Emma
09-25-2006, 07:26 PM
<img src="http://www.fanbolt.com/forums/images/avatars/heroes/08.jpg" width="85" height="85" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="left" border="0" alt="Heroes, NBC"> Series about super-powered ordinary people and a family on the run are two more new-season dramas that debut tonight.
Super-sized
"Heroes," at 9 on NBC, finds the network trying to attract the fantasy and sci-fi audience that has been so elusive for the broadcast networks.
Last fall the networks launched "Surface," "Threshold" and "Invasion." All three flopped like fish out of water and were canceled.
"Heroes" appears to be making a pitch to the youthful audience that pays to see "X-Men," "Superman" and "SpiderMan" movies, and it may get them. However, it will have to bulk up the audience with viewers over 35 to survive, and those viewers may be past the comic-book-character stage.
This hourlong exercise in make-believe is about a diverse group of people around the planet who slowly realize that they are developing some unusual talents.
There's a guy who tries to convince his doubting brother that he can fly and swan-dives off the top of a building to prove his point.
In Japan there's a nerdy fellow who believes he possesses the right stuff to teleport himself from Tokyo to Times Square. Oh yeah, he can also stop clocks and freeze time, which has interesting possibilities.
They like to tell tall tales deep in the heart of Texas, but even residents of the Lone Star state might have trouble buying into the incredible teenage cheerleader. She can leap off high rigs and walk away unscathed, not to mention plowing into flaming buildings to rescue someone without even singeing her hair. Also toss in an artist who paints pictures of things before they happen.
I could go on, but you get the point. These people aren't like the rest of us. Now the question is, what will they use their superpowers for? We presume it won't be for anything evil but don't expect them to don colorful spandex bodysuits and team up to trounce the planet's villains. They look more like Clark Kent than Superman or Wonder Woman.
<a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060925/COLUMNISTS15/609250332" target="_blank">Click here for more!</a>
Super-sized
"Heroes," at 9 on NBC, finds the network trying to attract the fantasy and sci-fi audience that has been so elusive for the broadcast networks.
Last fall the networks launched "Surface," "Threshold" and "Invasion." All three flopped like fish out of water and were canceled.
"Heroes" appears to be making a pitch to the youthful audience that pays to see "X-Men," "Superman" and "SpiderMan" movies, and it may get them. However, it will have to bulk up the audience with viewers over 35 to survive, and those viewers may be past the comic-book-character stage.
This hourlong exercise in make-believe is about a diverse group of people around the planet who slowly realize that they are developing some unusual talents.
There's a guy who tries to convince his doubting brother that he can fly and swan-dives off the top of a building to prove his point.
In Japan there's a nerdy fellow who believes he possesses the right stuff to teleport himself from Tokyo to Times Square. Oh yeah, he can also stop clocks and freeze time, which has interesting possibilities.
They like to tell tall tales deep in the heart of Texas, but even residents of the Lone Star state might have trouble buying into the incredible teenage cheerleader. She can leap off high rigs and walk away unscathed, not to mention plowing into flaming buildings to rescue someone without even singeing her hair. Also toss in an artist who paints pictures of things before they happen.
I could go on, but you get the point. These people aren't like the rest of us. Now the question is, what will they use their superpowers for? We presume it won't be for anything evil but don't expect them to don colorful spandex bodysuits and team up to trounce the planet's villains. They look more like Clark Kent than Superman or Wonder Woman.
<a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060925/COLUMNISTS15/609250332" target="_blank">Click here for more!</a>