Heroes on NBC. Anyone in the Lounge watching this show?

[BreweryYardRat]

For those of you who don't know, it's a superhero show. Think X-Men if Professor X was murdered before the series even started.

It's got a pretty good mix of characters/powers, with plenty of drawbacks to balance out the benefits. Take three of the more unique powers:

Time manipulation: Some major, major problems as a result of that guy not being too good with it.

Precognition: Also poorly controlled, and only works while the guy's on enough heroin to drop a horse.

#3's a sort of Hulk analogue. When extremely stressed-way beyond what Bruce Banner required to transform-her strength goes above the human norm, but not nearly as much as the Hulk. Additionally, the alternate's not big or green, and may actually be smarter than the normal personality. However, the drawbacks are some of the worst: Blackouts, emotionally damaged (normal personality), psychotic tendencies (alternate personality), criminal background/mob ties.

There's four episodes so far (1-3 are downloadable on LimeWire, and also they're being rerun on Sunday, while #4 is available to watch free on NBC's website.)

Note: This show can be gory at times.

[sakabatou]

1. I like future Hiro

He looks cool.

[BreweryYardRat]

2. I prefer the current version.

He's absolutely awesome (and adorable, especially the scene in Isaac's apartment during episode 2), whereas FH seemed kind of...generic.

[sakabatou]

3. Well, we've only seen him for what? 2 min?

[BreweryYardRat]

4. Yeah, but black gi and a katana?

Cliche...

Shit, Stargate had a group of guys who dressed like that (for an episode or two.)

[sakabatou]

5. Okay.

Current Hiro as a lot more going for him. But then there's next weeks ep. Plus, it's just a cameo. Not only that, but I wonder ifthey're going to show all of F-Hiro's powers...

[kay1864]

6. We watch it

Pretty interesting. And apparently there's a character we haven't seen yet that can phase. Shows up when he's being chased by the police.

[philosophie_en_rose]

7. I really like it so far.

The cheerleader is really creepy, though. Reminds me of Dawn of the Dead. And Jess from Gilmore Girls isn't really convincing in the role of the politician's younger brother, but he might grow in it.

But Hiro and Ando are just adorable. And most of the storylines are very interesting.

[BigMcLargehuge]

8. So far I love it

and I write skewed superhero fiction so the whole idea of the show was a hard sell for me, but I like the way they are bringing it together. My two real points of contention are -

1: Episode 1 should have opened with the heroes as a team dealing with a monumental crisis, very confusing, lots of action, maybe 10 minutes worth, then flash back to the beginning and start the origin stories. In writing it's the equivalent of the "open strong" dictate. The first ep was REALLY fragmented and hard to follow.

2: Claire's motivation for hiding her abilities, i.e. she's indestructable and worries that it will make her an outcast at school. If I was writing it I'd have either made her not a popular cheerleader, or given her a power that manifested as something visible, skin turning blue, or feathers, or getting taller and stronger, and became increasingly difficult to hide from her peers. Since all she really has to do is "not do anything super" to keep her powers secret, then why is she so worried? Another approach would have been to make her compelled to act when someone's life was in danger and that even with her largely invisible powers, she would HAVE to do something super irrespective of the audience at the scene.

Those two little nits aside, I love the way the show is shaping up and I hope it lasts. NBC has a habit of whacking good oddball shows so I hope they buck the trend with this one. I also hope that it ends when it's supposed to end before it becomes an extended run of Misfits of Science.

[YankeyMCC]

9. So far so good

I'm liking it mainly because of the characters.

It somewhat reminds me of XFiles which I loved from the start but as the seasons progressed I lost patience with it as the plot became so convoluted it overshadowed the good character development. I hope that doesn't happen in this case.

[NYYFan]

10. This show is great- Period.

That is all. ;-)