Emma
09-25-2006, 07:35 PM
<img src="http://www.fanbolt.com/forums/images/avatars/heroes/23.jpg" width="85" height="85" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="right" border="0" alt="Heroes, NBC"> If it's superheroes you want, NBC has the show for you.
It's called “Heroes,” modestly omitting the “super,” and the characters range from your everyday invincibles to teleporters, future predictors and the inevitable guy who can fly.
But you may need superpowers to keep everybody straight.
Sometime in the 60-odd year history of television, there may have been a pilot that was more confusing and introduced more characters and stories, but I can't imagine what it was.
Could be I'm just lacking superpowers myself. Or maybe I just got distracted by the sight of a superhero driving a smoke-belching AMC Gremlin. That's something you don't see every day. (For those who don't remember or weren't around at the time, the Gremlin was one of the odder economy cars of the early 1970s, a curiosity of automotive history.)
Basically, “Heroes” is “Fantastic Four” but without the tights and capes. And, not satisfied with just four folks with outsized abilities, NBC gives us an Extraordinary Eight, so many they can't all be introduced in a single hour of TV. Not that the pilot doesn't try.
Through one artifice or another, several of the heroes of the title are connected to each other tonight. They awaken to their powers and begin the process of hooking up, though they begin in several cities and on three continents. It's all done mysteriously through the auspices of a solar eclipse. How that works, exactly, I couldn't explain. You just have to believe.
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It's called “Heroes,” modestly omitting the “super,” and the characters range from your everyday invincibles to teleporters, future predictors and the inevitable guy who can fly.
But you may need superpowers to keep everybody straight.
Sometime in the 60-odd year history of television, there may have been a pilot that was more confusing and introduced more characters and stories, but I can't imagine what it was.
Could be I'm just lacking superpowers myself. Or maybe I just got distracted by the sight of a superhero driving a smoke-belching AMC Gremlin. That's something you don't see every day. (For those who don't remember or weren't around at the time, the Gremlin was one of the odder economy cars of the early 1970s, a curiosity of automotive history.)
Basically, “Heroes” is “Fantastic Four” but without the tights and capes. And, not satisfied with just four folks with outsized abilities, NBC gives us an Extraordinary Eight, so many they can't all be introduced in a single hour of TV. Not that the pilot doesn't try.
Through one artifice or another, several of the heroes of the title are connected to each other tonight. They awaken to their powers and begin the process of hooking up, though they begin in several cities and on three continents. It's all done mysteriously through the auspices of a solar eclipse. How that works, exactly, I couldn't explain. You just have to believe.
<a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20060925-9999-1c25remote.html" target="_blank">Click here for more!</a>