Tracking the roots not back to X Men, nor (as the writer claims) the Incredibles Meets Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, I was more reminded of that slow burn of M. Night Shyamalan's 2000 film Unbreakable. They discover their own super powers!

The ensemble cast theme, whilst trying to be like a disparate LOST flashback convention (you know, where their paths have all crossed without realising), may seem more like The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen get-together due to clumsy handling of characterisation and dialogue.

Still, I enjoyed the first episode and didn't regard the above admonishings as actually harming the show - that is just what it is and seemingly what it set out to be.

I found it rife with cliche and extremely derrivative ( of LOST, in particular), but managed to get through the hour, most likely due to the limited commercials. I'm willing to give it more time to develop but have set any expectations I had as low as they can go.

It appears from the promos that only young hotties are blessed with superpowers. What a coincidence.

It's the way of the (media) world now, sad to say. Seems that the generation that followed me has never seen "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You".

Saw the show. Not interested. I think I may just be unable to watch these "extended dramas". I don't watch much TV as it is, and what I watch is generally animation or comedy. Shows like LOST just seem boring to me. I don't know what it is - I guess partly I feel like whatever they can come up with is unlikely to beat my own imagination and desires for interesting drama.

That and the fact that I experienced the creative comic boom of the mid 80's that shows like this are generally riding the coattails of, and feel no desire to see it transformed into television.

Man, tough audience! I saw the repeat tonight on SciFi and I thought it very watchable. Certainly a refreshing change from the dozens of police procedural/crime scene/doctor/lawyer shows on every network every night of the week. Since we get multiple opportunities to watch it on NBC, SciFi and USA, I'll definitely keep watching for now.

I went in with low expectations based on the show being promoted as 'from the creator of CROSSING JORDAN', a show I can't stand. So far, it's a whole lot better than JORDAN, which is still on the air six seasons in, for reasons I'll never understand.

Just watched Ep2 and it was more of the same, ending with the Japanese fella (who is apparently not Japanese) going back in time to where he started. It is almost like the producer is saying get off the train (show), we are going nowhere - like this character's story arc!
The Flying (Burrito) Brothers got not much further than Ep 1 as well, only confirming that they can fly, as we saw already.
There is also the lost (no pun intended) time mother with a (mirror) image problem, picking up her son and going back to her house (again).
The Cheerleader and the late Professor's son came off best this episode, with a bit of extra background to where they are at now, but not significantly different to how we left them last episode.
If you cut Ep 2 altogether, I am guessing that going to Ep 3 would not really harm the flow of the storyline at all.
And as for Police procedural/crime scene, well there are now two different stabs at that (hey - throw 'em in, they might stick!).

Still it was all enjoyable, and I shall be tuning in agaiin next week!

I liked last nights To Be Continued shocker, even if it did not make a whole lot of logical sense. The show is growing on me, as the story builds and the characters arcs begin to intertwine, I am liking it more and more.

Now, last night's episode had the opposite effect on me, especially the ending, where the first thing that popped into my mind was the old Monty Python sketch with the effeminate soldiers and they cut to the crusty old colonel who says:

" All right now, stop it, just stop it, this has just gotten silly!"

Or words to that effect. I do believe this is the last episode I will be watching.

I can see how it could hit you like that, it was rediculous for several reasons. But I took it in the spirit of the show, it's a comic book pretending to be a TV show and impossible for me to take seriously in the first place.

This weeks show was much better, I was glad to see the quarterback get his!

I found it odd that.....



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...they made a point of saying that the cheerleader was found dead and naked, when she wasn't when last we saw her. Does this imply that the quarterback had his way with her corpse ( or just stripped he before leaving her body )? If true, that's a pretty sick implication for a network show.

I was wondering about that too.

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It's sick enough that she woke up on the autopsy table with her chest opened up. HEROES is surprisingly grisly for an 8pm network show.

It's on at 9 pm here on the East Coast, I never thought about how the show would play at in Central Time. The sexual content last night was pretty strong as well, even if it was limited to brief shots on a video monitor. After 5 weeks I find myself a complete convert and am really enjoying the show. It seems to have the perfect tone for the material and characters, who while slightly cliched are still interesting to me. The way the heroes lives intersect is well handled too, what could have been a weak plot device is instead a positive.
Way off topic, I never really understood the whole Central Time concept and why network shows air an hour earlier there than in the rest fo the county. Is there a method to this madness?

Oops. My mistake. It is on at 9:00. I could have sworn it was on at 8:00 at some point, but maybe I'm thinking of the SciFi channel reruns at 7:00 and splitting the difference.

To be fair, that's pretty much how most super hero comics work also.

Caught the 2d, 3d, and 5th episodes as part of that marathon, and I'm torn. I like the Hiro arc, and the overarching story seems interesting, but most of the characters are irritating and angsty. I'd prefer if more of them had the "wow, cool, I have superpowers" attitude that Hiro has. I'm stuck liking the jerky politician brother, since at least he's got his shit together. I'm also inclined to like the Mohinder character, but the acting is not impressing me.

Overall, it's got a lot of potential, but the characters are dragging it down. Similar to Lost, with its interminable Charlie, Locke and Hurley episodes. I'm kind of on the fence over whether it's worth the time.

In Ep.5 there is finally some plot advancement. Although I am usually a sucker for character establshment (e.g. I like the first LOTR movie, 'hate' the rest), this really had me waiting for summat to happen, which, in this episode, it finally did! Now I can look forward to next week in the hope that (if this was a movie I would have gone for an extended cigar smoke-o) the action continues unabated! 'Bout time, 'nuff said!

I saw a bit of this the other night, particularly a scene involving Clea DuVall as a detective of some sort. Now, DuVall is a problematic actress who can be used well (I thought she was good as Linda Kasabian in the recent HELTER SKELTER remake and she was good in THE GRUDGE) but too often she comes off as wooden, unconvincing and even uncomfortable in her own skin, making lines like this week's "I'm gonna take him down" fall flat.

Worse yet, the costumers had her in this suit with these extra long sleeves coming down two inches or more below the cuff of her jacket, giving her a waif-like look that is not only impractical for apprehending perps but also undermines the sort of hard-eyed authority thing she's working with her role as Det. Audrey Hanson.

Why is costuming for women on cop shows always so awful. It's a rhetorical question... but really, why is it? I'm remembering the horrible striped (like carnivale striped) slacks they put poor Kim Delaney in on CSI: MIAMI, as if they were trying to embarrass her into quitting the show.

Usually they wear highly-inappropriate-for-work super-tight tank tops and T-shirts. Delaney wore a lot of those on NYPD BLUE. Eva Longoria's L.A. DRAGNET shirts made me wonder how she could breathe, they were so tight.