because he will be indestructible.

Did anybody who watched this get the impression that junkie artist guy is actually going to somehow CAUSE the nuclear boom? Cuz I did.

ah, yes, emo-hair guy is a mimic! so he would also be able to see/draw the future if with junkie artist guy.

if sylar is claire's (adoptive) dad then why doesn't he eat her brainz? b/c his caring-father role seems to be a ruse. perhaps he's a henchman.

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I loved that, after Hiro in last(?) episode was like "a hero doesn't use his powers for monetary gain", goes on Vegas gambling spree, only to get DECKED. NBC be karma policin'.

Yes. He reminds me of a creepy older brother of one of my friends from middle school. He never showered and ended up going to a juvenile detention center for beating up a girl in his class.

yeah, i'm having the same dillema... ilc one started first and there is comix talk, so i think i'm going to go with that for the most part.

Anyway, I just caught up with all the episodes - first three were a little bland but set things up nicely and this last two were awesome!

The latest one is grebt - flying future Congressman and setting up connections and so on. Also, the less I see of documentary-voiceover Indian scientist and his art-school neighbour the better.

About cheerleader's dad - why clean out telepathic cop's memory over just 2 days but not his powers? I'm not sure if he's as devious as he seems. He might turn out to have been working with Chandra Suresh - we already know his research went into some pretty extensively.

I don't think Nikki's husband is a teleporter - it kinda seems like invisibility to me. The kid probably has powers too and keeping it a secret. He seems to know too much, but that could just as easily be due to him being a boy genius.

Subtle Lack Of Subtlety

ps haha for the first time I am made to root for the returned fugitive dad to beat his wife

I don't think prophecy is dude's only superpower.

*vaguely ominous group of others who are aware of our heroes
*junkie trying to make right
*infiltrator (Eden vs Ethan)
*black father/son duo, reunited after being separated & mom who unjustly kept them apart
*"daddy issues"
*waivering faith in their mission (Mohinder and/or Hiro vs Locke)
*comic book in earliest episodes used as foreshadowing device

i like it when nick gets bored and makes lists.
yeah, i couldn't help but compare it to Lost too, for sure. i find it way more fun though, esp the hiro storyline (i still love Lost though, in a dif way.)

re: cheerleader dad - yeah, at the end when pixie girl told him that the message was 'save the cheerleader', he seemed surprised/worried, so who knows who's side he's on...

i'm stoked on seeing what mica's powers are.

*wheelchair twist

This was a good episode, although I think it's weird they never adressed psychic cop pilot-from-LOST guy's freakout at the convenience store. Also was a little disappointed Hiro & Ando and DL & Micah didn't hook-up & travel together.

Prediction: that painting Peter is trying to get from Linderman (Isaac's painting) will tell them where Claire is (maybe a pic of her uniform w/ high school's name on it?). And I am warming up to Milo Ventiwhatever as an actor, based mostly on the dinner w/ press guy scene.

ps press guy seemed vaguely Benry LinusGale-esque, like the director said "talk like that new bad guy on LOST".

- white robed funeral on beach
- accelerated introduction of new characters while leaving many mysteries unanswered

This episode was kind of slow but still very watchable. The whole Hiro/girl in diner/Sylar bit was really excellent (that kid that plays Hiro is awesome, I love him), and it's nice to finally understand a bit of what Cheerleader Dad Guy is all about. Also OMG waif-girl is apparently a mutant/whatever also! And it is so obvious new radiation guy is going to be involved in the big nucyoolar explosion. But what happened to Hiro, did he save that girl? And will Hott Indian Guy come back to America now, and will his dead sister come with him? And what is Isaac painting this time?

Hooray for fun show!

Hiro is the man.

There was one shot in the scenes with him & Elle where he looked almost exactly like Milo.

yeah, i think he invented the whole exposing brain procedure

it's impossible for me to post in this thread, because i've let this all go and it feels so great to be done with it...but me telling you that won't do anything, you are going have to want to get better before you can stop watching this....but life is so great when you do.

i have no qualms with this show whatsoever.

(anymore)

i will never get the time i spent watching last season back.

i thought season two was atrocious. i almost didn't watch this season when it started. and then i did. and it's awesome.

i had this on a "short leash" this year and quit after episode 2. ppl at work have been dissing on it and so has the missus so i don't feel like i'm missing anything.

thanks for repeatedly sharing

Maybe I'll listen when you review Heroes: The Videogame.

haaaaaa

"ppl at work"

Heroes is officially good again, friendos.

Although it's a little heavy-handed that the Haitian's brother's alias is Baron Samedi.

I hope this show is drawn out for 10 more seasons and we still don't know the Haitian's name.

> Heroes is officially good again, friendos.

Overstatement. But I didn't immediately ask myself "why do I bother?" which is a major improvement.

kinda funny how there are two running Heroes threads. i'm often tempted to troll the ILC thread.

peter is the biggest pussy ever. Hiro’s role as the catalyst (some lol light spirit) keeper lasted about two seconds. This show kind of drives me crazy but I still watch.

How did Sylar use his powers when the Haitian was standing right there?

lol! the Haitian was tired.

i am just thankful sylar is killing people again.

sylar coulda waxed the haitian....
daddy can heal so why do we care if hes shot again?
daddy can apparently time travel too
hiro swears to his dying mother to protect 'the light' but still acts cute and silly when its ganked from him
three characters reduced to 'neverending story' reader status.

yeah i would assume that petrelli dad is not dead since he wasn't shot in the back of the head like petrelli mom has requested

CAKE

This episode was super frustrating except for Sylar.

I want to have sex with Zach Quinto's eyebrows.

Clair and Hiro interacting with their parents lasted about 75 minutes longer than neccesary.

show is so awful
but i can't stop watching it

http://www.jamiedole.com/gifs/HighFivefaster.gif

who is sam york

why doesn't peter just fly out of that crashing plane?

i dunno. a few episodes in gitmo would have been cool though.

Heroes- Lost crossover episode

I've lost track -- how did Peter get his sucky-sucky powers back?

i think he injected himself with mohinder's mix

I didn't think they could go it, but this was conventionally good in a sense that stupid citizens like yourself could appreciate too!

"This" being last night's episode.

they still sledgehammer you but at least they have drawn battle lines. no more sylar making cupcakes.

did they show if speedster chick was dead or not?

lol sydekick

There's no point in watching this any more, is there?

....huh.

exactly

lmao @ desperation lesbo hayden

no-one who isn't on this show or works on it watches it

haha i still watch it for some reason.

I still watch it, but I'm a couple episodes behind.

That .gif of Tina Fey is hypnotizing.

fuck you netflix for putting this on instant

i have been watching this season at my parents' on the weekends while doing laundry, i have fast-forwarded through all of the claire at college, parkman seeing sylar, and whoever ali larter is supposed to be stuff, half payed attention to all the hiro, bennett, patrelli/sylar, and carnie folk scenes, and was actually kind of into the deaf woman who can see music or whatever thing.

i sure got some shirts folded though.

it's coming back http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/nbc-heroes-miniseries-2015/