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    Am I the only one excited to watch this show? Ever since "Entourage" left me*offTopic-Jeremy Piven rocked that EMMY*...this is the only show I'm anticipating.

    This is shot very well and has a nice dramatic vibe to it.

    <---click on the tab "Heroes Video" and it will play the trailer.


    Some people are born to be extraordinary.

    Series Premiere
    Monday, Sept. 25 9/8c

    They thought they were like everyone else... until they woke with incredible abilities. In Japan, a lowly office worker can teleport at will. In New York, a struggling artist can paint the future. In Los Angeles, a discontented beat cop can hear the thoughts of others. Elsewhere, a high school cheerleader discovers she is unbreakable and a single mom realizes she has a powerful alter ego. Heroes chronicles the lives of these people and the lives of others like them – whose destiny just might be saving humankind.

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    I love this show, but I watch the USA version called 'The 4400'

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    I loved the 4400. The story line just changed too often for me to follow. Its like every episode didnt stem from the last. What was the tower all about? I still watch it from time to time.

    Anyways, I cant wait to see Heroes. I like movies/shows with mutants.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TigersMilk
    I loved the 4400. The story line just changed too often for me to follow. Its like every episode didnt stem from the last. What was the tower all about? I still watch it from time to time.

    Anyways, I cant wait to see Heroes. I like movies/shows with mutants.
    4400? What the hell is that? I've never heard of that show. <---then again I'm not an avid television watcher.

    Especially when this superhero show falls in the lines of "unbreakable"(bruce willis/samuel l jackson-love/hate type of film) rather than "smallville, etc"


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    http://www.usanetwork.com/series/the4400/

    Yay, its on tonight in a few minutes!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by lunchbox
    I love this show, but I watch the USA version called 'The 4400'
    Heroes is actually a totally different show and is on NBC. it was pretty cool tonight. i will tune in next week.

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    It looks cool, kinda extreme for NBC, but looks cool.
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    What a great fuckin show!!! What a cliffhanger and TEASE!


    Anyone catch the show?

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    I watched the whole thing. It was fucking wonderful. Yes, it was a good clifhanger. I hope it doesnt get too crazy like the 4400 did. Eventhough both shows are so different. I cant wait for the next one. The show is like the beginning of the X-men and how they all began but except this time its not a cartoon of people.
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    i love this new show heros. im hopeing im not going ot be working nights so i can keep watching it and my other shows i watch. cant wait till next show on monday.

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    Okay who saw espisode 2!!!



    I just saw it online!! God damn I love this show. The way it's set up. I love the narration.

    I seriously can't believe the amount of blood they show on it.

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    Man, I just love that Ali Larter (the single mom from Las Vegas) literally shreds ass. I was disappointed they didn't show her in action (clever budgetary move.)

    Makes me think of the Bowie/Eno song- "We could be heroes- Just for one day!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by madmaxine
    Man, I just love that Ali Larter (the single mom from Las Vegas) literally shreds ass. I was disappointed they didn't show her in action (clever budgetary move.)

    Makes me think of the Bowie/Eno song- "We could be heroes- Just for one day!"

    He heh.... Well, just keep in mind that there isnt' gonna be some crazy ass special act routine. It's not a major motion picture. i do recall them saying...special effects will be to a minimum....therefore the story line has to be pretty good.

    I'd say they're doing a great job.

    Keep in mind the psychic painter isn't killed by Sirus yet because Hiro, however you want to interpreted teleported back in time? or had a revelation*psychic abilities*<--i think this would defeat the purpose of his skill set so I say he "teleported.

    The only actor I can't stand is the black girl friend of the pyschic painter. Something about her acting...I can't believe her.

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    I've watched both episodes and thought they were really good. I've been explaining to my Wife that she should watch it and she keeps making a very valid point, and that it's a very blatant X-Men rip-off. While I like the show, that's a difficult point to argue. In fact, compared to X-Men, there's very little originality in the concept.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DancerWealth
    I've watched both episodes and thought they were really good. I've been explaining to my Wife that she should watch it and she keeps making a very valid point, and that it's a very blatant X-Men rip-off. While I like the show, that's a difficult point to argue. In fact, compared to X-Men, there's very little originality in the concept.

    Okay, we have to win your wife over!!!!!!!!

    That's like comparing oranges to apples. Yes, they are both fruits but cmon...there is a difference.

    With that type of logic, everything is a rip off, off of anything. From phones, gadgets, etc. to films genre's like Horror, love, comedy and "back to highschool" teen flicks.

    Xmen is also a ripoff to any kind of individual superhero that has existed throughout our history. What originality comes from making a team of superheroes who need a teacher/shrink(x-men #1 came out in 1963.) It's just a student/master relationship. The concept of that can go way back. It even be compared to a Akira Kurusawa film called "Seven Samuria"(1954)"The Magnificant Seven"was a based off of the Kurosawa film.


    Okay here's a more specific ANSWER

    What about "Justice league of America" (1960), etc, A DC COMIC!!! A group of superheroes who work together. How original is it of MARVEL to come up with thei r own superhero team? <----avid comic fans please chime in.

    Mc'Ds and Burger King and rest of the fast food joints. Coke and Pepsi...and the rest of the colas.

    Originality these days seem to be how well you can change/improve what's in existance today.


    I personally relate to this show much better because it is executed differently then the Xmen trilogy giving it a more humanistic touch/feel.

    This show is more comparable/ripoff of the film "Unbreakable" with Bruce Willis than Xmen...so tell her that!~

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    Quote Originally Posted by supermaruchi
    Xmen is also a ripoff to any kind of individual superhero that has existed throughout our history. What originality comes from making a team of superheroes who need a teacher/shrink(x-men #1 came out in 1963.) It's just a student/master relationship. The concept of that can go way back. It even be compared to a Akira Kurusawa film called "Seven Samuria"(1954)"The Magnificant Seven"was a based off of the Kurosawa film.
    This is completely off base.

    X-Men story is/was about misguided kids who where raised in a society that they felt outcast and unaccepted from, let alone made worse when even their own family turned them away once they realized that where afraid of their own children because they where "freaks". Yet they can come together and escape in a school that taught them about life where other figures failed. Professor X taught them math and history. Only a SELECT few students actually became X-MEN. Some of the best comics where the ones that never featured a use of their power. Like when the whole school played football and where prohibited to use their powers.

    X-Men, as with so many others, was a REFLECTION of the turmoil Stan Lee went through growing up then magnified. The story at it's fruits addresses racism, persecution, alienation, and crushes the fantasy that just because we have these great powers, it doesn't make you cool. People still hated and feared these mutants yet the mutant group offered help.

    Superman was the creation of two Jewish kids who believed that someone should come and right the wrongs their people saw everyday. They wanted to make Superman a Jewish Heavy warrior, however Action Comics saw something much bigger and talked them into a character that became the biggest influence and inspirational lift of WWII second only to Captain America.

    Comparing these things to "Heroes" in forms of originality is like saying Robert Frost is the same as Dr. Suess.

    If you want to follow this ludicrous basis for comparison, why not say that every piece of imagination bearing the fruit of a powered being is nothing more than a ripoff of Beowulf.
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    I think the issue is that it, on a fundamental level, is a story about normal people who realize they are mutants with super powers which is really, at the core, what X-Men is about on the back story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mastridonicus
    This is completely off base.

    X-Men story is/was about misguided kids who where raised in a society that they felt outcast and unaccepted from, let alone made worse when even their own family turned them away once they realized that where afraid of their own children because they where "freaks". Yet they can come together and escape in a school that taught them about life where other figures failed. Professor X taught them math and history. Only a SELECT few students actually became X-MEN. Some of the best comics where the ones that never featured a use of their power. Like when the whole school played football and where prohibited to use their powers.

    X-Men, as with so many others, was a REFLECTION of the turmoil Stan Lee went through growing up then magnified. The story at it's fruits addresses racism, persecution, alienation, and crushes the fantasy that just because we have these great powers, it doesn't make you cool. People still hated and feared these mutants yet the mutant group offered help.

    Superman was the creation of two Jewish kids who believed that someone should come and right the wrongs their people saw everyday. They wanted to make Superman a Jewish Heavy warrior, however Action Comics saw something much bigger and talked them into a character that became the biggest influence and inspirational lift of WWII second only to Captain America.

    Comparing these things to "Heroes" in forms of originality is like saying Robert Frost is the same as Dr. Suess.

    If you want to follow this ludicrous basis for comparison, why not say that every piece of imagination bearing the fruit of a powered being is nothing more than a ripoff of Beowulf.
    Okay, xmen buff...I'll let you have this battle because I'm not a avid Xmen fan.

    I should have been more specific.

    In a film/tv standpoint "Heroes" is executed differently in a good way. Xmen the films went a different route because they have established their beginnings through comics.

    That is where it is different in the visual/realistic medium.

    I agree that Heroes is a simliar to of the beginning of xmen COMIC books but not the films? But they're not hated or despised for their powers just yet...maybe they'll be liked, like the fantastic four or other single super heroes(spidey, superman, batman, etc....or maybe not.

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    Reminds me of the last pointless low budget X-Men rip-off I stumbled across a few years ago, "Mutant X".

    http://mutantx.com/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silverback
    Reminds me of the last pointless low budget X-Men rip-off I stumbled across a few years ago, "Mutant X".
    I know how you can compare the two...

    BUT

    I don't know how you can compare the two. The cinematography, acting, music score, direction, writing is executed much better than "Mutantx"

    I'm dying here....someone back me up on this

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    Quote Originally Posted by DancerWealth
    I think the issue is that it, on a fundamental level, is a story about normal people who realize they are mutants with super powers which is really, at the core, what X-Men is about on the back story.
    X-Men, non hollywood, was about the acceptance of a minority to be concidered equals. X-Men is about making a group of people so persecuted that even the biggest villian that wants to wipe out humanity (Magneto) can be understood, and even, looked at like a Hero to his people (Hitler). X-Men was about the level of forgiveness and rising above simple racism and the sacrifices you bare when you make the right decisions regardless of how much you want to do otherwise.

    I'm on supermaruchi's side even though his basis for comparison was ludicrus enough to awaken Primus. Heroes is not X-Men nor will it ever be. The only thing they have in common is that they may be learning how to cope with their powers and controlling them where the Xavier Institute has a whole program for that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mastridonicus
    X-Men, non hollywood, was about the acceptance of a minority to be concidered equals. X-Men is about making a group of people so persecuted that even the biggest villian that wants to wipe out humanity (Magneto) can be understood, and even, looked at like a Hero to his people (Hitler). X-Men was about the level of forgiveness and rising above simple racism and the sacrifices you bare when you make the right decisions regardless of how much you want to do otherwise.

    I'm on supermaruchi's side even though his basis for comparison was ludicrus enough to awaken Primus. Heroes is not X-Men nor will it ever be. The only thing they have in common is that they may be learning how to cope with their powers and controlling them where the Xavier Institute has a whole program for that.

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    Alright...who saw episode three?!!!!!!!!!




    SPOILER WARNING:
    Here are the obvious hunches if you haven't seen it yet.

    Who's the jealous HIGHSCHOOL CHICK that gave the CLAIRE BENNET(highschool cheerleader) the evil look for hooking up the school jock? She definitely is up to something.



    WHO IS SYLAR(PERCIEVED SUPER-VILLIAN)?
    1. MOHINDER SURESH finds Sylar's room and a more detailed map of his fathers.

    2. I'm assuming the map(detailed) in Sylar's room are the potential "heroes" that Mohinder's father was working on.

    3. I also believe that those potential Heroes are the one's Sylar is killing. My assumption comes from episode two.
    -In part two...HIRO NAKAMURA (Japanese businessman) teleports into the future and ISAAC MENDEZ(the painter who paints the future) is killed by Sylar. <--because his head is cut and the brain gone.<--Sylar's trademark

    4. Also the clues lead to some sort of relationship with Sylar and Mohinder's father. Could Sylar be Mohinder's father's first subject?

    5. Sylar seems like he doesn't want to kill but he must. I say it only because of his "forgive me" confessions and he didn't kill "MATT PARKMAN" (The cop who hears voices)


    For some reason I think NATHAN PETRELLI (The guy running for a political position) will turn evil. His little brother PETER PETRELLI will be the one to stop him...or mabye the reverse would be a huge twist.

    Do you think CLAIRE BENNET's "estranged: father who cut her up?

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    Man...I was wrong.

    Anyone keepin up with this besides me? I just watched episode number 4? online.

    Hiro comes back from the future! and he no longer looks like a GEEK and speaks perfect ENGLISH.

    I'm trying to figure out what the COP is all about and Claire Bennet's father.

    p.s. oh and NIKI SANDERS-Ali Larter

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    The cop can read peoples minds. Claires father I think wants to destroy the world. Well tomorrow most of them get to know another hero. I think the black guy steals peoples powers permenantly.
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