New show: Heroes — Giving It a Chance
Posted by Maggie
September 28th, 2006 at 04:13pm
In General
Heroes. It's about normal people, all tenuously connected, who may have superpowers. It's definitely different, and may be really good. Not as good as the show I had invented in my head all summer while waiting for the real one to air, but not horrible. I'm giving it a chance.
In case you missed it, here are the lucky (?) ones we've met so far. I really, really want one of them to turn out to be a supervillain (in addition to the creepy glasses man who's trying to track them all down), so I'm noting where they fall on the evil/good continuum.
Claire. Superpower: cells regenerate quickly. Demonstrates this by: totally grossing us all out by sticking her hand down the garbage disposal, pushing ribs back into her chest, and ruining her cheerleading outfit which was probably rented so way to go, Claire. Evil/Good: mostly good, but kind of a high school queen bee bitch, and has unclear motives and parentage.
Hiro (get it?). Superpower: can bend the space-time continuum; is a huge dork. Demonstrates this by: bending the space-time continuum to land himself in Times Square; closing his eyes very hard and talking about manga. Evil/Good: absolutely good. Love him.
Peter and Nathan. Superpower: Peter, none as of yet, unless "susceptible to gravity" is one. Nathan: not susceptible to gravity. Demonstrates this by: Nathan flies to save his brother Peter when he jumps off a building. Evil/Good: Peter is definitely good (he takes care of old people!), but Nathan is a politician and generally mean to Peter, so probably evil.
Niki. Superpower: has an alternate self that lives in mirrors??? Demonstrates this by: jumping out of a mirror and killing some people??? Evil/Good: killed some people, but the people were evil. So… ???
Isaac. Superpower: future-paints. Demonstrates this by: the name of his superpower really says it all; predicts the end of the world. Evil/Good: just an observer, but he's a moody drug addict, so probably bad on the outside and sweet on the inside.
I'm not committing to anything yet, but so far this is more fun than I thought it would be, and sufficiently creepy to wonder what the hell's happening without completely alienating the audience. What do you think?
you forgot to mention that nathan is jess from gilmore girls.
i totally spent the whole time i was watching heroes starting to text you with “is that dude on heroes jess mariano?” but then realizing that he still had hair so it couldn’t possibly be jess as he obviously shaved his head after meeting us in a bar in park slope one night. and then i would laugh quietly to myself.
i am clearly insane.
No, Peter is Jess from Gilmore Girls. And he appears relieved not to have to talk so fast any more.
We are all insane
Imagine if it really was Jess who we met, and he had been making all that stuff up about the Titanic and the Jesuits and whatnot. Now that would be a story to tell.